3k+ gems later and I’m the proud owner of two of the six shades. Neither is one I particularly wanted, but I guess I should feel fortunate that I spent the equivalent of 45 US dollars on them.
Wouldnt it be cheaper to buy them on the TP for gold?
That just means some poor other player was duped into spending money for RNG in order to list them on the TP in the first place. Now if you tell me the listing price on the TP will allow that player to recoup their losses (i.e. the gold from the sale will be the same as having traded the original gems for gold), I’ll grant you your point.
Skip thinking refunds. Start thinking permanent solution. As I just described, few people would be as “duped” as I, having spent hundreds of gold to unlock all of them on several characters. Yet I would applaud and encourage the change to account unlocks for these dyes. I’ll rather bite the bullet then let this continue.
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Hi Jon! Great to see you so involved in the ranger changes. Some good stuff, thank you! I have many things I would want to say in response to your post, but I’ll focus on only one of them, since I’m most experienced with this particular weapon:
One idea we talked about for Greatsword would be to take the evade off of the 3rd attack of the auto-chain and put it on swoop. This would give you a second on-demand defensive skill and instead we put something less timing based (for example a whirl finisher) on that third attack to empower it.
Moving the evade from #1 is interesting and scary at the same time. While it will increase the DPS this weapon obviously needs, it will also diminish the utility of this weapon as a defensive weapon. A whirl finisher would obviously be fantastic, so the trade off would be fair (but will probably require equipping a defensive trait as a trade-off to the decrease in survivability).
My only comment, after thinking your suggestion over a bit, would be that if you take the evade off #1, is that don’t move it anywhere. Just take it off #1 and replace it with the whirl finisher you suggested. We already have a block on #4, an evade on #2 would be overkill and lead to unnecessary DPS loss. What is needed is a further DPS increase on #2, Maul. The animation of Maul, which together with Swoop is some of the coolest in the game (I sometimes use it when there’s noone around, just for the animation
After 12 months of using the GS, I still enjoy seeing these animations), also makes it one of the longest in the game. This decreases its DPS potential of #2 and promotes mindless “skill #1” play instead. Alternatively, Maul could use a blast finisher to make up for the lack of DPS as well as give the GS that “group utility mojo”.
I do realize that my counter-suggestion comes down to the GS having a whirl finisher on #1 (your suggestion), a blast finisher on #2 (my suggestion as a replacement for your evade suggestion) and a leap finisher on #3 (already there). Therefore, if my maul suggestion is too scary for the designers – which I can imagine – I would suggest that maul receives a substantial damage increase and the evade from #1 is replaced by a whirl finisher.
These changes will make the GS an offensive weapon (#1, #2 and #3) and a defensive weapon (#4 and #5) at the same time. Currently, it lacks that “umphf” in being an offensive weapon, but it’s a fantastic defensive weapon at the same time. Scary stuff, but worth a try!
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They won’t give you ascended gear as a reward for the tower, at least not in any form other than the crazy low RNG chances everything else has. Tequatl has crap drop rates on ascended gear, this will too.
Haha I had no illusion that I would actually get a chest drop myself. But I do think these babies will soon drop:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zojja%27s_Armor_Chest
Might as well be in a fancy new dungeon. We can only hope
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