Guild Wars 2

I see so much hate on the forums for both sides, the new gear being a good idea, as well as a bad idea. I came up with something that MIGHT satisfy everyone..?

Introduce your new ascended gear. Except make the stats THE SAME AS EXOTICS. Make the big difference the infusion slot. The infusion slot would only give bonuses to things in specific dungeons.

EXAMPLE -> Infusion slot makes you take 5% less damage from agony condition (the monster only new condition).

That way, there is gear progression in PVE dungeons. You can progress further into the new fractoid dungeons or whatever they are and feel all epic, but at the same time, that same gear will be exactly the same as current exotics (except hopefully look amazing) in every other aspect of the game.

Side Note – Ascended accessories (if they had the same stats as exotics) is great just because it gives another way for people to get “exotic quality” accessories for something other than gold (or farming mats to make it which is the same thing as gold IMO)

TL;DR – Make ascended gear only “better” in “harder modes” of the new dungeon type, and the same (but cooler looking) in every other aspect of the game (especially WvW)

In my opinion, ascended gear should be completely and utterly removed.

If however they were to add ascended gear, then ascended gear should be as good as exotics + runes. Infusion slots should only affect the agony condition. Offensive slots could be “reflect 10% agony damage back at foe” and defensive slots could be “gain more health from heals when affected by agony”.

But ascended should be exactly the same as exotics if they’re implemented. It is a MUCH better idea to remove them completely.

In my opinion, you have yet to see what ascended gear really is; minus one ring comparison (WITHOUT the infusion upgrade). Therefore any opinions about how bad or good they are is irrelevant because you have no experience with them. Form your opinions after you have time (or not enough time) to test them.