Quick note: in today's update, they nerfed the vendor value of the Black Lion Mastery Coffer! Be aware, buying this item just for liquid gold is no longer a good deal.
I was so angry when they nerfed the vendor value on the coffers! But i still got them as I needed the xp for icebrood. Now that I'm done, its like so damn worthless now.
Build Storage expansion doesn't belong in terrible tier, I would argue it belongs in bad tier. It's just the "I am lazy" tax, unlike the rest of the stuff in terrible tier which will not be useful under any circumstance. It's for people who refuse to use external tools while playing the game (though I suppose you could argue those people will likely not need them anyway). Then again this could be copium because I got it.
The weird thing is putting build storage in terrible, and build template in must buy. The argument for build storage - that you can make your own build storage system - applies to build templates as well. What you're paying for in both cases is not having to go to an external build storage file as often. I think there's a big YMMV in what both are worth, but they should probably be in the same tier, or build storage might even be higher (more slots, more flexibility in what you use the slots for).
I wanted the griffon skin, but I don't have SotO. Paywalling it only for that expansion was pretty shitty, considering the griffon was released in PoF.
This system has been amazing for me! Got my warrior to 4/6 ascended pieces in 2 days with the new system and some strike currency from running the new strikes!
the build template expansion for characters is nice, but I just can't warrant buying one without an equipment template expansion to go with it, so it's a cheeky way for anet to drive a second purchase. Don't buy transmutation charges! You get one from completing each capital city map on a new character which can be done in like 5 minutes, and you can just delete and remake the character!
I got the griffon and an asc armor chest so far. I've had 2 chances at the leggy starter kit but I'm not a fan of any of them and really don't feel like crafting to TP. If it's gen 1 only I might go for twilight if it comes up. Anyway great vid and I might start with some of the smaller gold ones you mentioned, ty!
Aaah... I actually bought something from the terrible tear q.q But now I know more and will stick to your recommendations. Thanks, that is very useful indeed! :)
Thanks Lara.. Excellent work. One thing that might be worth talking about - that all of these stay for the 3 months till the next expac and when that might be roughly.
Magic the Gathering once mentioned that they print bad cards as part of the challenge to the game. I feel like the option for bad purchases also satisfies that design principle
Ty. After I bought mystic clovers I wondered if it was worth it. You can buy them now apparently from a vendor without needing to do fractals. I agree it is overwhelming and I'll have regret no matter what I buy.
Fun fact about the build storage - in GW1, the build storage IS a text document. Literally. They're just name + build code saved in a single line in a .txt document. It's amazing how ANet did a superior version in GW1, didn't include it in GW2 for ten years, and when they did, made a shittier version.
Because they wanted to charge through the nose for it. In GW1, the text document is stored on the player's PC. In GW2, it's stored on the ArenaNet servers, which makes it slightly more convenient in exchange for ArenaNet having a justification to charge for it. That said, I suspect that putting them into the Vault is a de facto admission that most of the player base (rightfully) decided that hundreds of gems for a line of text was not a fair trade and haven't been buying them.
I wonder if by doing every daily and every weekly you could earn enough to buy everything, minus the infinite stuff, and maybe minus totally useless T5 bags haha I really liked the video, very helpful, I would love to see a tier list again next season if the rewards end up being totally different
In the wiki they have the math now actually, doing all dailies and weeklies each day/week you would get about 14,800+ AA. To buy very limited item it would cost a bit over 18,000 acclaim (which includes all 16 sanctified skins) so if you cut out the terrible tier stuff you could probably honestly do it. ☺️
The updated math with the added specials and 4th daily means you can get about 16-17k AA, and buying all the limited rewards is around 19k AA, so you can't literally buy everything, but I'm using neat tricks like a txt file and pretending those Essences of Gold don't exist and the numbers line up really well.
My main has only reached level 80 recently, is doing the Personal Story, some of which requires specific masteries. So the Mastery Coffer is indeed amazing, if a bit random! Gave me a boost of a quarter of a level the other day!
I still dont know why there is no ritualists option for the ascended gear in the box. Celestial is a decent 2nd option, but it really should have a straight up ritualists option.
oh wow i didnt realize the emote shows off your weapon, that is way cooler than i expected. aaaah since im not at soto yet (only into eod) n i didnt change my thing to exclude pvp so its been slow getting AA, so im way behind everyone but so excited to get more! the rewards are just so exciting (and even the bad rewards honestly made me laugh so hard, its like anet trolling us XD) and ive never been more excited to go do the stuff on the daily n weekly list. honest to god i scoffed at the vault when they announced it - i mean i thought its fine but i figured its not any diff than the old system BUT I AM WRONG it makes such a huge difference for me. for once im excited to check and get all evil cackle when i see the exclaimation mark. 😂😂😂
why consider the limited gold bags more (or as) valuable than the mystic coins? for 1.5 times the price, you receive double the value, as mystic coins are worth more than 2 gold at the moment? or am I mistaken here :p
i screwed up and got the build template but i guess im fine given i dont use emoticons or weapon skins. I will likely save up for the legendary box next.
Transmutation charge is also Terrible if you've played the game at all really. Noob-bait! I once threw out 700 TC for a video 😅 probably still have over 1K. I wish Gift of Battle was on there for 1K or more, hell I'd pay 100K for a Gift of Battle just so I never had to look at WvW ever again. W/out Potions anymore I'm gonna have a real problem making anything legendary ever again. Good thing I got a full weapon set already, but I want the new armors 😭 I would still use Tomes for leveling alts cause I want my elite spec right away, I don't want to have to level from scratch. I've tried it since the rework, and it was still more hours than I wanted to spend. Don't Sell Tier 6 Dust!! Not if you want Legendaries. You will need lots of Tier 6 mats, especially Dust. And yeah, I got the Griffon skin already 😉 might get the arm thing, hadn't decided. Nice looking out on the Bless, I wasn't gonna get it, but I have Shining Blade too, so super cool! My Claw of Khan-Ur is gonna be amazing with that! Cool vid! Cheers!!
Did they confirm that the Legendary Starter Kit isn't just a 1 time per account, forever? or does it come back every Vault reset? i know it's the best value but i don't really want any of these legendaries. i'm scared that if i buy this one, next rotation will have a legendary i want but can't get because i wasted it on one of these 4...
I went for mystic clovers and mystic coins first and consumed them out of stock since they are bit expensive and a pain to get. I skipped the legendary starter kit since I dont like the precursors I would wait for Greatsword l
Bloodstone and empyreal fragments are easy to come by but dragonite ore????? I have like 500 blood stone bricks, 200 empyreal stars but like 3 dragonite ingots lol.
I think the griffon skin is overrated. I know it's cool that they are offering skins outside the gem store, but this one look a lot like the default skin with a few highlights and 3 little orbs. There's not a lot to it. I'd put it in the bottom 5% of available griffon skins.
Oh, definitely. That's something that's actually vaguely worth the gems they charge for it, though, since it represents up to twenty slots of equipment storage. Build slots, though, really should have been much cheaper (or even free) to encourage people to by equipment template expansions to cater for additional builds. I suspect them appearing in the vault is ArenaNet recognising this.
I talk a bunch in the video about how you clearly shouldn’t buy them if you’re rolling jn charges But a lot of players never do PvP, WvW or map completion. Those players never ever get any charges, and for them, getting charges with AA is a much better deal than getting them with gems
Transmutation charges are still something of a scam. Do pvp or map completion and you'll end up flooded with them. The fact that you put revive orbs in bad says it all. You can't get ridiculous numbers of revive orbs in other ways. They shouldn't be above good.
Thank God you made a great tier list. Another content creator, Caffeinated Dad, put obsidian shards in the top 5 must buy items. I couldn't take him seriously after that so I just unsubscribed.
Because they now have to do the 3 tasks they get and actually play the game, rather than being able to cheese it by always picking the quickest and easiest options. That said, i really enjoy the new system too and am happy there's weeklies too now.
@@gewreid5946 I am completely on board with the weeklies as well. They provide that influx of rewards a weekend warrior can claim, without needing to log in every day. A lot of companies dislike this concept, because they want players to play every available hour. This is much more consumer friendly.
@@gewreid5946agreed and Anet even made toggles for it to whatever content type(s) you prefer. All in all this expansions has actually been surprisingly really good.. I'm even loving the map designs!
Most salt is probably from people with multiple alt-accounts reaping the daily login rewards for passive gold income, and now no longer getting their passive free stuff on who knows how many accounts.
Great video! Really excited for the rewards in this new system! My biggest issue though with the Vault is the dailies they give. As a newer player who is PvE focused, but hasn't completed all the expansion stories yet (PoF almost done!) it's REALLY frustrating when I'm given dailies for zones I have no access to yet (SotO or other xpacs). They need to curate what objectives are given out so that they're always achievable with the zones you have unlocked. Currently I have to turn off the PvE option so that I know I'll 100% be able to complete all my dailies.
Just chose pvp. Literally the easiest dailies. Especially if you do pvp anyway. You can do all daylies in one match usually and don't even have to win.
This is absolutely something they need to fix. I mean, I have all the expansions, but for those that don't, they should only include maps that each player can actually get to.
@@benjaminfast5496 They do give you dailies only for zones you could potentially get to afaik. However, if your account owns EoD for example, but you want to play the stories in order and are not there yet, then it still gives you EoD dailies.
I'd prefer they look at story completion for your dailies/weeklies. I'm working through Path of fire right now and getting later zones feels like I'm being punished for taking my time playing through the new zones 🙂
Love the wizard’s vault but the dailies are more into the newer contents. Yesterday no one could finish it because of bug. Hope they revert back to older maps as new maps just lack players at certain times
I keep seeing this being said. I wonder how true this is. My 3 friends and I have fully completed every daily with no trouble besides having to do the collection for the one mini dungeon.
I really like this new system in concept. The pricing of some things are still questionable like the Revive Orb and the Lesser Essence of Gold; but otherwise I like what's available so far. The first thing I'll actually buy will be the griffon skin which I should be able to afford today. I managed to still get the Valdhertz Crypt daily done a few hours ago for the reset; I find it really concerning as someone who's fairly new to GW2's endgames that these dailies are having us do content that's been apparently bugged since the content was released (iirc there was an issue too the other day with the Spirit Vestibule mini-dungeon; I ended up not finishing that one). I see some good potential with the Wizard's Vault system as a whole; so if anything hopefully the devs will be willing to go back and fix these issues with content they're more or less funneling us into for extra rewards. Also thank you for the pro tip about saving build templates at 14:05 ! That is truly genius
Revive Orb for 95 Astral Acclaim is terrible in my opinion, but I also play a lot of instanced content where Revive Orbs do nothing anyways. It's also one of those items that is so rare you end up using it for when you really need it which becomes never.
it's not that useless actually, it can be clutch in some fractal scenarios wierdly enough. I am not saying that it's good, but i think she put it in the perfect category. it's bad, but those in the terrible category are strictly worse.
Since 1g bag are 6 Astral Acclaim and mystic coins are 9A, it's more valuable to get mystic coin if their price is above 1.5g (assuming you have the limited 1g bags and mystic coins left, of course)
Really good tier list. I give the Vision Crystal buy if you really need to complete an achievement. it would have been a pain to get since I didn't have a lvl 500 crafting proff at the time. I was very lucky and got it from a gunk covered pellet opening.. Hehe.. I didn't have to use a chest of loyalty just for the vision crystal to complete the 'The Wayfarer's Henge' achievement. I can see someone buying 1 vision crystal just to complete 'The Wayfarer's Henge' achievement. Everyone loved doing that one. >;D
I would move 2 or 3 things tier down/up, but overall it's accurate Also some items need their price to be changed, for instance when you compare obsidian to clovers
Finally.. i've been waiting for a tr list like this for days. Although i have figured out the most value items on my own, and my opinion pretty much aligns perfectly with yours so it's just a nice confirmation.
