Something I've never been able to understand - Guild Wars Forums

awry · Mar 18, 2010, 05:01 PM // 17:01

Say, a purple fell blade drops. You change its mods to make everything perfect, it does normal max sword damage. Why is it any different from a gold lettered fell blade? Its appearance is the same, the only one who even knows it's purple is you if you equip in battle. Even if it's q9 people wouldn't spend 5k to buy it and rather spend gross amounts of plat on some q13 fellblade w/ visually enticing gold letters? What's the deal? Is there something I've missed in all my years of playing guild wars?

Covah · Mar 18, 2010, 05:04 PM // 17:04

Cuz if anyone DOES look at it and its purple you are a bad player and suck cuz its not gold or "rare". There is no difference other then status and Epeen.

Same with req8s and non inscrip weapons. People want them for status or to collect. There is no dmg difference etc.

Xenomortis · Mar 18, 2010, 05:04 PM // 17:04

Because gold is rarer.

That is the only real difference.

trankle · Mar 18, 2010, 05:05 PM // 17:05

The gold ones go to eleven.

K'baa · Mar 18, 2010, 05:24 PM // 17:24

I've always thought that was funny myself. So you can equip your purple low req max damage with all perfect mods and even on a nice skin its still not a gold wep and so not worth as much to most LOL. I also think its strange that if you salvage a perfect mod from a bad skin gold it turns blue.

jray14 · Mar 18, 2010, 06:02 PM // 18:02

There's also the ingrained memories of pre-inscription days when it was impossible to have a perfect purple item. It's kind of like if you eat a kiwi and get deathly ill, you'll squint with disgust at all the kiwis you see for the next decade or two.

Arduin · Mar 18, 2010, 06:13 PM // 18:13

What's there to understand? People pay 100x as much for a Voltaic Spear, that does exactly the same as any 1k crafted max spear.

In a game where you can't be better than anyone else weapon- and armor-wise, it all boils down to who can dress up the nicest.

awry · Mar 18, 2010, 06:21 PM // 18:21

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Originally Posted by jray14

There's also the ingrained memories of pre-inscription days when it was impossible to have a perfect purple item. It's kind of like if you eat a kiwi and get deathly ill, you'll squint with disgust at all the kiwis you see for the next decade or two.

I love your analogy

Yeah I know about the desire to look like you're rich in gw, but really, NOBODY can tell except for you. Or does owning a purple make anybody here insecure? Like they puke a little in their mouth every time they mouse over the letters of their weapon and see the purple.

Jhzaeth · Mar 18, 2010, 06:31 PM // 18:31

Of course it all does work to your advantage if you get a nice gold skin and need the money... It just depends what side of the trade you're on.

Ralisti · Mar 18, 2010, 06:47 PM // 18:47

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Originally Posted by Arduin

What's there to understand? People pay 100x as much for a Voltaic Spear, that does exactly the same as any 1k crafted max spear.

In a game where you can't be better than anyone else weapon- and armor-wise, it all boils down to who can dress up the nicest.

Thats not the same. The OP is commenting on 2 fellblades, the skin is exactly the same. In your example, the skin is changed.

I get your point, however. perfect mods are perfect mods, the skin doesn't matter. (to me, anyway.)

Andemius · Mar 18, 2010, 07:29 PM // 19:29

kinda depends whether you have cash to throw around. When I started my warrior, i used a max blue FDS for a while (don't judge me lol), simply cos it was better than anything else that dropped, and i didn't have the funds to buy summat nicer.

Now that I do have cash, I think, if I'm gonna get the item, why not go the whole hog and get a gold one. I likes gold letters, that's about all there is to it.

Edit: If someone gave me a purple max fellblade, i'd still use it, and prolly wouldn't replace it until i had already bought armor and stuff for everything else.

Bob Slydell · Mar 18, 2010, 08:35 PM // 20:35

Because people take the game and all of it's glory wayyyyy too seriously. Either that sad fact or someone has OCD.

Micro215 · Mar 19, 2010, 02:54 AM // 02:54

Pretty much along the same reason as to why everyone dyes their armor all black, or all white, when they have 8 other colors and 10,000 different color combinations they could play with.

Darth The Xx · Mar 19, 2010, 04:03 AM // 04:03

In my experience people who play the "skins dont matter to me" card generally can't afford the nice ones

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Moving on I personally can't stand that purple text. Blue/Gold/Red ones are ok but the purple really irks me out and that why I'll never buy one.

**cosyfiep** · Mar 19, 2010, 06:51 AM // 06:51

its only epeen thats the difference, though as was mentioned back before the inscription system there was a difference now, its only in the eye of the player (personally I really dont care what color a weapon is as I play 90% with h/h).

Zebideedee · Mar 19, 2010, 12:20 PM // 12:20

Because they aren't shaped like a VS and Tormented Shield the sheep get confuzzled

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In my experience people who play the "skins dont matter to me" card generally can't afford the nice ones .

Not true, see above for more info. I prefer looking unique and not like one of the many, many, many, many, many clones who use these skins, yawn!

pinkeyflower · Mar 19, 2010, 01:57 PM // 13:57

Gold is more aesthetically pleasing than purple, that's all.

Tomm · Mar 19, 2010, 02:12 PM // 14:12

I was always wondering that, too.
I have purple perfect Fellblade, and to me, it's the same as gold one (I had 2 perfect gold Fellblades, but I sold them for lots of gold, while no one wants to buy purple).

I bought rq9 insc. max purple Eternal Bow for only 10k. And I was able to sell it for 40k. So, there are some people who doesn't care about color of letters, and I respect them.

I even think that perfect max rq9 purple items are more rare than gold ones of the same skin. Because I saw many perfect gold Eternal bows, but only one purple. Unless people merch them all, because that would be bad.

With green items it's different. I rather payed 50k for perfect gold Draconic Scythe, than 5k for green one, because you can't change mods or visual appearance on green items. But still, I like green letters more than yellow (gold)

so it's a shame they can't be modded (although it makes sense, they are unique).

Yawgmoth · Mar 19, 2010, 02:21 PM // 14:21

GW item system sucks and perfection is common as dirt. With everything equal people just find the only aspects that differ and pick the 'best' of them. Color is an example - gold is considered to be "better" than purple, even when said purple is actually MORE rare than identical gold (it's true in many cases).

Players just desire the best of the best and any sense of "improvement", even if there's none. It's the same with weapon requirements, people buy and customize low req swords even if then never plan to run a build with swordsmanship lower than 12. It's easy to imagine that if all requirements on max weapons were equal or it was possible to upgrade them, players would probably pay more for golds with a higher gold value on them, because that would be the only thing differentiating their weapons, and well because value above 400g is rare and above 440g is more rare than q8 is now (excluding NF treasures).

chessyang · Mar 19, 2010, 02:43 PM // 14:43

for some reason like most of the post above say,people want the best of the best and rarest, and like most gold things it means your "cool"

what i do is use purple/crafted weapons and sell off the gold ones. a 90000 ecto sword/staff/dager/Scythe/ does the same dmg as a 100g crafted one. it's all eye candy and whatever we can show off in game.

oh to the OP. don' t understand it. just make money off it!

power of persuasion

Mar 18, 2010, 05:01 PM // 17:01	#1
awry Krytan Explorer Join Date: Dec 2008	Something I've never been able to understand Say, a purple fell blade drops. You change its mods to make everything perfect, it does normal max sword damage. Why is it any different from a gold lettered fell blade? Its appearance is the same, the only one who even knows it's purple is you if you equip in battle. Even if it's q9 people wouldn't spend 5k to buy it and rather spend gross amounts of plat on some q13 fellblade w/ visually enticing gold letters? What's the deal? Is there something I've missed in all my years of playing guild wars?

Mar 19, 2010, 06:51 AM // 06:51	#15
cosyfiep are we there yet? Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: in a land far far away Guild: guild? I am supposed to have a guild? Profession: Rt/	its only epeen thats the difference, though as was mentioned back before the inscription system there was a difference now, its only in the eye of the player (personally I really dont care what color a weapon is as I play 90% with h/h). __________________ where is the 'all you can eat' cookie bar?

Mar 19, 2010, 02:43 PM // 14:43	#20
chessyang Not far from Elite Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Florida Profession: W/	for some reason like most of the post above say,people want the best of the best and rarest, and like most gold things it means your "cool" what i do is use purple/crafted weapons and sell off the gold ones. a 90000 ecto sword/staff/dager/Scythe/ does the same dmg as a 100g crafted one. it's all eye candy and whatever we can show off in game. oh to the OP. don' t understand it. just make money off it! power of persuasion __________________ Let's use our Voices! The Chapter Selection Screen GW Wiki or Guru Thank You Last edited by chessyang; Mar 19, 2010 at 02:50 PM // 14:50..

Mar 18, 2010, 05:04 PM // 17:04	#2
Covah Forge Runner Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada Guild: Catching Jellyfish With [소N트T ] Profession: Me/Rt	Cuz if anyone DOES look at it and its purple you are a bad player and suck cuz its not gold or "rare". There is no difference other then status and Epeen. Same with req8s and non inscrip weapons. People want them for status or to collect. There is no dmg difference etc.

Mar 18, 2010, 05:04 PM // 17:04	#3
Xenomortis Tea Powered Join Date: May 2008 Location: UK Profession: N/	Because gold is rarer. That is the only real difference.

Mar 18, 2010, 05:05 PM // 17:05	#4
trankle Lion's Arch Merchant Join Date: Oct 2005 Guild: BloodBath & Beyond Profession: Rt/	The gold ones go to eleven.

Mar 18, 2010, 05:24 PM // 17:24	#5
K'baa Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Feb 2010 Profession: W/	I've always thought that was funny myself. So you can equip your purple low req max damage with all perfect mods and even on a nice skin its still not a gold wep and so not worth as much to most LOL. I also think its strange that if you salvage a perfect mod from a bad skin gold it turns blue.

Mar 18, 2010, 06:02 PM // 18:02	#6
jray14 Krytan Explorer Join Date: May 2005 Location: NC, USA Guild: Ohm Mahnee Pedmay [Hoom]	There's also the ingrained memories of pre-inscription days when it was impossible to have a perfect purple item. It's kind of like if you eat a kiwi and get deathly ill, you'll squint with disgust at all the kiwis you see for the next decade or two.

Mar 18, 2010, 06:13 PM // 18:13	#7
Arduin Grotto Attendant Join Date: May 2005 Location: The Netherlands Guild: Limburgse Jagers [LJ] Profession: R/	What's there to understand? People pay 100x as much for a Voltaic Spear, that does exactly the same as any 1k crafted max spear. In a game where you can't be better than anyone else weapon- and armor-wise, it all boils down to who can dress up the nicest.

Mar 18, 2010, 06:31 PM // 18:31	#9
Jhzaeth Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: UK	Of course it all does work to your advantage if you get a nice gold skin and need the money... It just depends what side of the trade you're on.

Mar 18, 2010, 07:29 PM // 19:29	#11
Andemius Krytan Explorer Join Date: Nov 2008 Guild: Vanguard's Last Stand [Hero] Profession: W/	kinda depends whether you have cash to throw around. When I started my warrior, i used a max blue FDS for a while (don't judge me lol), simply cos it was better than anything else that dropped, and i didn't have the funds to buy summat nicer. Now that I do have cash, I think, if I'm gonna get the item, why not go the whole hog and get a gold one. I likes gold letters, that's about all there is to it. Edit: If someone gave me a purple max fellblade, i'd still use it, and prolly wouldn't replace it until i had already bought armor and stuff for everything else.

Mar 18, 2010, 08:35 PM // 20:35	#12
Bob Slydell Forge Runner Join Date: Jan 2007	Because people take the game and all of it's glory wayyyyy too seriously. Either that sad fact or someone has OCD.

Mar 19, 2010, 02:54 AM // 02:54	#13
Micro215 Academy Page Join Date: May 2008 Guild: Liars Cheats and Thieves [Liar] Profession: P/	Pretty much along the same reason as to why everyone dyes their armor all black, or all white, when they have 8 other colors and 10,000 different color combinations they could play with.

Mar 19, 2010, 04:03 AM // 04:03	#14
Darth The Xx Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Sen'jin Village Guild: The Infamous Cake Bandits [cake] Profession: Mo/W	In my experience people who play the "skins dont matter to me" card generally can't afford the nice ones . Moving on I personally can't stand that purple text. Blue/Gold/Red ones are ok but the purple really irks me out and that why I'll never buy one.

Mar 19, 2010, 01:57 PM // 13:57	#17
pinkeyflower Krytan Explorer Join Date: Jan 2010	Gold is more aesthetically pleasing than purple, that's all.

Mar 19, 2010, 02:12 PM // 14:12	#18
Tomm Krytan Explorer Join Date: Mar 2008 Profession: W/R	I was always wondering that, too. I have purple perfect Fellblade, and to me, it's the same as gold one (I had 2 perfect gold Fellblades, but I sold them for lots of gold, while no one wants to buy purple). I bought rq9 insc. max purple Eternal Bow for only 10k. And I was able to sell it for 40k. So, there are some people who doesn't care about color of letters, and I respect them. I even think that perfect max rq9 purple items are more rare than gold ones of the same skin. Because I saw many perfect gold Eternal bows, but only one purple. Unless people merch them all, because that would be bad. With green items it's different. I rather payed 50k for perfect gold Draconic Scythe, than 5k for green one, because you can't change mods or visual appearance on green items. But still, I like green letters more than yellow (gold) so it's a shame they can't be modded (although it makes sense, they are unique).

Mar 19, 2010, 02:21 PM // 14:21	#19
Yawgmoth Furnace Stoker Join Date: Apr 2005	GW item system sucks and perfection is common as dirt. With everything equal people just find the only aspects that differ and pick the 'best' of them. Color is an example - gold is considered to be "better" than purple, even when said purple is actually MORE rare than identical gold (it's true in many cases). Players just desire the best of the best and any sense of "improvement", even if there's none. It's the same with weapon requirements, people buy and customize low req swords even if then never plan to run a build with swordsmanship lower than 12. It's easy to imagine that if all requirements on max weapons were equal or it was possible to upgrade them, players would probably pay more for golds with a higher gold value on them, because that would be the only thing differentiating their weapons, and well because value above 400g is rare and above 440g is more rare than q8 is now (excluding NF treasures).