Guild Wars 2

Bear with me this is gonna be a long read.

By what the title suggests, it would be great if we could obtain laurels faster than just 1 a day. Almost 1 year since the game has been released and by now many people already have more than one character.

Me personally I have 4 level 80’s and a 5th one on the way. Obtaining the Ascended accessories is more frustrating than fun. Right now 2 of my characters are still missing their earrings, and one amulet for one of the said 2 characters, All of these 5 items combined require a whopping 190 Laurels (180 if you get the amulet with badges), That’s well over 3 months of work just for a couple of things for my character, sounds fair? I don’t think so.

I would love to do some high level fractals but my progression is blocked due to this problem and this isn’t something about fractals only, It’s also about having your character with the best stats gear, which in the end is what most people aim to have right?

So here’s my suggestion:

Daily:

PvE: Keep daily as it is AND if you finish the PvP one too, it gives you a laurel too.

PvP: Same thing as above but for PvE.

That would make it 2 laurels a day.

Monthly:

I know this can be finished in a matter of a few days, but still I think it should award 15 instead of 10.

And maybe for the hardcore ones:

1 Laurel for fractal level 30+ (daily and account wide) = I chose level 30 for this because players can already have enough Agony Resistance to finish the fractal, so getting the final pieces would be like preparing them for the higher tiers.

I think 3 Laurels everyday is a fair improvement over the 1 we currently get. Some people may want to use different sets for their characters, for example an Ele may choose to have a healing/support set and a full damage one, With exotics this has never been a problem as long as one has the money but laurels isn’t something you can obtain on a grinding basis.

Before someone mentions guild missions: I know we can get Earrings with Guild Commendations but I chose to leave those out of the topic cause not every guild has the manpower to do these.

I am not asking for an easier game, as much as I would like more Laurels everyday I also want to work for them. From my point of view 1 Laurel per day is too low.

Comments and other constructive ideas appreciated. :-)

Maybe not in these ways specifically, tho i dont see anything wrong with these ideas. At this point, gearing 12 80s in just ascended TRINKETS is going to take years. When armor comes out its just gonna get worse. Please make SOME way to earn more than 1 laurel a day

Ok I’m gonna bump this thread with a few comments.

The Ascended Weapon Update was great, however. In the game’s current state we’re locked to 40 Laurels a month (Excluding the 1 time achievement chests) and I have to say that’s a pitiful insanely low amount.

Right now with 40 Laurels a month (considering you do the daily everyday which is something not everyone has the time for) you have to get:

Ascended Neckpiece – 30 Laurels, (20 if with badges)
Ascended Earrings – 40 Laurels (that’s only for 1)
Ascended Rings – 30 Laurels (Obtainable by other means but still mentioning them)
Ascended Recipes – 5 Laurels

And we have to obtain all these with 1 Laurel per daily and 10 Laurels per monthly, come on let’s be serious.

I can get to the high level fractals 40+ in a matter of few days with the right effort just to be blocked by a 2 months wait to get the stupid Laurels. This system needs a serious rework imo.

I’ll become a grandad before I finish getting all the Laurels I need.

Get ascended rings from FotM. Instead of wasting 40 days for a ring, do it within 10d in FotM lvl10.

Get ascended earrings from guild commendations. Even “lower” guilds should have the missions by now.

Getting 1.3 Laurels per day is enough for me. I got 7 chars on 80 and almost all with ascended trinkets.

Nretep.2564:

Get ascended rings from FotM. Instead of wasting 40 days for a ring, do it within 10d in FotM lvl10.

Get ascended earrings from guild commendations. Even “lower” guilds should have the missions by now.

Getting 1.3 Laurels per day is enough for me. I got 7 chars on 80 and almost all with ascended trinkets.

At least do fotm 20 for a chance at a fractal wep lol (even though ive been doing fotm 48 daily for a couple of months and havent gotten a single fractal wep i could use on my thief)

uhmm, what about keeping PvP out of PvE stuff, is it really fair that ppl who despise PvP are always left out of the good stuff…

I would agree, it’s too small an amount. Having two items locked away under months of dailies is just incredibly annoying. Most every other aspect of the game is fairly “lightcore” why single this out to be so demanding?

TL;DR BELOW, prefer that you read the whole post.

Fastest way to get full ascended per toon (best case scenario):

Ascended backpieces can be crafted from items purchased with gold, and/or farming fractals, so for the sake of this post they are omitted

Ascended accessories can be purchased through guild commendations (4 weeks to fully gear with those via commendations 24 + 10 gold to fully gear a toon)
Ascended rings can be found from daily chests for 10-19,20-29,30-39,and 40-49, meaning 4 chances for a ring to drop PER DAY
Ascended amulets can be purchased from the wvw laurel vendor for 20 laurels + 250 badges (meaning 10 days from the beginning of a month+ monthly which imho comes naturally with dailys + 250 badges)

lets keep in mind, badges can be rewards from achievement chests, so can laurels, so can gold.

So, doing fractals every day, doing dailys every day, and doing your monthly, and doing guild missions, several guilds on NA use a ‘wild recruitment’ system ,where they add you to their guild for the duration of guild missions. This means that you can have every trinket slot geared by 4 weeks (pending on getting drops from rings)

Now, given you can complete a monthly and ~28 dailys in the time it takes you to get your 24 guild commendations, that means you have gained 38 laurels (-20 for the amulet) 18 laurels gained in 28 days, the time it takes to get enough commendations for the accessories.

For the rings, 4chances per day*28 days = 112. Granted, rings are faily rare drops and you most likely wont get the stat combo you are looking for, this in addition to Pristine fractal relics.

Im not saying that this thread isnt truthful, laurels DO take a lot of time to earn, but im proposing that it wouldn’t take the ungodly amount of time that the OP suggested Especially when you take into account that the alternative way of earning accessories means you save 80 laurels and the ones you earn over that period of time (28 laurels) can be used to get another equipment slot filled, say a ring after 2 more days.

For weapons, it takes 2 weeks to finish all the base mats for an ascended weapon, which also give you time to get the laurels for the recipes.

Remember, laurels weren’t introduced to replace the current methods for acquiring ascended gear, they were added as an alternative way. aswell as alternatives to other things that people strive for ( ectos from equip boxes, obby shards, tier 1-6 rare mats etc etc).

TL;DR, Laurels DO take a long time to earn, but aren’t really the timegate the op suggests, as you can get them from having AP. Having AP for cheevo chests + doing daily runs for FOTM 18,28,38,48 can reduce the timegate for fully gearing a toon by a month. Laurels just aren’t the efficient way of earning ascended gear(especially for the accessories, considering the prices of ectos and the 2 hours a week you need to do guild missions), there are many other ways to get them.

total cost for full ascended using least laurels possible:
10 gold
20 laurels
24 guild commendations
250 badges
luck for fotm chest OR 20 pristine relics (20 days if you have level 10 unlocked but nothing higher)
OR some laurels but dont play FOTM
10 gold
70 laurels
24 guild commendations
750 badges of honor

easy answer.

The longer you play the game the more money you will potentially spend in the gem store.

The only power we players have over Anet is to not spend a dime / quit until we get the changes we want to see.

Good luck organizing players behind your cause.