Guild Wars 2

While this may upset some of the more casual players I take serious issue with this continued crafting approach to the new ascended gear. It seems like ANet is determined to not encourage us to do anything but just grind away when we should be playing other aspects of the game to achieve the best loot available.

My solution?

Keep ascended weapons as crafted/drop items to give casual players a goal that will hopefully spur some more activity out of them. On the other hand, ascended armor should only drop from Fractals so players have a solid reason to run it but also get rewarded in another fashion.

Maybe I’m just a veteran MMO player and I’m stuck in my ways but I feel like I’m being spoon fed the best items in the game. All I need to do is run my dailies, play some world vs world and complete a guild mission every week to earn all my ascended gear and now I just need to craft a little more? It doesn’t matter what you add to the crafting process to make it “difficult” because in the end it’s just a boring time sink.

I would like to experience the team aspects of the game and get the best rewards for doing so, without watching people out pace me because they are so good at crafting. Other MMOs went stale relying on the daily system and I’m not asking for raids. I simply believe players should be encouraged to actually play the game as a whole.