Halloween event is live. Recipes, Costume Brawl, and Act I events are all in Lion's Arch. Lots of costumes and stuff to buy in the Gem Store if you're so inclined (as well as a free hat), and Candy Corn nodes are all around the world. You need like, 250 Candy Corn and a million other things to make weapon skins permanent, so keep that in mind before buying or using them on something.
Yeah have to admit that I've pretty much given up on it for now as well. I dunno what happened between GW1 and GW2, (NCsoft, what a stupid question!) but in GW1 you didn't have to pay $10 for every costume, minipet, and $50+ for weapon skins, nor did you have to pay $1 per holiday tonic. All of that was and still is free. /sigh.
Sucks that the permanent Halloween weapons are 80 exotics in a way but then again it's not like it takes very long to get 80 either. I finished the scavenger hunt event for the memoirs and got a book that goes on your back. Looks kinda cool. The text hints that there are more volumes to come (guessing in the other Acts).
So far the weapon skins elude me. Have opened 28 chests and have yet to get one. Trying for the greatsword one. It really sucks if you waited till now to get your gems. Their current price isn't worth it at all.
THe level requirement of the permanent weapons isn't the issue at all. The fact that they require such a massive amount of resources, being holiday items, is pretty HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE.
Gift: 250 Candy Corn + 10 Crystalline Dust + 40 Elonian Wine + 100 of X Halloween Item
Weapon: Gift of the Moon + Gift of Spiders + Gift of Souls + Temporary Weapon
THe level requirement of the permanent weapons isn't the issue at all. The fact that they require such a massive amount of resources, being holiday items, is pretty HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE.
Gift: 250 Candy Corn + 10 Crystalline Dust + 40 Elonian Wine + 100 of X Halloween Item
Weapon: Gift of the Moon + Gift of Spiders + Gift of Souls + Temporary Weapon
Someone was offering to craft the Gift of Spiders for people if they would bring the mats. The mats for that one gift are 250x Orihalcum Ingots + 20x Globs of Ectoplasm + 100x Destroyer Lodestones + 1 Gift of Ascalon. Which in of itself, like you said, is insane.
(I think it was the bow itself, didn't pay very much attention once I saw that list of ingredients.)
Halloween event is close to an end! Get your Mad King farming and stuff in before the 31st when it's no longer accessible. All Halloween instances and zones scale you up to level 80, so if you're underlevelled you can still participate before it ends.
Next major content patch is on November 15th, it will include (so far all they've told us, there'll be more):
-A new Island landmass in Tyria
-A new PvE game mode
-New PvP modes and features
-A new 3 day long event that will have content added between November 6th and 15th leading up to it
If their patches all come out this often with such nice additions, I'm gonna be very impressed. 2 months in a row so far with awesome patches, and they've been under 30 days apart. P2P games should be taking notes.
Yeah have to admit that I've pretty much given up on it for now as well. I dunno what happened between GW1 and GW2, (NCsoft, what a stupid question!) but in GW1 you didn't have to pay $10 for every costume, minipet, and $50+ for weapon skins, nor did you have to pay $1 per holiday tonic. All of that was and still is free. /sigh.
Well not in the later years. They added several things to the store that cost money.
Not a great idea, granted but it did happen.
Why are there so many full signet warriors? They are the most useless people I've ever seen. They put on a full DD build get bowled over in dungeons and then end up doing less damage because they're on the ground so much.
Signets can be fine, but seriously... Try some defence.
Yeah have to admit that I've pretty much given up on it for now as well. I dunno what happened between GW1 and GW2, (NCsoft, what a stupid question!) but in GW1 you didn't have to pay $10 for every costume, minipet, and $50+ for weapon skins, nor did you have to pay $1 per holiday tonic. All of that was and still is free. /sigh.
Well not in the later years. They added several things to the store that cost money.
Not a great idea, granted but it did happen.
Why are there so many full signet warriors? They are the most useless people I've ever seen. They put on a full DD build get bowled over in dungeons and then end up doing less damage because they're on the ground so much.
Signets can be fine, but seriously... Try some defence.
everything in the store is free. you don't have to pay real $ to get it, just farm the gold and exchange it to gems...
Yeah have to admit that I've pretty much given up on it for now as well. I dunno what happened between GW1 and GW2, (NCsoft, what a stupid question!) but in GW1 you didn't have to pay $10 for every costume, minipet, and $50+ for weapon skins, nor did you have to pay $1 per holiday tonic. All of that was and still is free. /sigh.
Well not in the later years. They added several things to the store that cost money.
Not a great idea, granted but it did happen.
Why are there so many full signet warriors? They are the most useless people I've ever seen. They put on a full DD build get bowled over in dungeons and then end up doing less damage because they're on the ground so much.
Signets can be fine, but seriously... Try some defence.
everything in the store is free. you don't have to pay real $ to get it, just farm the gold and exchange it to gems...
I'm talking about GW1.
GW2 also falls into the common trope that all cash shops fall into; It's barely viable to farm the items with in game cash seeing as gold is a necessity. Especially seeing as gems are constantly raising in price too.
Yeah have to admit that I've pretty much given up on it for now as well. I dunno what happened between GW1 and GW2, (NCsoft, what a stupid question!) but in GW1 you didn't have to pay $10 for every costume, minipet, and $50+ for weapon skins, nor did you have to pay $1 per holiday tonic. All of that was and still is free. /sigh.
Well not in the later years. They added several things to the store that cost money.
Not a great idea, granted but it did happen.
Why are there so many full signet warriors? They are the most useless people I've ever seen. They put on a full DD build get bowled over in dungeons and then end up doing less damage because they're on the ground so much.
Signets can be fine, but seriously... Try some defence.
everything in the store is free. you don't have to pay real $ to get it, just farm the gold and exchange it to gems...
I'm talking about GW1.
GW2 also falls into the common trope that all cash shops fall into; It's barely viable to farm the items with in game cash seeing as gold is a necessity. Especially seeing as gems are constantly raising in price too.
the gw1 store was just full of novelty stuff and things that didn't really add much to the game besides the extra storage.
the gw2 store is also full of novelty stuff. none of it is game changing besides the extra storage/inventory you can get.
the only bad thing about gw2 is the massive botting
The GW1 store added a full set of heroes that you could use without having to find specific ones in the game, everything else was novelty but it cost money with no way to farm it.
I wasn't claiming that GW2 had necessary items in it (even though storage kinda is) I was more explaining the fact that trading gold for gems becomes less and less viable with each person doing it.
The entire point of the gold/gem transfer was to dissuade people from buying gold, but with gem prices rising it's more cost efficient to buy gold from an outside source.
Gems are getting too expensive, and it won't be long before it's in the territory of it not being viable to buy gems with in game currency.
Phase Four of the Halloween event begins tomorrow at 9:00 AM PT/10:00AM MT/11:00AM CT/12:00PM ET/4:00 GMT and ends at around 12:00PM PT/1:00PM MT/2:00PM CT/3:00PM ET/7:00 GMT. The party will be constant through this time, so head to Lion's Arch for your last Halloween Achievement before it ends
Ascent of Madness will be unavailable as soon as Phase 4 begins, but you will still be able to access the Mad King's Realm until the end of the event.
I feel i'm going to end up having to remake my character to relearn everything once I decide to actually play lol, which will be uh ... once the XIV servers go down in 3 days.
I don't know how many fans of Guild Wars we have here, but for me it will always have a special place in my heart. Guild Wars was a fast based CORPG (Co-operative RPG) with no subscription fees, and really fun PVP.
Well Guild Wars 2 is on the horizon, and BOY does that game look good.
Following the same pattern of having no subscription fees this game is going to take place 250 years later, on the content of Tyria.
The game is based around the same fast paced combat, with a few small changes ofc.
Here's a cool trailer to get you in the mood for it.
*Note: Everything is real time, Even though it looks like A cutscene, it's gameplay.