Ascended armors without infusion slots?
Wasn’t it the same for ascended weapons?
No, ascended weapons when copied from gw2db have infusion slot.
I suppose at least for now they want people to craft their extra AR into the unlimited AR slots. It’s a decent gold sink.
The unlimited AR slots aren’t really a gold sink. Yes, Black Lion trade fees are involved, but players are just sending money to other players (as opposed to Cultural Armor or something where it just disappears to a vendor).
Anyway, ascended armor will be pretty pointless if it doesn’t have infusion slots. The whole point of ascended armor, I thought, was to provide Agony Resist opportunities for fractal progression… just like the rest of ascended gear… I was planning to go for it, but if there are no infusion slots then screw it.
The unlimited AR slots aren’t really a gold sink. Yes, Black Lion trade fees are involved, but players are just sending money to other players (as opposed to Cultural Armor or something where it just disappears to a vendor).
Anyway, ascended armor will be pretty pointless if it doesn’t have infusion slots. The whole point of ascended armor, I thought, was to provide Agony Resist opportunities for fractal progression… just like the rest of ascended gear… I was planning to go for it, but if there are no infusion slots then screw it.
They are very much a gold sink.
To quote the wiki:
For example for single +13 Agony Infusion, you have to spend 61 Gold coin 26 Silver coin 12 Copper coin for the Thermocatalytic Reagents alone.
Plus the cost of buying 4096 +1 infusions from the tp (or grinding them out with ~1024 fractal runs).
Also 15% fees eats up a lot more money than you’re giving it credit for.
Yeah, I forgot that the recipe required the Thermocatalytic Reagents. So I guess it is a sink.
Which is ultimately just disappointing. I liked the new fractals and was planning to go farther (blocked at 39 right now due to only having 40 AR) with more AR from ascended armor, but if the only way to get it is by this crazy math “infinite-scaling” AR nonsense, then kitten it. I like the increased difficulty of fotm with the instabilities, but this AR nonsense is just a time waster.