Guild Wars 2

Instead of adding new ascended gear, you could re-do exotic armors adding one more upgrade slot to exotics for adding the infusion upgrade.
It would have not altered the power of the exotic armor, it would just add the new infusion resistance to certain foes.
It would have been a lot simpler and basically all exotics people have now would have just been upgraded with this new free upgrade slot

If they did that, they’d be going against their motto of gear grinding… oh wait… they said there would be no stats better than exotic whatsoever. GW1 infused items didn’t even have a slot. You talk to the reward NPC and “infused” gets appended to the item description. I will be getting ascended items for skins only. I will not be infusing them unless it’s free. I’m not giving up on parts of the game. ANet denied me this as of their original premise on which I bought the game.