Just wondering how many of you would invest hours into PvE/PvP to get gear that looks awesome but has the same stats as common equipment. Personally if I saw someone with awesome gear in PvP i would still see them as a huge threat. Not because i know his gear is stronger than mine, its because he has probably played long enough to know how to literally wipe the floor with my ass.

What do you guys think?

Actually yes.

Especially cosmetic gear.

Heck, I ground out faction points in LOTRO just so I could get the Lothlorien White horse.

But that was it. I don't normally grind faction unless there is something I want.

At some point, certainly. I'll probably get few toons to max level first to check out story of each race.

I will, then I'll just chill in Lion's Arch with my leetsauce gear and have all the noobs envy me cause I'm uberleetsauceweeee

i would have voted "maybe" if that were an option.  i don't really like grinding for anything.  if your asking wether grinding for cosmetic gear will be a sufficient endgame for people in gw2 then that remains to be seen.

Yes, definitely.  I did in in GW1, I am doing it in LotRO, so I see no reason not to in GW2.

The difference is that it seems like the grind in GW2 seems like it will be much more fun and not so "grindy".

Yes.  I would put a lot of effort and time to get amazing looking weapons and gear.  People do it all the time in other MMOs, especially in WoW, where they grind old dungeons for Transmogrification gear.

Yeah, they're supposed to be special items for the people dedicated enough to get them.

If they were really easy, it would  diminish the whole point.

Cosmetics is really the only reason I rolled on raiding gear in games like WoW, too. I would rather my character be walking around in something i find kickass and more rare than something everyone else is walking around in. And its fun (to me) to collect a wardrobe of awesome looking gear (i would horde these things in games like fallout, oblivion, nwn, kept my BC and vanilla gear from WoW, etc.)

Definitely. Have already done so in many other MMOs like Everquest 2, LOTRO, Age of Conan and of course the original Guild Wars.

I farmed a boss for a few days on Everquest 2 to get a bear hat that was wearable by my class.

My characters appearance is very important to me, and I love having hard to get and prestige (based on PvP rank etc) gear. Back in the heyday of Guild Wars, if you saw someone with a full Obsidian set of armor you knew that they were a hard core player.

I fully intend to grind for the bow that lets me shoot rainbows out of my ass...

Just saying...

Originally posted by evilastro

Definitely. Have already done so in many other MMOs like Everquest 2, LOTRO, Age of Conan and of course the original Guild Wars.

I farmed a boss for a few days on Everquest 2 to get a bear hat that was wearable by my class.

My characters appearance is very important to me, and I love having hard to get and prestige (based on PvP rank etc) gear. Back in the heyday of Guild Wars, if you saw someone with a full Obsidian set of armor you knew that they were a hard core player.

I would grind for cool gear(nightfall weapons, firey dragon sword, icey dragon sword, elite faction armor) but i would NEVER grind for Obsidian gear DX. Dear god, I cannot phathom how people could do such things...

This really isn't GW2 specific. "Grinding" seems like a bad term to use but I would be all in favor of getting cosmetic gear as loot. I was thinking more in terms of making all those cosmetic items in cash shops drop.

yep. the less mandatory something is to succeed in a game, the less I mind working/grinding to get it, because it's something I want and dont need.

I would, the combat seems fun enough to withstand some grind. Depends what the grinding is as well. If it's dungeon running, I don't consider that grinding, repetition of proper content isn't the same thing as grinding.

Grinding is doing the same menial task over and over, killing bears is grinding.

If it's karma you need.. well, with all the DE's in the game I doubt it can be called grinding. You could possibly get the karma you need without repeating anything, thats just plain playing the game. You could also do it in the endgame zones like Orr, is doing those events considered grinding? 

If it's WvW (PvP point) grind then I wouldn't consider it grinding either, thats just plain playing the game as well.

If you're still having a good time is it grinding?

I have no problem at all grinding for hours or days to get cosmedic gear, so long as it doesnt give players an edge over others im all for it.

Originally posted by gessekai332

Just wondering how many of you would invest hours into PvE/PvP to get gear that looks awesome but has the same stats as common equipment. Personally if I saw someone with awesome gear in PvP i would still see them as a huge threat. Not because i know his gear is stronger than mine, its because he has probably played long enough to know how to literally wipe the floor with my ass.

 

What do you guys think?

I don't grind for anything... super boring. /shrug if it requires that I grind for it, oh well, off to actually "play" another game. Grinding is an old game concept, at some point developers will have to actually "think" about adding content. Bummer for them I guess.

Originally posted by nilden

This really isn't GW2 specific. "Grinding" seems like a bad term to use but I would be all in favor of getting cosmetic gear as loot. I was thinking more in terms of making all those cosmetic items in cash shops drop.

whenever i see someone with cash shop gear i will KOS. nothing screams EZ kills more than credit card armor :D.

Define "grind". If it takes 6-12 months of playing 8 hours a day to maybe, just maybe get lucky to get the one piece I need...probably not.

If it means putting in a moderate amount of effort and getting an equivalent reward, sure.

So I did this plenty in GW1, why wouldn't I do it here?