I'm not much of a hardcore fan, so I haven't been following GW2 news.  In fact, I only just learned about HoM rewards yesterday.  It wasn't like the link to the HoM information was gigantic and stuck out enough to grab my attention, so only pure luck led me to viewing it.  

I have all of the expansions for the original Guild Wars, but very few achievements.  I also have some fairly decent characters built, so any achievements I may need should be attainable.  My main character has about 55 platinum.  I have no idea if that is a lot, or like typical MMOs where the economy scales so your "lots of money" one day is worth next to nothing a year down the road.

So, are the HoM rewards going to be like most other MMOs, where items you are given at level 1 are useless in 20 minutes of play?  Are they purely cosmetic?  Are they worth attempting to get in the short time left before the game releases?  I know I can get them after release, but how much do you think you would play GW1 when GW2 is released?

Disclaimer for ultra-hardcore elitist snobs:  Flame me for not knowing if you must, but realize that I have a life and it does not involve sifting through every tidbit of GW2 information.

Originally posted by ariboersma
the HoM rewards are almost all cosmetic, my advice is not to stress out but go back later to get your 30 pts and enjoy the items when you get them, however if you say have all your heros or undedicated minis, armor or weapons go do that.. get your heros their upgraded armors and dedicate them for some fast points that do not cost a whole lot. The wiki page on HoM is very handy and can be access from GW1 by pressing F10

so you can still earn them after launch then? i've been meaning to go for them, but i've been beset by a combination of busy and no idea how to even start earning them. i was thinking i might go for it this week while i'm bored out of my mind before launch.

Originally posted by atticusbc

Originally posted by ariboersma
the HoM rewards are almost all cosmetic, my advice is not to stress out but go back later to get your 30 pts and enjoy the items when you get them, however if you say have all your heros or undedicated minis, armor or weapons go do that.. get your heros their upgraded armors and dedicate them for some fast points that do not cost a whole lot. The wiki page on HoM is very handy and can be access from GW1 by pressing F10

so you can still earn them after launch then? i've been meaning to go for them, but i've been beset by a combination of busy and no idea how to even start earning them. i was thinking i might go for it this week while i'm bored out of my mind before launch.

if they end the rewards they said they would give ample notice so you have plenty of time to finish up later.

Honestly no it's not unless you are a GW1 fan.

Really all the rewards are just fan service for GW veterans as the looks of the rewards come from the original game. So for me, as someone who has played GW since it released, it was worth to get them. For someone who had no interest in Guild Wars then it is absolutely not worth the effort (unless you enjoy playing GW1)

double post

I dont think it's worth going for 30 if you havent got a lot of it done already at this point, especially since the items you get in GW2 are cosmetic. The problem right now is that there wont be much to buy from other players since a lot will stop playing the game (I think), so how much money you have matters little.

There are a few people who give stuff away for free nowadays though so logging on might get you some items.

I would recommend doing the Wayfarers Reverie quests they just added, you get a free tormented weapon for those quests, which will give you 2 points in the HoM if you have no weapons there at all.

I mainly got my 30/50 points so that I would have all the possible available Ranger pets.  However, you can still use the other items late in game anytime you like.  What you want from these HoM items is the "skin" of that item since if you like the Hom "skin" you can use an in-game item to transfer that "skin" to another item of that same "type".

You can get the HoM points anytime you like even after GW2 launch.

For me it was worth it just to get back into the GW mood.

Originally posted by Rhonen

I mainly got my 30/50 points so that I would have all the possible available Ranger pets.  However, you can still use the other items late in game anytime you like.  What you want from these HoM items is the "skin" of that item since if you like the Hom "skin" you can use an in-game item to transfer that "skin" to another item of that same "type".

You can get the HoM points anytime you like even after GW2 launch.

For me it was worth it just to get back into the GW mood.

this is sort of how I felt except the HoM made me learn about what a great game it really was after hearing a lot of bad things about it after the original release.

as to worth.. that is up to each person but since the OP asked about it I think he wants the items eventually but can wait since they are cosmetic.

Decide for yourself.

Originally posted by atticusbc

Originally posted by ariboersma
the HoM rewards are almost all cosmetic, my advice is not to stress out but go back later to get your 30 pts and enjoy the items when you get them, however if you say have all your heros or undedicated minis, armor or weapons go do that.. get your heros their upgraded armors and dedicate them for some fast points that do not cost a whole lot. The wiki page on HoM is very handy and can be access from GW1 by pressing F10

so you can still earn them after launch then? i've been meaning to go for them, but i've been beset by a combination of busy and no idea how to even start earning them. i was thinking i might go for it this week while i'm bored out of my mind before launch.

Yes.   So I stopped worrying about it.   I'll get my 50 points eventually.   Maybe.   Possibly.   No, I kid myself.   I'll probably never get 50 points...    I have yet to even dedicate my mini-pets...

I was pursuing the HoM points up until a couple weeks ago and then decided...meh. Maybe I'll ask my nephews to grind them out for me or something in the future.

Entirely possible I'll do a bit here and there myself way down the road but it's just too much time for just cosmetic rewards at this point.

Originally posted by Miotoss03
Doing everything myself with no bought gold it took me 6 months to get 31/50

really? it only took me max 3 months to get 33 pts but I had a lot of time to play. I also didnt buy any gold.

The items look pretty neat, but I'll wait until I feel like I have nothing better to do.  I think there may be more desirable cosmetic items in GW2, but that is difficult to predict.  Maybe certain items will be good for generating a certain look, in combination with GW2-earned items, like a reaper with that scythe.

Thanks for the advice.  I'll worry about installing GW1 again after the shinyness of GW2 wears off.

I'm assuming you have seen the list of rewards on the website right?

It all depends on if there's anything you would like to get.

Personally I stopped at point 21.  I just want the Orrian undead baby chicken pet at point 15 and the rainbow jellyfish pet at point 20.

So if you don't see anything that you like from the list then don't bother with it.