We’re running into multiple major patches now after fractals and still Anet has not itemized a large number of stat combinations in the Ascended tier such as cleric, apothecary, etc.
This is ridiculous and negligent. You have created a game where a large portion of the playerbase is incapable of vertical progression without changing playstyle.
You added a vendor. You have no reason to keep trying to foist these terribly named and confusing “uniques” on us anymore. It ALMOST made sense when they were random drops and you wanted the “majority” of people (DPS) to be happy with their random drops. A smaller pool meant more happy DPS not raging they got a healing ring.
Ascended <Stat Combination> Ring/Backslot is all we need. It shouldn’t even take an intern an hour to generate items to cover all of the stat combinations and slap them on the vendor.
Until then I am completely without motivation to participate, as are many other players.