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Bgnome · Mar 10, 2005, 11:26 PM // 23:26

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The special item for European preorders will be the Chimeric Prism, a focus item that grants different bonuses based upon the primary attribute of your character's first profession.

quoted from the guildwars homepage. no pic is listed on the wpe-items page however..

Weezer_Blue · Mar 10, 2005, 11:28 PM // 23:28

Sounds like the best one yet for any non-ranger and usually non-warrior.

WNxRulingA · Mar 10, 2005, 11:45 PM // 23:45

Damn - thats just awesome.

Ensign · Mar 10, 2005, 11:45 PM // 23:45

Hey, look, a preorder item that might actually be useful to my main character!

Pity you can't trade preorder items. *sighs*

Peace,
-CxE

Weezer_Blue · Mar 10, 2005, 11:49 PM // 23:49

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Originally Posted by Ensign

Hey, look, a preorder item that might actually be useful to my main character!

Pity you can't trade preorder items. *sighs*

Peace,
-CxE

yeah, they should really allow you to pick whichever one you want. haha... i guess that wouldn't go over too well with EB games, Best Buy, Comp USA and so on though.

Ensign · Mar 11, 2005, 12:20 AM // 00:20

Well, I still don't expect any of the preorder items to be any good - that's just a huge imbalance and regional bias waiting to happen, especially considering how the items cannot be traded.

I'd expect it to be something with a nice graphic that'll help out in the lowbie areas, an advertisement for the presale stores but not a whole lot more. But we'll see. I'd like to be able to trade my preorder item for something useful to my characters, but we'll see what they decide to do.

Peace,
-CxE

Weezer_Blue · Mar 11, 2005, 12:37 AM // 00:37

I'm guessing my Ithas Bow will be useful up until I reach seared ascalon or a tiny bit past. But a good start never hurts.

Thundermaine Hilts · Mar 11, 2005, 01:10 AM // 01:10

I'm with Weezer on this one, the Bow that you receive when you pre-order from EB games will be a big help early going, and I believe the other items will be good to have also. I am also glad that they're giving us things to start with that will help early on.

Peace.

Gaile Gray · Mar 11, 2005, 01:29 AM // 01:29

You guys are right. I spoke with one of the game designers today and they've actually tweaked the special items to be a little nicer than originally intended. They are not "end of game" items, I don't imagine, but they're also not going to be items that you toss away after you leave the Kingdom of Ascalon, either.

I agree that the European special item also sounds very nice. We're so happy to have this news for the many thousands of people awaiting the opportunity to preorder in Europe, and I am personally delighted with the notion of having an even greater change of forming a team made up of people from all over the world.

Dragonne · Mar 11, 2005, 04:22 AM // 04:22

Thanks Gaile, though it sounds to me like the Euro item is pretty universal whereas the other items were originally tailored to a specific profession.

If that's what is fixed, then I'll be happy.

cce · Mar 11, 2005, 04:27 AM // 04:27

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Originally Posted by Ensign

Pity you can't trade preorder items. *sighs*

Oh! I want my money back then! Really... why not allow you to sell them? They should just add customization to foci

.BosS. · Mar 11, 2005, 05:14 AM // 05:14

Well that kinda sux for us then huh? I sure hope they change our special items, or at least take any requirements off of them. Euros can basically get 4 different special items if they have 4 characters.

Weezer_Blue · Mar 11, 2005, 06:06 AM // 06:06

assuming that each character gets one (by the way, how exactly will these work?)

anyway, I don't think we should mind giving a little extra to the europeans because they had to wait longer for their chance to preorder and had to scrounge around for keys for the past months. they deserve a versatile start for their persistance.

Hanged Man · Mar 11, 2005, 08:51 PM // 20:51

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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

You guys are right. I spoke with one of the game designers today and they've actually tweaked the special items to be a little nicer than originally intended. They are not "end of game" items, I don't imagine, but they're also not going to be items that you toss away after you leave the Kingdom of Ascalon, either.

I agree that the European special item also sounds very nice. We're so happy to have this news for the many thousands of people awaiting the opportunity to preorder in Europe, and I am personally delighted with the notion of having an even greater change of forming a team made up of people from all over the world.

I have to second Wheezer here... it would be nice to see the special items all be as "useable" as the euro one. I just picked up 3 pre-orders from BestBuy for some guildmates, and would take em back if I could after seeing the BB reward (don't wanna be a warrior). Already opened em with my greedy little fingers before checking the community out, so guess I'll just deal. Nice community btw, hope all those people on the forums at WoW stay there...

Anyway, please adjust the items so you don't have to check the gw website before deciding whom to preorder from...

Ensign · Mar 11, 2005, 09:48 PM // 21:48

Actually, the Best Buy shield is linked to Tactics, so it isn't even a Warrior item - it's a secondary Warrior item. Real Warriors use Strength shields.

Peace,
-CxE