Guild Wars 2

So the next update will let us craft ascended armory and get some more professions to lvl 500 which will make the prices go up even more. But is it even balanced? Crafting an entire Armor Set of 6 Pieces will requiere you to max just one profession which makes it far superior to the weapon-crafting professions. Ive spent about 200 to 250g to max Huntsman and to get my ascended weapon while maxing one of the armory professions will let you craft 6!! ascended armor pieces. In my opinion that is pretty unfair as i dont want to spend like 200g again to get my full set. I would like to see ur opinions about that

Well, most of the money is spent on getting it up to 500, so the pricing will be pretty close to the same as getting an ascended weapon. I’d much rather have a different, non-pure-goldsink way of getting them. IE 5000 dungeon tokens, 50 fotm relics, etc.

Crafting one weapon costed me about 60 gold worth of mats so that is not true

You don’t know how it’s gonna look, we gotta wait…
Also remember that Fractals will have chances to drop armors too. (0,00000000001 % ^^)
and many ppl started hoard mats after Ascended Weapon, so I assume that we (community) are better prepared this time.

Do you think we’ll need some of those for ascended armors?
If yes I’d better start making some as soon as possible.

With ascended armor this game is going to be completely ruined. Weapons did enough damage, this will finish it.

Never ending grind is all it introduces.

Essence Snow.3194:

Never ending grind is all it introduces.

Not “never ending,” but kitten close to it. The grind will end if ascended is truly the ceiling and all your characters have all ascended gear. By then we’ll likely all be dead too.

KyreneZA.8617:

Essence Snow.3194:

Never ending grind is all it introduces.

Not “never ending,” but kitten close to it. The grind will end if ascended is truly the ceiling and all your characters have all ascended gear. By then we’ll likely all be dead too.

And the old man said his last words ,,All my characters are full ascended, now i can die"….
:-D

daros.3407:

KyreneZA.8617:

Essence Snow.3194:

Never ending grind is all it introduces.

Not “never ending,” but kitten close to it. The grind will end if ascended is truly the ceiling and all your characters have all ascended gear. By then we’ll likely all be dead too.

And the old man said his last words ,,All my characters are full ascended, now i can die"….
:-D

I can rez………..

Velandir.9763:

So the next update will let us craft ascended armory and get some more professions to lvl 500 which will make the prices go up even more. But is it even balanced? Crafting an entire Armor Set of 6 Pieces will requiere you to max just one profession which makes it far superior to the weapon-crafting professions. Ive spent about 200 to 250g to max Huntsman and to get my ascended weapon while maxing one of the armory professions will let you craft 6!! ascended armor pieces. In my opinion that is pretty unfair as i dont want to spend like 200g again to get my full set. I would like to see ur opinions about that

In fact there is a balance to it. You say that it’s unfair to be able to craft a full set of 6 pieces of armor vs. crafting one weapon if you master just one craft. But in essence it’s the same as needing to craft 6 weapons instead of one. That will require 6 times as many mats. Instead of 5 Bloodstone bricks/5 Dragonite ingots/5 Empyreal stars, you will now need 30 of each. Unless you started farming a month ago, it’s going to take quite a while to accumulate those materials. The same argument applies to the Deldrimor ingots/Spiritwood planks needed to make the weapons. You need at least 3 of each plus additional ingots/planks depending on the weapon. To make a full set of armor, you’re going to need either a lot of Deldrimor ingots, Elonian leather, or bolts of Damask PLUS a lot more bolts of Damask for the insignias (an assumption based on the fact that exotic armor insignias used only bolts of Gossamer).

Further compounding the difficulty of making armor vs. weapons is the fact that, for those of us who farm materials rather than outright buy them off the Trading Post, you could farm orichalcum ore or ancient wood logs for weapons. You cannot farm gossamer scraps or hardened leather for armor. You have to rely on RNG when salvaging.

As someone who devotes a LOT of time to crafting in all its aspects, I think armor is going to be more of a burden than weapons, in both cost of mats and time required.

Hopefully the bolts won’t require too much wool. Or was it cotton, the one that is the tier three cloth mat was. It was such a pain to gather. Tier two is easy since you can do jute promotion, most likely you’ll need tier two and tier three for the final part of making the bolt.

Suserihime.1506:

Hopefully the bolts won’t require too much wool. Or was it cotton, the one that is the tier three cloth mat was. It was such a pain to gather. Tier two is easy since you can do jute promotion, most likely you’ll need tier two and tier three for the final part of making the bolt.

I presume itll take the same amount of of materials as the metal and wood ascended planks.

heres my guess

And here i am still struggling to get weaponsmithing up to 500 to actually make the weapons. I really wish the various ascended mats gave more crafting xp, specially the ones with the timer. Currently have my weaponsmithing at like 465, but then again the thing holding me back the most are the stupid obsidian shards.

Crafting to 500 is not just for one weapon. How many characters really only use one weapon? I would think most use three or four. I built only two for my ranger (axe and horn) as I already had Kudzu, and I build staff, sceptor, horn and axe for my necro. I was even tempted to build a set of daggers as well, but decided to start hording my Laurels and Vision Crystals until I see how much grind will be required for armor.

Essence Snow.3194:

Never ending grind is all it introduces.

Right now im thinkin about their so called “oath” used for promotial purposes the last couple of days. It included something like “Grind is boring”. I love this game but the grinding is insanely annoying. I would even prefer other mmo’s raid system to get good gear over this ones. It would be soooo cool if an developer actually replied to such a thread about the grind and stuff but if they do that its just going to be a useless answer with no real meaning or information concerning this topic. Something like: “Players opinion are very important to us and we will always listen to your feedback”

The marketing aside for most players this game is already a grind, how people play is dictated by the economy. The question is where can the game go from here. I think alot of hate for the living story and anything added is people are already not having fun spending all there time farming. If something comes along that make them think they have to grind more or they cannot profit from they automatically dislike it.

You’ll be crafting boxes, not the individual pieces. I’m making this assumption based on having seen someone link the code in chat of a box recently. You very well could have the option to do both as you can with exotics.

Krag.6210:

Do you think we’ll need some of those for ascended armors?
If yes I’d better start making some as soon as possible.

good call.

and o gosh. can’t wait to get rid of all the thick leather sections.

Ayrilana.1396:

You’ll be crafting boxes, not the individual pieces. I’m making this assumption based on having seen someone link the code in chat of a box recently. You very well could have the option to do both as you can with exotics.

Ehhh, I wouldn’t be a fan of that. My armor sets tend to be mixed; if all Ascended armor comes in boxes, that means I’d have to craft multiple boxes, and some of each set would just go to waste.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Universal_Ascended_Armor_Chest