Guild Wars 2

When will the 401-500 level be introduced already? You are tempting us with the Ascended refinement with Gold and Silver… it just sits there… unattainable and mocking!

Although it would be nice to have jeweler to 500 for ascended jewelry, most of the ascended jewelry can already be obtained through drops, especially rings, in fractals. Other can be bought with either Laurals, or fractal relics. Although ascended jewel upgrade components would be cool. But I don’t see it happening any time soon.

They probably won’t give us any real info in advance, since Anet seems to have learned not to do super-detailed previews for each patch, since it causes economic activity speculations to kitten so many things up (I’m talking about you, picture of meteorlogicus’s night cycle that made storm rise from 170 gold to like 500 then 620).

So when it happens, it’ll probably take us by surprise. I have over 10000 silver ore on my thief mule to unload if it causes silver to go up to like 2 silver (got it at 23 or 24 copper apiece), but I might get impatient and sell it sooner, since its price went up to the 60s in copper, so I could make like a 37-40 gold profit on 10000ish silver ore, compared to the 180ish gold I’d make if it went up to 2 silver..

Although even then, I’m not sure if JC 500 would even catch on, since it’d only really be useful to those wanting to craft ascended carrion, settler, or valkyrie gear. And valkyrie gear would probably be the most commonly used stats of all of those to be honest, since carrion is only good for unfocused hybrid condi builds (since dire overshadowed it) and settlers is only good for undying regen ranger or condition thief bunkers. Oh and I guess we could end up getting to craft pure dire (not the rabid/dire) as well, or even zealots too now that I think about it, so it might get some actual use, but most builds could easily work around craft only ascended trinkets.

They PROMISED that all crafting disciplines will go up to 500 (this was said in official article that introduced raise of crafting disciplines to 500 and no, I am not gonna find the link for you.)

But don’t get your hopes too high, they also promised precursor scavenger hunt in 2013.

Spiky.8403:

They PROMISED that all crafting disciplines will go up to 500 (this was said in official article that introduced raise of crafting disciplines to 500 and no, I am not gonna find the link for you.)

But don’t get your hopes too high, they also promised precursor scavenger hunt in 2013.

They never promised the scavenger hunt. It was an idea they had tossed around, and then we were told it was scrapped. Followed by talk of doing precursors through crafting instead.

What was said (by Colin) in the middle of last year was that they were working on precursor crafting, which had a projected completion date of the end of the year. It was stated that this was not set in stone and could change. In either October or November he stated that it would not make its end of the year deadline. Just before the April feature patch, we were made aware that due to game changes, the precursor crafting had been set back again and needed reworking and would not be part of the feature patch, but that it had not been scrapped. Nowhere was a promise issued.

Edit: And it’s because of people misconstruing kitten like that, that they don’t talk to us.

Yet another white knight. Yes they promised alternative way of getting precursors and new legendaries and nothing has been implemented. Open your eyes and stop mindlessly defending them.

Spiky, give me a quote where they actually promised such things by a deadline. Unless you can, don’t call people “white knights” for having enough reading comprehension skills to understand that statements like “we plan to” are not promises.

@OP: It’ll be introduced at some point, and for economic reasons (as nearlight stated) we won’t see much of a preview if at all. If you plan to craft up to 500 or invest in the market be prepared for a long wait.

Spiky.8403:

Yet another white knight. Yes they promised alternative way of getting precursors and new legendaries and nothing has been implemented. Open your eyes and stop mindlessly defending them.

White Knight my kitten . I criticize as often as I defend. I was simply correctly your misguided fallacy with what was actually provided to us in terms of information.

Yes they have told us that they would implement an alternative means of obtaining precursors. At first it was the scavenger hunt, which we were later told was scrapped. Then it was through crafting, which has been set back now twice. We have been told (as recently as this past April) that they still plan on doing so, it simply has not come to fruition as yet. This is not uncommon with development. Especially if key system components undergo an overhaul.

Yes, they have said they would implement more legendaries, although for weapons no future date for such was ever given. Only that they would. Colin did state in the mid 2013 blog post that they were working on legendary armor, and that we should see something by the end of the year. During his interview with Matt Visual at PAX that same year, he elaborated that the legendary armor would only be a single piece, specifically a trinket – a ring or some such, they had not at that point decided. During his post in regards to precursors not being on schedule, the legendary trinket was also listed as not being on schedule and not making the end of the year projection. These dates were projections, soft deadlines, not set in stone and that was repeated several times in disclaimer. It was stated that the project was not scrapped at that time. This is how a lot of development works, you have soft deadlines, and you have hard {ones}. They presently have no hard deadline that we are aware of.

FYI, (to reiterate) this is not blindly white knighting anything. It is simple correcting your misinformation with the actual known information that we have. Saying they plan on doing, would do, something does not equate to a promise, because any logical personal understands that sometimes, no matter how good the intention, sometimes kitten just can’t be done. Beyond that, they do include a disclaimer in basically anything they provide stating that any plans can change due to a variety of variables in the development process.

Edit: Stupid filter. Anet you really need a better one.

Yea most jewelry can be obtained in other ways, but not all stats… and infusions are expensive. Having another way of being able to obtain these as well as the rest of the stats would be very nice. I’m also wondering when we’ll be getting ascended cooking. Very curious as to what that will entail.

Ascended level cooking? Yeah what would that be interesting.