Guild Wars 2

Just provide a WvW NPC that sells a sort of “transmutation stone” for each armour/weapon slot (for say 100-300 badges per stone) that ups the stats of an exotic item to be on par with that of an ascended item.

Upgrading has problems. Better to just have a vendor sell the items directly. The more people ANET wants the vendor to satisfy, the more likely it is to use a common currency (gold/karma) than tokens.

Or just remove the bind on pickup nonsense and let people use the trading post to get the Ascended items and/or ingredients to make them.

The idea behind upgrading was to remedy the issue of people’s already existing exotic gear being made worthless. And also a hassle if you put expensive upgrades into it already.

I agree, remove the account bound tag from ascended items, allow them to be purchasable on the TC or all the items required to make them be purchasable on the TC.

Poof: problem solved.

Antiriad.7160:

Just provide a WvW NPC that sells a sort of “transmutation stone” for each armour/weapon slot (for say 100-300 badges per stone) that ups the stats of an exotic item to be on par with that of an ascended item.

Me WvW player only, me special, me shouldn’t have to get 50 ectos and 250 T6 mats + an account bound drop cause PvE stoopid.

That’s pretty much what I’m getting from all the whining about Ascended gear I’ve seen.

Toast.6459:

Antiriad.7160:

Just provide a WvW NPC that sells a sort of “transmutation stone” for each armour/weapon slot (for say 100-300 badges per stone) that ups the stats of an exotic item to be on par with that of an ascended item.

Me WvW player only, me special, me shouldn’t have to get 50 ectos and 250 T6 mats + an account bound drop cause PvE stoopid.

That’s pretty much what I’m getting from all the whining about Ascended gear I’ve seen.

Well , fact is , from all the useless tries to justify their mistakes , devs already said.

The amount of stuff required is FAR to high , remm that “you dont need to grind you soul for stats” ? In theory that is still up for them on some level , which means those stupid costs for ascension gear are going down eventually. That IF devs actually intend to keep what they say this time , which really … means nothing.

Antiriad.7160:

The idea behind upgrading was to remedy the issue of people’s already existing exotic gear being made worthless. And also a hassle if you put expensive upgrades into it already.

Expensive upgrades that you can’t use in Ascended gear. Ascended gear only takes infusions, while all other gear can’t use them. There are no upgrades that go into both.

Nox Aeterna.2965:

Toast.6459:

Antiriad.7160:

Just provide a WvW NPC that sells a sort of “transmutation stone” for each armour/weapon slot (for say 100-300 badges per stone) that ups the stats of an exotic item to be on par with that of an ascended item.

Me WvW player only, me special, me shouldn’t have to get 50 ectos and 250 T6 mats + an account bound drop cause PvE stoopid.

That’s pretty much what I’m getting from all the whining about Ascended gear I’ve seen.

Well , fact is , from all the useless tries to justify their mistakes , devs already said.

The amount of stuff required is FAR to high , remm that “you dont need to grind you soul for stats” ? In theory that is still up for them on some level , which means those stupid costs for ascension gear are going down eventually. That IF devs actually intend to keep what they say this time , which really … means nothing.

Then legendary weapons should be addressed first as the gear grind for those is much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much worse.
Not saying it should be easy to get a legendary, but grinding for 400 hours (about what it takes) isn’t legendary, that’s just a waste of time.