Guild Wars 2

So you turn your current ones into ascended, then what happens to your current gear? You can’t use it elsewhere? Aren’t you still losing gold? What about my current upgrade slots, that cost just as much/more gold to get a full set of “of the ____”?

I don’t think this was very well thought through. Just a reactionary response to a system that we have no real substantial information on other than it exists.

I feel like they’re justifying gear-grinding because they’re only letting rings/backpiece drops for now and allowing other bits later on before getting a full set so even casual people with only 1 level 80 like me can probably get 1-2 things over a long period of time.

But what about players that start a year or two in? That what was so nice about GW1. I started late but I could still participate in all of the end-game stuff with enough practice in my gear because there wasn’t a gigantic difference in stats.

I think you should hold off on this suggestion until we know exactly how this gear is going to drop/work/etc.

Also your post is confusing. You mean you’ll need to go into a different UI equipment screen to see what my current items are in a dungeon or something?

Why not just suggest gear like PvP gear that’s only worn in endgame designated dungeons or something.

I hit 80 right away and play intermittently and managed to finish off my first exotic set on one character. Still working on world completion…

So I can understand one intermittent step in between exotics and legendaries for people that like to grind/grind a lot. Also nice that legendaries are getting a bit of a buff. Was sort of pointless other than shiny effects, and I’m OK with a minor stat increase as well, sorta makes it more worth it. I just wish the legendary dagger wasn’t a giant glorified lighter.

Edit:
Actually, yeah. Reading other posts, I think that on some level I’m bothered by gear progression. I don’t like knowing that I’m going to have outdated gear slots all over the place because I can’t play constantly. It’s one thing to have legendaries increase in power because that takes heaps of gold/time/etc for an increase that’ll be on only one piece of gear per character (in all likelihood, anyway).

I’m really, really against nerfing the thief because then it’ll just be every class has the same semi-tanky/bunker build.

Let me keep my glass cannon. That’s the entire reason I started thief; there are definite ways to counter one, and they should simply be a priority target in pvp/etc. I die when you look at me; that’s fair. :P

I’m going to say, being a total glass cannon thief… No.

I have no health, I die in two hits, but I do the same to you. Nerfing BS when I spent all my time/money/etc investing in improving that ONE skill (literally why I went crit damage to begin with) and it cripples me to no end. I def. can’t do WvWvW with D/D unless I find a straggler, and I need to go pure bow; which is fine.

Frankly, it’s just the burstiest class. Just because it is doesn’t mean it needs a nerf. But that means that my 2-shotted thief should simply be a big target (which I already am). And there are easily ways to counter a thief, just play one for a bit and you figure it out. Frankly, I find that warriors do much higher consistent damage over time than I do, even though I crit every other hit. They seem to crit just as often, and for higher amounts, are more survivable, and have more health. My backstab is the only thing that keeps me up with my damage input and is a great boss finisher.

I don’t play very much, but I made it a point to play a lot (stupid assumptions on my part, being a casual gamer, ahead) during this event.

I figured that if I spent 17-20 hours grinding this dungeon that I would be able to get ONE of the three Arach/Moon/Crossing, and trade one for another. I was horribly mistaken. Maybe it’s because everybody was trolling me saying they got it on their 2nd-20th time through. But I did over 100 runs and the exotics I received (saved for the 1 1-gold I salvaged for the sigil), were all roughly 40s in price.

I don’t farm gold, or collect it. I was sitting on 2ish or so. I farmed my way over 12 gold from the handful of exotics and primarily the greens in the chest.

I’m really surprised that the RNG isn’t tuned in a way so that someone during a 2-day-long event can get a (most likely?) 1-time-only weapon skin. I figured that it won’t be put back into being obtained publically because they gave it such a high price recipe so people who didn’t own the game/play the game during this weekend had a means, however extraneous, way to get the item, while “rewarding” the players that could grind a bit over a 2-day period, or people who simply were playing the game this early, could, in relative ease, get at least one of these three items.

I don’t seem to be the only one who grinded their living daylights off with very, very little to show. In fact, I tried to walk away happy I made 8-12 gold over killing the MK, but people just squashed that by saying I was stupid and should have spent the entire time “Farming AC”—Something that, again, as a more casual player, I had no flipping clue about.

So all in all, I loved the event, but I hated the numbers game. I think that it’s more reasonable to reward and make it easier (even marginally?) for those who are currently playing the game. I Mean, the BLC skins were outrageous. I won’t even go into the trainwreck I felt that is here, but spending 20+ hours over a less than 2-day period is a lot of time (proportionally); someone who is willing to grind one instance like that deserves a bit more of a break, and I’m talking about the people who almost did it non-stop for two days and still didn’t get anything.

So, that’s it. I loved it, the content was amazing, but I think you need to dangle the carrot just a little bit lower so that those who choose to grind during the limited availability have a better chance of obtaining these limited-time items. no, it shouldn’t be 100% get arach/moon/crossing if you spend x hours, but I think it would have been reasonable to spend half the amount of time I did and for-sure walked away with one of the three to trade with others. Because soon, the only ones no longer soulbound will be the ones made with the crafting recipes anyways. A lot less stressful on everybody, if you ask me.

I do agree that there’s pretty much no good dagger skins, as Thf is my main, but I do know I’ll still be playing other classes after I finish this one off, and that the sword and staff skins are ones I’m particularly interested for those classes.

I agree. If the drop rate increases for the next wave of these sorts of skins to about 20%, I’d condone buying keys with cash. OR if there was a way to do x, y, z to ensure you got the skin that you wanted, even if it’s gems—>specific skin.

I think increasing the holiday skins to something like 20% would be enough, though. You have a decent chance of getting a skin and you can buy/sell on the auction house where it wont cost 20-50+ gold each. I’m not a hardcore player or grinder, there’s no way I can drop that sort of coin by playing the game as intended (IE: not grinding away every day) for a skin when my character is nowhere near fully decked out with the rune/sigil sets I want.

So, yes. Feeling a bit scammed/cheated over this whole thing and I hope they make some changes.

Jrunyon.3012:

So what about people like me who dont use greatswords, staffs or shields? Do I get my own thread because I dislike the dagger skin? At least you get to work towards something

I don’t currently use a staff or a greatsword. I’m currently gearing out my thief. But then I’ll be moving along to warrior and elementalist or necro. Things I’ll actually use the skin on. You have 5 character slots, this is a ridiculous argument. There will be other skins, and ones that you like. I want to make sure that this isn’t a repeat in the future.

There’s a principle involved.

Thanks for the support. It’s good to know I’m not the only one who feels that way about the BLC-only skins (Scythe/greatsaw/chainsword/etc).

I think there is a happy medium somewhere and I hope by the next holiday update it’ll be better than this stuff. I’m really disappointed.

You can’t get a recepie for the scythe skin, or for the greatsaw/chainsaw skins. So you can’t really grind for that option than dumb luck (possibly) with killing the Mad King ad nauseum.

I agree rare should be rare.

But rare should not mean having to spend 50$ to possibly get a decent chance of it dropping out of a BLC.

The other skinned things that you can make permanent that have 4hrs with I have no problem—there’s a way to grind and get it. But the Scythe/Greatsaw/etc are awful and that’s what I’m addressing, and that’s the part that I think was a super shady business practice.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the event, and I freely support arenanet and will continue to spend money on this game. But never again for BS crappy RNG for holiday event skins.

I have to say, it was a really cheap, and effective, ploy to get people to drop money for this event.

While I get that, skins that you can only get for… a week out of the entire year just isn’t okay when it’s a 2% drop rate from something that (will usually, unless you’re filthy rich in game) will cost cash.

What I do know is that I won’t be buying gems again for any other sort of event, this was really a crappy thing to do. You could’ve at least improved the drop rate in the mystic forge chests, but it seems to be just as bad as the BLC. So there’s still no saving grace. I think that a 25% chance to get a skin would’ve been much fairer, considering you can buy a bulk of 5 keys and there are still 10ish or so skins you could nab.

Anyways, perhaps the farm-able chest can drop the skins. But I have terribad luck at getting anything from it.

I’m wondering if the jumping puzzle (that gave us slippers yesterday..) Will give us a diff piece once a day? I think that’d be fair.

My issue with the wait is that it messes up muscle memory.

For those who’ve played Super Meat Boy, you know what I mean. You can get it down because you can try again immediately until you reach that curve. With this wait, it really messes it up, funny enough, it was because of that one darn block right after the pause for me. Everything after that was a breeze, but that block would stop me 90% of the time lol

Okay I have to break down and ask, can someone explain why people keep throwing in “kitten” and “Kittening”? I just don’t get it.

Ive had this happen randomly twice now, once in WvWvW and another time during a large event… so it seems like just a multitude of stuff oging on. Will reduce sound and will post again if it fails. Just started outta nowhere, never had this issue till yesterday.

UGH ME.

Thief underwater spear and sword, whenever I hit slightly above it, even though my duo-partner can continually wail on it when it’s “Invulnerable” to me. Which is interesting.

Almost as annoying as melee never hitting structures unless you constantly strafe them.