Flourish 1a
Posts by c0ntrolla
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I think I want to buy it 😁
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mini drops from chest
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏼
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First of all, sybau. I don’t need to do anything. If the seller doesn’t care to put the information out, he shouldn’t seek desperate validation and attention by keep posting in this thread without answering the question on where he got it from. Gatekeeping information in 2026 is beyond degenerate. If the buyer is dumb enough to spend 3k arms on a mini that will most likely lose 90% of its value soon enough, just for him to have his 1 week of exclusivity, more power to him. Still as a seller you don’t have any reason to keep the information from people 🤣
I see only jealousy in your words. We are adults. People pay for excusive, and doesent matter how many of them drops, and what ever is the price, everyone will know that Sasha has first ever droped Althea, so it doesent matter.
I‘m not jealous, it’s just so weird to me how much you crave attention by posting things here and dodging the only relevant question. There you’ve said it, everyone will forever know that Sasha got the first ever dropped Althea, now why wouldn’t you share where it dropped, since that won’t change the fact that we know who has the first one, since that seems to be the most relevant fact, lmfao 🤣
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Are you slow ?
First of all, I won’t allow you to speak to me like that. Considering your recent comments, I’d take the time to choose my words carefully before dumping my frustration onto a keyboard. And the seller could very well have kept that information to himself and maximized his future drops.
First of all, sybau. I don’t need to do anything. If the seller doesn’t care to put the information out, he shouldn’t seek desperate validation and attention by keep posting in this thread without answering the question on where he got it from. Gatekeeping information in 2026 is beyond degenerate. If the buyer is dumb enough to spend 3k arms on a mini that will most likely lose 90% of its value soon enough, just for him to have his 1 week of exclusivity, more power to him. Still as a seller you don’t have any reason to keep the information from people 🤣
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Why should he get some exclusive time ?
Because he pay ?
Are you slow ?
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Hekets, sure, lol. I dont mind telling the place and conditions to get her. But the buyer, Sasha should get some exclusive time. He knows details, if he wants, he can share it.
Why should he get some exclusive time ?
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picked this one up in the crystal dessert today
I didn't think they dropped purple with max dual mod.
you would think after nearly 20yrs in a game I'd know these things.
The armor mod isn’t max unfortunately (+7 AR would be max)
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sunder 100a
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Oni 1500a
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100a emperor
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You‘re such a loser. Imagine crying about your precious OS weapon losing value. Can’t sympathize with you I’m sorry, here’s to them hopefully introducing more stuff that devalues your items 🙏🏼 imagine comparing pixels in a game to a Rolex lmfao. Supporting a “you had to be there“ mindset is so toxic to gamers and keeps new players from joining. It creates a fomo that is so unhealthy for gaming. You need to stop treating a game economy like an asset and shareholder simulator and have fun through gameplay. Again this most likely has to do with age though I guess… older people seem more upset about this. I genuinely don’t care that my mini panda has lost its prestige and value, if anything, I‘m happy that I can now have it on my irondhuum because I love pandas. Long live 2weeks ❤️
I think you really are major salty about that Panda dude. Serious "just want to watch the world burn" vibes now
Haha I knew while typing someone would say/think that so I even hesitated mentioning what item exactly was affected for me, but I can assure you that’s not true. I advocated for years for anet to make these minis for example more available to the players. Nice try though 🤣
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I like the discussion that's happening, but we really don't have to start attacking people's character just because we have differing opinions. c0ntrolla PyroLobster
You are right, apologies for my inappropriate language. 🙏🏼
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it should be fun and not require grinding 1000s of hours to get a pixel.
This ^
Its the difference between Type 1 and 2 enjoyment. The reward at the end of the grind is the fun. Remove the grind necessity and you remove the fun from the payoff.
Your attitude absolutely stinks of resentment. Those people who played longer or harder must now be punished because others want the rewards without the effort it took to attain them?
There are always items essentially unobtainable (or VERY hard to get) for us all. The solution isn't make them all common so everybody can have one. You only wanted it because it was hard to get. (Even more so in a game where you get no advantage, its fashion wars!)
Using your way of thinking we should put hench tonics in bday gifts so everybody can get one. The result will be mass merching like all the other shit tonics because it isnt what they are that makes people want them.
If you play because you like the content then you shouldn't care very much what rare items others have (especially when they impart no advantage in content / can have the aesthetic another way. eg os vs inscri Cry ) - I know loads of people like this
If you play because you like to grind to acquire the rare stuff then you don't want said items removed or massively diminished. - I know loads of people like this
In either case (or in a mix of both), making rare stuff common pleases nobody in the end. Apart from maybe somebody who thinks in a competitive trading game that everyone should be "equal" somehow and effort / advantages should have no rewards to keep it that way.
Do new players really want a game where nothing is very difficult to get? Where nothing is truly special? Where the progression ladder has been made purposely short?
The beautiful thing about GuildWars which few other games ever replicated is it catered for both types of fun (Type 1 and 2) really well. Because max gear is so easy to attain (+ super quick lvling) you could enjoy all the content very quickly without endless gear grind. BUT if you liked the grind payoffs you could also do that and get rare gear to look cool (also allowed for collecting of all kinds). Some items being prenerf helped this greatly considering rampant bots throughout. This balance is what made the game great imo and why its still going 20 years on. If you start changing either side in a haphazard way (like is being done) you will undo what made it great.How are you punished that another person can get what you also have? You don’t lose your item you still have it, but now you and me can both enjoy it. Sounds horrible eh? So entitled over pixels I can’t lmfao. Putting el hench tonics in birthday gifts is such a good idea actually. Items that become undesirable after being more available, shouldn’t have been desirable to being with. Like why do you only want this tonic because of the fact that no one has it, instead of because of you liking how the transformation looks? All of a sudden you don’t want this item anymore because you’re not exclusive with it anymore? It means you are shallow and want something to flex on other people with, which simply translates to you being insecure in real life.
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Imagine if a company like Rolex suddenly decided to remake and mass-produce a watch model that had been discontinued for 20 years and is now prized by collectors. Part of why that watch is special isn’t just how it looks - it’s the history, the scarcity, and the fact that only a small group of people held onto it over time. If Rolex floods the market with identical versions, the original loses a big chunk of what made it meaningful. It’s no longer a story of patience or rarity; it’s just another product on a shelf.
Another analogy is trading cards. Think about something like a rare 1999 Base Set Charizard from early Pokémon. If the publisher reprinted that exact card in unlimited quantities with no distinction, it would undercut the entire idea of collecting. The value isn’t just stats on cardboard - it’s the time, luck, and history attached to owning one.
GW works the same way. Those rare, discontinued items function like digital collectibles. They carry time value (people who were there early or put in the grind), scarcity (limited supply), and story (status, history, sometimes even nostalgia). Reintroducing them without limits strips out at least two of those three pillars. And once scarcity is gone, the item’s meaning often collapses into just its utility or appearance which usually isn’t enough to sustain that “wow” factor.
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That said, there’s a counterpoint worth acknowledging: games aren’t static collectibles markets. Developers sometimes reintroduce items to keep newer players engaged or to avoid locking content behind “you had to be there” moments forever. A middle ground many games use is re-releasing variants (same look, slightly different tag), or keeping originals marked as “legacy”. This was ALREADY DONE with the introduction of inscr versions. That preserves the history while still letting new players participate.Those who are jumping for joy about this update are ignorant to this. Why do you feel like you need these items to be re-added as OS? The game already solved accessibility with variants, and bringing back the originals removes the sense of history those items carried. Since variants already made the look accessible, what do you think bringing back the originals adds to the game that outweighs losing their historical rarity? For me personally, the history and scarcity are what made those items interesting in the first place. They were time capsules of when GW was at it's prime, and by adding them back that aspect kind of disappears, so it feels like more of a loss than a gain.
You‘re such a loser. Imagine crying about your precious OS weapon losing value. Can’t sympathize with you I’m sorry, here’s to them hopefully introducing more stuff that devalues your items 🙏🏼 imagine comparing pixels in a game to a Rolex lmfao. Supporting a “you had to be there“ mindset is so toxic to gamers and keeps new players from joining. It creates a fomo that is so unhealthy for gaming. You need to stop treating a game economy like an asset and shareholder simulator and have fun through gameplay. Again this most likely has to do with age though I guess… older people seem more upset about this. I genuinely don’t care that my mini panda has lost its prestige and value, if anything, I‘m happy that I can now have it on my irondhuum because I love pandas. Long live 2weeks ❤️
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What a sad perspective to have. This is their exact point, things should be attainable for everyone, not just veterans of 20 years. With the surge of new players it’s unattractive to have stuff that they could only afford by playing for years. Imagine starting a new game and there‘s a bunch of items that aren’t obtainable anymore and everyone is flexing on you with these cool looking skins/minis. People that are against that are weird entitled beings with huge ego over pixels. Let others have fun too, it’s been 21 years lmao. Thank god they finally add unobtainable items 🙏🏼 praise 2weeks!
Sounds great until you think about it for more than 10 seconds. When everything is easily attainable to everyone what exactly are you playing for? Its fashion wars, the content is limited. Grinding hard as hell to get something to flex is basically the whole game. When everyone can have a OS Cry nobody will want one, bad non max mods/reqs are likely already going in to the merch or will be in the near future. The reason they were desired was because NOT everybody could have one. You had to invest serious time into the game in order to get one via any means because of fixed supply. You had to work really hard and long to get the reward. If you just wanted the skin inscri was there for you. Having things really hard to get is GOOD. Its things to work towards, its a challenge, its what keeps you playing the same 20+ year content over and over and over. Stopping really rare stuff being rare so that new players don't get salty that some guy who played for 50k hours over 20 years has more than them is obviously self defeating because that same new player now has less stuff to work towards. He wont play 50k hours for 20 years because he has to reason to now. He will put that once near priceless Krytan Axe in the bin because its now worthless. Nobody cares if you have one, nothing to flex. Scarcity is the only thing that gave it value, once removed its just a Hand Axe with a different name. All this applies to everything else they have messed with: Asian minis and Pre (what a giant shitshow
). Everyone gets a Panda YAY!!! ........oh wait no one gives a fuck now because the pet itself wasnt THAT cool, you only wanted it because it was VERY hard to get.
"With the surge of new players it’s unattractive to have stuff that they could only afford by playing for years"
^ Take the solution to this to its end point. Everything that was prenerf is removed or now postnerf. Everybody has basically the same attainable weapons, armor and mini pets as nothing is fixed supply. Drastically less people play for years because nothing is really special and grinding another 100hr to get something everybody else has / will have doesn't seem very appealing. You have removed one of the main incentives to keep playing. Lots of old players who kept the game going all those years leave because they kept getting screwed by updates to keep new mobile players happy (who were never going to play long term anyway). Sounds great
FYI: I never owned anything that has been changed by updates so I havn't been effected myself. Although I expect to be soon, hope it makes those new players happy
I think the bigger issue is that, as you said, most players are old. So all they care about is for their 20 years of work to not be diminished over night, which is fair. Though things, especially unobtainable ones, need to be made more accessible or accessible in the first place. If all you care about in a game is to be the only player to have a certain item you are beyond cringe, full of yourself and live a sad and loser life. This is a GAME, it should be fun and not require grinding 1000s of hours to get a pixel. They are selling henchmen tonics for thousands of dollars online, why the fck would you want those to stay exclusive, so the RMTs can make money off of some loser that will spend $3000 to have a one of a time item that he now needs to afk in Kamadan with 24/7 to finally get noticed and get his moneys worth? xdd Both parties are losers. Same thing was going on with the exclusive minis which now rightfully lost their value. I don’t mind prestige in games, however it should come from SKILL not from time/money spent. Farming the same thing for 100h a month to be able to afford an item isn’t impressive.
And this comes from someone who actually has been affected by the updates multiple times, but I am not bitter about it, because this is a game, these weren’t real life money assets. I‘m as you can tell more upset about weird people crying about nice updates and stuff to get in a 20 year old game. Of course you can’t please all, but the negativity regarding these updates are so disrespectful towards the 4 devs that work so hard to give us nice exciting content and make things that most people couldn’t ever get their hands on available for the first time in decades. I‘d a million percent would prefer completely new skins as drops as opposed to existing ones tbh, but I understand they have to work with what they have and are only 4 people, so I‘m totally fine with them adding other items that make the dungeon exciting/worth playing, because if they aren’t able to create completely new skins, why would you even bother replaying the dungeon if the drops are generic goldies. So yeah, I hope the new players will enjoy their new crystas 🤣 -
Dungeon itself is trivial with a vos spike. It’s like ooze pits, it takes like 7mn for a group and if you farm it during favor in Hard mode… you can also solo it on ranger easily and kill the boss quickly
Then again I’m fine with my inscr version, I don’t care about os items anymore
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45 (Forgot about the caster one) OS Gold Crysta for sale just in the top few wts posts. A pair of Krytan Axes and a few Serpents. Probably more than have been for sale in the past 5 years. These items are all going to become merchfood in a few months.I care in the sense that its a shame to see 20 years of these things being unobtainium reversed overnight. First minipets, then max/gold pre items, now these rare skins. They might as well just add Q7's, Swamp Clubs, Dwarven Axes back to the drop table, put storage in pre, and drop EL Reindeer and Henchmen tonics into the Zaishen chest and lets call it a day. The attitude by some game dev clearly seems to be that everything should be attainable for everyone, so lets just make it so.
What a sad perspective to have. This is their exact point, things should be attainable for everyone, not just veterans of 20 years. With the surge of new players it’s unattractive to have stuff that they could only afford by playing for years. Imagine starting a new game and there‘s a bunch of items that aren’t obtainable anymore and everyone is flexing on you with these cool looking skins/minis. People that are against that are weird entitled beings with huge ego over pixels. Let others have fun too, it’s been 21 years lmao. Thank god they finally add unobtainable items 🙏🏼 praise 2weeks!
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Gosu 17a
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So you’re okay with the fact that your purchase could get someone banned? (and that means you don’t have much respect for that person) Strange.
Why would I feel bad for someone trying to make money off of names? In gw2’s case they were well aware that it was shady to sell those names so why would I not be okay with them taking a risk when they knew of it and it’s their choice? You are so bitter you don’t even make sense, seems like you missed out and now you are hating. Otherwise miss me with that attitude please.
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Anet indeed doesn’t like this as they‘ve banned people that did this in gw2 recently. It was a whole thing in the PvP community that resulted in bans and ppl losing the traded names.
And even knowing that, you're bidding 10a for the name “Earth”?
Yep the buyers weren’t banned ofc.
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It is the same as any other sale/trade in-game. No sales are guaranteed by Legacy it is all between the buyer and seller in-game and for them to work out.
As has been mentioned here, there's no simple way to trade character names. Probably why it's never come up before one word names were introduced.
Anything that is not traded through one action of Trade Window has a risk to go 'wrong'.
Nothing is stopping a trade moderator from doing the same thing, taking your items and armbraces. "Little to zero risk" doesn't exist, you're just hoping the trade moderator isn't having a bad day. Just like Bsoltan said, anything that requires two trades is always at the traders risk and it always has been. You are free to take the risk or not and participate in those sales or not.
except the sale of names has a risk that is completely different to selling a guild with a trusted third party. there are no random unknown accounts that can interfere with a guild sale with 2 parties plus 1 middleman. if somebody tries to steal something there is a loss of reputation because it can all be seen.
somebody could be creating a new character with a name thats being sold at just the right moment, without knowing of that sale. he has not made a deal with either party, does not owe anybody the name. sure it is an unlikely hypothetical scenario but its exists.
ANY account can take a name if the time is just right, people have brought up valid concerns above that can't be sufficiently explained away.
now take into account the amount of arms being thrown around for names, this is just begging for scam attempts AND people trying to snag names with good timing and possibly automated methods.
allowing this was poor judgment in the first place, the fact that it is 'allowed' gives these trades a seeming level of legitimacy that nobody can actually guarantee. so as soon as something goes wrong it makes legacy look bad. and even if there are no Terms of Service that could somehow be interpreted to forbid this (which i have not checked), i highly doubt that Anet likes to see this, given their history of making everything more accessible and less exclusive/expensive.
Anet indeed doesn’t like this as they‘ve banned people that did this in gw2 recently. It was a whole thing in the PvP community that resulted in bans and ppl losing the traded names.
