Revalation to Inscription Thread

Hi, this isn't really a suggestion, or at least not yet, but it's more of a discussion of is this a feasible idea or not. Which idea? Well, the one of making inscriptions and insignias account wide, one which many players would find convinient and good.

The idea is that inscriptions and insignias become implemented in all chapters, lets say from a ceartain date, so that all the stuff that drops has this insignia on it. But, the inscriptions are only update to be allowed to put on weapons, not automatically put on. So, if 1337 farmer Joe wants to maintain his req.9 15^50 "tyrian" crystalline, it will not be affected. Simply, when people see it in the trade window they will see it has no inscription.

However, the guy who has a req.9 19% while hexed tyrian can put a "strenght and honor 15^50" inscription on his and make it inscribable. This change did not effect 1337 farmer joe, his item is untouched. However, it does add flexibility to the already existing items and to the ones that will drop in the future.

Basically, one could argue this would ruin gw economy, but I will leave that up for you guys to decide. With farming spots being exposed, and crystallines dropping only inscribable now, why hold people out longer and just inconvenience them more? I would think not, because vanity items will still remain rare (elemental, old school crystallien, dwarven, and even for that matter shields such as eternal and such.) Really, this just allows more flexibility towards the player base.

note: this opinion comes from a wealthy player who owns quite a few perfect items, if anyone sees this as relevant and somehow biasing my opinion.

Most people want 15>50 Crystaline so they can look good and not suck at the same time, not because they are collectors of antiques and curiosities. An authentic 15>50 will barely be worth anything more than an inscribed one.

But right now it already surpasses it by 100's of ectos, so why will that change? Actually, wont the 15^50 old one actually become rarer?

I'd really love it if my fow armor that I bought before insignias could now be inscribed with them...buyers remorse maybe. I like the look but I wish I had gone with full Druid's :S

I mean, again it does no harm to anyone, just a lot of benefit how I see it

If you take any crappy uber rare item and are able to suddenly make it awesome, that will totally affect everyone who has that item, since now anyone can have one that is perfect and so it will devalue that item for all.

Personally I wouldn't mind it since there are too many over priced items in the game that aren't worth all the money people are spending on them.

Let me say the same thing except clearer: most people want rare skins so they can show off, not for some personal collecting satisfaction. The only reason they care about the stats is so they don't suck when being used in the field. A super rare old or a not so rare new inscribed version fufill these roles equally, so their prices will be similar. That the non-inscribed version is rarer is not of interest to most. Nightfall already introduced inscribable versions of a number of prophecies skins, and the values of all those proph items tanked with it.

BTW I'm personally all for inscriptions everywhere and don't really care about old item value, but I think Anet wants you to empty your wallet AKA buy a new campaign for the feature.

True, but really how many more customers can Anet expect with Anet after the first 6 months of chapter release? Not too many I suppose, to me it would seem more important to keep the current player base interested long enough to buy GWEN

meh, if anything, they should just make Tyrian/Canthan armor Inscribable, and leave Tyrian/Canthan drops alone.

Agree totally, I personally prefer the Tyrian Armour designs and would love to be able to add the specs of my chosing.

so just to be clear, you're asking for a way to add an inscription slot to older items? If that is the case, I'm all for it.