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Love to Garden? You Can Now Through the Garden Plot Deed - Guild Wars 2 - MMORPG.com

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited January 2018 in News & Features Discussion

imageLove to Garden? You Can Now Through the Garden Plot Deed - Guild Wars 2 - MMORPG.com

Guild Wars 2 News - Guild Wars 2 players can log in today to get hold of a special Customer Appreciation Package that includes a Black Lion Chest Key and a Black Lion Chest. Chests can contain some new items including two random drops, a guaranteed seasonal item and a Black Lion Statuette. Black Lion Chests can also contain baby griffons or mini yellow jackal pups. But most interestingly, there is a new Garden Plot Deed that you can add to your home instance.

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  • Dr_BinksDr_Binks Member UncommonPosts: 271
    Why?
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,062
    Dr_Binks said:
    Why?
    Why not?
  • YaevinduskYaevindusk Member RarePosts: 2,094
    So I would have to gamble with a lootbox to get a likely poorly made feature that will require a single click and is only harvestable once per day? Like. Legitimately. They could have just saved this for the next expansion and made it a worthy feature -- or a part of real housing instead of just a static home instance -- instead of this. Heck, even a guild feature with the guild halls that could be big and require team work to keep things planted, trimmed and watered.
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  • evolgrinzevolgrinz Member UncommonPosts: 151

    Yaevindusk said:

    So I would have to gamble with a lootbox to get a likely poorly made feature that will require a single click and is only harvestable once per day? Like. Legitimately. They could have just saved this for the next expansion and made it a worthy feature -- or a part of real housing instead of just a static home instance -- instead of this. Heck, even a guild feature with the guild halls that could be big and require team work to keep things planted, trimmed and watered.



    You can also buy up to 2 plots max from the gem store for 1000 gems each.
  • KaerellaKaerella Member UncommonPosts: 27
    The Garden Plot is a buy-for-gems feature, not in the Black Lion chests. It seems like fun - you can find extra seeds for more exotic plants by going out and farming the regular plants in the countryside.
  • KaerellaKaerella Member UncommonPosts: 27
    ...I can also add that visitors to your home instance are not able to harvest what you have planted, unlike the normal "nodes." They just see "growing plants" if they use the launchpad to visit that corner.

    Interesting, the mention of housing. We've had flying/gliding, we've had mounts - could player housing be a feature for the next major expansion...?
    Dakeru[Deleted User]
  • RenoakuRenoaku Member EpicPosts: 3,157
    IF they made housing and instanced so it could be fully customized like in rift it would be great.
  • DakeruDakeru Member EpicPosts: 3,803
    Kaerella said:
    ...I can also add that visitors to your home instance are not able to harvest what you have planted, unlike the normal "nodes."
    Thanks for that information.
    I invested a fair amount of money into my home instance cause I like to share with my friends and if they don't benefit from this then this new feature is a whole lot less appealing to me.
    [Deleted User]
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  • APThugAPThug Member RarePosts: 543

    Kaerella said:

    ...I can also add that visitors to your home instance are not able to harvest what you have planted, unlike the normal "nodes." They just see "growing plants" if they use the launchpad to visit that corner.



    Interesting, the mention of housing. We've had flying/gliding, we've had mounts - could player housing be a feature for the next major expansion...?



    There was a leaked rumor some months back before the pof expansion came out that suggested that Anet was going to add player housing but cut it because they wanted to add it in as a selling point for another expansion.

    "Player housing has been developed, but didn't make the cut this expansion. It's been postponed as the big selling point for the next possible expansion. This would've included us being able to customise a large plot of land, which acts a lot like current Guild Hall decoration. We could choose the spots of our resources, and it will make a lot of use of Scribing. You'd get a lot of basic decorations to start with, but if you want to spend a ton of money and resources on it, you can do it."

    Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/68m753/leaks_episode_5_6_expansion/

    But its just a rumor, most of this stuff have already been proven wrong or slightly incorrect.
    Dakeru

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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,062
    I would like to see gardening added to guild halls. That would have real potential as a community feature.
  • JeleenaJeleena Member UncommonPosts: 172
    Dakeru said:
    Kaerella said:
    ...I can also add that visitors to your home instance are not able to harvest what you have planted, unlike the normal "nodes."
    Thanks for that information.
    I invested a fair amount of money into my home instance cause I like to share with my friends and if they don't benefit from this then this new feature is a whole lot less appealing to me.
    My friend COULD harvest the normal plants, as long as she did it before I harvested them. I don't know if the special plants for the new recipes can be harvested by friends since they are accountbound. I just unlocked these so i will know tomorrow.
    [Deleted User]Dakeru
  • KaerellaKaerella Member UncommonPosts: 27
    Yes, I experimented today and found that people could farm the new garden plot if I hadn't taken the stuff for myself yet... different people could do it at different times, and after that I farmed the 4 nodes myself. So I converted a bit more gold to gems and bought the second plot. I see that, while we are currently limited to two plots, there is a third vacant plot adjacent, at least in the Divinity's Reach home instance, so that may get added later. I am on 6 of the 21 additional seeds to add variety, mainly from the existing home instance nodes... getting all 21 unlocks some special recipes, apparently.

    Giving us housing and mounts in the same expansion would have been a bit over-generous, perhaps - it looks like we may need to wait a year or two before getting our own houses, sigh...
    Dakeru
  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,178
    I like fully customizable housing like Everquest 2. Otherwise it is meh.

  • WarWitchWarWitch Member UncommonPosts: 351
    Rift housing is so much better. Its like it is in eq2 but better. 1 click farmvill in gw2 :(.
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