Gift of exploration

[Fat Disgrace.4275]

> @"Luthan.5236" said:

> Those weapons are meant to take some time to obtain them. Afaik the later ones use gifts from the desert where you still need to do completion. (And you can only buy them once per char that did completion?) Yes they are much easier to get ... less maps. But aren't other things there more expensive. (Other gifts needed for those later legendaries?)

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> You have still the option to get different types of legendaries. Or just using ascended stuff. And for skins there are also a lot of other skins. If you raelly want to get every legendary at least once ... you are meant to spend a lot of time for it.

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> Personalyl I haven't even crafted one legendary weapon yet. (I only have the backpack from PvP since it was cheap. And the trinkets next because they had nice collections as well.) Have 2 gifts of exploration in the bank - from my main. And I might use them later. Then some other ones from the desert for other legendaries. If I only use 1 main (and maybe 2-3 other chars I play a lot) I might not need that many legendaries. Unless I play a class with lots of different weapons and often want to change builds to use different weapons (and want all of the weapons the class can use).

 

"Meant to" yeah but as others have said you can just whop out your card and buy gems and transfer to gold. Even a new playing can spend minutes to get multiple legendary weapons, anyway.

 

This thread wasnt meant to be taken seriously and It is kinda nice seeing people different views. This will also be my 4th map clear and the other 3 was during wvw times so yeah... been there, done that. Would be nice if you have already unlocked goe then we could transfer spirit shards as atm they do sod all.

[Luthan.5236]

True. Still the gold you earn ingame takes time to earn. And converting gems to gold is really inefficient/expensive. (Different exchange course than when converting gems to gold.) They would still need to spend time in real life to earn money which they can use to buy gems. (Unless they are lucky and just have tons of money inherited or won.)

 

The weapons on the trading post still needed someone to do this work (and then put it on the TP). If the gift was sold directly for gems there would be no changes in the price (determined by supply/demand). Fixed gem price. And nobody would have to do the completion anymore. They could just vanish from the TP if the price for gems was cheaper than what the players would consider a reasonable amount for farming the gifts. (Which they later include in their total price for the weapon.)

 

Also players that sell would have to do the work again for themselves (or getting anothe legendary). If they sold 1 and needed 1 more gift for another one for themselves. (In case of 2 gifts: If they sell 2 weapons. Or if they keep 1 for themselves selling another one ... but later want 1 more for themselves.)

 

Thing might get players to re-visit old maps. Even if they rush them with mounts ... those maps might look a bit more popular. (Maybe a few of them help new players playing there by answering questions or reviving, etc.)

 

A lot of stuff ArenaNet does ... seems to focus on bringing people to old maps. (Certain achievements and collections.)

 

Edit: So the question maybe should be: Why isn't the gift sellable directly on the TP? For some other gifts you basically can buy all of the stuff you need for them on TP. Then just but it in the mystic forge and get the gift.

[Ayrilana.1396]

> @"Luthan.5236" said:

> True. Still the gold you earn ingame takes time to earn. And converting gems to gold is really inefficient/expensive. (Different exchange course than when converting gems to gold.) They would still need to spend time in real life to earn money which they can use to buy gems. (Unless they are lucky and just have tons of money inherited or won.)

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It’s not inefficient. It costs like $5.31 for 100G. The hourly pay rate IRL is greater than $5.31 and you’d be very hard pressed to find anything that consistently awards over 100G per hour in the game. Legendary weapons are expensive whether you buy them off the TP or craft them.

 

> The weapons on the trading post still needed someone to do this work (and then put it on the TP). If the gift was sold directly for gems there would be no changes in the price (determined by supply/demand). Fixed gem price. And nobody would have to do the completion anymore. They could just vanish from the TP if the price for gems was cheaper than what the players would consider a reasonable amount for farming the gifts. (Which they later include in their total price for the weapon.)

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There would be a change. Adding a means to purchase something at a fixed cost almost always impacts the prices when it comes to the TP.

 

If someone is willing to buy the gift then they can simply buy the legendary weapon off the TP.

[Dami.5046]

Gw is about exploration. Be thankful it's not the GW1 way and you are stuck on that 0.01% of map. I hope they never put things like that on Black lion, they have nerfed enough content.