Guild Wars 2

One lingering question for me… since the Celestial gear is gated in the same way they are describing the new ascended stuff, will the Celestial gear be changed to Ascended stats? Seems like a bit of a slap in the face to require the same amount of effort (more if you consider the recipe drops are from RNG boxes) to make these as the new Ascended craftables, just to have them remain exotic and obsolete.

I know none of you know the answer, but opinions are welcome, of course. And if by some miraculous event the devs see this, please kindly provide us with a response.

Yeah, I do find it somewhat strange, given how pricy it is to obtain all the recipes and then how time-consuming it is to make all this gear, to just make it suddenly obsolete. Guess we’ll find out.

IMO-
The Celestial gear was a test to see how to community would to the new way of crafting.

OIIIIIO.7825:

IMO-
The Celestial gear was a test to see how to community would to the new way of crafting.

The hole living story for the first few months up until now was a bunch of tests. This is why I was ok that it was meh. Looks how good our game is getting because of it too.

I hope the charging of crystal is only gated for this LS. Once the election is over (and you can no longer get the achievement for making 8 charged crystals) I hope they change it to at least 1/place of power/day. I don’t really care about the celestial stats (especially since MF is being reworked/removed from gear), but people shouldn’t have to wait 25 days (not including ones you get from your personal node) to craft a set of exotic gear.

It’s sad enough that they’re doing this with the new ascended armor/weapons. (I just hope it’s easier to get the newer mats in the world like they hint at instead of just 1/day)

Honestly they need to lets us know the plans for celestial. I mean I don’t want waste 40 days and 70 gold to have a patch that makes it obsolete and for nothing. A conversion in the mystic forge for it like the triforge amulet better be part of this process.

Dresden.1736:

Seems like a bit of a slap in the face to require the same amount of effort (more if you consider the recipe drops are from RNG boxes) to make these as the new Ascended craftables

Hah!

You are assuming the Ascended craftable will require only as much gating and effort than the current Celestial gear. Wait and see – it will be much, much worse. The current Celestial exotic gear will look like something very easy to get when you see Ascended recipes.

I’m also rather torn now… is there any point at all in crafting exotic Celestial?? Might just be better to save the charged quartz for when an ascended version comes out.

Unless ANET confirms that it will be upgradeable via the forge due to it’s time-gated nature.

Hmm, my dilemma is two fold now with the recent news update:
• Introduction of Ascended Armor (Am I wasting my infused quartz & superior divinity runes?)
• Removal of MF from Gear (Loss of value in celestial gear)

I already crafted the celestial helm, put a Superior Divinity Rune in it, as well as used the light dragon helm skin from a previous LS in it. I have two more Superior Divinity runes saved. Just stinks though wasting the skin, I know I can always farm more runes.

The issue is though, I have 10 infused quartz saved, are they going to be a reagent in the ascended versions? Like someone above posted, I don’t want to wait 30 days to make the armor, then have to wait another 30 or so days to make it again.

I’m going to assume it’s not going to use infused quartz and continue making the armor, but now I don’t know if I want to waste superior divinity runes in it if I’m eventually going to replace the armor set.

Can we get an official response on this? Just letting us know if the infused quartz will only be for exotics at least? The more information the better please, a lot of us are left hanging now, even though not everyone is posting

ETA: Also, is the exotic celestial gear only temporary? Will we still be able to obtain quartz after the LS ends?

ETA2: Maybe we will need the exotic to upgrade to ascended in forge?

Vaiye.5709:

ETA: Also, is the exotic celestial gear only temporary? Will we still be able to obtain quartz after the LS ends?

ETA2: Maybe we will need the exotic to upgrade to ascended in forge?

If you unlocked personal crystal node you will still be able to mine it every day. It gives from 3 to 7-8 crystals per mine and there will always be some crystals on TP.

I doubt we will use exotics in forge to upgrade them to ascended version. Judging from blog post and some info here and there we will be upgrading/combining T1-T6 mats into T7+ (?) mats and with those we will craft ascended stuff.

My only hope is that we won’t need any Fractal stuff for crafting but it is very likely we do