really hope this gets fixed very soon
I’ve been getting disconnects after around half an hour gameplay time since the new patch.
The error message goes on about the client losing connection to the server. Then the screen just goes black and I have to alt+f4 out of GW2.
you’ve gotten 800 hours out of a 60 dollar game that has no other required fees and you are complaining? No game goes on forever, dude. There’s nothing wrong with playing something else, and coming back when they release new content.
I usually agree with this argument when players ‘complain’ but I believe the issue here is that Gw2 seems to have fallen short from its predecessor in this certain aspect of the game.
He’s comparing Vanilla GW2 to a GW1 years after release so its a worthless point.
Not exactly. If you thoughtfully read my post, you must have noticed the part where I said “or in the earlier days, farm minotaurs in Elona’s reach, or Trolls outside Droknar’s Forge, and so on” <- These methods were available in Prophecies, so basically Vanilla GW1. I know GW1 had years to develop, and I took that into consideration as you can see, but my point still stands because of vanilla GW1. Also for example running was ALWAYS a viable option to earn money, from vanilla GW1 ’till this very day. (My minotaur farming example was nerfed over the course of years. )
So, lets say i give you 500g today .. your gonna make your legendary and what ? run around showing it off for a few hours and log out and put the game on self till expansion or events ?
I think that the main point the OP is trying to get at is that there is a lack of interesting ways of making money in this game. The ‘obtaining a legendary’ part of the post was just there as something to discuss around; like the difference between a thesis statement and a single body paragraph which helps support your point.
thank you… I saw the commenters were taking the post into a “QQ post about legendaries” It’s good to see there still are people who are possible to reason with.
Yes they did say level 74 rares DO NOT reward precursors, I even PM’d Linsey Murdock about the case, and she confirmed that level 74 and below rares DON’T reward precursors. (I can post evidence)
please do because i already know your reading the reply wrong because a friend of mine got the Spark from using 2 godskull items only a few weeks ago, long after the change.
evidence: http://i.imgur.com/baEGq.png
I think by saying “give or take a couple of levels” Linsey hinted at 74 being a viable alternative. I did get a precursor that way and I have no reason to lie about it.. As I said so many people were asking me for advice and I just wanted to provide it.
I dunno man… I think “Only 75+ Rares” pretty bluntly states it… When did your precursor drop?
I’m not trying to be a prick here, I’m just sceptical, and yes, other than the “toss level 74 rares into the MF”, the other information you gave on the whole precursor business is useful, and thanks.Last night seeing Legend hit 411 gold on TP, I said “kitten it” and went all out, bought 140 gold worth of lvl 74-76 exotic staves and then mixed them in the 1 lvl 80 exo+ 3lvl 74ish exotic staff formula.. 3rd try I got Legend and I kinda fell off my chair lol xD
YES CAUSE AS I SAID, lvl 71-80 EXOTICS DO DROP IT and lvl 74 RARES DON’T DROP PRECURSORS. You post just confirms my theory now.
Also kitten you for being so lucky if this is true… I’ve reforged 216 l76-79 exotic shortbows, and only no Lover yet.
Yes they did say level 74 rares DO NOT reward precursors, I even PM’d Linsey Murdock about the case, and she confirmed that level 74 and below rares DON’T reward precursors. (I can post evidence)
please do because i already know your reading the reply wrong because a friend of mine got the Spark from using 2 godskull items only a few weeks ago, long after the change.
evidence: http://i.imgur.com/baEGq.png
I think by saying “give or take a couple of levels” Linsey hinted at 74 being a viable alternative. I did get a precursor that way and I have no reason to lie about it.. As I said so many people were asking me for advice and I just wanted to provide it.
I dunno man… I think “Only 75+ Rares” pretty bluntly states it… When did your precursor drop?
I’m not trying to be a prick here, I’m just sceptical, and yes, other than the “toss level 74 rares into the MF”, the other information you gave on the whole precursor business is useful, and thanks.
also I edited my earlier evidence post to provide more info why she replied that, please read it (my fault though, should have wrote it in the post from the start)
Anyway, the main point there was if 71-75 exotic drops precurors, or not cause it didn’t feel logical if they wouldn’t drop them, since they ARE exotics, they just weren’t clear on the exotic part in their post about the drop changes, only the rare part.
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it says nothing but the fact u can use 3x lvl 74 or less items and 1×75+ and get a precursor
a.Toss 4 level 74 rares.
Yes they did say level 74 rares DO NOT reward precursors, I even PM’d Linsey Murdock about the case, and she confirmed that level 74 and below rares DON’T reward precursors. (I can post evidence)
please do because i already know your reading the reply wrong because a friend of mine got the Spark from using 2 godskull items only a few weeks ago, long after the change.
evidence: http://i.imgur.com/baEGq.png
The reason why I marked exotics is because I asked this after reading a thread in which she (and/or one of the other devs) replied that precursors no longer drop from lower than l75 rares. And in that thread people including me were unsure if there was any change similar like this to the exotic reforging. And as you can see, no the exotics 71 and above can still drop the precursors, but the 75+ rare thing was also confirmed in that thread (as you can see, a month ago)
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but 74 rares do reward precursors and a dev has never said they DONT, the chance was just fixed after the whole Godskull incident that caused the precursor mess in the first place.
your chances just go higher when you use higher level items as you limit what the MF can spit back out at you.
Yes they did say level 74 rares DO NOT reward precursors, I even PM’d Linsey Murdock about the case, and she confirmed that level 74 and below rares DON’T reward precursors. (I can post evidence)
I’m not sure if this intentionally misleading, or a mistake but before anyone does this
Lvl 74 rares DO NOT REWARD PRECURSORS This has been confirmed by the devs, only lvl 75 and above rares can reward precursors.
Because of this I’m very sceptical about OP trying to make a big profit from having a lot of lvl74 rares and trying to make a big demand for them now, which probably isn’t the scenario, sorry, I’m a pessimistic person.
So my routine is: 1. Log in 2. Check the TP 3. Sigh 4. Log out 5. Play something else.
I’m an old GW1 player and I loved the game, and in GW2 I have 800+ hours ingame, 3 lvl 80s, 100% world expl, got the dungeon gears I want, got enough karma for my legendary, and the necessary icy runestones, and the two recipes. That means the only real goals I have left in the game is getting special mystic forge weapons, and a legendary weapon. But I’ve rapidly lost interest in the game due to one thing. Eventhough I’m pretty good at it, I don’t like playing Wall Street Simulator to make my way to acquiring any of the mystic forged weapons I want, or a legendary.
Currently it feels insane making money ingame by playing the game instead of the TP. You CANNOT make a decent sum of ingame money by playing the game, like you could in GW1. And playing only the TP to efficiently reach the requirements of those weapons/legendaries is very boring and doesn’t feel rewarding or legendary at all. My problem isn’t the fact that you can trade your way to these weapons (or cultural armor for that matter?) It’s that you do not have any efficient way of making gold other than playing the TP.
In GW1 you had multiple options to make money if you were smart/skilled, without constantly trading… You could do all kinds of stuff like offer running service / farm feathers / farm ectos in UW / farm zaishen keys / go for armbraces / do missions for oppressor weapons or in the earlier days, farm minotaurs in Elona’s reach, or Trolls outside Droknar’s Forge, and so on. And they all felt efficient and rewarding, cause they got you to your goal by rewarding you for playing the game smart, and making an effort.
In GW2 what do we have? Plinx/Penitent. And it’s not even efficient, you have to farm it for hundreds of hours to get one of any kind of mystic forged weapon you want, since the prices are player controlled. (Also did I mention how I miss the fact that in GW1 you exchanged the stuff you wanted from vendors for a FIXED price of 75 platinum and certain crafting materials? And here you need to do what? give 300+g to some lucky kitten who got a precursor? I’m not even gonna go into the precursors, it’s just ridiculous. My point is eventhough the vendors had minor flaws if you think about it, they still felt tons more rewarding and pleasing than what goes on in GW2.)
You see, I already deal with financial stuff in RL daily, why can’t I just actually play the game instead of just doing financial stuff ingame too to make a decent sum of ingame gold?
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The only problem right now is that precursors (and Legendaries) are buyable/sellable. If they were Account Bound nobody would talk about them.
that’s not true. A big part of the problem would still remain, the fact that you have to gamble and be extremely lucky to receive one. Doesn’t feel legendary at all.
That’s true, but we will get rid of the “it’s amoral that they cost so much”, “it is all a ruse to force us to buy money”, “the exploiters/cheater had them and they’re dominating the market”, etc.
At least we would only have to deal with a gameplay issue, and not whit an economic crisis…
That’s true, and I agree. I didn’t say though that it wouldn’t solve anything, I just said that a big part of the problem would still remain.
I hate threads like this…
Don’t try to unbalance the market / make a profit on these items with “speculation” posts. (even if it’s not your actual intention)
Stop speculating on things without any evidence, ‘cause right now it just seems you’re trying to make gold out of buying up cheap materials and stirring up false rumors to manipulate demand for those items. (I mean, glacial cores and lodestones, really?? …)
And if anyway, wait for ANet / Gaming magazines to leak info on the event, and look for recipes/evidence in the footage they give
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I really hope they address precursors with this update… Maybe put it in the new “very difficult dungeon” as a reward? Let’s hope.
Or else I’m out.. nealy 1000 hours played, 3 lvl 80 chars, ectect… I’m already rapidly losing interest in the game sadly.
The game is only 80 days old and you have put in 1000 hours?
Also, losing interest after that much on a $60 investment seems like money well spent.
Yeah so I should just stop playing right? That’d definitely help the income of ANet!
The only problem right now is that precursors (and Legendaries) are buyable/sellable. If they were Account Bound nobody would talk about them.
that’s not true. A big part of the problem would still remain, the fact that you have to gamble and be extremely lucky to receive one. Doesn’t feel legendary at all.
Ermmm, why would you make long term goals seem completely hopeless to achieve, shortening it down to 0? If it’s the only long term goal left for the player, and you make it completely out of reach, or rather a gamble, then guess what. It’s over
Ermmm, why do you think it’s hopeless to achieve or out of reach? If you are going for the pve carrot part of the game you have to enjoy the grind. Thus, I don;t see why it bothers you. It just gives you more goals to farm, nothing else.
one of the posters above is right, it’s impossible to reason with you. And gosh, it isn’t even a grind, it’s all about playing the Trading Post. (or botting / exploiting) See, it would be a grind, if for example it required you to do all of the explorable paths in all of the dungeons. And that would be FUN. A grind yes, but still fun! Instead of either mindlessly farming for hundreds of hours in orr or being an economy mastermind, able to manipulate markets, or just being a botter. (because there is no really efficient way of earning money by farming which is a real shame)
With prices of T6 mats going back up does anyone else feel temped to just give up on their legendaries and sell what they saved up to get an exotic with nice skin instead?
You know, you might be onto something… I just dunno what I’d do after that. Probably stop playing as getting the Dreamer is my only goal left to achieve. And the road to getting that is getting further and further away from my reach… And it’s not really fun… (seriously, playing Wall Street Simulator 2012 to get to my legendary is BORING )
and he wants to take part in the other long term goals the game has?
Ermmm, that’s a bit of a contradiction, isn’t it? Why do you want to shorten the long term goals of the game in order to achieve them? Doesn’t that defy the purpose? Since you’d effectively be depriving yourself form part of the long term….
Ermmm, why would you make long term goals seem completely hopeless to achieve, shortening it down to 0? If it’s the only long term goal left for the player, and you make it completely out of reach, or rather a gamble, then guess what. It’s over
I’ve encountered a very weird bug, and the only logical explanation I could come up with is that the Greatsaw has a soundfile that has been misplaced in a very weird way .
So here’s the deal.
I have a Greatsaw on one of my characters, and I’ve always found it weird that the Greatsaw has an idle chainsaw rumble sound when you go into combat, but it doesn’t make any “extra” spinning up kind of sound when you attack with it. (You know, like when you cut through a tree in real life, which would be AWESOME by the way.)
Well I found that exact sound that I felt was missing, in a very weird scenario.
I was playing my warrior alt on the Durmand Priory storyline, and I entered Shards of Orr personal quest, which features Tegwen and Carys and I have to assist them in killing a bunch of risen, and a lieutenant. I noticed the spinning chainsaw sound while in combat with the risen. Shortly I found out what the source was. It was Carys (or probably her weapon?)
I also found out what triggered it. Everytime Carys went into combat, the sound played, and during combat it randomly played there too (not frequently like once or twice, not including the time when she enters combat)
I’ve made a few screenshots of her and her weapon, to maybe help track down the bug and make it an auto-attack sound for the Greatsaw. (yes, THAT weapon made the chainsaw sound) http://imgur.com/a/D1X9a
Unfortunately I couldn’t make a recording of it because the quest ended before I got a chance and there is no option to replay story quests.
Hopefully the information provided helps in the issue, and fingers crossed that the sound gets added as the Greatsaw’s auto-attack.
I really hope they address precursors with this update… Maybe put it in the new “very difficult dungeon” as a reward? Let’s hope.
Or else I’m out.. nealy 1000 hours played, 3 lvl 80 chars, ectect… I’m already rapidly losing interest in the game sadly.
We need a 100 level dungeon with difficult bosses every five levels. If you wipe, you start back at the top. If you finish it, you get your choice of a precursor.
I’m hoping for something similar to this… (except for the wipe=restart thing) It would make it atleast LEGENDARY instead of LUCKY…
Currently my only hope is that the new dungeon they introduce with the Lost Shores patch will solve the issue the way you stated it, since Anet goes on and on about how difficult this dungeon is… Imagine if it would reward you with a precursor for being so hard. Now THAT would totally be worth it.
If not though I’m afraid I’ll just greatly reduce my playtime, as I already have 3 lvl80 characters, I almost have all the dungeon armor I wanted, and as I said in my original post, I’m nearing the completion of the requirements of the Dreamer except for the freaking precursor.
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Legendaries are for lucky people and not legends. I’m not playing the game as much and my friends are quitting left and right. We really hate the Korean MMO direction this game is going in. It would at least be nice if we got responses on if the precursor system was ever going to change.
THIS
Also I don’t even understand people in the thread saying “GTFO if you want a precursor recipe”…
What part of “Couldn’t we just have some unique bosses that drop the precursors or some thing, similarly to GW1 ??” suggests me wanting a recipe for precursors?
I just would much rather prefer a way of obtaining a precursor other than luck or 300+ gold… Like for example if they required a certain combination of a number of dungeon tokens. (I just thought about this right now)
Right now I’m very near to having everything I need for my legendary.
Except one thing.
THE PRECURSOR…
Sofar I’ve reforged 216 l76+ EXOtic Shortbows, and nothing.
And this is really putting me off playing the game and working my way to my legendary. It’s already very hard to earn decent gold in the game (yes there is the TP, but there’s no fun in that tbh).
I’d rather work myself to getting a precursor instead of throwing a kittenload of gold at somebody who lucked it out… (no, working myself to 300+g is NOT fun)
Couldn’t we just have some unique bosses that drop the precursors or some thing, similarly to GW1??
(also sorry for the weird title, apparently it was 52 characters long and the max is 50)
I am really disappointed in the dreamer, not because of it shooting ranbows and being a unicorn bow, but the lack of effects is just uuughh… I mean Even the Kudzu has special projectiles, AND leaves footsteps… Why doesn’t the Dreamer leave footsteps?!
And why does the Bifrost pull a rainbow behind you instead of the dreamer??? What kind of kittened up logic is that?!? (also what even is the Quip seriously)
Anyway to make corrections to OP’s post (just adding effects OP didn’t list)
Incinerator
-when drawn, makes your lower arm burst into flame (whichever one you’re wielding it it in)
-flame burst effect when landing a hit on target
Bifrost
-leaves a rainbow trail behind wearer while moving.
(you should have also listed the legendary torch Rogdort, it’s so kitten)
I saw Mark Katzbach’s post earlier about how the Mad King chests won’t be craftable after the Halloween event is over, and yesterday I saw another post saying stuff from the Act 3 won’t be available from when Act 4 goes live… So I’m assuming Act 4 will be some “afterparty” of Halloween, but I may not be able to craft my Mad King chests until then, so I would really appreciate an answer on this!
Thank you.
depends on if they recycle the same skins next halloween or not. if these skins remain unique to halloween ’12 then yes, they will become quite pricey in the future.
I hope Arenanet does this, it would be amazingly awesome! Not just because of price rising but the “prestige” that comes with owning one of these!
All this crying is hilarious. If you think ANet will lose out from using a gacha model, which tons of other MMOs use successfully, you’re horribly mistaken.
exactly, and I hope ANet doesn’t give in a second time to this vocal minority…
(I only read OP’s posts, not the long comments)
I complete agree with OP, it’s the wallet that did the talking for all the complainers.
Although I have to say I sort of support the current RNG system they have, purely because of the fact that the items you get are tradable. It’s just like in TF2 and I enjoyed it there too. If it wouldn’t be tradable I definitely would not support it, but in the current state I think ANet has made it fair, and no one has a right to complain about that. Key buyers are lucky Anet even gave them a second chance at the items, yet immature people are still very vocal about losing here on the forums…
Were there a few million of them for sale then?
Nope. But the fact that you have quite a lot of affordable skins on the market every time you look for them means by itself that you don’t need this million. There are apparently more Halloween skins ingame than players who want them.
This is so true. They’re just sitting there on the TP waiting for the taking yet people come here to whine… It’s just unbeleavable.
Now I know not how it was in GW1 (it is to my limited knowledge a lot of earning instead of buying),
I hear a lot of people saying that and it’s total dis-information to confuse non GW1 players
GW1 cash shop skins could all be freely bought DIRECT from the cash shop. No random number generator, no drama. You just gave them your money, they gave you your skin, everyone was happy.
Nobody ever complained this setup was “too easy” or that the skins had to be in any way exclusive.
Actually you can buy a lot of halloween related items freely DIRECT from the gem store. There’s just the bonus that if you want really rare items you can gamble, or you can just buy it off the TP.
It would be chaotic if ANet put up the rare skins for direct buy on the gemstore. Imagine if the Greatsaw was put up. Everyone would just buy it without any grind, and no one would ever go out and get any other GS, except for the legendaries. Now take this to a new level and imagine all kinds of gear items, that have the level of awesomeness as the Greatsaw currently has. No one would play the game since it doesn’t require any real effort to grind for armor or weapons, since you could get them all from the cash shop. A BIG chunk of the dedicated and hardcore players would simply leave the game, and that wouldn’t be good for ANet, not at all, just think about it. Currently they’ve brought the right decisions and I’m happy to see the way they’ve went. Unique items are what keep an MMO running. (see GW1)
Please don’t compare chests with irl lottery. It’s completely different scenarios.
Having said so, I think it shouldn’t be that difficult to get such skins. I respect that you think there’s nothing wrong with someone spending £100 and not getting said skins.. But that’s not most people point of view and they have the right to complain, without being called 3 yo.
Anyway, I bet next holliday most people won’t be spending that much money (or even won’t be spending money at all).
yeah…. have you opened the TP lately and searched “skin” you may notice that most of these skins are 2g-20g atm… so in all reality, everyone in this game regardless of weather they spent real money on gems or not can get these skins.
Exactly. If most of the complainers just sit down and thought a moment before throwing money into the slot machines, this whole ordeal would have never happened in the first place, but I guess some just don’t have the capacity to do so. Lot of people bring up complaints like “I spent 40+$ and got nothing boohoo” well if you would have exchanged the gems for ingame gold instead of buying keys, you could have bought up to like 10 of the exclusive skins depending on which one you wanted. And still you could buy the most expensive one from 40$ (or even less now). It baffles me how THESE people think they deserve to be compensated…
and this way you can still support ANet while doing so.
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With a customer base of several hundred thousands of (active) players, it is very hard to tell whether complaints stem from a small, but extremely vocal minority of immature people with entitlement issues, or whether a majority of the player base is dissatisfied (some of which just happen to be extremely vocal immature people with entitlement issues).
I can’t tell such a difference from this forum alone. Because in the end, all evidence is anecdotal, and therefore, near-worthless.
^this so much.
What the vocal immature people, and basically what everyone who complains about the RNG system do not understand is this.
It’s your wallet that speaks louder If you do not support the gambling way of acquiring rare seasonal skins, why did you buy in on it the first place? (Especially without any data or indication of the dropchance)
You see? Right now your wallets are yelling “YES, WE WANT MORE GAMBLING PLEASE”.
If you didn’t stuff money into the “slotmachines” ANet wouldn’t see $$$ coming in the door for keys, and that way they would’ve went for a different route for the next seasonal event instead of BLCs. But that’s not what happened and it’s unreasonable to come up with “I OPENED CHESTS GOT NOTHING, GIVE ME STUFF NOW” complaints, as they are not constructive at all. The damage has been done mainly by you buying into the gambling system and quite frankly no one deserves to be compensated for that. It’s unbelievable ANet even gave you a second chance to acquire the items. NO company that follows this business model has ever done such a thing. (Just look at TF2 and how successful they are)
I agree the community is downright immature at the moment, it’s a disgrace what’s going on. ANet made an amazing halloween event, but these whiny people ruin the whole thing.
So the counter arguments are
If they were easy to get, everyone would have them
I don’t see how this is a problem. In a game where it’s all about looks that is how it should be. Why should your kitten prevent me from enjoying something?
People just want stuff handed to them
The best looking skins in this event are directly handed to you assuming you’re lucky or rich, either ingame or in life. Whereas the craftable skins aren’t nearly as good looking but require far more effort to acquire. According to this argument the Mad Memories item should be more prestigious then the BLC skins because it at least requires you to leave the safety of LA for a few minutes.
1. Your post is a bit manipulative, I did not say everyone having them would necessarily be a problem (but it would now that I think of it), I just said that if everyone had the items people would then be complaining about how everyone has the skin and how they feel they don’t stand out of the crowd. Trust me, I’ve made multiple posts foretelling what 2 possibilities can happen with ANet implementing Mad King Chests. And it went like this “1: The sore losers who didn’t get anything the first round and didn’t get anything the second round either will just comeback to QQ more on the forums. 2: If everyone gets the skins they wanted, the skins will not be unique anymore, thus people will come QQ about how they don’t feel unique/epic since everyone else has them.” And I was right. An easy example about the QQ of not feeling unique was when CoF was speedfarmable and everyone was in CoF exotics, so quite a few were QQing about how the CoF set sucks, since it’s not prestigeus anymore.
And to add to this, Arenanet would mess themselves up if ALL of the people who are out for the GreatSaw got it, since evidently that GS is the best looking GS after legendaries. Who will go spend time grinding for any GS other than legendaries? NO ONE And that’s bad for ANet. The less time people spend time with your game, the worse. You can’t argue with that.
2. That’s not true. A handful of people get the skin they want by luck yes, but most people who play SMART got what they wanted. I am not rich neither ingame, nor in RL, but I got all the skins I wanted out of my only 25g through the TP, because I was smart and I timed my buys right. That’s all it takes. See, arenanet doesn’t reward the rich. They reward dedicated players, and players who play the game right, and that’s how it’s supposed to be. +1 to ANet
you people are impossible. It’s a miracle ANet even gave you a second chance at the items, you should be happy with just that. I say ANet did the right thing, and for that I will stick with the game.
Agreed.
And yet people still complain about it…
Obviously, some people are just impossible to satisfy, honestly the game would be better without them. I’m amazed ANet even gave in to the complaints in the first place, since they weren’t a fair complaint in the first place. After this the people who complained have no right at all to do so again, really.
I feared how Arenanet would pull off the whole Mad King Chest business, but I’m pleasantly surprised you guys kept the droprate on the BLC droprate. I think this is the most fair to everyone.
Those who bought keys got a second chance at the drops and they got seasonal items as well.
Those who payed hard earned gold to buy the skins off TP didn’t get messed up so bad.
The skins are still pretty unique, so currently people can’t complain about everyone having the same skin.
After this, honestly no one deserves to complain about the BLC skins, it’s prettymuch the fairest way to go. My faith in Arenanet is strong again.
Also on a side-note, I’m very glad that the skins are tradable, imagine people complaining about not being able to trade the skin that they for example can’t even equip on their character.
You do get the mad king back thing that is rather unique, no?
and the devil horns
Sorry for the noob question, I’m leveling a warrior alt and I’m wondering how well the shield does in high level PvE and WvW?
How useful is the shield in those roles compared to the other weapons?
They forgot “Kill Streak Experience Booster” and “Glory Boosters” both coming from Black Lion Chests, If it weren’t for leaving these out, i’d be able to craft almost double the chests i have….
From what i’m hearing from people opening them (I haven’t opened mine) is that they are having about the same luck as they did with Black Lion Chests, Mostly getting junk, rather then anything else.
actually Glory Boosters don’t drop from BLCs. You’re right about the killstreak ones though, they’re bugged.
Well you patch just went live. Opened all my boxes and still didn’t get a single skin.
You do realize this type of event is supposed to be fun for everyone. Not just those with huge wallets right?
Try to look past the skins. The event IS fun. It’s unreasonable to say the event’s automatically not fun because a SKIN doesn’t magically fall into your lap.
I would seriously pay $5 for a weapon skin. What I won’t pay for is playing the lottery any longer.
Shoulda thought about that beforehand. In gambling if you’re not ready to lose, don’t start playing.
The only thing I want out of this event is the skins. Clearly I should just stop playing?
Again, unreasonable, unfortunately if that’s how you see it, I think MMOs may not be the genre of gaming you’re looking for.
Well you patch just went live. Opened all my boxes and still didn’t get a single skin.
You do realize this type of event is supposed to be fun for everyone. Not just those with huge wallets right?
Try to look past the skins. The event IS fun. It’s unreasonable to say the event’s automatically not fun because a SKIN doesn’t magically fall into your lap.
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Soo the rewards are 28 candy corn, 3 account bound skele tonics and 3 account bound halloween tonics… Thats what I got for spending 2g40s on 2 keys to open 2 chests for 6 tonics to put into the new recipes… awesome.
See? You expect to get a skin guaranteed for opening TWO chests? This just shows how people don’t understand the concept of these BLChests (No offense) , which fueled the QQ storm on the forums in the first place. I’m still baffled how ANet gave in to this whole storm, but the damage has been done, no use making any effort there.
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Not sure on the highest level, but the ANet devs stated that there is no only level 80 content in the event.
actually the Chainsword (the 1h sword skin) does have an animation, the blade goes in and out of the hilt like a… yeah.
Sigh, way to cave in to the QQ, Arenanet.
This will either go two ways: 1. if you kept the droprate at a reasonable number (like it was on the BLC chests in the first place), people who QQd that they didn’t get anything will just come back to QQ more that they didn’t get anything again.
2. If tons of players get the skins they wanted now, even more whining would then be about how things are stupid and meaningless because everyone can have them. Which is a legit complaint as opposed to the “OH I OPENED CHESTS, GOT NOTHING, PLEASE GIVE ME STUFF NOW”.
Also players who actually spent big gold to get the skins off the TP will be very angry now that the skins won’t be as unique and that they are gonna crash hard in price.There’s a difference between QQ’ing about not getting a ‘event’ item out of 1-5 chests openings… its a totaly different matter when you open 40+ like some of us have.. + spending 40+$ on keys for.. and STILL get nothing.
You knew there was only a CHANCE to acquire random items from the chests, but you didn’t know that rate they dropped, yet you tried your luck without knowing any data on the droprates. If you were smart you would have just exchanged the gems you bought for 40+$ for gold and bought the item you actually wanted (and even more!), right off the TP. Easy as that. Now everyone will be running with these no more unique skins, since the prices will drop now on TP.
Sigh, way to cave in to the QQ, Arenanet.
This will either go two ways: 1. if you kept the droprate at a reasonable number (like it was on the BLC chests in the first place), people who QQd that they didn’t get anything will just come back to QQ more that they didn’t get anything again.
2. If tons of players get the skins they wanted now, even more whining would then be about how things are stupid and meaningless because everyone can have them. Which is a legit complaint as opposed to the “OH I OPENED CHESTS, GOT NOTHING, PLEASE GIVE ME STUFF NOW”.
Also players who actually spent big gold to get the skins off the TP will be very angry now that the skins won’t be as unique and that they are gonna crash hard in price.
I can’t believe Anet gave in to the demands of crybabies….. If you are not ready to lose, you shouldn’t gamble in the first place… I payed big money to get a Chainsaw GS off the TP, I hope Anet doesn’t start throwing it at everybody, as I’d be very kitten Unique items are the most exciting things ingame (just look at TF2 and all it’s unusual hats + how much money they bring), if they break the tradition, I’ll be EXTREMELY disappointed in GW2.
Don’t mess this up Anet, I beg you.
Considering we have all saved 30 dollars in monthly fees just since release I wouldn’t mind paying for vanity items! Also as it has been said there are many other ways to get the keys (looting and gold/gem exchange)
Yeah I wouldn’t mind paying for vanity items either. What I would mind though is buying lottery tickets for vanity items. What would be awesome if Anet released the weapons directly on the gemstore for maybe just 1 day (last day?). Now that would be some serious money spending.