Guild Wars 2

Are ascended weaponry ever going to be sold for laurels? I’m currently around weaponsmithing level 415 and getting to 500 will likely drain all my resources. Not ranting or anything, just curious if I should wait or it’s never going to happen.

It could happen, it’s been said that devs are going to implement more ways to get ascended.

But this is AN, so thats a 2015+ feature.

Those “in the know”, aren’t saying.

Nope, dont count on it.

Ascended crafting serves a couple purposes. Its a gold/material sink to artificially push inflation so that gem conversion will look more attractive over time.

Coincidence? I dont know but surely is a conspiracy i believe in.

Too many things are sold via laurels already — and it’s the most time gated currency in the game. Please, no laurel ideas.

I vote that laurels get removed and replaced with something still time gated, but obtainable based upon effort (like dungeon tokens). Want more, just run more dungeons. There’s a theoretical daily cap and it eliminates the current laurel mechanic.

I would have to disagree. laurels from daily’s are great for ppl without time to play that much.

law.9410:

I would have to disagree. laurels from daily’s are great for ppl without time to play that much.

It’s great when the laurels are a “backup” to other in-game currency systems.

Good Example: ascended jewelry (backup to not grinding fractals)

Bad Example: ascended recipes (no alternate method to obtain)

When laurels are the only currency for something, it’s bad. Although I believe ANet loves them because it encourages everyone to log on every day (otherwise you fall behind in that currency).

juno.1840:

Too many things are sold via laurels already — and it’s the most time gated currency in the game. Please, no laurel ideas.

I vote that laurels get removed and replaced with something still time gated, but obtainable based upon effort (like dungeon tokens). Want more, just run more dungeons. There’s a theoretical daily cap and it eliminates the current laurel mechanic.

Making them obtainable in dungeons is not keeping them time gated. Let’s say you could get 1 per day per path, that would give you a your choice of ascended equipment in almost no time at all, pretty much eliminating any time gating. Keep in mind that anet implements stuff like this to get people to log in daily, not solely to annoy players.

As far as ascended weapons being obtainable in other places, I could see it down the line when the crafting has slowed to a crawl and it isn’t as much of a gold sink anymore. Keep in mind they are obtainable as drops in fractals, although the drop rate is pretty low and you don’t always get the stats you want, but it is still possible.

You can do fractals for ascended weapons, I have gotten a few ascended weapons this way so far.

dAcIaW.5107:

You can do fractals for ascended weapons, I have gotten a few ascended weapons this way so far.

It’s a horrible system to obtain them this way. They’re rare drops, which is fine. But the stats are random and you will likely get shafted with a stat you will literally never use because it’s a bad combination.

It’s more of an “ooh, that’s a nice surprise” from doing the Fractals as they are something you enjoy, rather than a reason to do them. It is not a viable method of obtaining them.