HoD Swords and Factions Drop - Unlucky Buyers?

factions get erased...the no SS thing...yea

Has anyone noticed that the weapon crafter has no weapons to craft. This is where it might appear, but I doubt it since he said he is selling rather than crafting.

When there are wands with 20/20, +5e on a sword is hardly overpowered anymore...

Ok so make a beliver out of me. Where was this Tahwam Zing and where did the sword drop or was it crafted.

Also I cannot understand why they would remove something from the game and just let a select few have it. If they are going to remove something they should do it across the board like the helmet they nerfed. Any item should be available to anyone who plays the game if they can find it or figure out where to craft it. Any one who would pay 300k+ is out of their minds and any one taking advantage of the nerf is just plain greedy. It's a game. It's not real money and won't pay your rent. And if the reason they nerf something is because it isn't available to PvP player, well, have them get off their butts and go out and find the crafter. They got 4 slots too. Or God forbit, we don't want to make them do that just give it to them like everything else.

I'm getting tired of players who will not help others who think the whole point of the game it to take advantage of new players.

After the whole Terror Shield fiasco, it's hard to believe anything.

I'm optimistic about this. There are 2 ways to fix an "unbalanced" weapon. One is to take it away, so no one can have it. Anet seems to do the other option, though, which is to make it so common that eveyrone can have one. I cite green weapons as precidence. So, I'm hoping that they're choosing this latter strategy here, too. Sure, it's likely BS, and I want a screenie, but I'm not gonna put it past the dev's to make it a normal drop, either.

thanks for the clarification

Here's pics of conversations w/ Gaile Gray. My opinion remains neutral, as I do remember the Terror Shield debacle.

EDIT: OP could want to lower prices of HoD sword.

I just got done with attempting to build a PVP assassin, and I found no +5 energy daggers in the standard character equipment screen. So, still no screenie to substantiate the +5e daggers.

Still no screenie to substantiate this sword. Who cares about +5 daggers? It can't hold an offhand so you might as well get a stave or something. Of course it would be useful to Assasins, but not casters and stuff...

weirdest item i got was paper fan - with no req and unconditional +5 enrgy. i've heard about +enrgy sword upgrade part tho not sure i remember any numbers. no swords of any kind with enrgy suff dropped for me or any of my guildies so far, but i see no reasons why such sword cant exist...

True, but someone made an earlier claim that +5e was popping up on assorted weapons which didn't normally have the mod available. Either way, still no screenie...

More because, the HoD sword (and other items) were removed for "imbalance". Reintroducing this would make them look like hypocrites.

Why are you making a big deal out of this? Believe him or don't.

He sold it cause it was gonna get erased anyway, and a key will give him a chance to see more weapon skins and allow him to note where weapons drop.


This is not a big deal. I don't see prices dropping just because of this thread, so there is no point getting upset about it. If what he says is false, it will pass over. If its true then people deserve to know about it. Save your judgements, but more importantly calm yourself over something that isn't gonna affect how you play for now.

As it was pointed out earlier, if it was an imbalance issue they should (would) have removed the item from the game. Something else was at play for the removal of the crafter. Now a +5 energy sword is a big advantage in PvP, so in the intrest of balance, it would only be fair to make it widely available, instead of to the elite few....which I'm assuming your one of.

It's more of a balance issue as it is. Rich players are allowed an advantage over poorer players. How is that balanced? Anet would not be hypocritical at ALL to add this item back in the game or remove it altogether.

ANET did remove the SoA axe to restore game balance at one point. If the HoD sword posed a similar threat, then existing units would also face possible removal from the GW inventory database. The fact that they haven't removed it globally means that it is possible for the item to be re-introduced later. However, I'm not going to make any guesses since it won't influence the final outcome anyway.

Mmm, that would be quite delicious. Then we could all have a +5 20% enchanting one handed honey.


The HoD sword definately gives pve players an advantage in pvp, over pvp only characters. ANET nerfed the Lut.Helm and made it available to pvp chars. It wouldnt suprised me if they did something simmilar to the HoD sword. And I think its only fair.

In one breath you say it's not real $ but at the same time sound very upset at the idea of someone having more not real $ than someone else

Okay, normally I'd say Anet will sort this no bother. However with the current armour 'balance' between Chapter 1 and chapter 2, my faith has been somewhat tested in the creation of 'balance' between the 2 chapters.

Comon Anet prove me wrong

Not saying that it doesent exist but if you found a item like that screenshot would be the first thing to do.