ViciousFett Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I see cartel tickets will become Bind to Legacy in an upcoming update. Any chance we can get the same treatment with Grey Helix tokens BW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elear Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Nope, BW doesn't want to give advantage to people that have multiple alts over people that have only one char.. It was already discussed and got such reply first time around. Altough, they could change it when event returns once again. With over month of farming, everyone could get everything they want on all their chars, all so-called 'advantage' would be already irrelevant, and it would let us use those odd tkens just taking up space in inventory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViciousFett Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 That's lame... Anyone could have gotten 48 by soloing by now anyway, especially if they had let us know the speeder was coming instead of letting us blow all our first two weeks of tokens on weapons. By the end of this week I'll have exactly 47 tokens on my main, and 1 on an alt.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iFruit Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Keeping them BoP has no justification at this point. I have two Blue spheres after doing Xeno SM & HM today on all my charachters. After this I still have the Helix tokens on some of my toons, 28 on one and around 22 and 18 on two others, so no way to get to 48 on either. Would be much sense to devide them between chars to have 1 more sphere and maybe spend the rest on a weapon (which I don't like tbh). Noone would get hurt if I had 3 Spheres and not 2, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViciousFett Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) I think we can all agree this would not be an issue, even to those that only have one character. I'd really like to see these become BtL in the 1.7.3 patch, which will be after this round of the event ends anyway. Please bump thread if you agree (since it takes 150+ pages for devs to take notice evidently) Edited March 20, 2013 by ViciousFett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValhallanFourTwo Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I'd love to see it. I have only one toon that I would buy a speeder for, but all my toons will be around the 45 com mark max. I understand their position on wanting to not disenfranchise those with only one toon, but that also punishes those that have put the time and effort into multiple story lines and multiple toons, something that SWTOR seems expressly designed for. Had I known a mount was coming in the next round of the gree event, I would have put more effort into completing the heroics needed to get the three extra helixes needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slafko Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I see cartel tickets will become Bind to Legacy in an upcoming update. Any chance we can get the same treatment with Grey Helix tokens BW? Those tokens should have been bound to legacy from the start. I mean, they're used to buy legacy-bound gear, for crying out loud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iFruit Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 It did make sense initially to keep them BoP so noone with large legacies could get far ahead of single charachter type players. However now there is no such issue (ex. yesterday was in a pug Ops with a guy that claimed he had little less then 70 Helix on his single charachter), but there are quite a few Helix lying around in our inventories with no practical use till next Gree Return.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missandei Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) lol.. Why to limit yourself on BoL Helixes petition only? You have to go further and demand that any toon have to receive 100 free Helixes! Edited March 20, 2013 by Missandei Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WahineKoa Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I see cartel tickets will become Bind to Legacy in an upcoming update. Any chance we can get the same treatment with Grey Helix tokens BW? Isnt the goal of mmorpg`s to have some items a bit more hard to get so that everyone dont run ingame with the same "rare" stuff? Dont really agree that helixes should be btl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KariTalRathe Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Isnt the goal of mmorpg`s to have some items a bit more hard to get so that everyone dont run ingame with the same "rare" stuff? Dont really agree that helixes should be btl. I don't agree either. I actually think if reputation wasn't legacy wide and you had to work for the reputation in addition to the items you wanted on each individual character then there would be less complaining - I mean really the reply from one poster who blames BW for the fact he spent all his tokens because they didn't warn him additional items would go in on a recurring event is mind-blowing and I have seen a few make this ludicrous argument. It really does seem that the more we are given, the more pathetic our demands become. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slafko Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) And that stuff is so rare not even the "Kill X" NPC's are wearing any of it. Oh, wait... Edited March 20, 2013 by slafko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafaman Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Well... after thinking it over, this is a no win situation for BW once again. Let's say they changed it with the next patch to BoL. The QQ would continue because BW did not do this with enough time for players to take full advantage of it... Eh... might as well leave it alone for now then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoofa Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Totally against it. Fed-up of "new stuff" being added to the game and everyone having it a few days later. People have actually had to wait a few weeks to get some of this stuff *shock, horror* Please leave them as they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elear Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Totally against it. Fed-up of "new stuff" being added to the game and everyone having it a few days later. People have actually had to wait a few weeks to get some of this stuff *shock, horror* Uhm... wut? People had to wait, yes. Had.In past. Right now(or rather at next occurence of event) there are 2 options - either BW adds another cool helix item and only people with loads of saved helixes will buy it on day one, or there won't be anything new and everyone will already have aeverything regardless of how many chars they have. Only 'difficulty' those helixes give right now is that they take up space in inventory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slafko Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Well... after thinking it over, this is a no win situation for BW once again. Serve them right for not implementing them as BtL from the start as they should have done. Items used for obtaining BtL equipment being bound to a character is idiotic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkinc Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 march 12 to 26 14 days of dailies = 14 gray helix 4 xeno runs = 6x2 8x2 = 28 total helix 42 thus making it impossible to get the speeder with helix's from just this event... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asavar Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Yes, they should, but will BW change their stance? Meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniz Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 just make the event tokens bol and the event items bought with them bop. this is how rift designed their events and it works rather well since one or more 50s can feed lower level alts or the opposite. if any of you want to see game events, play that game as every 4-6 weeks they are replaced. the old event items are placed on the event merchant allowing you to buy them anytime afterwards too. items are level ranged so you cant put a level 50 powered item on a level 10. but you can buy them for later use. mounts can be used by all with their speeds scaling up much like this game. also the event merchant allows you to "exchange" tokens on it with other event tokens so you can buy older event items. over all it is very well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViciousFett Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 It seems BW's big new design theme is limiting progress to extend play time.This is especially evident in 2.0. I have to say, I don't appreciate being patronized like this by a video game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephantasy Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I heard about a trick today (I do not try it yet): - Use your Grey Helix tokens to buy an item with any character - Send the item to your main - Sell the item with your main INSIDE the 2 hours delay - He gives you back your Grey Helix tokens! (Is it true?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malchan Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Heroics can net 7 in the week, and Xeno can net 10 a week or 14 or so if he drops extra. 7 x 3 = 21 10 x 3 = 30 / 14 x 3 = 42 As you can see it's totally possible to get well over 48 helix in one three week period. At most you can get 63. The event hit twice so thats a possible 126 helix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malchan Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I heard about a trick today (I do not try it yet): - Use your Grey Helix tokens to buy an item with any character - Send the item to your main - Sell the item with your main INSIDE the 2 hours delay - He gives you back your Grey Helix tokens! (Is it true?) I will try this on an alt and post about it if it really works. If this works you saved me doing Xeno on hard to get my 48. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaing Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 E-mailing a new BoL item will make that item non-refundable for the original cost. Soon as you send that e-mail the item can no longer be returned for gray helix components. Didn't actually try it for that purpose, but I did get that message when I first got the lightsaber on one character, and sent it off to a second character with a hilt I wanted to transfer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malchan Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 E-mailing a new BoL item will make that item non-refundable for the original cost. Soon as you send that e-mail the item can no longer be returned for gray helix components. Didn't actually try it for that purpose, but I did get that message when I first got the lightsaber on one character, and sent it off to a second character with a hilt I wanted to transfer. Did you buy the item and then equip it with the hilt? If so that makes it bound to legacy and non-refundable since you put something into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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