Guild Wars 2

(Posted this on general discussion, this seems a better place for it tho)

I recently heard that anet has plans to make ascended gear. I hear players whining every day about their legendaries not having more stats…

The perfect example of why this isn’t a good idea is found on Lineage 2 and it’s enchant scrolls that made weapons and armors +1 and so on, with a bigger chance of destroying the item on each enchant level.

Do more stats add any kind of gameplay element? No, they don’t. They only serve as a money sink that forces people to spend time and resources (A.K.A grinding) so they can pretty much play their character the same way they used to, against other players that also have to grind the stuff to fight you on equal footing. This is borderline ill-intentioned, it’s cheap and it’s lazy.
Anet of course already knows this and this is why the spvp system works so well, you have a jewel and you have a jewel upgrade slot and that’s it.

I would like to see new gameplay elements on new, higher-end gear instead.

Legendary weapons could give unique skills, for example. Ascended armors could have extra rune slots (Just an idea, not very good for balance but you get the point) and so on. Classes wearing a full set of ascended armor could gain a new “Ascended” skill slot, with new skills that would fit all builds and playstyles being available, etc.
Also change infusions for rune-like items with interesting effects.

Anything but grind that serves nothing, gameplay wise.

Or just get over it and give us the choice to pay 10 gems for one permanent stat increase, at least that would be honest.

All of your “alternative” suggestions give unfair advantages to rich players, WAY beyond the pitiful increase in stats from Ascended gear that makes borderline no difference. No.

This is awful.

Auesis.7301:

All of your “alternative” suggestions give unfair advantages to rich players, WAY beyond the pitiful increase in stats from Ascended gear that makes borderline no difference. No.

This is awful.

My “suggestions” were more like brainstorming than things I would actually like to see in game, the double rune slot is clearly stupid for example x).

I agree with you tho, it would give richc players an advantage.
I think that the best possible option would be to leave gear as it is and never again add anything better. I seriously think so.

Sadly that will not happen, for a lot of reasons… People whining, popular demand, and more importantly = $$$

So could we at least get decent gameplay value of the grind?

Please if you are going to critizice… Excercise some reading comprehension, the core of my suggestion is to change stat bonuses in upcoming gear for things that provide gameplay value instead, and to do the same with infusions.

How? I don’t know, that’s anet job to be honest.