Gaile on HoM

What I would like to know is whether a character in GW2 will need to choose a single character from GW1 to inherit from, or whether the GW2 character will inherit from the entire account.

I think what will happen, judging by what we've seen on the videos showing the HoM, is that each character will be able to store accomplishments in a single hall that stores all our characters' achievements. I can't see any other way of the video showing armour for different professions and genders in the one hall. If this is the case, if my GW2 character will be able to inherit from all my GW1 characters, then I have no problem. I'm willing to be patient and add all my minipets and weapons to my hall shortly before the release of GW2. But if we do have to choose one character to inherit from, I will probably stop playing all of my other characters. There is no point, after all.

and remember kiddies that all those unique only through HoM mini unlocked unique minipets will be customized as well.

before you yell how do you know this the devs have already stated specifically that your inheritance will not give you an advantage over their new GW2 player base and if a zoo of unique minipets worth billions is not an advantage check out panda/etc prices for an example.

they will be show not go like DIVINE AURA

not transferable but real nice

note to self, no more buying extra character slots for future games in case they make changes such as these . ..

guess this dashes my hopes of getting a complete set of minis. vizu and zhed are pretty much out of reach now and the ghostly hero drops so rarely as well . .. hopefully they make some new source for these minis.

seems kind of stupid to customize minis to a single character. guess my HoM won't have any minis for a while until I ponder this some more.

is the grind in eye of the north (and gw2 down the line) going to be so bad that the only option is going to push through with just a single player? i really hope this isn't an indication of this.

Well It looks like I can delete my other 8 characters and just focus on my 1st and Favorite (Ranger). Thats a cool way to take the fun out of this game. You get to grind for titles, oh and by the way unless you have more time than sense you only get to play 1 character, Yee ha

As far as I can see, they examined all the option for handing the HoM, minipet trading, armour and weapons trading, titles distributed accross characters... and picked the worst possible one.


Honestly, is anyone happy with the design we've heard about?

Yeah, ive been playing on my rit lately and am gonna take him through GW:EN.
But i still really like playing all of my other characters. And i have ALOT. So this news kinda bums me out -.-

So, Gaile, should we risk laying down our armors, weapons, minis, etc to the HoM, irreversibly and with unknown consequences, when you can't tell us exactly how this is really going to work in the end?

Gaile: if tis character based, then why did the person in the E3 video have armors from every profession? thats just plain mean to tease us like that

also i think what they should do with minis is flag them as being untradable after you use them that way you can still have other characters use them.

I don't think it takes Gaile to tell you the answer to that question is, "Hell no!"

[QUOTE]it wont

it was a demo not real life so to speak.

they had each and every display case full.

they said EACH CHARACTER WILL HAVE ITS OWN IT CANT BE MADE MORE CLEAR THAN THAT

that was more of a rhetorical question Rhedd.......of course, with my mini collection, 18 titles all on one character, and my best rares all warrior weapons, like so many others, nearly all my focus has been on one toon, that i won't make any irreversible decisions yet

I'm just wondering what Gaile's justification (or perhaps regurgitated company line) is for such an obviously terrible decision, which has already been shot so full of holes in this thread I'd be embarrased to have to defend it

This is pretty much exactly how I expected it to work.

I think it makes sense for a mini-pet to be "enshrined/customized" when you put it in the HoM. Otherwise, people in large guilds would just have massive mini-pet swaps and everyone would get everything. Lame. I personally would like to see minis account-based rather than character based, however, since customizing them will make them rare enough.

With respect to character-based titles being assigned to characters instead of accounts, I never imagined it would work any other way.

That character based HoM is heart-breaking. For people that got insanely difficult character based titles hoping that all GW2 characters would benefit (LDoA and Survivor come to mind), this must be a major kick in the balls.

I was looking forward to GWEN...

This broke my heart though... so sad. WHY ANET? WHY?

Well I guess I'll look forward to GW2 coming out now.

I know.

I just answer rhetorical questions because they're the only ones I ever know the answer to. ^_^

I cringe, by the way, at the thought of people customizing super-rare minis, ceasing to play the game, and not selling or even giving them away to friends, because they can't. Fantastic.

Very disappointing...

Well yeah, and I'm glad. That's my point. Severe grind is ok as long as it's only e-peen/vanity. I mean, the grind still sucks, but at least it isn't "important."

But thanks for the condolences.

Well at least we get new content for GW1 with GWEN. Since HOM is only going to benefit a select few diehard players or ones that only like 1 character type. What a kick in the pants.

I knew I shouldn't have focused on so many characters at once. I should have just chose one character and stuck with him. Oh well, at least I'll know what to do in GW2... heh.

Here's what I don't understand.

If the system worked the way people on this thread thought it was going to work, any character on an account with one character who got a tough-to-get title like LDoA would get that title?

That would mean, you could create a character, get a run to HoM, get the LDoA title for that character, and then "bequeath" that title to a character in GW2. That would mean there would be an unending supply of items left to decendants based on a one-time achievement of a title. That just does not make sense.

If I'm missing something, burn me to a crisp. I expect no less.