Guild Wars 2

I’m currently in the position where I can part craft, part buy the triforge pendent. It would mostly be crafting, but the issue is its only an exotic. Meaning when more ascended comes it may be lower in stats than ascended items. Legendary status would make it safe, but with its exotic tag it seems like it will not be the best of its class at some point in the future, possibly soon? Is it worth getting it? Will it be overshadowed by ascended in the near future? I mean, its almost as expensive as a Legendary in my eyes, but so weakened by its exotic tag.

yepp you sum it up nicely. having a ascened amulet in the future with celestial stat or any stat at all will make the triforge obsolete. considering the price on that item, it should at no point become obsolete. lets whait and see, maybe you will upgrade the current amulets to the ascended, thus if you want the celestial stat on your amulet you would have to get the triforge and then upgrade it. but until they add amulets we will not know for sure.

and that’s the problem with vertical progression

You’re essentially asking for us to predict the future here. There’s really only 2 options: either you need an exotic amulet and some other ascended materials to craft up to ascended; or you don’t need anything but some ascended materials (like fractal relics and junk) to craft ascended amulets. If it’s the former, then having the tri-forge pendant to up-craft is the only way. HOWEVER, if it’s the latter, get the tri-forge pendant will essentially screw you out of a LOT of hard-earned gold.

If you want Anet’s official response that they’ve used many times about this issue, is that people that obtained/bought/whatever X item/feature/whatever before it was obtainable by/replaced/made obsolete by whatever had the advantage of using that item before whatever did whatever it did to make old item hereby easier to obtain/obsolete/replace. So, by adopting early you’re pretty much always screwing yourself.

Case in point although somewhat different was when they put the digital deluxe edition on sale, people complained because if they had waiting then they would have saved money. Anet said that since they bought the game at full price earlier, then they had the benefit of being able to play the game prior to the other people and therefore got a lot of benefit (such as experiencing the halloween, lost shores, and wintersday events) out of the game.

In other words, if you buy the triforge pendant now and then it becomes useless later, you’re not going to get any sympathy/refund/etc.

TLDR; wait, or prepare to suffer. Your choice.

Ascended Amulet announced, sell your pendants… sell them fast.

sostronk.8167:

1) Is it worth getting it?
2) Will it be overshadowed by ascended in the near future?

ad 1) No. You are better with only one of the three pendants.
ad 2) Yes. In a week. See: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/january-2013/#new-features

Eheh I didn’t crafted a Triforge a month ago even if I wanted it. I knew they were releasing ascended amulets soon or later (and now we know it’s SOON), it would have been a total waste of golds!