Are dungeon armors going to be worthless ?
Hey.
I’ve just collected enough tokens to buy a CoE armor.
But with the arrival of ascended armors (with the new 500 craft level) is it a good idea to buy a dungeon armor right now ?
I would be quite deceipted to use so much tokens (1380) to buy an armor that i’ll “have” to transmute in a few months …
So any idea at what would be the best to do ? Get this dungeon armor and use it in the meanwhile, keep the tokens just in case ascended dungeons armor would show up ? Is there any official informations somewhere about ascended gear available with dungeon tokens (that otherwise would become really less usefull than today) ?
Not worless at all, the stat difference between ascended and exotic is minimal and unnoticable, so exotic will be always considered a good rarity tier. Ascended was intoruced to put infusions in them, or for the 4 stat points pr the +5 agony resistance to keep on with fractals. So if you are going for fractal 40 then your exotic armor will be useless there (and not so much since that even without all the AR needed, people got to fotm 80 thanks to some well timed heals at maw), but will be the same as it is now everywhere else.
Dungeon armor isnt worth anything to begin with – its soulbound.
Getting your craft level to 500 will probably take far, far more time and money than getting another 2000 badges.
Not to mention some of the dungeon armors actually look nice. The ascended armor might or might not.
One – Piken Square
The difference in stats is 10% between exotic and ascended. As the process of crafting a full ascended armor set will probably be a lot more time consuming / difficult, I’d suggest for you to use your Tokens (you can’t do anything with them anyway).
Exotic armor will still be very good rarity.
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When you consider your base stats, ascended quality items give more like a 3-4% increase.
If you’re running dungeons enough to get a full set of exotic armour, chances are you made enough gold to buy it all off the TP in the process.
It’s eye-candy, with the side benefit of being actual armour and not a skin.
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The value of Dungeon armor has ALWAYS been in question….it only has value to the person buying it…i.e. a vanity item.
If you are asking if you should wait until you can SEE what the new armors look like, that may not be a bad idea. However, keep in mind it will likely be several months before you CAN see them and then it could be month(s) before you can obtain all the items to craft a full set (time gated account bound materials required). You could be using your Dungeon armor during that time….
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As with any armor piece, a portion of a dungeon armor’s value is its stats, and the other portion is its appearance. The importance of either portion is determined by the player.
I don’t think the dungeon armor will be useless once ascended armor is released, for the reasons that have been listed in other posts, but it just won’t be the final goal. Even at that point, though, the appearances of the various armor pieces will hopefully still hold value for transmutation.
When you consider your base stats, ascended quality items give more like a 3-4% increase.
If you plan on playing any WvW 3-4% is a big difference. I’m sure you wouldn’t want to mail a random player 3-4% of your weekly gold earnings.
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When you consider your base stats, ascended quality items give more like a 3-4% increase.
If you plan on playing any WvW 3-4% is a big difference.
This. Grinding for Ascended gear — if you’re primarily a WvW player — is not going to be fun.
PvE though… at least at this point, it makes very little difference. However, I expect that Anet’s newer content will be harder in the future to compensate for the better stats.
So in the end, once everyone has Ascended gear all that will change is that current content will become easier than it is now. And making new builds or toons will be more of a pain.