Curse

demonblade · Mar 07, 2006, 08:25 PM // 20:25

Why do they come out of new lines of fashion clothing every season? It is only a piece of cloth to keep you warm.
Why do they make TV bigger and clearer and cost a lot more? All you need is a 4.1 inches to watch everything you need.
Why do they construct bigger and expensive houses? You only need a roof over your head and a place to sleep.

Yea, I think I covered some of the reasons.

moriz · Mar 07, 2006, 08:59 PM // 20:59

the vanity armors are different. everyone want to be different and unique. so they all buy the vanity armors, and in their pursuit of uniqueness, they all became alike.

reminds me of a sign i saw outside a tatoo parlour: "be like all your friends and express your individuality!"

Grimm · Mar 07, 2006, 09:04 PM // 21:04

It's not like it matters. It's not real money and there's not much else to spend it on.

The main reason is that PvE players in general feel the instinctual need to grind for the "best" of everything, and the most of the really expensive stuff in this game doesn't have different stats (that would go against the game design/philosophy), so it just has different looks.

karunpav · Mar 07, 2006, 09:11 PM // 21:11

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Originally Posted by demonblade

Why do they come out of new lines of fashion clothing every season? It is only a piece of cloth to keep you warm.
Why do they make TV bigger and clearer and cost a lot more? All you need is a 4.1 inches to watch everything you need.
Why do they construct bigger and expensive houses? You only need a roof over your head and a place to sleep.

Yea, I think I covered some of the reasons.

Quoted for truth.

Kitty · Mar 07, 2006, 09:16 PM // 21:16

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Originally Posted by moriz

the vanity armors are different. everyone want to be different and unique. so they all buy the vanity armors, and in their pursuit of uniqueness, they all became alike.

reminds me of a sign i saw outside a tatoo parlour: "be like all your friends and express your individuality!"

Now, I certainly don't see FoW-Armor often...only ever on Monks or Warriors.
But really, if I like some armor, I surely don't care if everybody else likes and has it or not. What's the point in being different, it you don't acctually like it.

I have to look at myself all the time when I play, so at least I want to like my looks.

Shinra1003 · Mar 07, 2006, 09:22 PM // 21:22

People respect you more if you have FoW Armor. Don't you want the repect?

Pandora's box · Mar 07, 2006, 09:52 PM // 21:52

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Originally Posted by demonblade

Why do they come out of new lines of fashion clothing every season? It is only a piece of cloth to keep you warm.
Why do they make TV bigger and clearer and cost a lot more? All you need is a 4.1 inches to watch everything you need.
Why do they construct bigger and expensive houses? You only need a roof over your head and a place to sleep.

Yea, I think I covered some of the reasons.

True for real life, but this is a game... And in a game there's only 1 thing that counts: The results! So I agree with the opp, there's no reason to spend so much on items that have no influence at all on your chances to win

King's Spectre · Mar 07, 2006, 09:58 PM // 21:58

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Originally Posted by Pandora's box

And in a game there's only 1 thing that counts: The results!

*smacks head* And here all this time I thought it was to have fun. Thanks for clearing that up!

Kitty · Mar 07, 2006, 09:59 PM // 21:59

Sure, but it's the same reason I leveled all Chars in FF8 to 100 and beat the extramonsters (forgot the name): just to do it all. It does't really help the game, true, but I do it for fun anyway.

pegasux · Mar 07, 2006, 10:00 PM // 22:00

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Originally Posted by Pandora's box

True for real life, but this is a game... And in a game there's only 1 thing that counts: The results! So I agree with the opp, there's no reason to spend so much on items that have no influence at all on your chances to win

Well what do you do if you have all the best gear and there is no better? Do you just keep saving millions of gold or do you spend it? Heck I don't have millions but enough, i bought my 15k armor cause there simply is nothing left in the game that I need that will make me stronger. might as well spend it while you got it...otherwise when you do finally quit gw that gold is just gonna sit in storage on an idle account.

Mimi Miyagi · Mar 07, 2006, 11:34 PM // 23:34

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Originally Posted by Shinra1003

People respect you more if you have FoW Armor. Don't you want the repect?

This I find quite amusing. Anyone with cash can buy it, it takes zero skill to gain, it either means you visit ebay a lot, or grind farming a lot. Does that mean I need to respect you for that?

Hardly.

FoW means something to the wearer, but shouldn't mean ANYTHING to the viewer.

The only thing that meant anything was rank - and with iway it became yet another worthless display. The ones that earned r9 the hard way should be (rightfully) indignant that fame farmers reduced rank to meaningless drivel.

Shrug. Now rank only has meaning to other fellow iway farmers.

W00t?

Rukmedes · Mar 07, 2006, 11:36 PM // 23:36

15K Armor = +1 to epeen.

FoW Armor = +2 to epeen.

Murder In China · Mar 07, 2006, 11:39 PM // 23:39

15K>1.5k in looks.

p3falien · Mar 07, 2006, 11:44 PM // 23:44

why buy expensive good/bad looking armour ( matter of tast imho ) ?

it's like why would you climb a dangerous mountain....
"Because it's there. " (James Kirk )

{IceFire} · Mar 08, 2006, 02:25 AM // 02:25

i really hate this thread.... thought it was gone... oh well.

i buy 15k for me, not you, i dont care if you think its a waste of money, thanks.

Rogmar · Mar 08, 2006, 02:33 AM // 02:33

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Originally Posted by Kakumei

The English language has rules, too. You shouldn't break those.

Most of those rules are broken by the English language itself as well. Funny, huh?

Ailyrr Merlena · Mar 08, 2006, 02:42 AM // 02:42

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Originally Posted by Victory Gaint

lol i once made this "Guild Wars Jepaordy"....was really fun with 3 ppl....it was whoever did the /highfive emote first and got the answer right got a small prize...it went on for like an hour...plus it goes really wel if got useless stuff off of a uw or fow run and dont feel like sellin it...i actually gave 2 ectos away for the grand prize winner of the game

I stumbled into a trivia game in LA once...I got my first Sup Vigor this way.

The question I answered was something along the line of "What is the 80th word in the Lore"

And if the person I won this from is out there....Thank you. I still have it on my ele.

Lex Talionis · Mar 08, 2006, 03:44 AM // 03:44

I solo so gdamn much (since quests + missions are done) I can make any build + let the k's roll in. What else you gona do when you've reached 1million?

Easy, buy fow armor (i can buy a 2nd one on my necro dunno yet) Or spend it on a weapon/shield you've been wanting for a long while. I got everything now so saving up for chapter 2 is what i'm doing

Stacks of rubies, sapphires, ectos + shards clogging up my inventory!! Hell yea!!!

HawaiiGamer · Mar 08, 2006, 04:15 AM // 04:15

My Monk was my first character to get her fissure. She farmed enough to put the other three family members in black 15k and I still had 1M in the bank. I was like you... why buy FoW armor? But... I ran out of reasons to play the game. So, I bought the ectos and materials for FoW armor for my monk. I kept playing, kept earning. Next thing you know my necro has 3 sets of black 15k... so... now she has black FoW armor too. As it is now I have 2 chars in black FoW armor (monk and necro) a warrior in black 15k plate, a Ranger in 15k Druids and a Mesmer and Nuker waiting for their new outfits. If it wasn't for the grind I dont' think I'd have any reason to play this game any more.

The Noble Savage · Mar 08, 2006, 04:22 AM // 04:22

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Originally Posted by Guardian of the Light

Title says it.

I wear 1.5k armor I don't care about looks. I have met the biggest noobs wearing FoW armor why do people waste money on these things that you'll get tired of a few days later.

I'd rather spent 60K on a 10/10 suldering +30 Health sword.

you answered ur own question... you like weps they like looks