Curse

9th Requiem · Nov 07, 2006, 02:52 PM // 14:52

Because ... well, what else am I going to spend my money on? I have too many sets of weapons, too many sets of armour, and a sack full of cash I'm not using otherwise.

Tetris L · Nov 07, 2006, 02:55 PM // 14:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChaoticCoyote

The heroes I use [...] have good green or gold items, and a couple runes or insignias each.

Why put so much effort into heroes when they're effective with much less expense?

The term "so much effort" is very relative, depending on what you can easily afford. I know some people would see having good green or gold items and a couple runes or insignias on each hero as "too much effort".

Anarkii · Nov 07, 2006, 02:56 PM // 14:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by 9th Requiem

Because ... well, what else am I going to spend my money on? I have too many sets of weapons, too many sets of armour, and a sack full of cash I'm not using otherwise.

That is your answer.

Not much use for gold, so pamper yourselves, your heroes, your friends...whoever you wish.

dansamy · Nov 07, 2006, 03:04 PM // 15:04

I invested ~30k in green staves from ToPK specifically for my caster heroes. My Koss on my monk has a perfect 15% while stanced req8 chaos axe. Why? I couldn't sell it for a decent price and now that NF is out everyone wants the hot new skins and inscribable weapons. Being locked into 15% stanced isn't as attractive anymore. So selling it now is just gonna be a pain in the arse. My other Koss heroes have shadow blades and miscellaneous axes from various sources. All high req and with silly mods like 20%<50%hp. Impossible to sell. Good enough for my heroes to use.

fgarvin · Nov 07, 2006, 03:07 PM // 15:07

Every player has different goals. I'm all about Collector items for my heros, while some only want Golds and Greens for theirs. To each their own.

Velvet Wing · Nov 07, 2006, 03:32 PM // 15:32

Since I finished my 12 chars before Nightfall came out (at least one of every prof) and already spend my heard earned cash (little farming, mostly made by playing trough the game) on some nice weapons (greenies mostly). It was easy for me to equip my henchies with great weaponry.
The armor they have will be upgraded with insignias, just to make them more usefull.. like in the example of minions being better with higher death, I prefer them to rock instead of suck.. If that makes me spend a bit of cash, so be it

fatmouse · Nov 07, 2006, 03:37 PM // 15:37

Maybe because things cost 20g to remove if you change your mind? All my heroes I use reguarly have a full set of runes, I give them insignias if I find them.

Clawdius_Talonious · Nov 07, 2006, 04:04 PM // 16:04

Most of my heroes are pimping collectors weapons and whatever runes I find as far as vigors are concerned, along with a pair of major runes. They're cheap enough to equip, none of my heroes have insignias yet, besides Koss sporting a few Dreadnoughts insignias I found.

Jetdoc · Nov 07, 2006, 04:12 PM // 16:12

Because they want other players (that they never team up with anymore because they use their heroes) to see how good their heroes look?

Darakus · Nov 07, 2006, 04:16 PM // 16:16

As I have neither the time, the willingness or the money to spend on turning my heroes into tuned up machines I will not do it.

I'm of the opinion that it would be much nicer for the heroes to do it themselves with the share of the the money they get.

Frankly speaking I don't see why I should spend time in a challenge mission to get a green item meant to allow my hero to change armor where he most likely has more than enough from his share of the drops to buy a decent armor from an armorer. If my hero doesn't do it why should I?

As a side not I know myself well enough to be aware of the fact that one hero boosted would never be enough for me and that I would want all 16 in the same state, 16 times 8 characters is 128 which means a huge time spent on this and I call that grind (grind = huge amount of time spent doing something I don't find fun to do). If I had sticked with one character I might have done it but the only two classes I couls have seen myself as playing for the full trilogy would have been mesmer or ranger and I experienced them on an account that has neither faction nor nightfall.

I'm almost to the point where I'd hope for a fresh start from ANet in the next chapter (A guildwars 2 providing us with the whole continent and having us restart from scratch) but this time with a means to change primary profession once one primary is mastered (the ultimate flexibility in terms of profession, without being overpowered as you still can't play more than one at once) and the best thing is you only would need one character slot for it.

Cebe · Nov 07, 2006, 04:54 PM // 16:54

I'm quite happy with collectors items and crappy drops from chests / mobs to kit out my heroes ... all except one. My ele is my first character...and my favourite. As such I try to get her the best of everything, and now unfortunately I feel I want to do the same for her heroes. So I have a Scar Eater on Dunkoro...a near perfect Gold Hammer on Koss...and that's about as far as I have got. All my other character's heroes can have collectors / purple stuff since there's nothing wrong with it but...I dunno...my ele has all the titles and I feel she just deserves it. Call it a project if you wish...something to do with her now she's finished the game...

As for insignias...if they drop I will apply them to heroes armor, otherwise they go without

eudas · Nov 07, 2006, 05:46 PM // 17:46

To the OP:

Q: Why do people pimp their heroes?
A: Because they're there.

It's that simple.

eudas

zelira · Nov 07, 2006, 06:00 PM // 18:00

Alll of my Tahlkoras and Dunkoros have the collector healing staff from Witman's Folly. That's where I level my heroes and get the collector items. All of my Kosses have collector or dropped shields and the unsellable high req, 12-14^50 non-popular skin swords/hammers/axes. All my other casters gets the death staves from the Snake dance collector, even my non necro heroes. I don't really care about the req not matching the attributes, because I want my casters to have more energy for casting. Jin gets bows from my ranger's collection.

anna · Nov 07, 2006, 06:01 PM // 18:01

Just a guess here, but maybe some people have a shite load of money and now have something practical (even considering decreasing margins of return) to spend it on.

Anna

Yichi · Nov 07, 2006, 06:27 PM // 18:27

koss = easy to equip. SSaki's sword = 5k, grognars defender = 5k. warrior hench with a decent skillbar = priceless.

same with monk hero's. scar eater = 10k

elswyths recurve bow = 5k

gihals staff was around 12k.

you can get cheap daggers for sin hero for around 5-10k.

crafted fire staff from kaineg center = like 6k after materials, then like 10k for upgrades.

total = less than ONE good 15>50 rare skinned weapon for any certian character

the_jos · Nov 07, 2006, 06:27 PM // 18:27

My heroes get the items that I think look cool on them and I don't use in my weapon sets. No runes so far.
So they are some kind of extra storage for the weapons I don't use myself, but kept in inventory because of the looks.
I'm not spending cash on the weapons, they are just regular drops.

Monkey Blonde · Nov 07, 2006, 06:49 PM // 18:49

My caster heroes are quite happy to start with the pre-order Ritualist staff. I have given my Kosses the Sskai's sword and Sunreach shields that I got during triple green weekend. I don't mind putting runes on them because I look at it as only temporary. When I need the rune - there it is.

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If you have runes in your inventory taking up space - put them on your heroes. You will be able to salvage them back 100% of the time and the armor won't be destroyed. So, hero armor is like "increased rune storage".

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Anyways, I just bought a few superior vigors since the price dropped because I will be buying some 15k sets. For now, they will be applied to various heroes until I get the armor.

When you want to play on a different character, simply take the runes and weapons off the heroes and give them to your heroes on your active character. I guess this isn't a big deal if you only have a couple of characters, but I have many, so it gets to be a problem with a solution.

Robin_Anadri · Nov 07, 2006, 07:12 PM // 19:12

Not only are heros free rune and insignia storage, they're also free weapon & offhand storage. Switch in a hero, give 'em a weapon & offhand, switch 'em out. Out of your inventory for the time being.

Ensign · Nov 07, 2006, 07:55 PM // 19:55

Because I have millions in the bank and no longer need to kit out PvE characters for PvP.

Hell, I already have a mule and a full storage full of spare gear for my ele, what else do I spend cash on?

Peace,
-CxE

Malice Black · Nov 07, 2006, 07:58 PM // 19:58

Like Ensign said people with a lot of spare cash will "pimp" their heroes just because they can.