Guild Wars 2

A long time ago there was an off-hand comment that ANet may consider changes to Ascended Armor to take player concerns of cost, alts, and build diveristy into consideration. One comment in particular was quoted by ANet iirc, that they would discuss the possibility in allowing Ascended Armor to have stat reassignment like Legendary weapons permanently. This way a player would only ever need 1 suit per class?

Has anyone heard anymore about this topic? Either thaty they’ll allow us to permanently reassign stats as we wish or that the general costs of ascended armor will be adjusted to make them more alt/build friendly?

I have never heard such a comment, and if they did, they would have probably said it in a CDI topic (which never should be taken as a promise for future content changes)

I’m pretty sure stat reassignment will be reserved for legendary armor, which will come sometime in the future.

It was only on the CDI topic. People ask for that and Chris acknowledge that they want this, but he never said that this is what they will do. He simply said, ok that is the list of what we get from this CDI topic and the list had that in it. That’s all.

But one thing for sure, the price won’t go down because of Anet. They could make the price more even between Light, Medium and Heavy armor (because light cost a lot more and take twice as much time), but if the price go down, it will only because eventually less people will craft new armor and more people will sell their materials. But i don’t think this will affect enough the economy to get these material cost down.

Oh I’m not trying to imply it was a promise. Only it was mentioned and I kind of liked the idea and I’m curious if they’ve ever expanded on that idea or some others to make ascended a little more alt-friendly.

From what i know its only a proposition on the CDI topic that was acknowledge by the Devs. Nothing new about that and don’t expect something like that for the next 6 months even if Anet want to do that (which is not likely).

Ascended armor will only become cheaper when there is less LS (wow, like right now) and people get back to farming mats (should start happening) and the prices of the pre-requisite mats drop as a result.

There was a mention that Anet considers some prices too high and is thinking about addressing that. The mention was part of November 2012 Reddit AMA – shortly after the first ascended pieces were introduced, and people took a good look at backpiece prices.
Considering what has happened later on, you can guess why I don’t pay attention to any later similar statements now.

KyreneZA.8617:

Ascended armor will only become cheaper when there is less LS (wow, like right now) and people get back to farming mats (should start happening) and the prices of the pre-requisite mats drop as a result.

Since the main problem are Silk and Linnen, that are not really farmable, it doesn’t really matter if people play LS or farm something else.

So they need to down the number of linnen that is needed for a Bolt of Damask, or let us harvest this stuff from some plants or whatever.

Silk is plenty farmable, in Orr for example. Linen is tougher, as you will be getting some silk while farming for it.

I don’t think they will implement any legendary items soon or allow ascended to change stats. The economy now is pretty broke, everything is too expensive for casual players and newcomers. First, they need to establish some farming options for people – reviving the Orr farm, introducing new zones, or something like that.
Introduction of legendary armors now would spike the prices of mats into space.

Its not that its expensive its that no one cares to do old content anymore thus keeping prices artificially high.

T2 and T3 cloth and leather can be easily farmed in the Ulgoth World event chain with 5 champs and five events, also all the trash mobs in the whole map have material bags that have t2 and t3 mats all across the whole map, not just the main event area.

If only people played smarter not harder.