why are uninscribable or oldschool weapons so special?

Can someone translate this?

He can get the skin in pvp for 6 reward points......

Had the person left it at I bought it for this much and like it...I wouldn't have commented on it......the reason I commented on it was the laughter bit..the I am holier than thou comment. That was the bit that makes me sick of some ppl, that they feel the need to insult ppl for the sake of feeding their own egos.

It's not a "I'm holier" comment, it's just a comment on how people with "rare" weapons everyone and their mother has think they're going to impress others and how it's really funny to me when they try that trick on myself.

I mean, seriously, a BDS? B... D... S... ? Come on.

It's as impressive as a monk in black obsi, green failgloves, a blindfold and a name in ALL CAPS in Kamadan ad1.

Monk Obsi looks like trash. Real pros use Elite Kurzick.

Blindfolds are legit tho.

You said it not I.......if u cannot see how conceded that come off as....lord help ya.

I don't think a lot people that really like and want non-inscription stuff think that people that use only them are "idiots" you make a lot of assumptions raptors. Most of the people started playing the game at the start or near the start - when you farmed like mad just to get a decent drop of your favorite weapon or item. When a r8 14 stance chaos axe was worth a good bit because it was rare to find good ones.

Personally I don't care much if inscription items, greens, trader items etc are around - but I think they should have had both of everything so that people that prefer to work for it can do so- if you just want something handed to you fine. If you don't have time to work for a rare item that is okay too - but for those that are okay with working for it I am sick of people whining they don't have everything easy.

And part of why I am thinking cataphract stated it that way is as I have seen - there are many in game that brag on and on about having a BDS, chaos gloves and other things and say they are "rare". Far from common - but if they were part of the old system 99% of them would be junk. I have had people laugh at me when I show them a r8 20/20 staff saying their BDS is way better and much more rare. The way it was stated was cataphract laughed at them for the same supposed reason you were laughing at their comment except they brag about something that is not that hard to obtain and honestly makes them look silly.


I also really prefer a lot of the more basic items as well. I had a big collection of tall shields because to me they look like what an actual warrior would use vs some of the others that would be impossible to wield. The same with many weapons. To each their own though - many things I think are just plain hideous others like but they look at it all the time not me and if they like it fine.

I'll have to be really polite since you're a moderator so - Please, for the love of lord you somehow managed to mention, read the last two paragraphs of Stuey's post. Amen, brother.

Its just site contributor/ ex mod with green name

But anyways. Ive bought uninsc / oldschool items just because i personally thing nf ruined the game with inscription, as well as with some other things like heros and overpowered PvE skills.

As ive been playing since the beginnin and saw the "only non inscri" time. in all ways i tho it was better, as ive explained in some other threads, Back then, Non perfect items were fine.. 13-14% dmg for wep in use is just the same as 15%, but still nowadays noneone would take other then perfect..

Back then every item was able be worth some. Nowadays even perf r9 items are crap.

yep just like 1 off gothic and echovald shields went for hundreds of ectos now they get barely half of that price, there are only very few skins that are actually worth that much because of there rarity., i just dont consider an item that still drops thats half unusable is worth that much nowadays.

pre nf i was easily selling 2-3 off eternals for like 100k each.

sad story but people got to move on from the past!

well, gothic and echovald and other non-ins only skins are the only thing I am not worried about.. The market for them is still pretty active and a good one will fetch hundreds of ectos. It is just a shame NF pretty much reduced the experience of a rare drop to canthan/tyrian shields, foci and staves.

On the other hand most of my characters are PvP characters with chaos gloves, perfect bo staves and PvP-reward only 20/20 foci/wands. This is legit bsns tho.

I live in the past, not the now! I still play prophecies and factions campaigns because they are supa!!! I like the WiK stuff too because the chance for interesting uninsc drops is there.

Well, tbh, I am worried that Anet might do something stupid and give them as available inscr drops in WoC.. By god let's hope that doesn't happen..

You would honestly think A-Net would get a clue after the mausoleum. People were farming that thing like mad to get NF weapons in the non-inscription version. A few people I know of were going there every day and doing the same boring run over and over just for that. Now people are paying good money for a r9 15^50 scythe and the other items that normally would be inscription only... I'd really like if they added in something like Sorrows Furnace with new non-inscription weapons.

And honestly Hard Mode killed a bunch of weapons as well - as it used to be very rare to find a max sephis axe, or dead bow; and that is just two examples out of many. I would not have minded if they cut back on the drop rate of "rare" items in HM - would not want a bunch of white items but purples, etc - this has destroyed any desire to own many things as they are all over.

A few things that I do not understand is why they took items that were once unique as rewards for Halls and made them very common inscription items - dwarven axes, serpents.... except for crystalines but they can only be found inscription now.

/agree would love to hear a answer

Well, the answer is quite simple:

"WHEEEEEEE, I want that purdy axe as well!! WHHHEEEE!!! WHHHEEEEEE!!!!! GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!"

That's how most of the player base reacts to expensive non-inscr stuff. And Anet is the bad mother in the grocery store that gives the annoying crying kid his stupid candy, as long as it makes him shut up. But it won't make him shut up, because the next time they're in the store, the entire scene will start again, but then he'll ask for an easier drunkard title, etc...

Don't get me started on the drunkard title..... I sat in town for most of that.... that really pissed me off.

And I already knew the answer too really, and it is just as you said...

Also just to be known meant gold crystalines - I know you can still get the purples elsewhere as well..

probably not because people are crying, development team obviously haven't analyzed the game enough or played it enough to know whats rare and whats not, evidently shown in pvp rewards and what classifications they give items.

i dont think anyone has ever cried about wanting this or that because i think most would actually prefer having something unique but it was too late when nightfall was released and they headed down that path ever since.

serpent axes was a good skin but eotn and the zchest and inscriptions all together devalued it to nothing like most skins.

Well tbh, with a large part of the playerbase QQ'ing that everything is too hard, or too rare, or w/e, Anet keeps giving in.. Don't get me wrong, the changes to Survivor and LDoA were good and needed, but things like drunkard and most other titles have become a joke.. Also, look at the Sardelac part of these forums and count the QQ threads of ppl wanting Treasure Hunter to be made easier, or that they want ALL skins to drop inscr and stuff like that.. As long as they keep crying for long enough, and gather enough people to QQ, they might get what they want..

Remember when Stygian Reavers were worth 500e?