Guild Wars 2

The current way of getting ascended gear is a grindfest, and limited to dungeon runners. Everybody knows that, and I doubt anyone but the richest likes it.

So, why not introduce some way of getting ascended via all content (except sPvP)?

A way it could be done: Mystic forge tokens obtained from all content. Every type of content would drop specific tokens, 4 tokens would give a random ascended item, with some combinations giving specific items. Example of tokens:

• Normal PvE tokens would drop from champions, with token types based on the monster type (Branded tokens from branded champs, skelk tokens from skelk champs, etc)
• Event tokens would drop from meta event chests (Megadestroyer token, Flame elemental token, dragon tokens, etc)
• Dungeon tokens drop from the final boss of a path (one token for each final boss, including story modes)
• WvW tokens drop from successful attacks/defenses (and successful attacks/defenses give chests containing WvW related items) (supply camp attacker token/stonemist defender token, etc)
• Exploration tokens come from jump puzzles and other scattered chests (Based on the area)