something that impresses me is how anet always provides alternate ways to obtain gear, no matter what game mode you prefer. its so nice that i can play what i want to play and im never being told "well you HAVE to to get the best gear." i did dabble in all game modes and content because i like to try at least once everything the game have to offer. at one point i was totally grinding wvw for a set of the leggy armor - but ultimately as a mainly pve player it was too much grind for me for the skirmish tickets XD ended up giving up on it after they announced the pve armor as i can finish that so much faster. the grind does make sense tho, for ppl who wvw as their main game mode, i can see how theyre prob swimming in skirmish tickets anyway 😂 if i ever get to the point of maining wvw, ill pick it back up probably. the nice thing is, nothing i did in game us ever obsolete lol

@rubyburritog

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, they have done a really good job with keeping things valid. All of the currency you got in WvW will still be usable in two years if thats when you pick it up again and the legendary armor and backpack etc would still be there if you decide to craft then! They do a pretty good job of respecting peoples time when it comes to the grind, with things like legendary you expect it, but it is always reasonable. The new PvE armor is great for me because I want to finish a full set (light, medium and heavy) of armor, but I don't really raid and the amount of time I would need to play PvP or WvW is more than I want to. Ireally like that they added this too haha!

@rainingnights1409

2 ай бұрын

Well not entirely since you have to do WvW for most legendaries, which is a pain in the ass, a lot of people say "hurr durr but it's only a couple of hours", but it isn't. It took me several months to finish the reward track ONCE for my bifrost. It's so unmotivating when you don't know what to do, can't find a group to go with, and even if you do, you barely gain experience points for the reward track. Besides world v world is so dull and boring, I wish they made another way to get a gift of battle

@rubyburritog

2 ай бұрын

@@rainingnights1409 I will say that my opinion of WvW is different, but I also definitely agree. That was one thing that I always found confusing about the T1 legendary weapons and other gear - the fact that it requires you to play WvW to craft it yourself. It definitely is valid to not like the game mode. The only upside is that you can buy the T1's off of the TP, but still, I agree, it does not make sense that they require you to play WvW for PvE gear. When I first got into WvW, it took me forever to finish my reward track for the same reason. I would try to "roam" but didn't know what I was really doing so I didn't make progress. Hopefully if you play it more in the future it gets more enjoyable, so at least if you are forced to play it you can have some fun!

@shanejones5626

2 ай бұрын

I am just glad you don’t have to explore all of WvW to get 100% map completion to be able to build T1 legendary weapons.

@rainingnights1409

2 ай бұрын

@@shanejones5626 i'm pretty sure world v world would be fixed if they allow everyone to use mounts, in fact, instead of having a slow ass boring mount that takes way too much effort to unlock, give everyone access to a raptor and a springer in wvw maps, create new maps designed around those mounts, playerbase would skyrocket with that simple change

I wonder who is Anet target with this Open world leg armor. I think its too late to implement this as most newbies wont try crafting the mats and bank mat space required for new accounts too much for them. It will only attract the veteran completionists. Those casual veterans with Raid, WvW or Pvp wont craft this also.

@derrickcaperton792

2 ай бұрын

Targeting people that don't want to do pvp/instanced content for legendary armor

@Insig385

2 ай бұрын

new players aren't gonna be crafting ANY leggies as they don't have the resources built up, regardless of what type of leggy from whatever game mode. alot of existing vets are making the obby set. I'm about done with medium set n will continue to work on the light n heavy. I already own raid light set, also working on raid heavy. funnily enough I started on the raid heavy set before obby armor came out and im about to finish obby, while I'm still waiting on enough LI for the raid set (I'm a casual raider, averages around 3 wings once a week). the obby set is about same lvl of grind as wvw n pvp leggy armors, I actually started on working on the wvw set but it was taking me so long to get the skirmish ticket that I gave up as soon as the pve armor was announced. and for me im not even grinding much - playing the metas is literally stuff I normally would do anyway - it's like how i casually got all of the HoT meta mats required for the raid armor without even thinking about it. it's the same for ppl who wvw or pvp a lot - the things needed for their leggy armor are literally just stuff they'd get from playing what they're already playing. there's a lot of pve players who don't raid and can finally get their hands on leggy armor. and as someone who dabbled in all the game modes and raids, I find tge grind fair tbh. it SHOULD be grinder than the raid set, as raid require less grind but more effort. so it make sense that some of that effort is translated to something different for a pure pve set.

@rubyburritog

2 ай бұрын

I do understand this question, and what I this it is, is that compared to the other three armor sets, the Obsidian armor seems so much more reasonable to new players. As an end goal set of gear, they can make progress just by playing the new content and having fun doing things they would do anyways, especially if they want to avoid anything PvP related. If I hadn't already started to work on the raid set, I probably would have skipped the raid set altogether, just because open world PvE is much more accessible for me than the raid content, even with the couple thousand hours I have in the game haha

@legendaryvicius

2 ай бұрын

I've been playing for some 16-19 months, by the time they announced obsi armor i had less time ofc; started working on it and crafted a full heavy set on day 1. Currently working on med set. You hugely understimate the ability to grind that players who don't like pvp, wvw and raids have

@Alied93

2 ай бұрын

I am 1.5 K hour into the game and i almost finished my first set, my goal in gw2 was always to be play any character i want anytime i want, so rushing legendary is the way to go, wvw leggy require a tremendous amount of time in wvw (18 weeks i believe in wvw) raids is very what can i say, if you are not in a guild that do them regularly every week or if you"waste" a lot of time looking for a group in lfg or failing raids you are making very little progress, pvp set in my opinion is very reasonable but still require 3 season, i might craft this as my 3rd set, so i was left with the open world set, it indeed require a lot of gold because not only of the material but there is also some hidden cost such as, motivation, research note, provisionner token, those costs are not shown in gw2 efficiency but still, you can progress slowly as you wish in relax mode and still make progress, in less than 2 months i almost finished my first, i dont agree with everything needed to craft it, but at the end of the day I'm very happy they made it possible to craft leggy solo.