Rovaeden.8546 Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 What the actual heck, Anet?! The prices per piece of this exotic armor are utterly ridiculous! They should cost ONE of the demanded currencies AT MOST!! (One Gift OR One Kryptis Essense OR One Stardust OR Research Notes) To charge All of these things PER ITEM (for an exotic!)is a massive slap in the face!! 6 1 9 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheezy.2846 Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 It's about them skin over it being exotic, and it's needed for legendary armor so of course they're going to make it more. 11 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 Don't you need that to be able to unlock the Legendary Armor later? That's why it is this expensive. Makes sense, people wanted an OP Legendary Armor and now complain about the cost attached to reaching this goal. 😄 9 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovaeden.8546 Posted August 28, 2023 Author Share Posted August 28, 2023 No. THIS does NOT make any kind of sense! 1 1 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 45 minutes ago, Rovaeden.8546 said: No. THIS does NOT make any kind of sense! Why not? 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vares.8457 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 On 8/26/2023 at 9:48 AM, Rovaeden.8546 said: To charge All of these things PER ITEM (for an exotic!)is a massive slap in the face!! It’s not. The armor is needed for the open world legendary armor and this is what open world players wanted. 4 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaia Skyhawk.5064 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 I'll pop in here and point out that you don't need to get all 18 pieces, you only need to get 6. Unlocking one weight class unlocks the skin for all 3. It's not as bad as the poster of that thread initially thought if you're planning to go for the legendary armor. The poster actually realises that fact partway through the thread. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliamRationem.5172 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 You think that's bad? Take a closer look at the legendary collection requirements. Notice that item that requires 25 amalgamated essences? Yeah, that's 6250 common essence, 2500 uncommon essence, and 1250 rare essence. Holy rift farming, Batman! I've already unlocked half of the Astral Ward set and I don't mind rift hunting, but this seems...excessive. 3 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanAlcedo.3281 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Did people actually expect to get Legy armor for free? 5 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dis.1092 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Cost is too high for new skin from exotic set. It just shouldnt be so expansive, they could do mat sink in later parts of collection for legendary armor. This isnt question only about legendary price. Many ppl would like to get just Astral Ward skin set. Just another bad devs decision. 2 1 1 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tails.9372 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 19 minutes ago, AliamRationem.5172 said: Notice that item that requires 25 amalgamated essences? You mean the Gift of Expertise? That's just the Mystic Forge recipe, you can also buy it from Lyhr in which case you need to pay 10 Globs of Ectoplasm but it only requires 12 Essence instead of 25. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trejgon.9367 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 To be fair my initial reaction to seeing the cost of specific astral ward armor pieces was "oof amalgamated essence AND mini-trophy gift?, that's brutal" That being said this will not deter me from hacking at it at my own steady place. As for wether or not the price of ward armors is fair - to make a proper call I would need to see what t1 and t2 precursor collections are. This is a missing chain that may very much impact "fairness" of that pricing. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kharmin.7683 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 34 minutes ago, DanAlcedo.3281 said: Did people actually expect to get Legy armor for free? Why not? Skyscale is free. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelHero.5849 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 I'm surprised the skin is that expensive. Not surprised at the total cost for the leggy armor. I just expected the price to be high on the leggy armor, not the "precursor" armor (kind of like the ascended armor precursor for WvW armor, which is 16% the cost in tickets of the total leggy ticket cost). 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanAlcedo.3281 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 6 minutes ago, kharmin.7683 said: Why not? Skyscale is free. If I can get a full refund on my 3 Legy armor. Sure. 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidRaver.6730 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 RAID armor still cheaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notebene.3190 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Where do you craft/buy these? I know I will need them at some point, but don't know where they are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tails.9372 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 51 minutes ago, notebene.3190 said: Where do you craft/buy these? From Lyhr by the Forge of Timelessness Point of Interest in the Wizard's Tower. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kulvar.1239 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 1 hour ago, DanAlcedo.3281 said: Did people actually expect to get Legy armor for free? I expected the OW legendary armor to require farming to infinity and beyond because there is no challenge. I just did not expect that it would be boring rift hunting that would occupy 99% of the farming. Obsidian Armor should require full condensed might + condensed magic + 15 mystic clover per armor piece, but with a bit less boring rift hunting. Rift hunting motivation recipes should be nerfed to make them cheaper than they are. Or alternative means of obtaining them should be added (meta-events and arcane chests for example). Essences of despair/greed/triumph, case of captured lightning, and pouch of stardust should have their own slots in material storage. There should also be new types of rifts, killing a few trash followed by an elite/champion gets old quickly. They're the bounties of SotO basically. The elite for rift T1 should have 1 random "bounty special ability", and the champions should have 2 random "bounty special ability" to spice it up. And the trash could have a little randomized effect too. Quick ideas for example only: red kryptis could have a berserk effect. green kryptis could explode upon death. blue kryptis could have a regenerative barrier. purple kryptis could phase out (like mirage dodge) and reflect projectiles while phased out. yellow kryptis could apply extra conditions with their attacks. 2 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanAlcedo.3281 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 4 minutes ago, Kulvar.1239 said: I expected the OW legendary armor to require farming to infinity and beyond because there is no challenge. I just did not expect that it would be boring rift hunting that would occupy 99% of the farming. Obsidian Armor should require full condensed might + condensed magic + 15 mystic clover per armor piece, but with a bit less boring rift hunting. Rift hunting motivation recipes should be nerfed to make them cheaper than they are. Or alternative means of obtaining them should be added (meta-events and arcane chests for example). Essences of despair/greed/triumph, case of captured lightning, and pouch of stardust should have their own slots in material storage. There should also be new types of rifts, killing a few trash followed by an elite/champion gets old quickly. They're the bounties of SotO basically. The elite for rift T1 should have 1 random "bounty special ability", and the champions should have 2 random "bounty special ability" to spice it up. And the trash could have a little randomized effect too. Quick ideas for example only: red kryptis could have a berserk effect. green kryptis could explode upon death. blue kryptis could have a regenerative barrier. purple kryptis could phase out (like mirage dodge) and reflect projectiles while phased out. yellow kryptis could apply extra conditions with their attacks. To be fair, that we got OW legy armor is insane enough. More demands is unreasonable. People should be happy that they QQed enough to make this a reality when it never needed to be in the first place. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sobx.1758 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 1 hour ago, notebene.3190 said: Where do you craft/buy these? I know I will need them at some point, but don't know where they are. OP literally included wiki link, just click on it, then on armor and you'll see how/where to get it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kulvar.1239 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 11 minutes ago, DanAlcedo.3281 said: To be fair, that we got OW legy armor is insane enough. More demands is unreasonable. People should be happy that they QQed enough to make this a reality when it never needed to be in the first place. So we should settle for mediocrity and accept that rift hunting is both utterly boring and repetitive and the thing that you must farm ad nauseam? 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kharmin.7683 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 10 minutes ago, Kulvar.1239 said: So we should settle for mediocrity and accept that rift hunting is both utterly boring and repetitive and the thing that you must farm ad nauseam? Then don't do it. There are other avenues for acquiring legendaries. 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kulvar.1239 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Just now, kharmin.7683 said: Then don't do it. There are other avenues for acquiring legendaries. That's not an acceptable solution. 2 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuxta.7965 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 (edited) I don't mind to be honest. I busted my butt in raids. Learning the fights, getting & learning gear and everything related to it to have a good build, learning rotations, learning other classes and gearing them to be able to switch to whatever is needed, learning roles so I dont just spank bosses and most important... finding a static squad that raids weekly (4 hours in my case) so I can consistently get LI and materials to build my legendary armor. Not only that, when someone needs to be absent of the static finding someone to fill that/those spots is not easy. Having to farm for this gear this hard makes me feel like all I did to get my armor was not in vain, Because I would be pissed that after all my hard work they would just give out easy open world leggy armor for everybody else. EDIT: Not to mention the amount of gold on materials etc. And that to get my Coalescence leggy ring from raids was another grind. Edited August 28, 2023 by Yuxta.7965 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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