Sad
8 +7 =/= 16
Even your Plat stack is clean!
What a tragedy, I would have liked to see a shield that has basic math I can understand 
Next update is to make armbraces untradeable and the economy will automatically regulate itself to the appropriate value like it was in 2010.
wtb q8 15^50 gladius full trade window of kuunavangs!
Ignore the weasels in your PM's and put them for sale in a public auction to ensure the best price for each item.
Ps; you would'nt happen to have any req8 15^50 daggers?
"WTB q8 15^50 stillettos 250a!" good price for you! Gosh the double sided blade is out today
yes list it....
q7 Shield easily 4 digit arms, dont sell to PM, if u sell let ppl bid several weeks to get highest offers.
This would be correct if certain people *cough* Pekki, didn’t bid 1a higher than the last bid for weeks on items. Sometimes taking a really good offer pays off. Anyways, list it see where it goes.
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If you intend to sell: Put for auction, dont sell to pms.
Q7 for sure in significant xxxa range.
Skeleton probably 100-150a
Jade sword maybe ~100a
Broadsword ~200-300a
My guestimates.
This is correct.
Old good Sh** ->
After 20th, new sh** (?) ->
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add a golden egg with the candy corn and you're going full ape mode
I could never bring myself to use a nice blue sword with a blue single mod shield, I am not sure why. But this set checks all the boxes for me, especially since I am a huge fan of -5/20 +30 shields and I love a good prenerf baby set.
Thank you Aldar Galad 
and Firefighter_fred I will use these diligently and love them dearly.
60 minutes of FLAVOR!
I can relate, I was excited for unique mods on pre order items like the chimeric prism or the canthan targe, but it looks like it’s just the skin that was released as of right now. All I’ve wanted for the past 10 years was a darn chimeric prism that looks like this.
Quite underwhelming really. And we didn’t even get team arenas, just a teaser photo of it.
That said, the builds the new mods open up is kind of neat for niche builds on martial classes.
Wait, this is all they have done with the pre-order items lmao?
I thought the skins could drop with whatever mods now and at max level. Quite underwhelming if not the case.
Howdy ectoplasmus, good to see you around again, it’s been a while!
I’ve only seen one chimeric, but it looks to be just a regular ass offhand……. So it’s looking pretty bad lol if it does have the possibility to drop in any of the mods of the traditional chimeric I’d be really happy, but I highly doubt that to be the case at this point. Also, I’ve been farming NM like crazy and haven’t seen any of the new items drop, so if it is only on the HM drop table, GG q8 potential.
I'm going to sound like a person who's never happy or blazed. These new mods and the leadership requirement for shields, for example, bore me. I was done with the weapons of my PvE characters and heroes, no desire to change or adapt.
(It also gives too much advantage to new skins, such as leadership shields.)
I can relate, I was excited for unique mods on pre order items like the chimeric prism or the canthan targe, but it looks like it’s just the skin that was released as of right now. All I’ve wanted for the past 10 years was a darn chimeric prism that looks like this.
Quite underwhelming really. And we didn’t even get team arenas, just a teaser photo of it.
That said, the builds the new mods open up is kind of neat for niche builds on martial classes.
Display MoreBuild crafting on my walk today and I thought of a sick W/E template
Zealous/+20 energy axe
Cyclone axe, whirlwind attack, shockwave, sliver armor, flail, enraging charge, FGJ, I am unstoppable
Could swap earth for starburst/flame djinns haste or go air with ride the lightning/lightning touch.
I gotta get to farming! What do you guys think?
I’ve been thinking about energy storage weapons a fair bit, really opens up a lot of capability for martial classes
Chimeric Prism dropped from locked chest. Took 3 or 4 chests to drop.
Well that’s disappointing… was expecting a armor 10 expertise req+5e possibility like the original..
hate cores pc is right
Hey, the req7 shields are in the 100armbrace range, and the staves are in the 10ecto range. other os shields and prenerf os shields are between 1-30a range. battlepick anc wicked blade I could see getting 10a or so.
nothing for pvp...
Definitely a disappointment would have loved to see TA make a return
Do you have to be using the secondary profession to get the benefit? Ie if I have plus 5 soul reaping mod, but I’m a warrior ele, does it still function?
Very excited, build wars just got more buildwarsy
Just eagerly waiting for the first chimeric prism drop…
Fresh while farming
Super excited for the new mods and to see what their min and max is!
FIRST NOOOOBS !!!
May our thoughts and prayers be with the kanaxai standers yesterday
Yeap start now!
Omg ok I’m going to tell my boss i shat my pants and need to go home! On the way!
Game update now new weapons on EB. Minis quests too.
Is it live?
Anniversary Update is live: 3 kanaxai spotted in kamadan at once, is this the future?
2 are from the same guy
Josh or whatever his name is, the level 1 necro who also has Obba Inaste tonic
My thoughts and prayers go out to them when kamadan is littered in Kanaxais tomorrow
zippy boy and post it in the gw drama section. Anyways let’s get back to the topic. I’m excited to get myself a mkg
As excited as my first rank 6 on a character... get it, then 1 hour later we move on. I mean, it's how you get it that's important. When it comes to skin of minis , if they were all free, some players would switch. (Too few minis have special animation when they move).
I’ve always liked pairing minis with professions, islandguardian ranger, mkg necro, grawl warrior, kuuna sin, the list goes on. But among my favorite are the Aatxe, jungle troll, siege turtle for standing in lobby at For aspenwood, and of course the OG chard shaman. It’ll be nice to complete my dream pairing of minis without kamastanding for the next 40 years though!
For reference, they do indeed exist.
How long ago did you screen this one? I saw one in trade with a different gold value recently.
Way to be a debbie downer...... RIP minipet market
I don't think so. It is a proven fact that socialism has never worked in the past, and it always ended in a failed state. This update is pretty much the same approach, in an in-game economical sense, since, unlike many other online multiplayer games, Guild Wars is set with a very unique trading system which requires items not affected by inflation, which is now being taken away with that update. Even if this type of economical transformation wasn't intentional by ArenaNet (Let's assume it wasn't), it was ultimately thanks to it, that led to the amazing game that you like so much today. They may never admit it, but ArenaNet eventually began to realise and intentionally used it to their advantage.
Minipets over the past few years have just been a colossal problem, it fed directly into RWT heavily and they were constantly, and consistently being sold on the black market. This hasn't been the case with other valuable items for the most part. I think it was just addressing something that was a long time coming, much like adding the 7th year presents with previously rare minis because of the duping problem and inability to ban every account that participated. The brink of absolute abuse by a select few, who controlled the market and sold them as they pleased, some of which could have been old duped ones from an un-banned account. Anyways, it hurt a select few innocents, which is very unfortunate, but everyone can agree it had gotten out of hand.
Display MoreYou folks are all excited about the updates, but will your excitement continue to last, when almost everybody will run with the same formerly "legendary" pet as you?
"Look man, I've finally got a Kanaxai!" - "Yeah, me too!" - "Oh no, looks like everyone has it now..." - "Hey, where is your Kanaxai?" - "Well, I am not using it because don't like it anymore."
It is human nature to aim for something that not everybody can get their hands to that easily. This update is going to take a major part of that away from everybody because those pets meant to be something special for a reason, when they were given out only to the players who truly earned it in the old days during the PvP contests. You may realise this sooner than later, and then we will see how much longer you will continue to like the changes.
I personally don't care, since I stopped playing Guild Wars some years ago, but it is worth noting that Guild Wars doesn't have much to offer anymore that credits fame or excitement. The whole excitement of finally getting your hands on those pets will be nothing but a shadow of the past.
So this change is unusual for ArenaNet, since they realised it was a mistake with the asia pets back in the days during the 8th anniversary already - hence they never repeated this mistake ever since (up until just recently that is). So this step of giving away the most famous items out for such trivial things like clearing hard mode missions makes me wonder, if this is just an attempt to allow players gather all the last good things that the game had to offer just easier, to make it less impactful when ArenaNet finally announces the shut down of the servers with their next step.
I guess, only time will tell.
Way to be a debbie downer...... RIP minipet market
Except this doesn't really address the underlying problem. Now the RMTers will spend money on gold trims, rare weapons and in game services. The bots will still operate and people will dump money into other things.
Perfect! Least there will still be a trade market of some form. Not everyone was an RMT'er like ACWhammy mentioned. Many did things the right way also. I feel for them 2bh, only basically to be screwed by anet. they sure showed everyone who's boss hey!
So question now is what to use for big in game purchases since minis are now trash? there will be no way to do large trades unless it's done by RMT. Many used pandas, IG, MKG ect for higher end trades.
In reality anet didn't solve anything but screw over the loyal players for the last 25 yrs & give free stuff to everyone that left GW long ago. Thank you anet! your the best!
mate, again, its not 25 years......
A q10 15^550 Great axe, it's forever eluded me
Ill keep an eye out for ya
Getting ready for the q8 farming on the 20th anniversary be like
We dont understand xD
That is ok
Getting ready for the q8 farming on the 20th anniversary be like
Display MoreThe real problem here is that there were legitimate players who spent years farming and grinding to afford these minis through honest means. All of that effort is now wiped out overnight.
Maybe instead of devaluing everything, we address the real issue: the rampant botting that has infiltrated nearly every part of the game.
It seems I have a kindred spirit here. Some of you remember when I wrote a petition to Anet regarding banning the bots and RMT'ers. I got a lot of flak for that. That's when I realized that it was an unwinnable battle, as most of the game's community supports bots and RMT because "without them the game would die" to put it in their words.
Many also know that I was a victim of a massive hack in 2013 where my NC Soft account was hacked. I lost all of my high end undedicated minis (Kanaxai, 4x MKG's, EL Reindeer, etc, etc.) that I earned through legitimate trading over 6 years. Since then, I've never been able to catch up back to where I was, as the RMT'ers and bots can ALWAYS outpace players that are achieving things in game legitimately.
I've always stated that the #1 update I'd like to see from Anet is banning cheaters. For some reason they can't or won't do this.
I don't know if this update is meant to be a soft fix on RMT or not, but I agree that the RTM'ers will just move on to the next big things that make them money.
Another thing to consider is the owners of these untradeable minis. Two types exist - ones that still value them and others who see them as lost value. The ones that see the lost value most likely will try and liquidate those assets to reallocate their investment elsewhere. I can't blame them for trying to get as much value as possible, as would anyone else in their position. Hopefully in these rounds of liquidations, the minis end up in the inventories of people who truly appreciate the collecting rather than RMT and profiting.
As far as the current owners of the minis. I imagine that there are very few in the hands of people who did not RMT their minis (this is my speculation, of course, based off of personal conversations and information - I have no way of proving this.) But any time I've found these minis over the past several years, people wanted real cash for them. I do believe, however, that there are a small few in some collectors hands that earned them legitimately many, many years ago when they were actually affordable through in-game means.
The ones who are truly affected by this are the ones who paid real money for them, and for them, I have no remorse. As far as the legitimate owners go, well I'd like to hear what they think. Many of them have had their minis exclusively for 10 years+ and are truly collectors and held on to them for sentimental value and not for the purpose of flipping them for real dollars - so in that instance I'm not even sure this update effects them.
Personally, I'm glad I get to have my minis back - although it's bittersweet because A) It's 13 years later, B) Justice was never served, and C) The new mini are not exactly the same because they're untradeable.
Maybe I'm showing my cards here but I'm glad to be able to finally dedicate these minis and move on. Yes, I'd still like a "real" Kanaxai, MKG, etc. but no way am I going to spend all my hard-earned armbraces from the past 13 years on them now.
So take it from a true collector - yes, these minis will maintain some semblance of value as there will always be demand by guys like me - BUT they will never reach March 2025 prices (whatever real world-converted-price-to-armbraces price that is) because people like me will never pay them, and the RMT'ers will never see them as a safe investment anymore.
In fact, I'm still willing to pay 1000 arms. Any takers?
Very Eloquently put ACWhammy, and very spot on. I am sorry to hear of your hack all those years ago.
I have seen quite the decrease in bots recently across the game, except for a few places, although it is much more rare to spot them. It seems the team is actually putting an effort into getting rid of them from what I have seen, and let's hope it persists.
