Guild Wars 2

And let’s not forget, every success story of getting a precursor on the first try, there was 1000s of failed tries by other people. “well if I got it everyone else has same change herpa durp”, yeah ok those 1000 fails that yo- oh nevermind.

marc.6380:

i tried that mystic forge thing

got The Hunter….. ,,,, ………. …………..

Yeah and I tried that hundreds of times

got The Nothing …….. ,,,, .. ;:;.,,. , ,. . .. ,

Blix.8021:

The price of precursors are controlled by the player-created demand curve and the soft cap that the mystic forge creates. Unlike a manufactured product in the real world, ANYONE can manufacture a precursor. Dusk is priced highly because players value it more so than the other precursors. But no matter how highly valued it becomes, it can still be produced in the mystic forge, and after a certain price it becomes economical to do so.

This is not complicated.

I’m sorry but people who have spent 300-1000g in hopes of getting one and not receiving, would love to disagree. THE SUPPLY IS CONTROLLED BY ARENANET AND ARENANET ONLY. They’re the one’s who make the difference, the situation is extremely bad because they have not interfered. Which brings to my point, they aren’t a show off anything but wealth and luck now. What an endgame I tell you.

Konde.8594:

Maybe you should try the MF? I think it is worth nowadays.

Yeah, no.

^And this is why RNG is horrible game design.

SadieDeAtreia.8912:

Bravo OP.

Oh, and don’t expect any comment from Anet about this. Like many other areas of the game where players have voiced their concern… it is blatantly being ignored.

This is the worst part to be honest.

Blix.8021:

Why are people constantly analpained over legendaries?

Maybe you should open your eyes once in a while and read.

Dailies everyday and still 11 short of an amulet.. ugh. And to think these “binding agents” cost a whopping 10 dailies? Getting 2 amulets(alts) with utilities or whatever is 80-100 whopping laurerls in themselves.. good grief those laurels are worth so much more than 2.5g.

I hope ANET considers bringing true “legendaries”, that are earned through gameplay and not via money or luck solely, in the game via content patch. They can keep the current system for already available legendaries since so many already acquired theirs and so many are through these means of luck and money.

This notion that legendaries show off anything else except luck and money are gone, so could we have our real end game content where we can actually show off our dedication and skill?

Oh boy a millionth thread of the same whiny rng losers complaining that legendaries are too hard to get, mostly because of inflating prices of precursors and lodestones, and the same market manipulators and early exploiters arguing thats its fine because fixing the situation would make theirs worse.

I have a video for you

“Really allowing you to show off your accomplishments and symbolize all the things you’ve been doing”

The lack of actual response as in what “legendary” actually means to anet at this state of the game is leaving us guessing, but..

What if their true intention was not have something that represents how you’ve done going through the actual content of the game – how skilled or dedicated you are – but just how “smart” you are toward the trading post. Or how lucky you get, lets not forget this also alienates a portion of people to think it is a fair deal(to keep the item rare etc.). Legendary is just a name in this game for a really shiny and awesome item that is BiS, makes you stand out, but doesn’t have any story or lore behind it in any way or form anyway, which is a little odd…

…then again they could have just put these types of items in the gem store and called it a day without any huss and fuss about your accomplishments, but I guess that would have been too easy?

Aristio.2784:

dukefx.9730:

Half of the posters here are market manipulators and shouldn’t even open their mouth. If it was any other company their account would be history by now. Yes, it’s bannable offense in most MMORPGs. Before you open your mouth again and say precursors aren’t a problem let me tell you a few things:

- most of the legendaries out there belong to market manipulators who didn’t even break a sweat
- there is an RNG factor in the recipe: it’s called Gift of Fortune, no need to have a 2nd component relying on RNG
- developers themselves know that precursors are the only factor hindering people from finishing their legendary. Response to that: scavenger hunt which will probably be implemented in a few months and will most likely have a nowhere near guaranteed chance to net you a precursor.
- Legendaries are something to keep you busy, not increase your ego and turn you into Gollum. Done with 1? Make a few more. <- that’s what Arena.net intended (look at the achievement counting how many you have), and stop plaguing these forums with your silly “not everyone is meant to have one” attitude.

You’ll want a legendary…
- to show off how much hard work and time you invested in getting one and how dedicated you are
- to have an always top tier weapon
- for eye candy

How it really works: “look how much money I managed to leech from the trading post and/or how much gold I bought from gold sellers”
The sad truth is that less than a quarter of the legendary owners got theirs in an honest way and this is all because of precursors!

So much mad in one post I can almost feel him yelling at the screen.

Buying low and selling high is bad now?

It just has nothing to do with being dedicated or skilled at the actual game, just how good you know your markets. It’s really sad the state anet went with these “legendary” weapons. On one hand you have a player who does dungeons, wvw, pve whenever hes on and plays the actual game, on the other you have a guy who just looks at the market and sees an oppoturnity and takes it. I mean this is how anet sees rewarding the player right now, “play our markets or forget your legendary”. It’s stupid and makes no sense to the people who actually play the game.

wads.5730:

nobody knows wtf you are trying to say

Wads how can you not know?

It is funny how they just ignored relics, pristine relics and rings now that people are finally starting to have too many of them. Feels like anet wants to punish us who farmed fractals in hopes of future content there so that our time wasnt worth it. What a nice feeling.

Gaudrath.6725:

Especially from people who got them the hard way.

A tiny percentage of the current owners.

Yep it’s been horrible for me too.

Shoutout to the awesome culling everywhere! loving the matchup

Acelerion.6820:

They keep infracting me and deleting my awesome, totally not baiting, posts!

Wah same, I’m loving all dese infractions for nuthing.

Minion of Vey.4398:

Don’t gamble it.

There’s a very real chance that you’ll use up all your money and have nothing, then you’ll want to quit the game.

Almost happened to me. Foolish for me to think just because another guy got it, that I could.

300g later, nada. Thanks for recognizing my skills and dedication arenanet, oh wait getting a legendary takes none.

John Smith.4610:

Remember that Sell orders != supply and buy order != demand

Yeah and you control the supply. It’s funny isn’t it.

xxxzavulonxxx.8413:

Ansultares.1567:

Nope, it’s totally legitimate, and Anet is doing absolutely nothing about it besides dropping contradictory statements about an eventual precursor scavenger hunt.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they were in on it, as they have an active interest in keeping the prices high enough that they’re out of reach of the average player.

Except they don’t….

Anet would rather 10,000 player pay about $10 buying smaller things than a few people paying $1500+ for a legendary.

That appears how their business model is setup.

Except right now the few people who are buying their legendaries are spending the money on gold sellers instead of anet, but, then again, we don’t know if anet or ncsoft has directly any involvement with those gold sellers. Who knows.

Working as intended, can we stop this bickering. How else would Anet make the game worth playing everyday? Doing actually enjoyable, but difficult and rewarding content? I think not!

If you are not enjoying trading wars 2, then why do you complain about better traders doing amazing things? It’s trade wars 2, after all.

Dusk being at 750g is “working as intended”, don’t worry. This is perfectly normal.

Malediktus.9250:

Leo Paul.1659:

OMFG! For real?! How were you able to recover from losing so much gold?!

Its a game, I dont cry about loosing some pixel money.

Yeah, or all that time – or better yet, that real money. Gratz for not caring since you got so much anyway, right?

Or just a troll. GG.

BOSSMAN.2647:

Utility slots are same as offensive/defensive slots. Like the simple infusion that give 5 AR the utility gives 5AR + 4 (power/condition/vitality… And so on)

The utility just gives extra stats and will work with your old rings

Can you confirm all this via screenshot? Coz otherwise I just end up waiting official response. The rings offered no utility, when they say only defensive or offensive.

inb4 nerfz

15 characters? Oh my.

Rings dont have any utility slots from what I can tell.. it would be nice to get some clear information will it be a possibility putting utilities on rings and backpieces.

Do they ONLY go to utility slots? Will rings or backs have utility slots?

Can you upgrade the ascended backpack when you use the quaggan backpack skin on it?

Nilgoow.1037:

Gasoline.2570:

So, mag, how is SM from ehmry bay treating you? They working alright, any problems?

Let me know, greets.

Who?

SM!111 And TTD. IcerX to be frank.

Fennymcjoo.9502:

I like turtles…

Turtoils.

So, mag, how is SM from ehmry bay treating you? They working alright, any problems?

Let me know, greets.

Y
10 chars or more, maybe even eleven.

OP knows how to spin properly. Where art thou community, where art thou sm, bp, Tofu – where art.

In another server, actually.

This “tightly” knit community is but a lie of drama and fragility.

It’s been an absolute travesty trying to have fun in wvw for a while there now. My prediction is that EB will fall..

but, then again, I could be wrong. I hope I am.

Nike.2631:

There’s no reason to take finished legendaries out of the Trading Posts when crafting them is almost entirely based on stuff you can buy.

They failed to make Legendary weapons a task-based accomplisment at almost every step. At this point if Legendary purple-name gear is ever going to be a prestige item, it’ll be when they introduce Legendary armor and the process isn’t 90% “how much gold do you have to throw at them?”

What about that 1 million karma and 500 badges of honor, not to mention map completion?

I also wanna know how people get +2 legendaries already. With glowing backpiece and cultural tier 3 armor on top of those.

Blood Pact is leaving, sure they didn’t leave yet, but I think promoting your guild whilst mentioning “will be switching to dragonbrand” is a good indication.

SM and TTD went to mag.

SM, TTD, Blood Pact switched. There’s surely a bunch of others I cannot recall now.

Would be nice if the next batch of legendaries were account bound on acquire and souldbound on use. It’s just really pathetic how the current legendaries are.

Like half of the weapons lack unique icons. I mean how hard can it be to make one 50×50px icon?

100% completely agree with op.

You having a legendary shows only 2 things, either you are wealthy or you love to grind yourself to death.

Having up to 3 legendaries simply shows you know how to manipulate the market or spend money on gems.

How are those things anything RESEMBLING something legendary. It’s a travesty the state of legendaries as of now. Then you have people on the forums complaining how hard it is to get one and those are exactly people who are trying to farm their kitten off but still feeling way too far from the goal, why? Because they are doing it the legit way, and then you have people saying “it’s supposed to be a goal you achieve after a long time” whilst ignoring there are literally tons of people with multiple legendaries already.

There is no skill involved in getting one, it’s either real money or some kitten fine trading skills. If anet deems that to be legendary then they are seriously delusional and lie to themselves constantly(watch the video posted above).

And on that note, anet really hates if people make karma into money as we’ve seen, but considering something that needs 1 million karma and bunch of stuff you cannot buy, why is it that you can still buy the end product all that went into? It is practically turning karma into money.

It’s just laughable how they are in denial over the whole situation with legendariaes and if they really end up leaving the situation as is, then it just shows how pathetic the company is. Literally having Fractal skins is even more impressive than a legendary weapon? Why? Because you KNOW the owners of them HAD to work for them. Now there is also the luck (RNG) factor to them, which is stupid, but still at least you can confirm there’s some dedication there.

I really like this game overall, but constantly outright lying and misguiding your hardcore players is absolutely immoral and pathetic. The more patches we get the more bad the situation seems to go. I want Anet to kitten the situation and just outright tell us the truth what they want to do with the game, but, alas, I don’t belive that will ever happen. Money is good, money is awesome, we want more money!!! You are legendary if you give us more money or show how awesome you are at flipping whee!!!

Could a few people be willing to spare little of their time just to see what kind of drops they are getting.

Suddenflame.2601:

skullmount.1758:

Docherty.8372:

- Now that the temple events tend to sit un-done the annoying mechanics of the God statues comes to the fore – they are incredibly annoying and make an already tough and treacherous task that much less enjoyable, e.g. I was going for a skillpoint underwater, whenever I went near it the statue would tear me up horribly – 400 damage and a bleed every half second (by my reckoning)… the other statues? Random fireballs and random unbreakable stuns – all while the half-dozen nearby Risen are chain-CCing you. Fun? No, and finding a crew to clear a temple is no sure thing anymore, sadly.

I think you forgot about the stupid shrine that causes stun and confusion (Lyssa ones I think), and seems to actively target you instead of being ransom spots (unless that’s how they’re supposed to work). I really hate those ones.

Pretty much agree with everything that’s been said so far in this thread. Orr is just tedious to be in.

ThiBash.5634:

Bullshizle.2675:

Sure we can go back in the world to some lower level content but what’s the point if you don’t get level appropriate drops and materials,…

You do get level appropriate drops.

At a fraction of the drop rate. And materials don’t scale up. To get T6 stuff you have to be in Orr (possibly Frostgorge or dungeons as well, but haven’t been in Frostgorge that long and haven’t done any dungeons yet).

Materials scale up. Easily proved by going to Queen’s Dale and killing a bunch of skale and i bet you that eventually you will get a T6 material and in a faster amount of time due to 2hitting monsters. Hell when i want to farm material i go to Queen’s Dale or to WvWvW where i kill centaurs for their bags. Yes their bags which have a incredibly high drop rate.

No, they do not scale. Here’s a picture of a full mf 2 18 slot bag runs through kessex and queensdale on a level 80 character.

It is funny for sure as my pve build is build around the lifesteal crits. If this gets nerfed I’m gonna start doing far less damage to get that survivability up again.

A lot of people find it annoying when they try to just get daily badges from the chest and theres a bunch of kittens preventing them from doing that. Then they think theyre good by setting a surprise attack with a ton of burst damage to take down these who have no wish to even fight. It’s pathetic and just shows bad character. There are lots of people in wvw throughout that have done this, but unlike those others, who are just doing it for the puzzle most of the time, maguuma has always been there to hassle other servers. Always. You are, as said, the worst of the worst and it’s really tiring to see.

Mag again showing their true colors by camping on top of the jp. This is why nobody likes your server, your play style is rude and annoying. And then it takes 10 of you to kill 2 of us? Just laughable, really.

Oh wow. 3 months old? SERIOUSLY ARENANET? SERIOUSLY?

Kenage Achalarus.4276:

I know the feeling of the Mystic troll. ive been still on the hunt for my precurser if you guys are wondering im shooting for Eternaty. so far i farmed The claw The sunless and the Shatterd. and so far ive only receaved greens. at the momunt i’m runing in the fractls of the mist and im getting a lot better loot than what i did farmming orr for 11 hours. wich begs the question a Champion dragon legendary creature bent on killing the world and all who inabit it good job we killed the dragon here is your loot (all greens and some blues) but go do a jump puzzel i got 1rare and 1 exaudic wtf. jump around get better loot but go do a dragon receave junk?

now the market remember people who have precursers have power in the market because of supply and demand. not much supply and a lot of demand as goes the same for any crafting componut for legendarys
Malediktus.9250:The colossus went from 330g to 450g in one night. Two weeks ago it was under 200g. This is redicilous.
ezd.6359: Ok. And what about lodestones?They are very rare! 2 gold * 100 = same problems with precursors :-/When you fix problems with precursors, lodestones will be next problem (and even worse IMHO).
Jericho: The price of the T6 materials and ectos will compensate us

Post of the year!

This was inspired by this thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Why-is-the-wvw-loot-so-bad/first#post1112085 where someone mentioned constant high level drops for high level chars in low level areas. I have never, in my entire guild wars 2 time, encountered good periods of time to get any level appropriate loot in low level zones for my 80 char.

Here I did a full MF set run of kessex hills(bottom) and queensdale(top) where I filled 2 18 slot bags with loot I got from monsters.

I only had 1 level 76 item and the rest was leveled according to the map.

Would be nice to see others trying this out and showing what they get when they fill a bag in a low level area with high level character.

This has happened to me twice in volcano fractal and bunch of other times in random places. Suddenly I get this pulsating sound which goes over everything in my computer and no matter how I control what sound levels, it sticks until I close the game. It forces me to turn all sound off in fractals as I cannot rejoin if I leave (!!!).

As you notice I turn up my music a little bit to note how it goes over everything and I also scroll through the audio volume in the game and show it does nothing.

http://youtu.be/YPNmimj2ecA

Yep human racials are godawful. All of them.