I'm so bored, but can't really play other games (due to lag) while I wait for the points to build up. >_>
Why are there titles for not playing the game?
Pluberus
It makes no sense to me. How is being afk, sitting on rings, worthy of being a title?
I'm so bored, but can't really play other games (due to lag) while I wait for the points to build up. >_>
I'm so bored, but can't really play other games (due to lag) while I wait for the points to build up. >_>
Dzjudz
It's just stupid. Accept it, move on and hope they don't implement such things in GW2.
Pluberus
Are there any plans to change it? Frankly, the way it is now is ridiculous. 
Yol
The titles can be worked on by using lockpicks on chests as well. The rings games are there as a money sink.
Whirl E Vic
as far as I understand, a main purpose of 9 rings is to serve as a gold sink. Without any motivation to play (read: title) people wouldn't do it.
Edit: Nice Ninja!
Edit: Nice Ninja!
Rumi The Poet
id pay double gold sink to max my unlucky / lucky if it was instintaneous. . i agree its stupid
but then again most everything doesnt make sense. perhaps in the parallel universe everything is done correctly.
furthermore u can make more money siting in town buy/resell than farming anywhere in the game . . gl in gw2. i wont be there
but then again most everything doesnt make sense. perhaps in the parallel universe everything is done correctly.
furthermore u can make more money siting in town buy/resell than farming anywhere in the game . . gl in gw2. i wont be there
chuckles79
Thanks for reminding me. I was going to do that last night, but then I heard about OBL and went to youtube to listen to "America, $#@! yeah!" for a while.
Quaker
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KZaske
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The titles can be worked on by using lockpicks on chests as well. The rings games are there as a money sink.
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Yol
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AFKing the rings is a faster and cheaper way of maxing unlucky/lucky.
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_Deals_
Lol trolls seriously. 9 rings is for those who want to get there Lucky title much more easily then wasting 6 years on retaining lockpicks, you get 250 points per retain of lockpicks, when starting out you hardly retain a single one. so you're screwed and spend 10mil+ gold on lockpicks alone for the title. theres 3 events out of the year that offer this, deal with it and get over yourself, it's a game if you dont like it don't play it, simple as that. and again troll 9 ring afk'ers less, idiot. and belive it or not a middle ring you will spend a mere 450k on this entire event, thats nothing since you get over 625k lucky points, go figure, read about it more on wiki before you troll.
Kook~NBK~
I'm not playing right now! 
And yes, it is a money sink and that's all it's meant to be.
And yes, it is a money sink and that's all it's meant to be.
Pluberus
@Deals - My question should of been phrased more like this: "Why is the easiest way of achieving this title to NOT play the game?" That doesn't make much sense.
_Deals_
It's been like that for years, before locked chests and lockpicks there was only Boardwalk during 3 events. Why anet never put in a more sensable way of getting it is beyond me, but after 6 years does it matter? people make money, people spend money, people don't play for a max of 16 days out of the year while getting lucky and unlucky. it's guildwars, didnt want to make it easy. i guess no idea
Wicked Sweet
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AFKing the rings is a faster and cheaper way of maxing unlucky/lucky.
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Actually using lockpicks is far faster then afk nine rings to achieve lucky/unlucky points. The difference is you have to play to achieve the title this way (less then 25% of my maxed unlucky/lucky title came from nine rings). The fastest way is to wait for a lucky weekend and do lockpicks you can get 20k lucky points an hour easy doing this which would take 125 hours or roughly 5 days of doing it straight. the nine rings takes closer to 20 straight days of afk or something like that.
Lanier
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It makes no sense to me. How is being afk, sitting on rings, worthy of being a title?
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cosyfiep
heck you want a totally useless title that gives you nothing in return? try party--at least with lucky you get a better percentage at salvaging and such, with party, you get
nothing....and clicking thousands of times (unless you are trying to see if you can click faster than the servers can catch up) isnt really playing the game either.
(I would argue almost the same with drunkard--especially since it was change to the clicking gaming...there is only what, one? skill that gets a benefit from drunkardness).
so its just an easier way to get the title--which does actually benefit your account slightly. (and yeah, a way to get people to part with their gold)
nothing....and clicking thousands of times (unless you are trying to see if you can click faster than the servers can catch up) isnt really playing the game either.
(I would argue almost the same with drunkard--especially since it was change to the clicking gaming...there is only what, one? skill that gets a benefit from drunkardness).
so its just an easier way to get the title--which does actually benefit your account slightly. (and yeah, a way to get people to part with their gold)
UnicornStampede
because it makes it look like guild wars is not dead, with 90+ districts in shing jea
_Deals_
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Actually using lockpicks is far faster then afk nine rings to achieve lucky/unlucky points. The difference is you have to play to achieve the title this way (less then 25% of my maxed unlucky/lucky title came from nine rings). The fastest way is to wait for a lucky weekend and do lockpicks you can get 20k lucky points an hour easy doing this which would take 125 hours or roughly 5 days of doing it straight. the nine rings takes closer to 20 straight days of afk or something like that.
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Yeah but since i've gone mils on lucky and over 350k on unlucky, running around on triple LP weekends is even more boring then 9 rings, i only do 9 rings for lucky tbh, 250 points a retain sucks a lot compared to 9 rings and it's SO MUCH LESS MONEY. I've gotten atleast 285k unlucky from lockpicks, and after this event i'll max with a mere 1000+ lockpicks and get lucky too. why spent 1200-1500gold on lockpicks for 1-5 retains NM/HM it's just a game a chance too.
Swingline
I think your forgetting that with using lockpicks your working on four different titles simultaneously, Lucky, Unlucky, Treasure Hunter and Wisdom. If you farmed chests outside boreal to 10k for treasure title thats less money you have to spend on the other 3. In return you actually save money but at the cost of going afk doing something else like most do on 9 rings. If you decided to spend 7 million gold to max wisdom and maxed treasure hunter by farming eggs on easter then thats your own fault for not synchronizing titles like wiki and most people will tell you.
zeth006
To answer the ragers/trolls:
I'm currently AFK'ing at 9-rings so I can lower the cost of achieving treasure hunter through the lower chance of lockpick breaks. I still have another week of finals left, so 9-rings kind of stops me from grinding survivor or mqsc'ing. Then again, no one in my ally has been mqsc'ing since this event started!!!!
That is all.
I'm currently AFK'ing at 9-rings so I can lower the cost of achieving treasure hunter through the lower chance of lockpick breaks. I still have another week of finals left, so 9-rings kind of stops me from grinding survivor or mqsc'ing. Then again, no one in my ally has been mqsc'ing since this event started!!!!
That is all.
majoho
I finally got to rank 5 in lucky and I'm definitely done with nine rings, having your account occupied for days afk'ing is no fun.
(I'm done because getting the last rank would take 12 full days of afk'ing ).
(I'm done because getting the last rank would take 12 full days of afk'ing ).
powerslave
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I finally got to rank 5 in lucky and I'm definitely done with nine rings, having your account occupied for days afk'ing is no fun.
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Coast
aint unlucky easier than lucky?(if u crun)
Verene
I find Unlucky much easier; got well past rank 2 on that from chests before I hit rank 1 for Lucky. But then again, my "20+% retain chance" generally works out in reality to "you'll break 14 of every 15 lockpicks".
zeth006
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I'm with you, I'm doing the exact same thing. My character is AFK on 9-rings right now, several hours away from reaching rank 5 in lucky. Once I hit that, I'm done with afk-ing 9 rings. I'll probably never end up maxing lucky (and especially not unlucky).
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Guess I'll have to farm like a madman and unlock a lot of treasure chests.
Ghost Dog
Nowhere in this thread is a rager or troll, they just think this is dumb and I agree.
cosyfiep
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I'm with you, I'm doing the exact same thing. My character is AFK on 9-rings right now, several hours away from reaching rank 5 in lucky. Once I hit that, I'm done with afk-ing 9 rings. I'll probably never end up maxing lucky (and especially not unlucky).
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I afk while I am sleeping--so I am not wasting playing time (just plat
)(and yeah unlucky is easier for me--even WITH a 65% or higher rate I STILL break many more lockpicks than I keep )
Wicked Sweet
I maxed Lucky far before unlucky, though I did one time open 37 chests before breaking a pick in nm. Usually from Boreal i would break a pick once every 3-4 chests or so.