There is nothing to fix as It’s not “broken” as is evidenced by many players that actually have them.
Now if you want to request that they change the method (or add another), that is a valid discussion.
TBH, if casual “poor” players (which includes me) could get a Legendary easily, they would not be very “Legendary”.
There is nothing legendary about legendary weapons except the legendary amount of gold required to obtain one. And as we all know that only requires a legendary swipe of a credit card.
They are skins..
THANK YOU… you get it. These aren’t legendaries… these are skins that costs a huge time investment and gold investment.
100% map completion is the only actual legendary feel to a legendary weapon there is.
There is nothing to fix as It’s not “broken” as is evidenced by many players that actually have them.
Now if you want to request that they change the method (or add another), that is a valid discussion.
TBH, if casual “poor” players (which includes me) could get a Legendary easily, they would not be very “Legendary”.
I have to disagree… In prior days people could farm gold more easily as well as precursors and mats were loads cheaper.
If they were as cheap as they used to be it wouldn’t be an issue… but the price of these things are skyrocketing out of control.
There is a guy in our guild that literally has 8 Legendary weapons…
I remember COF farming groups of 4 warriors + 1 Mesmer from back in the day… When I finally decided to level a Mesmer… they nerfed dungeons.
Some people would farm places like “Union Waypoint” at Lyssa. They could afk farm for mats.
There were numerous T6 mat locations people could farm before ANET nerfed them.
The cost for newer or even not full hardcore players to own a legendary is spiraling out of control. So NO I don’t mean… “change” … I mean “fix”
Wow I thought I was the only person this happened to… I didn’t realize it was a reoccurring issue with others as well.
Very Annoying
So I returned to the game a couple months ago. I stopped after I became extremely frustrated trying to farm for legendary weapon mats (lodestones and T6 mats).
T6 Mats: ArenaNet has consistently removed all farming locations of T6 mats. The only way to efficiently gather these is by buying them from the Trading Post. Some of these mats are at around 60silver each. On average these T6 mats are around 40silver. So 40 × 250 * 8 (types for gift of might/magic) is 800 gold.
WvW: We are forced to do WvW for 100% Map Completion and 500 Badges of Honor. Not everyone is into PvP. Especially those on consistent losing servers.
Precursors: Are effectively the most ridiculous portion of any MMORPG game I have ever seen. When I left the game I was going for Meteorlogicus which requires the precursor of Storm. This was around 100g when I left the game for a break. When I returned it is now up to 600+ gold. The prices of all precursors is soaring out of control.
Gold: The only way to get a legendary is to have gold… and lots of it.
1) We used to be able to farm Orr for a while to get drops (but no… let’s slap the community with DR)
2) So I found some good farming spots for some T6 mats (nope! Let’s nerf that area because we want T6 mats to go up in price) …
3) Fine… I’ll do dungeon runs over and over for farming… (Don’t think so… let’s remove that aspect from the game as well… once a day only)
So now the ways left to receive a decent amount of gold…
1) Use real money to purchase gems and convert it to gold.
2) Play the trading post. Buy cheap and sale high. Which is extremely unappealing to me. I want to play a GAME not a market!
T6 Mats = 800 Gold
Precursor = Venom 110 Gold or Dusk 1100 Gold
Mystic Clovers = 50 – 100 Gold
Icy Runestones & Recipes = 120 Gold
Lodestones = 75 Silver – 2.5 Gold (100 = 75g – 250g)
Total Gold – 1,500 – 3,000 depending on luck
I have played an average of 2-3 hours a day for the last 2 months and earned about 150 gold. That is 20 months of playing for the cheapest version of a precursor (Kraitkin).
I cannot earn enough money per day to “buy” the stuff… and the price of everything keeps going up. Come on ArenaNet have mercy on the poor players in the community!!
The theory of giving in this game is someone lacking. Most of the community from my experience is very greedy (myself included).
I have been playing as a level 80 for months… I have saved gold… saved t6 mats.. etc etc… you know the drill…
However, I still do not have a legendary either. It takes a ton of time.
600g is practically the equivalent of 600 dungeon runs. That is a serious time investment.
I have even farmed Orr for hours trying to get T6 mats or good drops. It just… doesn’t happen very fast.
I am part of an extremely large guild and they haven’t helped me out except for running dungeons with me occasionally.
The community is a very “get up and get it yourself” community.
I even ran into one guy that was scamming people for hundreds of gold just because he was to lazy to do it himself. He got me for 90 gold….
So again… handouts are not typical.
Good Luck
I typically take Ranged and Melee weapons as “always equipped”… However, I have some spare ones in my bag as sometimes different weapons are just more useful.
This all comes from experience within the dungeons or fights.
One thing I would recommend if you are going with Shouts is to consider adding “Retreat”. The 20s instant cast boost to swiftness has helped me out many of times + 20s for Aegis.
To give some unbiased feedback as possible:
1) Watchwork mining pick. They should all be boosted somehow. I don’t own one because… 1000 Gems convert to 87 Gold. A Orichalcum Mining Pick costs 4 silver. That’s 2,175 picks for the price of 1 unlimited… totally not worth it.
2) Fractals LFG – Agreed. More so for the AR sorting.
3) Legendary Footfalls – No opinion. Preference of the user.
4) Living Story unfolded – Yes! I quit for a few months and came back to see Lions Arch in disarray. I had no idea what happened, etc. A replay important videos option could be added to the Hero Menu.
5) Bind Skins – I don’t understand what you are asking. This can be done through Transmutation Charges…
6) Bind Stats – Not understanding again… This can be done through equipping and using Transmutation Charges in the Wardrobe.
7) Bag Sharing – Yes and No. It could be beneficial for things like Dragonite Ores and such that I haven’t made it back to the bank to store… but I could see how it would cause some farmers in certain areas. For instance, Jumping Puzzles… Have a level toon stand at the end of a jump puzzle… open chest daily and just put the contents into the shared bag.
8) Fractal Rings >lvl30 – Agreed. I have 20 rings in my bank ATM because I don’t want to just sell em’ for 5 silver, but I really don’t need them at all.
9) Free WP’s – Disagree, Charging for WPs is a simple way to ever so slightly reduce the currency within the economy
10) PVE / PVP skills – I have no issues with current setup and think it has finally reached a good balance for an equal playing field among all classes (for the most part).
11) Shards Home Node – Disagree completely with the cost. 5,000 shards to create a node with only harvesting the max you suggest at 15, would take 333 Days to regain the 5,000 shards.
12) Trait Customization – I feel the current system is sufficient. It has its flaws… but sufficient.
13) Trait Build Management – Nothing to comment on.
14) Combo Fields – No. I feel time can be better spent invested in other parts of the game than reworking some combo fields that aren’t necessarily broken.
15) Build Variety – As far as what type of armor? (i.e. Berserkers, Cleric, Soliders, etc?) If so there are quite a bit to choose from, imo.
16) More Communication – Good and Bad… Good, so we know more straight from the developers instead of assumptions or bits and pieces of info. Bad, because if they say something and the idea is scrapped then the community will rage.
17) Queue’s – Agree. I have tried joining my friends several times (such as in Crown Pavillion) and get beat out by the spammers.
18) Megaserver reconnect – I imagine the hassle of code is large on this as well as the amount of latency that would be added for holding rogue IP’s.
19) Gemstone Items –Would need an example… I don’t follow.
20) Karma – As do I… I go buy a ton of Orrian Jewlery Boxes on occasions, but the biggest reward back from that? More Karma!
21) Festival / Special Event Rewards – I could see it useful. As I have to split my stacks of Queens Gauntlet tickets around, etc.
It has been brought up in the past, but I wanted to reapproach the conversation topic.
Why do we not get a title for completing all of the Jumping Puzzles. It is more of an accomplishment worthy title than some of the titles I’ve gotten.
Some of these puzzles I wracked my brain over, had to Youtube them… and still struggled with some of the harder ones.
Just a simple title would make this worth while… However, something even better would make it great! (i.e. Like a chest from World Completion).
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I have to disagree with 2 things in your post.
1) “Healing power is a wasted stat since it scales so poorly.”
-Healing Power is one of the only stats in the game that scales linear with the amount of points placed within the stat. I run full Cleric gear (focusing on healing) and notice a strong difference in the group survivability rate than when I run a different class.
2) “…so a full shout bar and pure of voice is a waste.”
-I focus on altruistic healing (which provides healing to myself each time I cast a shout)… I load 3 shouts “Stand your Ground” , “Hold the Line” , and “Retreat”.
Hold the Line Regeneration to the entire team which is bolstered by the increased healing power. Stand your Ground for stability as well as “block the next incoming attack”… Retreat for the speed boost and I also think it blocks the next incoming attack.
Shield Healing / Staff Healing / the Virtue Healing … this build allows me to run as close of a true “healing class” in GW2.
So… I have tried creating a bunch of names (most taken)… but I have also seen a bunch of names that make me go LOL.
Anyways… what are some of the ones you’ve seen or thought of (taken or not) that are funny.
The Cat Burglar (Charr Thief)
Norn Warrior (Asuran Elementalist)
Zhaitan Dies in End (was removed by ANET lol)
SAB Farmer
Is it possible to get a “Name Reset” to all players who have not played on their account in 6 months or so.
I find it almost impossible to come up with a new character name.
I’ll save you the time of issuing a support ticket…
Anet – “We realize this is an inconvienience. However, this is something we do not reimburse you on or can control.”
As a matter of fact it’s that same response for almost anything you issue a support ticket for.
I have actually faced it where… I get put into a downed state, they hit me just a few times to lower my health, and then the people run off…
So this way I can’t get back in combat right away and the healing is so slow in a downed state that I have to slowly die or slowly live… either way its SLOWLY.
So maybe in addendum to your comments… if OOC in downed state make it where you can quickly get back up.
I say don’t…. especially if it is:
A) Cross console … I don’t want to play with a group of people playing on their iphones or something. It will greatly ruin the game
B) Independent Game – NO NO NO, this would cause our PC player base to diminish and a few players go to that console type.
How is this considered a problem?
I’m guessing you are one of the people that want all of the farming spots to be gone to…
It would be nice to have a COD or Trade option available.
Not everyone wants to spend 4 silver to WP back to Lions Arch just to run to the TP real quick.
For example, dungeon runs, someone doesn’t bring omnomberry bars or Potions. (total of 5 silver)… not much but this is just one example. So instead of being able to start the dungeon… they have to WP back just to buy some.
OR in my case (where I just lost 89 gold and ANET refuses to refund it)… someone offers to sell their lodestones or T6 mats to save people money so they don’t have to pay the TP tax and the buyer gets them 20% cheaper.
However… The guy took my money, blocked me, and ran away.
Where this is clearly scamming… I reported him (added him to my friends list) and sent a support ticket.
I still see him online everyday plus ANET refused to take the money or even return my money.
Thus, TRADE OR COD PLEASE
I disagree with having one easy path to dungeons… For instance CoE… all 3 paths are hard"ish".
I don’t want there to be a breeze through part where anyone can run in and eventually get enough tokens to have the same armor set that I had to kill myself for.
There needs to be a certain level of difficulty so that my awesome armor set will give me the mindset that I accomplished something.
gw2lfg.com
That is your best bet for finding groups to any dungeon.
Also, at level 30 (even though story mode of AC is level 30)… you will WIPE like crazy.
I really recommend saving dungeon runs until level 80 or at a very minimum 20 levels above the requirement for the dungeon (or it will last FOREVER)
I will instantly leave a group if it is a long dungeon run and the other 4 are from the same guild.
People are jerks without remorse in this game ( so I have found ). They will take your money (happened to me for 89 gold) or kick you without warning… plus tons of other stuff.
There is no reprecussions as ANET seems to allow this type of behavior. Not to throw off on them, but it seems that there is nothing stopping people from scamming or kicking.
I have leveled a Guardian and a Mesmer to 80 (so that’s my insight below).
I leveled the Guardian up first… which I do not regret (even though I only play him occasionally).
The Guardian had plenty of toughness/survivability. No, he couldn’t kill as quickly as some other classes (including my Mesmer)… but from 1-75 he could jump in the mob and just start swinging and walk out with no issue.
The Mesmer is NOT really fun until level 80. It is very hard to level as they are very squishy. The addition of the Exotic level 80 armor stats will greatly increase his awesomeness.
The Mesmer does have some of the most awesome skills and very useful in dungeons… Portal Entre / Exit , TimeWarp, Blink
Sanctum of Rall … just took it 7:30 EST