Guild Wars 2

ANET,

One of the elements that attracted me to GW2 was the crafting. Please introduce new recipes for creating ascended equipment that do not require completing a dungeon to craft. At present, we can acquire equipment through:

• World Drops
• Crafting
• Karma Vendors
• Dungeon Vendors
• Trading Post
• Mystic Forge

Personally I’ve greatly enjoyed the many different ways of finding level appropriate equipment and I love the flexibility of crafting. I’m looking forward to seeing the new appearances coming with the expansion. However, I’m concerned that you may be reducing the different ways that players can acquire top level equipment with this coming expansion. Please keep the alternatives methods available when adding new equipment.

Most of the MMOs I’ve played treat crafted items as a “crutch” for players that have just hit the level cap. Once a new level of equipment is released the game designers almost always ignore crafting as an option so it doesn’t keep pace (or worse, they make recipes nearly impossible to acquire and only via completion of the new content). Please don’t let this happen in GW2. It wouldn’t take much (i.e., 2-3 cooking recipes that offer resistance to agony) to keep crafting viable for end-game content!

You were attracthed to gw2 because of CRAFTING? of all the thing????

Yareon.2835:

You were attracthed to gw2 because of CRAFTING? of all the thing????

This is also a major thing to me , if they dont add many ways to get this gear which 100% does not involve in anyway the dungeon (well if the items can be sold on the TP it would not be absurd either) , it is time to leave.

Still Anet did say they will add ascent to all kinds of content , all that is left is wait and see.