Guild Wars 2

Well. First of all my accessories lost their basic infusions. Go figure, no biggie, they were not expensive.

What I really wanted with the thread was to discuss the new infusion slot with “infinite agony resist”.

As far as I can see, it works like any upgrade slot. You get an upgrade. You use the slot. You can override the existing upgrade.

In my opinion, that’s not the way to go for this new infusion slot and sounds like an annoyance.

Imagine that you gather a lot of infusions to craft a mighty +8 AR infusion. That’s awesome! But what now? Continuing the journey through Fractals you continue to gather small infusions, and one day you will again have a +8 AR infusion. That’s great, now you have two +8 AR and can make an even better one! – But no. If I understand it correctly, the +8 AR infusion that you used is stuck in the slot of your Ascended item, and should you want a better infusion, you can not make any use of the existing one. You need to create a brand new infusion from scratch.

In other words, and correct me if I’m wrong; Every time you use an infusion, that infusion will no longer be upgradeable. Should you want a better one from all the new infusions you have gathered, you will need to create a new one from scratch to get a better one.

If it’s right.. Then I hate it. It sucks a bit having to always wonder when the best time is to use those precious infusions you have gathered, rather than just keep upgrading and be happy that your AR keeps improving a bit at a time.

Yes, it will take forever to upgrade. Perhaps, we would be allowed to take out the slotted infusion and combine it with a same grade for upgrade. I’d even agree to charge me something to take out the already slotted AR (e.g. a special consumable tools to just do that).

Battledoll.1803:

Yes, it will take forever to upgrade. Perhaps, we would be allowed to take out the slotted infusion and combine it with a same grade for upgrade. I’d even agree to charge me something to take out the already slotted AR (e.g. a special consumable tools to just do that).

I’m hoping for something exactly along the lines of this.

It’s not a OMG I QUIT issue, I just really don’t like that we have to overwrite our infusions to upgrade.

I would hope to be able to dismount infusion on demand.. Ideas could be:

- Just let us pull the upgrade from the item.
- Sell a single use removal tool: 250 Fractal Relics or 3 Pristine Relics in Fractals of the Mists.
- Putting an Ascended Ring (+3 AR) in the Mystic Forge with a +3 AR infusion + possibly two random ingredients (Mist essence, relics?) returns the same ring with a better infusion.
- Sell an Infusion Splitter in the Gem Store and make people hate you
- Applying an AR infusion to an item with a matching AR infusion just upgrades the infusion. For example applying a +1 infusion to a ring with a +1 infusions gives the ring a +2 infusion. Attempting to apply a different infusion gives a warning that this infusion will overwrite the existing upgrade.

Is my maths correct for making +10 infusion resistance?
1×2×2x2x2×2×2x2x2×2=512 pieces of +1 infusion resistance to make one +10 infusion resistance
if yes, then GW2 FOTM= super grind

+10 seems to be the max according to datamined information.

Verdelet Arconia.6987:

Is my maths correct for making +10 infusion resistance?
1×2×2x2x2×2×2x2x2×2=512 pieces of +1 infusion resistance to make one +10 infusion resistance
if yes, then GW2 FOTM= super grind

Not really. You currently don’t need that much AR and by the time you do, you’ll likely have a high enough level that higher versions drop. Not just +1’s drop in fractals.

as I understand it, that is correct.

was abit worried that the new lvl 31-50 will require lots of agony resist since its not the old fotm that we knew. 512 pieces of +1 infusion resist for one piece of equipment kinda seem extremely demoralising haha. thanks for the info on higher version dropping.

Does agony only change with every tier? If it still does then you still have 40 infusions drops per tier to make upgrades with. Combine that with the number given as drops increasing per tier and you’ve got a fairly easy climb. Also note that level 50 will have a set agony and people will still do dailies and what not to keep increasing their AR, then when 51+ comes out, they’ll already be ahead of the game.

This had to be expected. It was easily the most asked question on this forum and they never addressed it.

This is probably why the upgrade extractor is being released in the gem store in the near future. Microtransaction to get your infusion back or any other rune/sigil.

So is it true that the new Agony Resist infusions dropped in Fractals only go in the new slots for Infused Ascended gear? They won’t fit in the standard Offensive/Defensive/Utility slots?

Zaxares.5419:

So is it true that the new Agony Resist infusions dropped in Fractals only go in the new slots for Infused Ascended gear? They won’t fit in the standard Offensive/Defensive/Utility slots?

Exactly.

Expect a gem store “upgrade extractor” for the low low price of 400 gems/use to appear shortly…

Give me back my +5 infusion. I have no idea what improvements were made, but when I was given a +1 infusion from the kitten story, I added it to an empty offensive slot, like I would have before this patch…and the game asked me if I would like to add this infusion. And I said yes, and it replaced the +5 infusion on there.

1) It didn’t ask me if I wanted to replace the existing infusion on there and,
2) Before the patch I would be able to add general infusions to offensive/defensive slots

so wtf…give me back my +5 because I don’t have time to work for another

In a related note, these things are a crafting item, but there is no slot for them in the crafting bank. The QA team, doing their usual crap job of things.

Metion.9541:

Zaxares.5419:

So is it true that the new Agony Resist infusions dropped in Fractals only go in the new slots for Infused Ascended gear? They won’t fit in the standard Offensive/Defensive/Utility slots?

Exactly.

That sucks. Well, at least it seems the new AR infusions are tradable, so at least they won’t go to waste as I have no plans to do any Fractals beyond level 30.

Treeline.3865:

In other words, and correct me if I’m wrong; Every time you use an infusion, that infusion will no longer be upgradeable. Should you want a better one from all the new infusions you have gathered, you will need to create a new one from scratch to get a better one.

Thats terrible, I assumed you would be able to remove it when you want to upgrade it.

Verdelet Arconia.6987:

Is my maths correct for making +10 infusion resistance?
1×2×2x2x2×2×2x2x2×2=512 pieces of +1 infusion resistance to make one +10 infusion resistance
if yes, then GW2 FOTM= super grind

OK I was excited for fractals again, but with Scarlet in thaumanova and now this anet can go kitten themselves. Does everything in the game have to be a grind now.

Yeah, the bright side is that they are tradeable. So even though it takes 512 for a +10, I bet that within two weeks the +1s will be selling for 1 or 2 silver due to the fact that they drop like candy. So 5 gold or so for a +10. Not a big deal.

morrolan.9608:

Does everything in the game have to be a grind now.

Yes

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Expect a gem store “upgrade extractor” for the low low price of 400 gems/use to appear shortly…

I fear this is exactly what they will do, but I really hope they will just let us swap infusions as we want to and upgrade on the fly, rather than having to make a new one every time we choose to use an infusion.