The female heavy chest looks awesome – finally another good chest for female heavy users (but I don’t need it – my warrior is male.) Out of curiousity, for the people complaining about revealing, “unprotective” heavy armor for females – do you at least play a Norn? or larger, more muscular human female? Because “bad @#$” full coverage heavy armor on one of the tens of thousands of the scrawny human (or even Sylvari) female warriors running around is just silly.
That’s a horrible stereotype and you should be ashamed of it. The Human T3 heavy armor is full coverage and there are plenty of woman in real life who can wear armor like it. I’m not talking runway models, I’m referring to women, like those in Tyria, who commit themselves to train for combat. Go to a Ren Faire and you’ll find average looking woman wearing heavy armor like the men and are just fine with it.
/joanofarc
The real issue is that all you can make are scrawny females. I have a full sized norn female and i don’t want to wear the new armor because it makes her legs look way scrawnier than they should be. There are plenty of full coverage armors, there are zero genuinely built women in the game.
The thing is that there is a kittenton of super-covering female heavy armor in the game. I want more skimpy heavy armor for a barbarian-type look and there really isn’t that much to choose from. People complaining about all the chainmail bikinis in the game haven’t actually looked at all the sets.
It actually is not supported by experience. Thy did the same with jorbreakers and zhaitaffy – and it was in the event that introduced zhaitaffy into the game. The explanations they gave then suggested, that the prices were calculated using as a baseline people who would farm gold and buy taffy off market. Everything so far points to them not learning still why it was a bad idea.
My impression was the the ridiculous amount of zhaitaffy needed to buy things was a direct result of the enormous surplus of holiday currency they saw sitting in the market (candy corn). They made everything in the world drop zhaitaffy and the knew this would flood the market, and thus made a proactive move to make something that cost a ridiculous amount. The cost of items in the current event is just an extension of this reaction.
And even if they for some reason thought that removing CC was the upmost importance so that they could then design the real holiday event that wasn’t focused on removing CC, they could have removed CC in a way that didn’t involve making the rewards for this holiday event unachieveable for players without a lot of money who didn’t have a huge CC stash lying around.
Whether or not we’re talking past each other about the economy or the importance of this or that, the important thing is that we agree 100% on this point.
It doesn’t matter if the TP is flooded with CC….The only effect this will have is to, gasp, allow players to have fun by getting holiday items with a little less grind than Anet wants.
You’re saying it doesn’t matter but then immediately turning around and stating that the only effect is allowing players to have fun with less grind. So which is it? Removing CC from the market is pointless or it lets them provide rewards with less grind?
Looking at the prices it’s clear that the latter is not the case, since the rewards come with bigger grind. Perhaps the future halloween will be designed well, but this one is a complete failure as a holiday event.
That’s the thing. The CC hasn’t been removed yet, so the cost of rewards is out of wack so far. In theory, if a ton of CC goes into to sinks they’ll feel more free to put out stuff at a lower cost next time.
It doesn’t matter if the TP is flooded with CC….The only effect this will have is to, gasp, allow players to have fun by getting holiday items with a little less grind than Anet wants.
You’re saying it doesn’t matter but then immediately turning around and stating that the only effect is allowing players to have fun with less grind. So which is it? Removing CC from the market is pointless or it lets them provide rewards with less grind?
If the event is nothing more than a Catch 22 then it is a complete failure of design as it exists for the sole purpose of negating itself.
The fact that it was a poorly designed failure of an event is certain. There are a number of ways they could have made it better. Taking CC out of the economy will help them to make better rewards next year, however, if they wish to still use CC as a balanced currency.
You act like removing CC from the game is the most important thing that Anet should be focusing on, rather than you know, making content fun and the rewards for partaking in that content accessible.
Who really cares how much CC is in the game? It has no effect on anything.
The whole reason things cost 20,000 is because there is too much candy corn in the economy so, yeah, i think it’s pretty important for them to make sinks so that rewards can be achievable and balanced.
If the main purpose of the design of the event is to get rid of the CC that players earn by participating in the event, then what is the difference between having the event and never having had it in the first place?
They apparently would actually like to use CC as an ongoing currency instead of flooding the market with new halloween currencies each year. If there are millions sitting in the TP, then that plan is untenable since the inflation is ridiculous. 20k CC items are proof of this.
The dagger looks even less like the weapon in the pic, IMO. You can see the whole dagger with the Aetherized Nightmare version. Plus, the krait version has spiny bits on the guard and pommel.
The tech stuff is fine precisely because it isn’t the overplayed version of “steampunk” though. Claiming GW2’s tech is overplayed would be like saying “sword and sorcery” is so overplayed (which it is. far, far more than steampunk) so we have to ditch swords, magic and dragons.
Tech, magic, swords, monster, etc, are interesting depending on how they are handled, not how we label them in order to marginalize them.
It’s pretty surprising that the halloween vendor will continue to sell halloween items all year. It definitely makes makes draining the economy of candy corn more efficient.
It might be possible to get a 20 slot Halloween Pail for prices comparable to or cheaper than 10g.
Of course, I personally think this defeats the purpose of having a festive bag/mini if you only get it 6 months after the fact, but I just thought I’d point that out.
Somehow i doubt there will still be a vendor selling a halloween pail in 6 months though.
I think, like i said in the OP, in this case the best currency sink would have just been to put a variety of lower priced things on the market for candy corn. More fun for more people and it removes more from the economy.
Sell orders =/= supply, and buy orders =/= demand.
That being said, the price of candy corn has remained remarkably steady. Considering how easily it’s produced, all evidence points to the fact that it’s being consumed at the same rate it’s being produced (or else you’ll see a difference in prices.)
You read it wrong, I believe. the amount listed for sale is at its lowest point since it was released. The amount ORDERED is increasing, which is quite frankly astounding to me.
You guys are right. Looks like candy corn IS selling. We’ll see how this turns out after the event is over and people cash in.
Whether the candy corn economy is messed up is entirely irrelevent because a holiday item having worth or not is meaningless.
What matters is whether the est event rewards are achieveable by the majority of players using nothing but the event items that they get from participating in the event this year.
And since the answer to that question no is no, we know Anet done screwed up.
We still haven’t seen the mask. That will probably be the “free” event item from Mad King Says. That said, i think holiday events should have a mix of easy to obtain fun stuff and hard to get exclusive stuff.
This new tower thing is a new story arc, thus, new skins.
Or so you think. You know its gonna involve Scarlet somehow, which means its still part of the whole arc from this year (since she supposedly orchestrated each of those events).
Calling the whole thing an arc or each monthly 2-parter an arc is just a matter of semantics. My point is that every monthly 2-part story “segment” has come with weapons skins since Fused came out. If november passes with no new weapons skins, i’ll eat my hat.
They’re glowing green because they’re messing around with the nightmare court. I have a feeling that “toxin” is a generic term for certain conditions that mobs apply to you as opposed to a new condition.
Did they mention that they are giving out more weapon skins? No.
They also don’t mention that there will be an instance to fight mobs in. Care to bet if that will appear next patch?
Kessex Hills is an instance itself LMAO. The areas in Guild Wars 2 are instanced already, that’s why there are portals and loading screens when you enter them. Every area is also perfectly resembles square. Keep your gold to yourself and I’ll keep mine.
So you clearly understood my point that having a story update without weapons skins is about as likely as having one without instances. Gotcha
There were no weapon skins in Cutthroat Politics, Skypirates of Tyria, and Flame and Frost: Retribution.
Cutthroat was part of the Zephyr story that gave us Aetherized weapons. Skypirates involved them crashing Dragon Bash where they gave out Jade weapons. The Flame and Frost story arc concluded in Fused weapons. This new tower thing is a new story arc, thus, new skins.
Did they mention that they are giving out more weapon skins? No.
They also don’t mention that there will be an instance to fight mobs in. Care to bet if that will appear next patch?
Kessex Hills is an instance itself LMAO. The areas in Guild Wars 2 are instanced already, that’s why there are portals and loading screens when you enter them. Every area is also perfectly resembles square. Keep your gold to yourself and I’ll keep mine.
So you clearly understood my point that having a story update without weapons skins is about as likely as having one without instances. Gotcha
If the op was right you would see falling prices for Candy Corn (constandt demand, increased supply), but the price of candy corn has remained stedy since the 17th and even increased a bit yesterday.
Titles should be something that are unique to a specific timed event and not return since it immediately lets everyone know you were there. If they came back every year, it would kill what little value they currently have. I say this, btw, as someone who does not have the EotMK title.
Just sell it the prices are bound to drop like a rock in the 2nd to 3rd weeks of farming. Buy it back later for less if you want to. Most likely, you won’t even want to.
That doesn’t help at all because it keeps candy corn in the economy. It’s either in someone’s bank or in the TP.
you can always give the candy corn to the kids running around LA, you get a personalized Trick or treat bag. Its not much, but you get some chance at getting some extra stuff besides just more candy corn.
This is what I’ve started doing. You get the crafting materials and food fairly commonly from these bags, and sometimes recipes. Maybe there is a chance for the concentrated versions as well.
Btw, the best deal is 8 personalized trick or treat bags for 50 candy corn.
This does take candy corn out of the economy, but then has the side effect of adding more mats that likely won’t be used by a vast majority of the community. I would almost be willing to dump a ton of CC into this for the food though, if it were all nice high level buffs like dragon bash.
It’s obvious that ANET tried to drain candy corn from the economy by making things that cost more than is realistically farm-able and drive people to buy up stock off of the TP.
The problem with the astronomical amounts of candy corn that are required to get ANYTHING is that most people will not be willing to spend that kind of money on a holiday item, especially ones that are available on the market for far less (70g for halloween pail vs. 11g for a generic 20 slot) than the cost of candy corn. What this leads to is a situation where people are farming candy corn, but because they can’t afford to buy anything with it, they either bank it for next year or put it on the market. The net result is that we end up with even MORE candy corn in the economy than we started with before this halloween.
If ANET were smart, they would put a ton of interesting items up for purchase with candy corn at a cost far below 15k. Masks, fireworks, minis, food, etc. ANYTHING that would cause people to spend their farmed candy corn and take it out of the economy would be better than giving your average player nothing reasonable to spend their hundreds of CC on. Next time, ANET, give us a bunch of things costing 1k candy corn if you actually want to remove stock from the economy.
The labyrinth farm seems a bit less lucrative than the FG champ farm. I wonder if it’s mere existence lessens the amount of gold influx going into the market by bleeding off champ farmers.
If they were smart, they would put a ton of interesting items for sale that cost 1 – 10 cobs at the vendor. These are far more realistically achieved and more people would actually be spending candy corn instead of hoarding or selling. If no one actually gets to spend all the corn they farm, then ANET is actually exacerbating the problem causing a glut of mats in the economy because people will either be sitting on thousands after the event or putting it back up on the TP. Making the only things that take corn out of the economy cost 15k + mats is not a smart move.
This bat gs is of legendary aesthetics. The only thing it is missing is footfalls… but the bat effects help in that regard.
Meanwhile look at daggers… there literally have been no good non-legendary, particle effect daggers since launch. The few that come close (super, fused, winter’s, zodiac) are still lackluster compared to gs counterparts.
I completely and totally agree. I was working on the components of Twilight, but then I saw the bat Greatsword. I now have an ascended Bat GS and couldn’t be happier. I literally danced around the room with glee when I saw the look of the sword, squeed at the bat sounds and get a huge stupid grin when I see the bat flying around when I wield my new awesomeness.
To whomever designed it, Maggie Jackdaw would love to thank you from the bottom of her heart.
This is exactly how i felt last year when the greatsaw came out. I decided i wouldn’t ever go for twilight/sunrise after all.
Like so, so, so much in this game, he just need to scale better. A large zerg can demolish him, so an overall nerf or increase in rewards is not the answer.
This is the first holiday event to repeat and all the weapon skins related to last year don’t seem to be returning.
Super Adventure Box should have been a big red flag to people when it returned only half a year later and they told us they wouldn’t bring back any of the first weapons.
You weren’t meant to grind for candy corn in order to get the pail, you were meant to buy it off of the TP and take the millions of units out of the economy. Unfortunately, at the moment it looks like they may have miscalculated on how much inflation would effect the final monetary value of the item.
I saw on Dulfy that the 3 weapon Gift of *, needs 10 Corn Cobs and 100 of one of the other (i.e. 100 Gibbering Skulls). That means 10.000 Corns and 100.000 chattering skulls… it’s plain stupid… it’s nearly impossible to get 1k chattering skulls alone… but 100k ???
Not to mention that 100,000 equates to 400 stacks. I wonder how many people have 400 spare storage slots to store all this stuff?
100, 000 units get upgraded into higher tier mats. 100 units, or less than a stack.
Actually, the term really, really applies to multiple parties on both sides here. I know i’ve used the world myself after other posters brought it up, but in my ideal internet world, the words “elitist” and “entitled” would be retired due to savage overuse and abuse.
the obvious advice is that whoever wants the new Halloween skins should get them NOW.
The first halloween was a huge wake up call (or at least should have been to everyone). Anet likes using kittenty RNG boxes to get people to pay money and gamble for a small chance at getting something they want. I know i spent a ton of time grinding keys and gold for keys last halloween only to end up with NOTHING from the boxes. The shining light at the end of the dark holiday tunnel was that you could buy the skins on the TP directly with in-game currency. In fact, i own a number of the RNG box skins, but i’ve never received a single one from using keys and luck.
The rule i learned on the very first update that came out for this game, back in 10/12: if you like a limited time thing that comes out, buy it on the trading post while it’s relatively cheap.
Staves have Final Rest and the Scythe. No harm in giving stuff that is actually halloween-y out to other classes. kitten, i read someone complaining in another thread that the greatsaw wasn’t halloween-y enough, and this is pretty much the perfect answer to that.
