Many players pick up different ascended rings until they farm the ascended rings they really need. By completing 20 times the fractals (10 times for each ring), in order to get the ascended rings one player really wants, that player comes into many ascended rings which have stats that don’t suit him. When he completes his goal, his bank (or his inventory) will most likely have around 4-7 ascended rings with no essensial value. So I ask why should so many top quality rings go to waste? Wouldn’t it be better to add a little worthiness to them without changing the basic model (getting them only from fractals and from missions)? I suggest the option to use them at mystic forge as all lower quality weapons and armors (rares, exotics, etc) are used. For example if someone throw 4 ascended rings in the mystic forge, one random ascended ring will come out (which is also account bound). First, you add with this option a small essential value to those rings and second, if anyone is able to throw 4 ascended rings in mystic forge it means that he was at least a couple of times in fractals (so this “mystic forge option” should not be considered as a free-from-fractals way of gaining that extra ring).
One other idea that I believe should be applied as soon as possible is a way of explaining to players that the “unique” word in ascended items’ text means that one player cannot equip the same exact ascended item twice! Do you know how many players go 10 more times to fractals (around 10hours) to farm 10 tokens and finally get the 2nd ascended ring they wanted and at the end they realise that they can’t equip that ring because it is the same as the other ascended ring they have already equipped in the other ring slot?? (And no they don’t refund this at Anet support… many players already contacted support….including me).
I hope those ideas-suggestions would make the world of guild wars 2 more “valuable” and more worth-time spending.
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