Obsidian Shards converter - vote yes or no

[hope.9748]

i am sorry. i think people thought i was too aggressive or too cold

i added [like] to some of the posts

to show appreciation for helping

the plan of this post is to motivate gw2 development team

to [green light] obsidian shards converter

OR

give something that makes wvw loot valuable

 

just because some people love wvw gameplay

doesnt mean only pve is allowed to get good farm.

i will not say the phrase "wvw is cornerstone"

everybody is smart enough to see the reality.

Edited November 23, 2022 by hope.9748

[Karagee.6830]

What if you had to trade another converter for it.

Everyone likes free things...a little less when you have to pay for them

[hope.9748]

Karagee.6830 i like your idea

[to rework an  older converter into more efficient function converter]

please talk a bit more to share a more detailed view of your vision/plan

 

the following text is NOT targetted against Karagee.6830

nor against anyone else. it is just a very compressed sum up

of game company content design decisions factors

and i am 100% sure my sum up will NOT cover all factors

just a small push to help new people understand

so they can join us to help us.

 

reason i created this poll is NOT that i dont like so many ideas

i really do like, some are really great.

i have seen a lot of wonderful ideas across all forum categories.

there are 2 maybe more than 2 extremely common pain points

most people dont count or they just forgot.

 

time and money are extremely "dead serious" limited

when a company has very few available resources

by "resources" i mean [few employees per developed content]

it means if arenanet has 50 developers working 8 hours each

they must take away 4 developers to spend 30 days

redesign, discuss, calculate side effects, bugs, if the new design side effects can be ignored, etc etc

this means every other content must slow down

because they work with 4 people less for 30 days in a row.

 

so 1 is time cost 2 is money cost

to avoid slowing down other content development

they must hire more people = more money

 

and then you have the unavoidable black market/illegal activities

that constantly sabotage companies each time the companies try to shut down their illegal activities, via server hacking attacks,

some you know better than me how things work.

 

this means if the desired idea will NOT make company

time money and illegal activities and illegal group attacks worse

and (insert any factor i didnt mention)

then the idea gets the green light

 

how all these things link with obsidian shards converter

and the rework of an older converter

 

if arenanet decides to rework  for example

[memory of battle converter] there is chance memory of battle price will drop

because this tiny group of people that spent them in converter

they will have no other way to use them but sell to trading post

or use in legendaries.

DOES arenanet want memories of battle price to drop?

for me no.

memories of battle is one of the biggest gold income items in wvw

DOES arenanet want obsidian shards to be more limited in wvw?

i think yes.

then WHY arenanet does not create obsidian shards converter?

are u the super genious and 100+ arenanet staff didnt think of it?

no, definitely not.

 

arenanet wants to give a reason for pve players to join wvw for exclusive items.

farming faster obsidian shards via wvw is a reason

farming memories of battle via wvw is a reason

farming full legendary armor solo

without lfg / pvp queue / etc restrictions is a reason

 

the problem is the time cost for a player to farm in wvw

is extremely high for a player that has very low wvw lvl

investing 1000 hours to get your wvw lvl to 1000 or 2000

and THEN start to farm obsidian shards

faster than pve [ karma into obsidian ]

is extremely big.

in result whoever ACTUALLY prefers wvw more than pve

ends up with overflow of materials that were designed

for pve crafting, with no way to convert these materials

into worthy time investement.

 

example

i do not care about wvw ascended weapons

i will not care even if they upgrade them into wvw legendary weapons.

why? because for me with 10.000 wvw lvl and all legendaries

this addition is too little too late

189 balls of dark energy from salvaging ascended = craft 189 legendaries ^^

(i will never manage to craft 189 legendaries to convert them)

 

we could use obsidian shards as a currency to buy wvw exclusive items?

maybe but this means these items will also need gold or other resources.

i dont want to spend 100g for future wvw exclusive collection

to get rid of 5000 obsidian shards in a meaningful way

i want direct convertion of my obsidian shards into tradable loot/gold

 

and i am open to all ideas if you dont agree with my ideas.

 

to whoever got to the end of this text

thank you very much for your effort and care to help

in friendly way. ^^