Design-a-Weapon Items: New In-game Items EDIT: Last Updated w/ Pics 10PM EST 03/10

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Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vilaptca
Uh...why have "The Hunt is On!" in the title if it's not really on yet?

I'm so pissed at you right now.
Copy-pasted from official GW site I think. Lack of creativity.

Lord Sojar

Lord Sojar

The Fallen One

Join Date: Dec 2005

Oblivion

Irrelevant

Mo/Me

LOL. I am so looking forward to that beautiful bow, and the sword. MMMMM, but the compass is nice also.

I really hope though, that the star (sun) staff from the honorable mentions is included. That would look super sexy on my mesmer. Give me a reason to dye her armor Orange + yellow + yellow. MMMMM.

Cacheelma

Cacheelma

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Ascalon Union

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vilaptca
Uh...why have "The Hunt is On!" in the title if it's not really on yet?

I'm so pissed at you right now.
He took the phrase directly from www.guildwars.com. You shouldn't be too surprised now that you know.

You can be pissed at Anet and their ... whatever, though.

pamelf

pamelf

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Australia

Lost Templars [LoTe]

Me/Mo

I...want...that...bow...sooooooo...bad

*speechless with want*

Theo Godscythe

Theo Godscythe

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2007

D/

oh goodie another grind, farm, can't wait

impression

impression

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2006

Hi,

I just hope they introduce this items as inscritable golds and not some good for nothing greens. Other than that, can't wait to grab them

Have fun,
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isamu kurosawa

isamu kurosawa

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

United Kingdom

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Well, last night gaile seid the weapons will be added in different ways, some involving chests some monster drops etc.

So we will pretty much have to check everywhere. I hope they add more in quiet areas like they did with the totem axe.

New foes in dreadnaughts drift, ice dome, dragons gullet etc

WinterSnowblind

WinterSnowblind

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

I don't see why they need to be uber rare, I'd rather be able to enjoy them, rather than be able to sell them for a lot if I somehow manage to find one.

Dylananimus

Dylananimus

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2007

The Eternal Champions

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Theo Godscythe
oh goodie another grind, farm, can't wait
Huh?

Pretty sure nobody actually NEEDs to acquire the items to be able to play the game, they're just there if you want um No grind...just personal desire for nice new weapons. You don't want to go look for them and farm 'till they drop, then don't. Do something else

Meh, I don't understand some people.

Anyways, I hope people aren't gonna keep the places to themselves when they find them. That would just be mean I also hope they're not too easily obtainable. They should be hard to get, not soloable.

isamu kurosawa

isamu kurosawa

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

United Kingdom

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dylananimus
Huh?

Pretty sure nobody actually NEEDs to acquire the items to be able to play the game, they're just there if you want um No grind...just personal desire for nice new weapons. You don't want to go look for them and farm 'till they drop, then don't. Do something else

Meh, I don't understand some people.

Anyways, I hope people aren't gonna keep the places to themselves when they find them. That would just be mean I also hope they're not too easily obtainable. They should be hard to get, not soloable.
Some people won't be happy with the level of "grind" till we are staring at a blank screen. Any game content these days seems to be referred to as grind.

I'm looking forward to the weapons because i actually enjoy it. If you don't enjoy it then don't do it. The game has many other things for you to do and caters for a variety of players....or turn off your monitor and enjoy your grind free sitdown.

Buzzer

Buzzer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Australia

Quote:
Originally Posted by pamelf
I...want...that...bow...sooooooo...bad

*speechless with want*
I doubt they can make it look very good ingame.

pamelf

pamelf

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Australia

Lost Templars [LoTe]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzzer
I doubt they can make it look very good ingame.
Meh, I'm sure it'll still look better than the funny shaped sticks with string attached that most bows are at the moment.

zwei2stein

zwei2stein

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Join Date: Jun 2006

Europe

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Quote:
Originally Posted by isamu kurosawa
Some people won't be happy with the level of "grind" till we are staring at a blank screen. Any game content these days seems to be referred to as grind.

I'm looking forward to the weapons because i actually enjoy it. If you don't enjoy it then don't do it. The game has many other things for you to do and caters for a variety of players....or turn off your monitor and enjoy your grind free sitdown.
and some people wont be happy with level of "grind" till we have to stare at screen for few hours to perform any simple task. Any boring game content these days seem to be loved as game lifespan lenghtener.

Guess some people wont be happy until all content is accessible only to people who play GW as their full time job. Game which caters to variety of people better should support it. Making new skins exclusively for hardcore farmers is not something positive.

Ouchie

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2007

[Leet]

R/

I can see the bow coming from Urgoz
Compass - Napui since it is celestial

isamu kurosawa

isamu kurosawa

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

United Kingdom

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by zwei2stein
and some people wont be happy with level of "grind" till we have to stare at screen for few hours to perform any simple task. Any boring game content these days seem to be loved as game lifespan lenghtener.

Guess some people wont be happy until all content is accessible only to people who play GW as their full time job. Game which caters to variety of people better should support it. Making new skins exclusively for hardcore farmers is not something positive.
And nowhere does it say they are for hardcore farmers alone. Some of the wepaons have already been promotional items.

Flem

Flem

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

NA

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Quote:
Originally Posted by zwei2stein
and some people wont be happy with level of "grind" till we have to stare at screen for few hours to perform any simple task. Any boring game content these days seem to be loved as game lifespan lenghtener.

Guess some people wont be happy until all content is accessible only to people who play GW as their full time job. Game which caters to variety of people better should support it. Making new skins exclusively for hardcore farmers is not something positive.
Good game accommodate casual and hardcore gamers. That's why some items/armor/titles are easy to attain and some are much more difficult.

Kashrlyyk

Kashrlyyk

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by isamu kurosawa
And nowhere does it say they are for hardcore farmers alone. Some of the wepaons have already been promotional items.
Excluding everyone that didn´t have a way of paying. Great job and superb idea. /sarcasm

isamu kurosawa

isamu kurosawa

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

United Kingdom

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kashrlyyk
Excluding everyone that didn´t have a way of paying. Great job and superb idea. /sarcasm
the pre release pack was available in both the online stores and brick and mortar retailers. If someone can't get to either then they wouldn't even own guild wars.

Kashrlyyk

Kashrlyyk

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by isamu kurosawa
the pre release pack was available in both the online stores and brick and mortar retailers. If someone can't get to either then they wouldn't even own guild wars.
Yeah, you are right.

MarlinBackna

MarlinBackna

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Join Date: May 2007

[TAM]

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You know what would be a good idea? Instead of all the weapon drops being green or gold, you could have purple/blue/white as well. Then the people that want the weapon just for the looks can just get a purple/blue/whatever, and the gold ones still be very rare and go for a lot. So you can have your cake and eat it too.

isamu kurosawa

isamu kurosawa

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

United Kingdom

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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarlinBackna
You know what would be a good idea? Instead of all the weapon drops being green or gold, you could have purple/blue/white as well. Then the people that want the weapon just for the looks can just get a purple/blue/whatever, and the gold ones still be very rare and go for a lot. So you can have your cake and eat it too.
That may be the case. According to gailes chat the weapons will be added in a variety of ways. I'd like to see some new ways of offering some skins like the etched sword in eye of the north. It is available only as a collector item and is a very nice skin (too bad there is no +5en one for caster use )

It would also be nice if they were added as rewards to master difficulty quests. Simmilar to the gwen items or Kerrsh's Staff.

Hikan Trilear

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2007

Here's hoping some will be scavenger hunt rewards.

stretchs

stretchs

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

Untimely Demise [Err了] - SOHK

I would really prefer them to be Gold drops you get from general play, I dont like the idea of only Z chest, as that would exclude a large portion of the game, likewise I dont think only dropping in pve is the answer either, once added they should both be a Z chest and a pve drop. I would prefer that they be rare in the drop rate of the Elemental Sword or Colossal Scimitar. But with that, in places that cant have a simple cookie cutter farm that everyone can do infinitesimally so that they are flooded in the market quickly. As for "fixing" the market, this is just like everything added to the game, it starts out insane and gradually drops in value. Another month or so and everyone will start getting y3 bday presents so get ready for the insanity when those start coming about

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberNigma
20080305

Design-a-Weapon Items: The Hunt is On!
5 March 2008

We are pleased to announce that we will add a few of the winning items from the most recent Design-a-Weapon Contest into the game later this week. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to venture forth and find those items. We'll add another group of items in the future, so keep your eye on this page for more information in the coming weeks.


The designs have already been mentioned. This announcement just hit their frontpage and rss feed.
What concerns me most is they are only adding "some" of the weapons.
Speculation: Only the weapons which have been posted in the GW Dat file thread will be added.

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hikan Trilear
Here's hoping some will be scavenger hunt rewards.
Collect some Skree Wings, Mokele Talons and a Margonite Masks and trade it for a Celestial Compass. Something along the lines of the Black Moa Chick would do it for me.

Master Knightfall

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by StormDragonZ
I just hope it's not going to be less than 2% chance of getting them.
It will be, you didn't think they were going to make them easy for noobs and casuals to get them did you?

Selket

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Grand Court of Selket/Sebelkeh

What If You Had An Outpost Named After You [slkt]

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Hopefully they're not just greens or some shit.

;x

Stolen Souls

Stolen Souls

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

This is my guess how it will be:

The sword will be a green...15% while enchanted, 20/20, +30

The Bow wil be green...15^50 20/20, +30

The Axe will be green...15% in stance, 20/20, +30

Shields will be green...Tactics and Motivation...-5(20%), +30

I can't wait!


Naw just kidding. I'm really wanting that sword, and hope it will be a semi-rare gold. >_>

Ate of DK

Ate of DK

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Netherlands

None but Fools [nuts]

I hope they are all extreme rares and I get a req9 one first. :tongue:

Andrew Patrick

Andrew Patrick

ArenaNet

Join Date: Aug 2006

Washington

Zealots of Shiverpeak [ZoS]

Mo/

WTB That green sword.

MSecorsky

MSecorsky

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

So Cal

The Sinister Vanguard

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew Patrick
WTB That green sword.
Andrew! Throw us a bone, man! What can we expect?

Ouchie

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2007

[Leet]

R/

Later this week ----- meaning tomorrow?

isamu kurosawa

isamu kurosawa

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

United Kingdom

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew Patrick
WTB That green sword.
hands off, mine!

Andrew Patrick

Andrew Patrick

ArenaNet

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Washington

Zealots of Shiverpeak [ZoS]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by MSecorsky
Andrew! Throw us a bone, man! What can we expect?
I think it differs from item to item, and I personally don't know which are rare and what not. All I know is they all look sweet so I'm gonna be searching this weekend.

Dronte

Dronte

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Sep 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ouchie
Later this week ----- meaning tomorrow?
I guess so.. I'm excited

Andrew Patrick

Andrew Patrick

ArenaNet

Join Date: Aug 2006

Washington

Zealots of Shiverpeak [ZoS]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ouchie
Later this week ----- meaning tomorrow?
Oh you mean when? Soon. Very soon.

Ouchie

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2007

[Leet]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew Patrick
Oh you mean when? Soon. Very soon.
hummmm --ok a weekend of looking

on another note - can these new design weapons go into our HoM? Please?

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

arrrghh....when is very soon????????? (ya know parents tell their kids that even when they have just left the house on the epic 20 hour drive to grandpa's....it better not be that kind of soon !!!)

please update this thread with the sighting for those of us less fortunate on drops and such!!!

undeadgun

undeadgun

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

US

Its Rainning Fame Hallelujah[伞回伞], also as guild leader

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nice looking weapons, cant wait for sure

undeadgun

undeadgun

Forge Runner

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Its Rainning Fame Hallelujah[伞回伞], also as guild leader

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new update just now,maybe this is it?