Where Did All The "Shiny" Weapons Go?

im not complaining per se. just a little curious is all.

with the release of gwen, runic blades, stygian reavers, and crystallines have taken huge nose dives in price for various reasons. some of the reasons being gwens introduction of new greens with the same skins or inscribable purples when it comes to the crystalline. the new elite destroyer weapons are relatively cheap atm and will only get cheaper as time goes buy.

so my question to you is...

are 100k + xxx or xxxx ectos weapons now a thing of the past? are the only items that will fetch/cost a cagillion ectos solely a handful of asian minis?

Prepare your flame retardant suit.

GW is truly casual player friendly now, no more "shiny" stuff to be had.

Only things left, for those that wish to have "shiny" stuff is low req Tyrian stuff and old school Crystallines.

they went to hell and burned with satan where they belonged those weapons were favored to the upper players of the game probably 5% just like the rest of the world now that those items are cheap upper class people are crying

Not really. It's the middle class players that got hit. The super rich have all the items they will ever require.

Middle class always takes the hit, just like real life...

Shiny weapons were a thing of the past since Nightfall.

hehe... blunt but to the point Malice.

Yeah... RIP valuable items.

Granted, the market was already dead thanks to NF... GW:EN just tied up the loose ends (crystalines and dwarven axes).

Market is dead to some, just waking up to others. All depends on your cash flow.

To the average Joe NF was a dream come true, to people like me it was a bitch. However, I actually play now, where as all I use to do was chat and buy/sell.

Absolutely. The rich stay rich and the poor stay adequate. The climb up the ladder is very rare nowadays, unless you get lucky and gain a super rare minipet.

It isn't hard to get wealthy in GW, if you PvP. It only takes a low req Crystalline/Stygian to drop and you have a few hundred ecto right there. PvE only players get screwed over in the long run.

everlasting beetle juice is like most expensive thing now

shiny things gave me something to work for..now that everything can be available to everyone, there's really no point left to play. once i use up the rest of my cash its gg for me

Nah.

Crap like that is bought with the ton of 'ebayed' gold floating around in High End sell these days.

The truly rich only surface when there is something worth buying.

Yeah... like a 1 million gold staff wrapping

Well guess now I have to start saving for a mini kanaxai to look rich

I really hope so.

I don't like spending all my money on a pretty weapon.

To answer OP, yea no longer will we see items like that. Do I actually miss it? Well, tbh the course that this game takes is rather irrelevant to me now, there is only so much effort into something you can put in.

ANet made "shiny" weapons pointless because of the Hall of Monuments. Only Destroyer weapons count, and they are far from "shiny".

Shiney is all in opinion.

To someone, an item like a req 9 perfect "Insert cheap skin here" could be shiney.

To someone else, a req 7 perfect Crystalline Sword would be shiney.



Again, it all depends on where you are in this game. The Elitists got thrown off thier soapboxes and the casual players got everything they whined for. The only thing left to do is throw an inscription on every weapon in the game to end the elitist way of life.

Aside from putting FoW armors on all your characters, or going after weapons and minipets that will be in actual play, useless to you, there's no point to save large amounts of money.



The shiney weapons went down with the casual players wave. It's when a game changes to suit casual players a lot more than the "Elitists". I've seen every game I've played do it. Guild Wars is just heading down the path of the life of an MMO.

However, this doesn't mean it's over. I've still got titles and items to obtain. (Inclduing 10 sets of FoW, that I will probably not get done in a lifetime of play.) You can say the sky is falling because casual players can now have some older shiney items, but I choose not to let it ruin my gaming experience, and continue on toward my goals. I would suggest that anyone else do the same, if they still have goals they want to achieve.

With Gaile's recent comments, I'd lean more to say that GW:EN is the non-casual response to some hardcore critics of GW. That is one of the reasons she explained the titles and grindable features of GW (including especially GW:EN).

I think the reason for more of the same skins is because they re-used a lot of stuff (throwing old things into the drop tables) from previous campaigns. That, in effect, is good for the casual player in regards to dropped item skins, but the rest appears more a response to the non-casual (as was mentioned in another thread - though that thread talked about the entire process of change). You can find her comments on the change in mentality in the 'enough is enough' thread.