Guild Wars 2

Just going off of the laurels gained by completing daily and monthly achievements, it takes more than three months to amass enough laurels to purchase a full set of ascended trinkets, and this is whilst taking into account Badges of Honor.

I’m aware of other options (fractals, guild missions, etc), but they shouldn’t be relevant. There’s no reason that ascended trinkets should be soul bound other than to be difficult and force more drawn out and tedious play. For people with multiple alts, it’s ridiculous the amount of time you have to put into getting the trinkets, when the problem could be solved simply by allowing us to switch trinkets between alts as we play.

it should happen and i hope it will.

The system is perfectly fine as it is. ANet want people to spread out their focus in the game and refusing to do guild missions and Fractals is your choice. It takes time but I have 6 characters with full ascended trinkets now. You clearly want everything served to you on a silver platter.

Adam.4103:

The system is perfectly fine as it is. ANet want people to spread out their focus in the game and refusing to do guild missions and Fractals is your choice. It takes time but I have 6 characters with full ascended trinkets now. You clearly want everything served to you on a silver platter.

I agree with this. You have multiple methods to obtain these. Its your choice to not do them, knowing those methods cut a hugely significant time off what you calculate for total time acquiring these.
If you’re not willing to pay the price in ‘difficulty’ for getting these sooner, then the price you’ll pay is time and so you’ll have to wait for laurels. As it should be.

Adam.4103:

You clearly want everything served to you on a silver platter.

Grow up.

I have two characters with a full set of ascended trinkets solely attained through daily and monthly achievements. I’m starting on my third and the fact is simply being able to switch them between characters until I can get a permanent set would be extremely convenient, and besides being difficult and elitist, there’s no reason this shouldn’t be an option, especially with ANet’s whole philosophy about playing how we want.

Adam.4103:

The system is perfectly fine as it is. ANet want people to spread out their focus in the game and refusing to do guild missions and Fractals is your choice. It takes time but I have 6 characters with full ascended trinkets now. You clearly want everything served to you on a silver platter.

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Time should not equal power. Having a lot of free time should not give you bigger numbers. Having other interests or obligations should not result in a stat penalty. People with excessive free time have enough advantages already, such as having more time to practice and experiment with builds.

aliksyian.7642:

Adam.4103:

The system is perfectly fine as it is. ANet want people to spread out their focus in the game and refusing to do guild missions and Fractals is your choice. It takes time but I have 6 characters with full ascended trinkets now. You clearly want everything served to you on a silver platter.

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Time should not equal power. Having a lot of free time should not give you bigger numbers. Having other interests or obligations should not result in a stat penalty. People with excessive free time have enough advantages already, such as having more time to practice and experiment with builds.

Dude what are you smoking, this is an MMO.

Lighter.5631:

aliksyian.7642:

Adam.4103:

The system is perfectly fine as it is. ANet want people to spread out their focus in the game and refusing to do guild missions and Fractals is your choice. It takes time but I have 6 characters with full ascended trinkets now. You clearly want everything served to you on a silver platter.

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Time should not equal power. Having a lot of free time should not give you bigger numbers. Having other interests or obligations should not result in a stat penalty. People with excessive free time have enough advantages already, such as having more time to practice and experiment with builds.

Dude what are you smoking, this is an MMO.

Things don’t need to be done the way they were done before.

What would be the point of transfering zerk gear to another zerk character… ? I don’t get it. I have a zerk warrior and a condition mancer and I don’t see anything wrong with the fact that I need to earn gear on each of them separately.

I don’t really see what the argument here is. You’re not supposed to get end-game gear easily.

What you want is to be able to put all your AR gear on a different character so you can do a higher fractal which is called abusing the system. This is the reason why it isn’t account-bound only.

Shelledfade.6435:

I don’t really see what the argument here is. You’re not supposed to get end-game gear easily.

Why not? That’s how it used to be.

aliksyian.7642:

Shelledfade.6435:

I don’t really see what the argument here is. You’re not supposed to get end-game gear easily.

Why not? That’s how it used to be.

Why not is because they don’t want you transfering all your AR to char to char to do higher fractals easier.

Jackums.3496:

Adam.4103:

You clearly want everything served to you on a silver platter.

Grow up.

I have two characters with a full set of ascended trinkets solely attained through daily and monthly achievements. I’m starting on my third and the fact is simply being able to switch them between characters until I can get a permanent set would be extremely convenient, and besides being difficult and elitist, there’s no reason this shouldn’t be an option, especially with ANet’s whole philosophy about playing how we want.

Exactly, “your” convenience… Should ANet cater everything to your wants and needs?

Many people would stop doing guild missions and fractals if ascended trinkets were account bound on use. Obviously they want people to do as much of their content as possible so it will never happen.

The stat difference from exotics to ascended isn’t that huge so waiting a few weeks is no big deal.

Oh and grow up yourself if you’re not willing to have a civil debate.

Jackums.3496:

Grow up.

I have two characters with a full set of ascended trinkets solely attained through daily and monthly achievements. I’m starting on my third and the fact is simply being able to switch them between characters until I can get a permanent set would be extremely convenient, and besides being difficult and elitist, there’s no reason this shouldn’t be an option, especially with ANet’s whole philosophy about playing how we want.

They have the option for people who want to do the minimalistic approach. Laurels. And you’re using that method. Whats the problem?
They also have alternative methods to obtain said gear faster, which speed up the process, you have opted not to do this, but are still getting what you want via laurels, just takes longer. Again, whats the problem?
The problem is you don’t want to do the alternative method but want to be rewarded the same as people who do.

aliksyian.7642:

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Time should not equal power. Having a lot of free time should not give you bigger numbers. Having other interests or obligations should not result in a stat penalty. People with excessive free time have enough advantages already, such as having more time to practice and experiment with builds.

The alternative methods do not require a lot of time. They require doing something.
Fractals level 10 is about an hour on average, a day. At level 10, runs I do are 45mins – 1hour15mins, depending on whats rolled for fractals. I don’t do elitist groups. This is just pugs from the LFG tool.
Guild missions is once a week for a commendation. Bounty hunt takes all of 10mins for a guild doing it right. Guild rush is at max 20 or 30mins, I forget the time limit exactly. If you only do these 2, thats 3 commendations a week or 1 month for an earring. Do the other missions and it cuts that month down a lot. I would find it hard to believe anyone doesn’t have this much time in a week to do at least 1 or 2 of the missions.

Dailies at max could be stretched out to an hour a day.

So…..you don’t have an hour to spare to run fractals, ever? How is that a huge time advantage? When running fractals, alot of the time a lot of your dailies will either get done, or a bunch of them will be in high percetange to being done. So really, its better time management as your earning relics and also laurels at the same time.
Its not time equalling bigger numbers. Its effort in actually doing something for those numbers faster. If you want to do the bare minimum dailies and not even try to do faster methods, then you should wait for those bigger numbers.
Or even only running fractals on the weekends is 2 prestine relics for saturday and sunday. Just a couple or few times a week. It’ll be a month+/- getting the ring, sure, but in that time you also get laurels, so in a month you’d get 2 rings instead of 1. Noone says you have to do it every day.
Use whats available to you to your advantage rather than try to have the system tailored to your own specific needs.

If fractals or guild missions were affairs that took hours and hours each time and required multiple grinding runs a day, I might agree with you on this, but they’re not. Between the two of them it amounts to a few hours a week, depending how many days you feel like doing fractals.
You have the choice. Get them faster using methods provided or get them slower doing the absolute bare minimum. Either way everyone ends up with the same numbers. You are not being deprived of them. You just get them at a slower pace.

And thats one character. If you have the time to play alts, level and gear them, you have time to earn this stuff faster. And if you’re not playing them in fractals, whats the friggin rush anyway since you don’t need the Agony Resistance these provide since that is the biggest reason to even have them.