Guild Wars 2

We all know Ascended armor is coming soon, some might be happy, some indifferent others even angry.

I think that it would be positive for the game if the Ascended Armor isn’t locked behind the requirement of getting to level 500 in crafting.

It is certainly positive to allow players who enjoy crafting and the search for materials to craft their way to ascended gear. However not everyone is into this, and not everyone sees dropping 200 gold into crafting pointless exotics to get to 500 just to craft a few ascended pieces that they cant even sell worth it or fun.

I know many might think or say “well but you dont need ascended gear, if its too much for you then dont get it” but we all know this is a bad argument, weve seen it with exotic gear before when this was the end game gear, people kicking you out of your party just because you didnt have exotic gear to clear the dungeon in 10 seconds. Its not happening now cos we dont have full ascended gear but it will certainly come to happen.

Why not allow people to buy pieces with laurels just as you can do with trinkets? or why dont let people buy the pieces with fractal relics as you can also do with some of the trinkets? or through guild commendations? etc?

With trinkets people could choose how to approach them and how to get to have them, we had options and we could choose what was the most fun for US.

Ascended weapons on the contrary force you to craft and if you don’t like it then suck it up.

If we have a precedent of ascended gear being accessible through alternative routes why did this freedom get restricted when ascended weapons came out when it could have been one more option along with the many others we already had?

So my advice, my suggestion for the people who are in charge of putting the ascended armor into the game is: give us back the freedom we had with ascended trinkets and expand it with other options such as crafting, dont do the same as you did with ascended weapons, it just makes the game a grind fest.

Thanks!

Agreed. I’m no fan of crafting. I and perhaps the majority of players would like the option to approach ALL Acended gear from many different angles instead of being crammed in one direction regardless if we want to or not.

There should be many ways to obtain rank Accended gear
Fractals,laurals,guild commendations,crafting,trading post,random drop, ECT!

yah exactly! i wish we had all those options for us