Gaile on HoM

Gaile dropped some new info on how the Hall of Monuments will work.

Mini pets customized?

Don't 'do' them myself, but I can see people moaning about that.

... so if i got this right, minis are customized to a characters, like armor is already. Not shared with account-characters. But didnt we see in the E3 videos a HoM with ascended armors of different professions?

Ah well, its 2am and im not going to check, as it wouldnt matter anyway. Still bit surprised though.

HoM seriously needs to be acct-based

or come out with more details, such as how many of what is needed to complete a monument and bestow the bonus at GW2

now that HoM is about to be out, we really need to know the outcome of our choices that will become irreversible (such as minis being customized to a character)

this exposes another flaw, that many of us have a LOT of characters, but on the outset of GW2 will probably have many less.

Bad news, IMO. Our choices are then:

1) have all minipets on one character to get as many as possible showing in the hall at once

2) each character gets one or two in each of their halls

3) get each character as many minipets as possible each, all taking up lots of extra storage, which we do not get

4) screw the whole minipet thing, not worth it


I'm probably gonna say 4. Not that I want to sell the minipets I have, but I do like to switch them around occasionally, and if they are customized to the character, you probably won't be able to take them out with a different character. Just a whole heck of a lot of BS. They really are encouraging the regular play of one single solitary character, rather than multiples.

I guess we'll see in a few hours...

yes, I can already see responses in this thread exposing many logical and logistical errors in making HoM character-based

Arcane got a few more

... How does REMOVING miniatures from the market help keep their rarity? It increases it drastically. I'm glad I only use 1 character with this "each character" crap.

Yeah, the weapons are fine, but it would be nice if the minipets at least were customized to account instead of the character. Or if there was a way to copy them, like with the Festival Hat makers.

great, so there's no way for me to get survivor or LDoA in my character's (singular) HoM

and the armors thing, definitely makes no sense

and huzzah, minipet prices will go thru the roof!

Character based HoM - the biggest disappointment imaginable.

HoM was my only hope for rewarding account based accomplishments, so one could have different maxed titles on different characters, the thing KoaBD title couldn't do. It means that if I want to have a Legendary Survivor / Legd Defender of Ascalon monument with some other monuments I've achieved I have to make a new character and redo every damn thing on him!! This is absurd.

Dont think just about your self, character base is perfect.

What?! Julien... this affects everyone.... Alot of people refrained from remaking an ENTIRE character just for a title or two (LDOA or Survivor).... but now that they tell us its character based...doing that was a complete waste. Now we have to remake if we want those titles on a character.... which is major suckage.

Elaborate.

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awww i like transferring minis through storage for the character im playing atm.

Not big into customizing weapons either.....ooooh well. I wish it was account based.

Character based is not that great...

- if you want to show your minis, you have to log on to that character.
- if you have Wisdom/Treasure Hunter title on a character you have to log on to that character
- account based titles become that much better
- customization means you cannot share weapons between heroes or if you have two of the same primary profession

Really IMO customization should be account-wide for minis and the HoM ought to be account wide as well. In essence a character-based HoM punishes those that use multiple characters...

I'll second that thought.

I guess this means your HoM will be inherited by a character with the same name in GW2. This is disappointing as many people would like to change some names they did.

Honestly.... do they expect us to do titles on each and every character?

I'm not one to really moan about updates or whatever but I really feel HoM should be account based. This way you can show off all the stuff you have accumulated on your account, your true time invested into the game. For example I mainly play an Elementalist, have quite a few max titles now, armour, and some nice caster weapons.

My Warrior on the other hand hand has less titles but far more coolers weapons and other items. (well warriors tend to have anyway). I would like a way to show off all the items at once not just what on one particular character. All your in game achievement's should be in one place.

My Ele has 13 maxed titles, a 2 year old character, my much newer ranger has 2 including legendary survivor. Now I can't show off all the tiles I have actually been awarded and some HoM will be more barren then others despite having some nice all be it few achievements on show. In any case its too time consuming and somewhat pointless repeating titles on other characters but it would be nice to show them all off at the same time.

I don't like how weapons and other items will be character customised. It's a such a shame you won't be able to show off all your loot at once

Oh well, still looking forward to the games release.

I have five level 20 characters, each with mutliple sets of prestige armour, nice weapons and on some, titles. This has suprised me, but it just means I'll have to focus all my efforts on only one or two characters. I don't mind the fact that armour and weapons are unique, but pets and titles should be universal. If someone has thirty titles, I'm sure they would want all of them to be visible to show how much effort they have put in, I know I would.