Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I just made the ascended tempered spinal blades and went looking through the stats. and I couldn’t find the carrion stat combination. (condition damage, power, vitality) not even condition damage and a power combination (except for celestial) why is this?

i would like my con dmg + power + what suits me, just like my armor and weapons and other accessory.

Other question, i found on the wiki and chat link codes the colored version of the spinal blades, i assume the items needed for this will be available in the next living story update? since they are not available/ in existence right now.

Thank you

It seems that Exotic is the optimal choice for most stat combinations.

yes, exotic also had carrion which i want. i guess i should just transfer?

Not unless you want to craft a Static or Dynamic Tempered.

Yeah, there’s no carrion for ascended rings, amulets, etc. either. Looks like they just copied the list of available combinations for the rest of the trinkets and, yet again, forgot they left one out.

So that means no cleric stats for ascended spinal blades?

I think the reason why no carrion stats are available for some ascended gear is not an oversight but a balance issue as Pow/Condi is too powerful. Just like there is no Asc givers as Condi/Boon duration stacking could make some OP builds.

Wanze.8410:

I think the reason why no carrion stats are available for some ascended gear is not an oversight but a balance issue as Pow/Condi is too powerful. Just like there is no Asc givers as Condi/Boon duration stacking could make some OP builds.

Yet we have Berserker everything …

Cyvien.8049:

So that means no cleric stats for ascended spinal blades?

there should be an option for clerics. every stat that you see on ascended should be an option.

Nope. No Ascended Carrion of any kind.
Anet is scared of adding that stat to ascended it seems.

The Ascended version is more limited than the Exotic version?

Eep, that’s worrying. Is there a list somewhere of what combinations are available? I’d had to Ascend the thing and find out my desired stat combo doesn’t exist.

Electro.4173:

The Ascended version is more limited than the Exotic version?

Eep, that’s worrying. Is there a list somewhere of what combinations are available? I’d had to Ascend the thing and find out my desired stat combo doesn’t exist.

There you go.

Khisanth.2948:

Wanze.8410:

I think the reason why no carrion stats are available for some ascended gear is not an oversight but a balance issue as Pow/Condi is too powerful. Just like there is no Asc givers as Condi/Boon duration stacking could make some OP builds.

Yet we have Berserker everything …

Berserker is about to be nerfed /shrug

Doggie.3184:

Nope. No Ascended Carrion of any kind.
Anet is scared of adding that stat to ascended it seems.

If they feel it is to OP then kittening say so, give us an explanation.

Thanks for pointing that out! I actually thought I could make a carrion backpiece because the exotic one hat that choice… I’m glad I didn’t upgrade the exotic yet.

pureblackfire.5390:

there should be an option for clerics. every stat that you see on ascended should be an option.

Cleric is an option. Not every stat available for ascended is, however – they apparently used only ascended rings/amulets as a basis.
The missing stat sets seem to include: Assassin, Carrion, Dire, Magi, Settler, Shaman, Valkyrie.
We’ve been promised at least some of those sets for ascended jewellery and backpacks over a year ago (“to be added with the next batch of ascended”). We’re still waiting

emikochan.8504:

Khisanth.2948:

Wanze.8410:

I think the reason why no carrion stats are available for some ascended gear is not an oversight but a balance issue as Pow/Condi is too powerful. Just like there is no Asc givers as Condi/Boon duration stacking could make some OP builds.

Yet we have Berserker everything …

Berserker is about to be nerfed /shrug

Just went and checked the damage formula for the various damaging conditions. It looks more like ANet is trying to save us from ourselves.

The damage increase from the additional Condition Damage going from Exotic to Ascended(for just the back) isn’t really going to make much difference.

Burning, Poison – 1-2 more damage per tick depending on spillover
Bleeding, Torment – no change
Confusion – 1-2 more damage per proc per stack but only in PvE and most mobs seem to attack less than once per second

I wasted so much time and gold to make the ascended just to find out it doesn’t have a carrion option past exotic.. I wouldn’t have made it had I know this, and I wouldn’t have made a level 500 armorsmith, either D:<