Guild Wars 2

I think the ascended recipes look to complicated. I will probably just keep making legendaries because they do not look that much more complicated and will always be BiS and can change stats at any time.

How hard is it to make your 2 daily ecto thingies and then follow a recipe?

Its not hard, but time consuming/gated and uses resources which I might as well save for legendaries.

just farm what u need every day and make it.
its not hard
its not complicated

its just time gated

krixis.9538:

just farm

Kinda disappointed that this is what is considered “new content” instead of more dungeons, events, boss, etc.

He’s right. Assuming you can get your hands on a precursor, it seems like going for a legendary would be much less hassle.

I haven’t gone through the process myself, yet, but that does raise an interesting point; maybe A-net should implement some sort of non-intrusive guiding system to help players along?

So, are the legendaries filling a gap between exotics and ascended now?

they arent, but if you reach ascended weaponary you arent THAT far off from legendaries, so you might as well save your resources and go the extra step for future proofness and selectable stats.

Crafting is boring and always will be, it consists on clicking and watching a bar fill after all. Having to browse a guide to learn a complicated recipe and craft several subcomponents to craft the final product will simply be a compounded bore.

¿What’s the point? I came here to play, not read guides about a complicated for no reasson crafting system.

The reason players will craft these items is for the prestige. The stats gain is minimal. Simply using exotics is enough. Yet players will rush to craft the new items so they can walk around showing off their time consuming, overly priced, goodies.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/How-to-Craft-an-Ascended-Weapon/first#post2742345

Here you go. Something i wrote up yesterday

panzer.6034:

krixis.9538:

just farm

Kinda disappointed that this is what is considered “new content” instead of more dungeons, events, boss, etc.

Adventure box is the new content. This is just something extra.

Rezz.8019:

panzer.6034:

krixis.9538:

just farm

Kinda disappointed that this is what is considered “new content” instead of more dungeons, events, boss, etc.

Adventure box is the new content. This is just something extra.

I guess maybe i should have qualified that as “permanent content”. Not sure how of a chance i’ll get to see the SAB this month.

Malediktus.9250:

Its not hard, but time consuming/gated and uses resources which I might as well save for legendaries.

Indeed. If wasting so much time and resource on this, one might simply use it all for the real thing and craft a Legendary.
Here I’m talking about T6 materials that will need to be refined for Ascended weps.

Yes legendaries are so much easier to make. Hardly complicated at all with them recipes inside of other recipes. Not to mention the vague materials which randomly spawn out specific item combinations, not in the least mentioned anywhere in the game.

I too find legendaries much “less complicated”.

zerotwo.4731:

The reason players will craft these items is for the prestige. The stats gain is minimal. Simply using exotics is enough. Yet players will rush to craft the new items so they can walk around showing off their time consuming, overly priced, goodies.

You mean sorta like legendaries?

Razor.9872:

I haven’t gone through the process myself, yet, but that does raise an interesting point; maybe A-net should implement some sort of non-intrusive guiding system to help players along?

They already have one, as well as an LFG system.

The gw2lfg.com suffices as the stop-gap measure while their own LFG system has finally merged from the too-hard basket to being in the works.

The system used to help players along, in the same pseudo-outsourcing vein, is dulfy.net and she does some of the best guides the MMO world will ever see.