In-game advantage from the cash shop

So it's finally happened. It was only a matter of time, right?

Purchasing a mercenary hero now gives players a gameplay advantage over other players who did not purchase it. You may have an additional hero of the same profession, or in fact, you can fill your entire team with the same profession (3 heroes, four characters of the same profession).

If you don't make this purchase, your gameplay is now limited until you do.

I see where you're coming from but personally I couldn't care less.

I'll never buy a mercenary hero myself and since other people don't affect my gameplay, I don't care what they do/run.

My gameplay options just skyrocketed... and I did not have to buy anything.

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Anyway, gimmick one profession builds are not all that effective ...

What exactly would your exploity party consist of?

Also, rember that people with 2 accounts were already able to do it. And some insane people (cough) with three accounts were doing solo urgoz already...

Make all henchmen heroes. Allow players to talk to them in an outpost and select up to 8 henchmen at a time to act as heroes. Problem solved. The cosmetic benefits of the update remain for the mercenary packs, the gameplay advanatage is removed.

How many times do I have to say this....people were already doing this by purchasing a second account and running with 6 heroes. And after thinking it over for a day, that still might be the better option if you want to run full discordway, unless you plan on wasting 4 of your character slots on necros.

Also, it's f***ing PvE, and GW2 is coming. Who cares anymore?

should be grateful, free 7 heroes

still updating with new contents

unlike some MIC - Made in China games...

Game Shop > Skills

weapons, level n powerup items all for real money ~

Good thing there's not much incentive to play pve after 4 gwamms.

If you don't care and you are reiterating a redundant point please stop posting. Two accounts and 6 heroes is not the same. We clearly care, so please, if you don't care, you aren't being in any way helpful.

Or to put it another way "If you don't agree with my position, don't post"

How is one person's playing with merc's giving them an advantage over someone who is not in an instanced, non-competitive environment? We're not talking PvP here. Is it just that they can clear a zone 1.3 minutes faster? Please explain.

Sky High was saying who cares it's only PvE. It has nothing to do with whether he/she agrees with me or not.

A couple of points:

6 heroes won't travel to level 2 of the dungeon or to the next explorable area. And you are still down 1 slot.

You don't need to waste 4 slots on necros. Just roll a pvp necro, add it as a merc, reroll as a necro with another name, add it as a merc, reroll as a necro with another name, add it as a merc, reroll as a necro with another name, add it as a merc.

The way I see it, there is no advantage here for the people that do buy it.

Their game doesn't effect you in anyway whatsoever. What do they gain that you cant get already or that isn't already abused by speedclears?

The only thing I see is some might be able to complete missions/quests faster than others but again that doesn't affect you becauase you play on your own time.

They gain the ability to make builds that I cannot without paying.

That is it and that is all.

First off: two "y"s. Thanks.

Secondly: My point wasn't "lol PvE", it was "lol you're getting mad about this now, when people have been able to pay for a slight advantage for years." GW2 is coming, let people have their fun; I can pretty much guarantee that no one who couldn't beat something with 7 heroes will magically not suck when given access to 7 necro heroes.

Or, to be more blunt: discordway isn't good enough for people to get this pissy about mercenary slots, and nowhere near good enough for ANet to commit sepuku by removing the functionality after people already paid for the slots.

Or to be even more blunt: deal with it, it's not so bad and they're not changing it anyway.

But that doesn't really give them an advantage

there thinking have 7 of 1 profession will be uber awesome and stream roll over any PvE area.... like most have said (the advantage is somewhat) makes PvE areas fast.

any like Squishy ftw said, I do careless about this paid item but i got 1 to support Anet/GW. One slot is lunch money for me.

Yes because having a bunch of people all the same profession which you can only do with merc heroes really 'limits' gameplay. I mean it's not like a fully balanced team with different professions would be better than one with all the same profession ¬_¬

Until someone comes up with an "outside the box" AWESOME new herobuild that will drop the ecto prices or something similar because it's so good and being overly used by everyone with merch heros, ...I don't think they will have an advantage.

I think the mercenaries are just for fun and looks mostly.

Discordway is not the end-all of team builds. 3 necro heroes is already plenty for any hero team build.

You won't be able to do anything wonky like a full party of hero paragons if you don't buy merc heroes, but it wouldn't be any better than a balanced build, just more fun.

The mercenary heroes are for people who want to add another element of entertainment to their game, not for the hardcore PVE-Steamrollers. lern 2 play if you really think you need 7 necro heroes to complete high end PVE content competently.