Guild Wars 2

I just finished crafting my 5th ascended armor piece — five more days until I finish my wupwup armor entirely. At that point my toon will be full ascended.

I will say with 100% honesty that the ascended crafting is the most annoying crafting I’ve ever experienced in any of the MMOs I’ve played. There’s very little satisfaction in achieving the end result, and it’s designed to string out the experience over months (yes months if you dedicate yourself to doing it 100% by crafting).

Post how you feel about crafting in this topic. These are all opinions so refrain from attacking others — just post your own feedback. Not that it will help — I have no gas left in my “help fix GW2” tank.

I find it funny that I’m getting more satisfaction out of making this forum post than I felt crafting my ascended gear.

I hate it…. but that’s because in order to get full ascended, I have to spend time doing things I don’t like doing for Dragonite. So I am doing it so slowly, I’m not sure I’ll ever get to full ascended.

I always wondered…. they got rid of the tank/dps/healer system, they got rid of questing system, they got rid of loot/kill/resource steal…. but why, just why haven’t they get rid of the old fashioned crafting system?
Couldn’t they just reinvent it in a better way not just a list of goods to be dragged in a window.

I finished my last piece yesterday. My main toon is 100% ascended, everything.

I hope ANet is monitoring my usage data — because you won’t see me logging in daily anymore (even if it was for only 5 minutes). You’ll see me only for some organized guild events, but that’s it.

My problem is that Anet is planning to nerf the gear that took me months to make.

Gearing up is also a form of player progression and Anet obviously have not learned one single freaking thing from the Fractals rollback fiasco.

I hate the way on how to get to the ascended gear. Its just grinding and grinding and grinding. And after that it is combining combinging combining. Combine this and this and this and as a result you get this. And you do it over and over again. If you are not frustrated and or annoyed you get it during the process.

Its just boring. It should be simple. Less grind and less combining.

Why not simply increase the amount of oriculum ore etc. for ascended gear. Its less grinding various ores for the other metal or foes for the other materials like blood or the many scraps that are needed.

Google the mini game Jacksmith, it’s how crafting systems in MMOs should be modelled. Skill, not time spent grinding should (imo) determine the quality of pieces made.

hi there,

first: Why should you craft?

I like crafting, specially when it comes to crafting for others, specially guild mates.
I’m relatively new in the game and now I’m exploring Armorsmith. Found the Box of Armor really useful- it’s my guild goal as “Armorsmither”.
I’m on my way to Ascend but I feel like Lilith Ajit.6173. Maybe in one year or more. xD

Overall I think crafting costs should be more balanced if you want to craft for selling on TP and get some money out of it. I don’t think that crafting should make you rich, but neither make you poor. Unfortunately is what happens most of the times. Don’t you think? Why sell something that doesn’t even pay it self? Why make it? Why loose time gathering if the final result is not worth?