Guild Wars 2

I know most people won’t agree with this theory, but I really wish that Ascended/Legendary items weren’t tradable. I feel like buying it off the trading post takes away the prestige of the item. For a legendary, this is especially true because it requires so many items that you simply cannot buy with money. Selling Legendaries just appeases the gold farmers, and… I dont know. I feel like they should require something more “Legendary” than just pressing 1 through an event.

And, in my opinion, ascended items should reward the player for being more skilled than others. Not simply more rich. Because I can guarantee most players have gotten a fair bit richer by farming events in the past couple weeks, and while prices will fluctuate accordingly… I don’t know.

I don’t want to offend people by offing the gold farmers. Because yeah, that’s your choice to farm, and you’re paid handsomely for it, and you deserve it. But I personally get no feeling of satisfaction by grinding the same NOT CHALLENGING content over and over again to rack up the numbers to get something.

My rant of the day.

who said they would be tradable?

Current Ascendeds aren’t tradeable…
Why would ascended weapons be any different?
Legendaries are a different story… but they’ve been purchaseable since day one, so it’d be unfair to change that now. (Especially for all those people that are planning on selling their Legendary in the TP.)

And, yes, it basically does appease gold sellers (note: not farmers), of which the biggest is ANet. As they basically try to eradicate any gold farmers (which is healthy for the overall in-game economy).

Notice the first thing you see when going to the trading post? “Most valuable items” and “Most desirable items”, etc.

ANet wants to give you a goal of things to grind for… (or spend your money on Gems → Gold)

It’s in their best interests to make you want to buy Legendaries.

However, I expect all the T7 mats to be account bound (as they’re time-gated).
Thus, I’d be very surprised if the Ascended weapons were tradeable…

And, to be honest, that goes against the initial goals for crafting as set forth by ANet.
The original blog post on Crafting (prior to release) said that they wanted crafting to be a viable way to make money in-game. (Which is kind of difficult if you’re forcing everyone to level 500, but won’t let them sell the best gear.)

I would be glad if the ascended items would become at least “mystic forgeable” or “salvageable”.

Because otherwise there would still not be a chance to get rid of your unwanted stat combinations apart from destroying them. I already have enough rings from the fractals, just imagine weapons and armor also demanding space in my bank… O_o

Rayti.6531:

I would be glad if the ascended items would become at least “mystic forgeable” or “salvageable”.

Because otherwise there would still not be a chance to get rid of your unwanted stat combinations apart from destroying them. I already have enough rings from the fractals, just imagine weapons and armor also demanding space in my bank… O_o

I don’t know of any account bound weapons that cannot be put in the Mystic Forge or salvaged.

I’m pretty sure ascended weapons are going to be account bound but this does sadden me somewhat as I would like to be able to make ascended weapons for my gf (we divided the 8 crafting professions between us).

Combatter.5123:

Rayti.6531:

I would be glad if the ascended items would become at least “mystic forgeable” or “salvageable”.

Because otherwise there would still not be a chance to get rid of your unwanted stat combinations apart from destroying them. I already have enough rings from the fractals, just imagine weapons and armor also demanding space in my bank… O_o

I don’t know of any account bound weapons that cannot be put in the Mystic Forge or salvaged.

And i do not know of any ascended piece that is salvageable, or can be put in MF for any purpose other than infusing it/upgrading for more sparkles.

Astralporing.1957:

Combatter.5123:

Rayti.6531:

I would be glad if the ascended items would become at least “mystic forgeable” or “salvageable”.

Because otherwise there would still not be a chance to get rid of your unwanted stat combinations apart from destroying them. I already have enough rings from the fractals, just imagine weapons and armor also demanding space in my bank… O_o

I don’t know of any account bound weapons that cannot be put in the Mystic Forge or salvaged.

And i do not know of any ascended piece that is salvageable, or can be put in MF for any purpose other than infusing it/upgrading for more sparkles.

That’s what I meant. I would like to throw all the useless stat rings in this toilette and try my luck on getting a useful one, maybe even an infused one with a very slight chance.

Or even better (additionally), salvage them for useful materials (so I’m not talking of a chance of getting 3 Mythril for salvaging an ascended ring…). I could imagine lots of useful material that normally is hard to get. Maybe they could even add this as another option to get the new items used to craft ascended items…? Would also make sense, salvaging another ascended to be able to craft another one.

Not sure where the post is but crafted ascended will be able to put on the trading post and ascended found in the world will not. They said something about they wanted crafting to mean something

I hope they are. Being able to sell for profit would be nice.

Ascended gear is not tradable. This was confirmed in the looking ahead preview last month.

“Ascended weapons and armor will remain account-bound like other ascended gear.”

Methods.4023:

Not sure where the post is but crafted ascended will be able to put on the trading post and ascended found in the world will not. They said something about they wanted crafting to mean something

No, they said the crafted Ascended would be account bound but the materials to craft it would be trade-able. That way there is an economy for the higher end mats.

Confirmed in developer livestream that weapon will be account-bound/soulbound on equipped.