Guild Wars 2

So there’s a lot of hate here on the forums regarding Agony and Agony resistance, but I don’t understand why?

Agony resistance drop can only go in ascended items anyway
Versatile infusions cost 75 fractal relics. 75! That means if you did fractals 1-10 where there is no agony, you’ll have 15 AR, enough to run 10-20 easily. By the time you hit 20 you’ll have enough relics for 30 AR, which will see you through the 20s with that enough AR, I hope you can see where this is going.

Perhaps it’s the mechanics people don’t like? You want to jump in level 50 fractal with you’re zerk gear and just wave your overcompensatingly large swords around at everything, waiting for it to fall over?
Even if you did have the AR, fractals tend to be more difficult than the dungeons of Tyria, sorry. On top of that, the point of Agony is to appease the people who enjoy the type of gameplay that involves the kinda of gear progression that AR give them. I mean would you rather these people had some sort of super ascended gear instead of running around with tons of AR?

I imagine people are probably think I’m flaming, I’m not, I do however think that all this agony hate is a case of “mountains out of molehills”, it’s easy to get around but requires you to actually play rather than buy your way through the tiers.
(mostly, the new system actually does allow you to buy at least some of the way)

I’m not an elitist level 80 fractal runner/farmer, I’m at 18 on my main, and 3 on my second character, and honestly have no problem with Agony, so what is all the AR hate about? (honest question)

it’s 60 gold+ for a decent agony infusion. yes I’m talking about the infusion with stats on it.

Excalibur.9748:

it’s 60 gold+ for a decent agony infusion. yes I’m talking about the infusion with stats on it.

That +5 Power will surely make a difference.

FenrirSlakt.3692:

That +5 Power will surely make a difference.

Minmax is where it is at man!

I personally have no issues with it either – its another levelling system I can progress through after hitting level 80.

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Excalibur.9748:

it’s 60 gold+ for a decent agony infusion. yes I’m talking about the infusion with stats on it.

That +5 Power will surely make a difference.

um yea…? ofcourse this game is all about min-maxing.

if that +5 power not a big deal why not make versatile infusion also give +5 stats?

Excalibur.9748:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Excalibur.9748:

it’s 60 gold+ for a decent agony infusion. yes I’m talking about the infusion with stats on it.

That +5 Power will surely make a difference.

um yea…? ofcourse this game is all about min-maxing.

if that +5 power not a big deal why not make versatile infusion also give +5 stats?

If you were hardcore enough to care about min-maxing, I don’t think you’d care about getting the ingredients for it. lol

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Excalibur.9748:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Excalibur.9748:

it’s 60 gold+ for a decent agony infusion. yes I’m talking about the infusion with stats on it.

That +5 Power will surely make a difference.

um yea…? ofcourse this game is all about min-maxing.

if that +5 power not a big deal why not make versatile infusion also give +5 stats?

If you were hardcore enough to care about min-maxing, I don’t think you’d care about getting the ingredients for it. lol

well fractal doesn’t help you min-max, it’s like a gold sink. you don’t even need to do it for the backpiece anymore.

Excalibur.9748:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Excalibur.9748:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Excalibur.9748:

it’s 60 gold+ for a decent agony infusion. yes I’m talking about the infusion with stats on it.

That +5 Power will surely make a difference.

um yea…? ofcourse this game is all about min-maxing.

if that +5 power not a big deal why not make versatile infusion also give +5 stats?

If you were hardcore enough to care about min-maxing, I don’t think you’d care about getting the ingredients for it. lol

well fractal doesn’t help you min-max, it’s like a gold sink. you don’t even need to do it for the backpiece anymore.

Then don’t do fractals(?).

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Excalibur.9748:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Excalibur.9748:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Excalibur.9748:

it’s 60 gold+ for a decent agony infusion. yes I’m talking about the infusion with stats on it.

That +5 Power will surely make a difference.

um yea…? ofcourse this game is all about min-maxing.

if that +5 power not a big deal why not make versatile infusion also give +5 stats?

If you were hardcore enough to care about min-maxing, I don’t think you’d care about getting the ingredients for it. lol

well fractal doesn’t help you min-max, it’s like a gold sink. you don’t even need to do it for the backpiece anymore.

Then don’t do fractals(?).

I’m just trying to explain why people hate the AR forced gear check.

Lv1-9 is still some decent fun after all.

That’s too general, however. I like them at higher levels too, and I’m sure no one would run them either if they hated them so bad.