Guild Wars 2

Adinay.2589:

I’ve seen FotM level 50 groups in LFG that state “no black wings” so clearly this is a problem.

I don’t know how those black wings even made it into the game tbh. Money>quality of the game? idk

We’ll get white wings now It will take care of your problem.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pre-purchase-community-address/

PLS. Stop.

OFFERS WILL CHANGE :
maybe the price will drop,
maybe the package changes,

DO NOT take this to “in 3 years this package will be 10 euro’s so I will not buy it if it’s not changed to 10 euro” and that’s where it’s heading now.

Do not say you know what the marketing will be in the future, will be, or NEEDS to be to keep this franchise operational. SO stop shouting too much. If they do not earn money there will not be any money, and:

No money/profit for ArenaNet/NCSoft = NO GUILD WARS 2 (expansions)

I think they will lose out on ~50% of the returning/veteran players buying a character slot now, which could be up to 1-2 million players so they’ll lose out on 10 times this number in dollars in expected revenue. 10 million dollar is the wages of ~100 programmers for a year. Maybe you do not care about the future of your game, I still hope for a decent future….

Nightblade.8295:

well- this is why i asked people to give their understanding on what they think would be enough.

a legendary- wishful thinking- true- but would make me jump in joy;
a precursor- why not- it IS just and exotic made overpriced by players;
gems or materials- why not- they do not make me overly powerful- but would help- worst thing- some money flippers on market would loose investments- cant say i cannot live with that.

so- what will YOU consider a to be sufficient?

Guess they left you behind eh… No condi cleanses for the lad…. Sorry to see so.

SO I get 4000 gems, 2 character slots, all the other thingies, worth ~80 euro and the game? I guess I’m happy. In the end I understand I just bougt a lot of o’s and 1’s…..

Getting specific series of 0’s and 1’s (pres/ legendaries) are ingame achievements, I want something to do

Getting more gems would lower the PROFIT of this sale reducing the chance I’ll ever see a second upgrade to this game

Getting a huge amount of lodestones would destroy the enonomy as I’d get 3 infinite light(s) for free… making the skin of Infinite light drop to 1 gold in a matter of hours.

SO yes very confused…

Guess you must been tagged by some mesmers…

Confusion spread all around your post..

Clearly dazed and immobilized thoughts as you wrote this request, which could have been something if you were not slowed to begin with or timewarped yourself a couple of days in the past, but now, I guess you are obviously mirroring others around this forum. The distortion of the world must have rubbed off somewhere….

I really hope somebody comes round with a condi cleanse, as these 1500 stacks of confusion have truly made you weird…

Haralin.1473:

For those who have bought the 99 Euro Version it is a lose, cause the character slot is already in the base HoT

I’ll get 2 now. SO I do not care.

hope you do not have runes of strength or sigil of generosity on your equipment there…

It will be expensive enough rebuying some bloodlusts and comparables.

Into the mists seems nice, It still misses some stat combinations though.

Only trait editor I’ve seen is on dulfy.net, I’ve seen no build editors as noone know to what value things scale now. SO and adequate build editor doesn’t exist YET

Maybe they’ll appear shortly.

Majic.4801:

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

All you people should consider this episode to rub ppl the wrong way and make them forget abouty Gw2 destroying the player base, and hampering A-nets business, and if this happens NC Soft will pull the plug.

Then you’ll earned yourself a character slot but lost the game. Though I like a the second char slot tbh.

Sorry, not quite sure what to make of that.

I updated it a bit:

All you people should consider this episode ( the outrage about ~10 euro’s and/or vanilla) rubbing ppl (New Players, Returning Players) the wrong way and make them forget about Gw2, destroying ( A -possible- substantial part of ) the player base, and hampering A-nets business, and if this happens and monetary benefits are belowe their wishes NC Soft will pull the plug. As the money is managed by NCSOFT, not A-Net, potentially losing us further development, we still need 4 dragons killed…after Mordremoth…

Then you’ll earned yourself a character slot but could have lost the game. Though I like the second char slot tbh.

Just hope the people will reconsider and be enticed enough by an additional characer slot after every online gaming magazine posted the player base rioted about the expansion not being worth it’s monetary value and being dissaproved by a seemingly large part of the player base.

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I hope this will make it clearer, and try to see it from some other perspective.
Oh and I still like the 2nd character slot. So I’ll have 19 now.

Oh and I alost forgot:

Thank you, ArenaNet!
Thank you for developing and hosting Guild Wars 2, for almost 3 years now
Thank you for making HoT hopefuly a great expasion to your game.
I appreciate you quellling this uproar.
And I hope there will be many expansions to come in the future.
We have along way to go….

All you people should consider this episode ( the outrage about ~10 euro’s and/or vanilla) rubbing ppl (New Players, Returning Players) the wrong way and make them forget about Gw2, destroying ( A -possible- substantial part of ) the player base, and hampering A-nets business, and if this happens and monetary benefits are belowe their wishes NC Soft will pull the plug. As the money is managed by NCSOFT, not A-Net, potentially losing us further development, we still need 4 dragons killed…after Mordremoth…

Then you’ll earned yourself a character slot but could have lost the game. Though I like the second char slot tbh.

Just hope the people will reconsider and be enticed enough by an additional characer slot after every online gaming magazine posted the player base rioted about the expansion not being worth it’s monetary value and being dissaproved by a seemingly large part of the player base.

I hope this will make it clearer, and try to see it from some other perspective.
Oh and I still like the 2nd character slot. So I’ll have 19 now.

Ì do not care tbh. Both are to be released Soon™

I gues that’s enough confirmation. You can expect HoT to go live somewhere in the last week of august. 3 yrs after release of Gw2. SAB is something I wish will come back for all who cannot seem to forget their console games while playing Gw2…

The only excusive item I do not have is the Mad memories Full edition, as I was in the hospital for surgery. I missed the Karka queen event as well tbh mostly due to the huge lag and the instance crashes. So I lost out on the 1st Karka Queen kill.but that’s it.

I really wanted mad memories, I tried to catch up with a huge bandaid over my freshly sown wound, bnuit I was to tired and failed to get the complete version, I still have the basic one… I tried to get it oince more using the repawning NPC’s in tghe last halloween and got the 3 basic books again, but to no avail..

Just a question:

I bought the ultimate version does this mean I get 2 slots now? instead of one? I do not mind tbh…

SO I’ll have 19 slots in a short while and a beta slot I guess…

I’d rather seee town clothes changes to generic armor skins.

Buy some lvl 0 food and utility (rough sharpening stone) (look for vendors @ starting areas/city/ trading post (press O to open)) and utility (rough sharpening stone)

They will cost you a few copper but together they will add you 20% experience gain on ANY foe killed. they will stack with experience boosters if you have ’m (you can buy a laureate experience booster (30%) for laurels but: I advise against it as laurels will buy you end level jewels. The booster will last you an hour, the jewels a characters lifetime.

Do the hearts, visit cities, use the portal to lions arch when you find it, open up all starting cities.

Try out different weapons as you get them. some will bne fun some will be unwieldy or strange.

For now until tuesday try to use weapons for damage, not for conditions, conditions tend to be quite weak when starting.

ZZZzzzzz,

Uh….. what? Still not?

Ok , ZZZZzzzz

(Wondering: Is it’s me who’s sleeping or the one guy who has to program the Tribal set to return to the game with 1-6 vendor(s)?)

Support with classic builds:

CC warrior (hammerstun) max conditdurration with stun leangthening
Shoutheal (condiremove) any healing based armor with runes of the trooper
Symbol heal guard any healiung based armor with symbols specced build
Shout remove guard any healing based armor with runes of the trooper
(Water) supprt ele any healing based armor with runes of the monk
well /transfusion necro any healing based armor
Stealth support (res) thief (runes of mercy?)

soon: regen ranger and many others.

The egg of glint will bring salvation.

Understand all partners (toy stores/ e-stores, game stores and so on) bought this game for 50 euro’s as well… They are being shipped to stores…

They cannot change deals just like this. It would create a breach of trust with their sale parteners in the RL world. They’ll need them for quite a while…

Oh and I still do not mind a core game , can allways use the extra laurels but I’ll keep my present game.

I just look at the movie and grin

maybe gather 50 S/S warrriors? they can put 30 stacks of bleeds with food. most max pop caps are a little above 100 if I’m right

Do you want to know why I bought the game? For 100?

I get the expansion: Value unknown
I get a char slot value 800 gems /10 euro
I get 4000 gems value 50 euro
I get a finisher and a mini value 800 gems /10 euro
I get a glider wing skin: Value unknown
I get guild hall stuff: Value unknown

I get beta acces… no value for beta. The fact I want to see it mean I’ll provide some time for them to see their work perform, gfood or bad, which will be a help to the community later on.

I get a title: value: mostly useless. As ppl can buy it it has no significant ingame worth.

So in effect I bought gems , a char slot and a finisher and a mini, I am no hardcore mini buyer but I do own quite a lot of finishers… I payed the equivalent of 5600 gems IMHO which is about 70 euro, and I needed gems and a char slot anyways. so those 60 euro’s would have been payed anyhow. Leaving me the expansion which is not worth anything at the momenty as it’s just a code. Like the wings. but In my personal perspetive I bought it for less then 30 euro’s (still have the glider skin, the guild hall stuff (and the beta’s))

I own the vanilla, and I could have bought a second somewhere in time. but I didn’t. I cannot buy a new vanilla anymore. So be it. I do not want to give up my 18,5k AP account for a supposedly better deal and I played 3 years already, also participated in the vanilla beta, stress test and so on.

Value is what you see in it, as you just bough a lot of 1’s and 0’s actually.

Well darwinism says we are most likely very closely related to apes and monkeys and the humans here have been acting a bit like the monkeys in this test, maybe you want to draw your own conclusions?

But for real, this behaviour and this has been observed by all (higher intelligent(?)) mammals… including elephants, dolphins, canines and other animals with a highly evolved social behaviour…., so you think about it.

And for me? I bought the ultimate when I saw 1 word on the log in page -pre-purchase-. I do not care about 1 character slot, I have 18 at this time, not counting the Beta slot
Nor do I care about additional farm accounts, but if the purchase options would be changed I’d appreciated being treated fair as well.

Old experiment with capucin monkeys, both get the same task, they have to return a stone. When both get a cucumber nothing is wrong, BUT wwhen 1 gets a grape and the other gets a cucumber all hell breaks loose.

If you have 2 ppl do they same they expecty the same reward, This goes for a huge amount of species on this planet.

PPL have bought seocnd vanilla accounts before , to give away or to farm laurels and pay for their legendaries/ armors and so on.

When you give half the people the basic version and HoT they are happy
When you give veterans only HoT they feel like they get the cucumber.

SO give all ppl who buy this an added serial for the vanilla account. Problem solved.

You commerce ppl made this happen, you deal with it.

Maybe you all think the free addition of the vanilla is a crime, but remember you paid for 3 years of uptime for 50+ servers, maintenance, bandwith , electricity and ppl developing this game during this time.

Now saying it’;s to expensive is like going to the garage and saying they should reduce the cost of maintaining your car cause ppl buying a new one will get a free airconditioning,

Have fun, If you stand with it, I respect you, If you buckle and buy it You lose my respect,

I bought it. I do not condone your actions, I think they are childish and immature.

at release this game was to have regular updates, after removing initial bugs and problems LS S1 started, provinding you content, whihc was frowned upon as it was not repreatable, so Anet listened and changed and made S2, which was frowned upon as ppl didn’t want additional personal story, Ppl started screaming for a REAL expansion, so A-Net listened and made you an expansion. claimed a name, and started promotions, and now you are saying it’s all wrong?

You the vocal minority brought this on yourselves. Free bi weekly updates was a biit much but free updates were a thing and you veto-ed it. Now deal with your own selfcreated monster.

Oh and for ppl being kittened of they cannot trade their gold for the expansion, You CAN buy your character slot for gold. Deal with it.

Why do you think this will help your cause?

You are making a statement:

I want to play this game, which has only income through people making RL Cash purchases for the game and gems, but I am convinced and know for sure their income is not relevant to the continued existance of their product…. Which I eventually really want to play….. So I’m gonna call a boycot and have 100(200?) ppl not purchasing it… if from the 3,5 Million users 2 Million are gonna buy the expansion, 200 are having the illusion their 1/10000th share (or less) is going to be influential they should reconsider, just wait 3-6 months and get your discounted version for 5-10 euro off… if the content really sucks the game will be dead already. So you’ll save yourself more in the end.

If you are wrong and it is good: you’ll avoid the rush, the buggy beta’s and the hype trains, and you’ll lose the clean start, having all walkthroughs and new meta’s types out just for you to copy. And you vets will be 2nd generation Newbs in the expansion.

I’ll respect those who stick with their choices and I’ll be honest those who still go out and pre purchase HoT at a later stage…. How do you want to be taken serious in the future?

It’s like you leaving your car at home not wanting to buy fuel… It’s not going to get you anywhere…NCSoft will look and ignore you…

Happy.

I do not care the cost is normal, I have the cash, and had a bit lying around to buy an additional char slot and I was planning to buy a gem card anyways, so I get 4000 gems now, the for the price of 2000, a char slot, my second rytlock mini, a finisher, some wings I’ll see in the beta and some curtains for my guild hall of my personal guild bank and and I feel okay with it,

Else I wouls have payed 85 euro’s as well (basic char slot, 2000 gems…( and now I got some other thingies and I get to enjoy some extra time in the expansion just figuring out my characters and best options to make for upcoming ascneded armor(S)

I’m not going to worry about all people raging about they do not want to pay more then 50 euro, and they cannot buy it with gems and on and on and on….

Hope they figure out they can buy the revenant finisher and the char slot with gems they CAN buy with gold and stop whining.

I’m happy,

I am mildly annoyed by all people wanting everything for free, I have a friend who flips TP and he’s pist: he cannot change his 10k gold for HoT. I tried to tell him his gold doesn’t play the rent for a-net or buy food…, but he seems convinced he’s right.

I’ve seen more of these comments…

In the end I’m happy and I’ll see you all sooner or later in the New Maguuma.

azizul.8469:

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

Arenanet needs to make RL money. It’s used to pay their programmers and artists so you have a game to play, they cannot spend farmed gold at their local convenience store, so no not for gems. Just CASH.

Else you will not have a game to play in a couple of months. due to all ppl making your game starving from hunger and not being able to pay the fuel to drive to their work or they may just freeze to death under bridges due to their houses being repo-ed.

Yes, money makes the world go round, also Tyria in this case.

but but.. gems in the game are poured in by players who purchased them for real money anyway…..

You seem to be forgetting you can just farm gold and buy gems, or be a flipper and get unlimited gems.

This will not provide income to the companya and as such it is illogical to provide an expansion for gems.

I’d also see ppl convert all their gold to gems and gold to gem pizes going to the roof, making it very intersting for ppl with worng intentions to buy a couple of hundred dollars worth of gems to becom and instant millionaire, ingame.

Arenanet needs to make RL money. It’s used to pay their programmers and artists so you have a game to play, they cannot spend farmed gold at their local convenience store, so no not for gems. Just CASH.

Else you will not have a game to play in a couple of months. due to all ppl making your game starving from hunger and not being able to pay the fuel to drive to their work or they may just freeze to death under bridges due to their houses being repo-ed.

Yes, money makes the world go round, also Tyria in this case.

base stats will be upped from 926 to 1000, so 74 points, the additional; 26 toughness you’ll be missing is easily corrected by changing 1 trinket.

When looking for most PvE builds this change is a HUGE QoL update, for WvW this is a bit worse… but we are said to gain a lot on WvW change… We’ll see..

the 990 Motherboard doesn’t support PCI-E 16 v3.0…

Consider this when upgrading. It’s mostly influences load times ino maps where this could be noticed I guess… but certain versions of the 900 series of nvidia have narrow(ed) busses. this with a lower bus spec will influence the performance.

Well warrior should have enough by utilizing runes of the trooper and warhorn. (WH traited: present tactics line if I’m correct.) For a total of 8 condition cleanses based on 2 shouts (presumably FGJ and Shake it off) #6: mending and the warhorn trait. for 6 cleanses though skills and 2 conversions through trait. Of course you could add purity (remove condition on hit, generosity (send it to foe on crit) if your desperate or cleansing…(clean on weapon swap.) which would add some more.

Wether you want to run vigorous shouts is entirely up to you

I can imagine a S/W and LB build…

Why can’t ppl just wait for the upcoming changes…

@Zahld

1. Conditions into boons is guard (contemplation of purity) Warrior (warhorn skills when traited) and necro skills (Well of Power), Transmute (enigneer boon) Elixir C (skill) thewre might be more but these are from head…
2. Condition stacking intensity will be applied for burning and poison in the coming patch… and/or by using MIGHT and soon also with vulnerability. It already exists for bleeds, torment and confusion, their caps are to be released…
3. Epidemic? (and some other necro AND revenant skills….)

it is very simple: why only compare dire to soldiers.
if you do so also compare sinister to zerk.

Your metabuild will be in the trashcan ANYWAYS. Meta’s shift. Especially on content patches and trust me this will be a biggie.

I think the clerics/trooper shout heal sword/warhorn with hammer or longbow will make a great reentrance to PvP, coupled to a condi mesmer or condi mancer it might be impressive. 2 warriors for 2 area’s, 2 condition bombers and a thief….

Sinister is a condition armor, synergizing with Rabid for Toughness. The closest backitem is rampager or rabid.

I run Sinister on 4 of my characters for mostly PVE purposes, and for WvW I tend to replace some armor pieces and or trinkets with Rabid and or Dire

sinister(/rabid) PU condi Mesmer
sinister(/rabid) S/S & LB warrior
sinister(/rabid) A/? Ranger
sinister(/rabid) terror hybrid necro.

when full sinister all these builds will do good damage, BUT most condition based weapons scale horribly with power. Might is an obvious benefit to all the builds as are warrior power/ condition banners.

Expected reply:

Well, we feel the planning stage has taken way more time then anticipated, so we are using prefab castles mostly to speed up the rebuilding effort.

We are putting up the scaffolding now and the barges are bringing in materials just to make us able to pour concrete to build fundations as fast as we can mix it up then sit and harden them for approximately 2 weeks and cast a fireball to remove the wood, and unfold the castles and defences and you’ll be happy to notice:

Voilá, to be seen here: The new Lion’s Arch:

Done… as good as new. And making sure they are all nice and prefab makes replacing them much easier and convinient, and possibly cheaper if LA was to ever be attacked again. Of course develping this cost a huge amount of funds, so if you want any furniture or inventory: Please make sure you buy it at your nearest Black Lion TP.

Let’s hope our Cantha ordered new fountain arrives in time for the opening… They tend to still use ships… But as we already knew portals are fast. but since we lost the portal to Kamadan to hungry stone-eating entities we have no choice to hope for good weather on this specific part… We are negotiating with Asura’s and Canthans about the replacement of the Gate to Kamadan. But unfortunately this if taking more time and expenses then previously expected and consequently the costs of the fountain are higher then expected, so we will have no other choice then to raise BLTP taxes by 2% permanently.

Thanks for your attention and We hope you like the new LA.

Your’s sincerely (mostly…)

Evon Gnashblade,

Black Lion Construction Conglomerate,
Part of Black Lion Enterprises Unlimited.

Trust me: you will never make the same mistake twice.

In wvw: I/We have 4 shout heal warriors running around, 5+ guards all with runes of the trooper…
All those warriors carry warhorn, mesmer with null field, necro with well of power…

They clean a lot of conditions for our small 20 man group… and this is NOT considering personal cleans.

Understand the max dmg from DOT might be the same or higher then a DPS build -BUT- 1 spell of cleanses makes your dmg output reset to noting…
and you’ll have to start all over
and with the CD’s still running upping your condi’s will be slower…
and your enemy will grin and if he has a good build he can do so again.
Also you need to land your conditions before the start to do dmg.
Lastly you need to stay alive vs your DPS adversaries while your conid’s might be ticking. And your target will go backline for a moment, to be cleansed, and you’ll lose your target or be engulfed when you close. Condi’s have uses, but they are not fire and forget.

The longest bleed actually comes from necro: blood is power has a base 30 sec uptime.
I have played with 100% bleed duration necro’s, but @ 60% this will be a skill doing over to 16+k dmg, if not cleansed during its 57,5 seconds… on a high condi build: e.g. rabid/undead w corruption and bursting….

But I have -NEVER- killed an enemy with 2 stacks of bleed. -NEVER-. Warrior wih HS regen more then the bleed will damage/tick even… (guards and rangers will also not bother with 2 stacks of bleeds.)

Condition dmg ignores toughness….

We cannot nerf the meta. -The Meta is- being the optimal build for your goal…

This can mean Zerk can or cannot be meta stat anymore, but I doubt this would happen… at least not for speedclears. Zerk is going to be more powerfull even when the trait changed are made standard. It will also mean you will have -no- vitality anymore on your Phalanx Build…. just as an example.

Conditions will be way bigger, in PVE and dungeons -conditions- will be more of a thing. No longer needing to be shunned and adding DOT to the DPS. Even 2 necro’s or 2 S/S warrior could join in and do DOT together.

ARMOR IGNORING DAMAGE! Affected by vulnerability.

You’ll have damage ticking for 15+ seconds after you might go down, your DoT friend could even res the party due to their conditions ticking and ticking… But when you are eaten by gravelings you will not cap out at 25 stacks, no… you’ll die at 35-50+ stacks….think of it, and think of the importance of a condition removal….

The meta is changing but if it’s only skills and traits? We’ll see :

Zerk will be the stat of choice for the Dungeon speedrun DPS Meta.
Zerk might (not) be the stats of choice for the PVE Meta
Zerk will not be the armor of choice for the DoT build Meta.

At this moment:
In many cases Zerk is not the Meta for worldbosses (as it is now)
In many cases Zerk is not the Meta for WvW (as it is now)
In many cases Zerk is not the Meta for PvP (as it is now).

Zerk isn’t going to change, much…

DoT is going to change and it will have an impact on Meta playstyles , Meta groups, Meta Builds and setups. I doubt this will remove the use of Zerk.

SW? DT? World bosses? farm tomes? PVP? WVW? LS s2?
Follow the forums…?

I’m seeing warriors fighting then disengaging though the zerg in WvW using GS3 and 4 then switching to sword, leaping away then stripping all movement modifiers with WH 4 and be done with it. then wave from afar and laugh.

Well taking down a reinforced door with dagger stabs will be much more realistic then just setting it ablaze…

I can imagine a door not reacting to confusion, but who knows.
Bleeding is the deteriorating effect of cutting things up and I can see a door being tormented, poisoning, can be done with toxins but also with acid… (yes, evil…) acid will eat the door. (doubt it will be feared though, stunned, nah….)

We do not need a 33% speed buff for aesthetics, especially not on a PAID mount = P2W

We had an uproar cuase the watchwork mining pick produced sprockets. People left and the forums were littered with dozens of threads about unfair and all…

Now, do not go and make a mount, which perma boosts speed and some ppl do not have access to,..

Also: mounts except for the Jununduy and the Siege Devourer are foreign to GW(2) and they were not mounts but combat mechanics. The scorps in EotM are actually Siege devourers. Babies, but siege devourers nevertheless… and that’s the closest I hope to come to mounts in the game.

LoLz

Stick with the broom, the tunneler and the carpet.

I’ll see if my sinister sword sword longbow warrior get’s viable now with proper traits.
Maybe add some toughness or vitality with rabid and/or dire rings.

Oh and at present if you have a condi mesmer and you get burning on someone (prestige?) you can do 1174 dmg with corruption stacks, bursting and crystal and food My p[roblem with mesmer has always been the incredulous short durations of all the conditions. especially with 3 staff clones….

2 remarks about conditions,

some builds remove 10+ conditions in a row, causing low dmg until you rebuild the DOT stacks
resistance will be a hindrance.

WVW? => Epidemic.

My suggestion(s):

Seemingly EASIEST FIX: Allow for stat selection…..

Problem:
Few actually… Problem is you get to choose 1 time.

-or-

Buy NEW trinkets

1. Save up some laurels
2. Save up some pristine fractal relics
3. Save up some guild commendations

Correct your build on trinkets.

Problem:
I have 16 lvl 80’s, how do I get 320 pristine relics, 500+ laurels and 384 Guild commendations in a matter of months?
Just what do we do with the stuff removed from these slots?

-or-

Laurel sponsorring for all characters with ascneded gear:
Any free given laurels would be a great help, ppl who do not care could use ’m for some mats, problem is this should scale with the amount of characters at lvl 80 IMHO.

Problem:
As there are ppl with 50+ characters at lvl 80, to give all 50+ character 180 laurels to buy new rings would cause some problems… or maybe this should be given based upon the slots filled with ascneded backs/rings/earrings and amulets….

-or-

My favorite: I’d suggest a free ASCENDED TRINKET SWAP VENDOR:
you’ll get 1 ring-. earring- or amulet-ticket for any ASCENDED ring/earring/amulet and get a ring, earring or amulet of choice when redeeming this ticket.
Maybe as a courtesy they could allow 2 ring tickets fro 1 earring or amulet, and comparable switches for eearrings and amulets.
It would remove a HUGE part of the above stated problem.
The option would also remove the endless hassle with Fractal drops.

This leaves only the back items, which I still see as an extension of the armor.
The only thing A-Net needs to do it to make sure ALL STAT COMBINATIONS are available as ASCENDED TRINKETS… on all types of vendor (be it WvW (<- probably hardedt hit region), laurel, The golem BUY (in fractals))

I do like to see it… It tends to be a great help… in WvW

You can choose to start with an auto attack instead of your heavy hitters….

I prefer to lose a 600 hp auto stap on no recharge over a 2k+ (5 or even 10 k) hit with 8-40+ seconds recharge

OP:

So, i crafted the Foefire’s Essence and i’m using now for 4 days i think.

But i’m starting to regret it.

I wanted because of the look, because i wanted my character to use something expensive and hard to get and because i wanted people to look and comment and say: “hey, nice GS!” “wow, that is an amazing GS, can i see it? ”

But no, people just don’t give a kitten , but if i was wearing a Sunrise ( i wouldn’t go for Twilight because it doesn’t fit for my guardian [personal thing] ), things would be different.

I think it’s because the ascalonian GS and Cobalt are kinda similar you know, one is blue with a ghost fog/flame and the other one has a very well done (imo) blue flame effect and then people kinda don’t see anything amazing or nice about the Foefire.

Now i feel like i just wasted time and i should have put the GS to sell for 470g.

argh, i hate myself.

:(

Well I have my own opinion on weapon skins… generally very simple…

I do not mind what others think. As long as I think it’s okay.

I cannot please ppl cause:

1. if it’s to beautiful it’s making them jealous
2. if it’s normal they do not care and
3. if it’s ugly i do not like it so I change it.

So I’ll be honest this approval thing also goes a bit for me, BUT I do not like the legendary GS’s from the first time I saw one I knew I’d never forge one of the 2, let alone combine them.
I liked kymswarden a lot. I used it about the first 2 years on multiple characters, like I like the axe Faithfull…

I crafted quite a few skins, mostly because I like them and wanted to make them.
I crafted the crossing, firebringer, courage and ambrosia, the anomaly and quite some others.. Most of those skins I still use today.

I also use BLT skins (the ones from tickets). In the end it mostly revolves arount you liking it or not.