Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure why we need so many different currencies, but here we are…

The easiest solution would be to just dump all these different currencies since the goal is to let players play the game the way they want to, but if we’re going to keep them, then we need for all gear to be available in all ways of playing.

Right now. Rings are acquired via fractals or laurels. Kinda sucks if you can’t play every day and hate dungeons. Amulets are laurels only. Really, really sucks if you have multiple alts as one laurel a day and ten per month is not going to gives you best in slot gear in anything resembling a reasonable amount of time. Even when other achievements get converted, it’s unlikely going to cover anything more than two or three more alts.

So we need more ways to buy ascended (BiS) gear to both cover all the ways people want to play as well as make it possible for multiple alts to get their gear.

The easiest way to do this is to simply create vendors that use each type of token. WvW players can spend their badges. Dungeon players can keep running fractals. Open world PvE players can spend karma. It should be pretty straightforward on figuring the costs between each vendor if it’s just converted back into time.

For example, it takes 10 days of level 10 fractals to earn a ring. It should take 10 days of laurels to earn that same ring. Just figure out how much karma a normal player can earn in 10 days, and make that the cost of a ring. Same with WvW badges.

Do the same with all new ascended gear. This lets players play their way and gives altaholics multiple ways of getting gear to cover their multiple toons.

+1 I’ve been preaching about this for sometime now. ANET sold this game as a theme park kind of game, yet it’s making me ride the tilt-o-world just to get prizes when all these rides (dungeons) are going to waste

1 currency to ride them all! I mean rule them all!

Ascended gear is for fractals. Yes, it is best in slot, but who cares? Really? In a dungeon what does it really matter if you have ascended gear, or exotic gear, or rare or gasp masterwork. You don’t even need gear that’s your proper level. As long as you know how to play and your group can play too you can do it. So why should dungeon playing be able to earn them?

In WvW it makes even less difference unless you happen to be caught out alone by someone else who’s alone the fights are generally pretty straight forward and your specific gear makeup isn’t terribly important. So why should PvPers be able to earn them?

The rest of the game is absolutle no difficulty until you get to Orr and even then, only a little. You don’t need best in anything, so why should “casuals” be able to earn them?

Personally I would say they don’t really have any place in the laurel vendor at all, but I guess this is to allow casual players the opportunity to eventually work themselves up to being able to do some higher level fractal work without actually having to do the fractals to get there.

Should the Ascended items that are not immediately available to fractal players be on the fractal vendors? Yes, yes they should, that is an oversight. But the solution is not to make it so any random person who’s been accumulating karma forever can just pick them up for nothing.

Kal Spiro.9745:

But the solution is not to make it so any random person who’s been accumulating karma forever can just pick them up for nothing.

You completely missed the point. They did not pick up these items for nothing, they spend Karma or a consolidated badge. You sound like one of those carebears that only like to run FOTM and your hurt over the idea that other people should be able to achieve these items. If they are so pointless why are they in the game?

Screwing over majority of the players in the game that would rather do anything other than run FOTM for ascended gear is not right.

People will continue to chase the carrot and they should be rewarded for any type of behavior. If it the amount rewarded consolidated badge is less for a specific action depending on it’s toughness so be it. Some dungeons may only give 3, 4,5 and some WvW may only give a badge out after so many kills(or other things like support/control).

The current system is like going to a theme park and only have a few rides giving out rewards. Sure it should just be fun to ride, but when you see that kid with the big stuffed animal because he rides a specific ride it kinda upsetting.

Now who’s missing the point. They are in game FOR FOTM. Interesting point, I don’t run FOTM. I’m only to level 5, so I don’t even need agony protection yet. What I am is the guy who’s been accumulating karma for aged and has enough to easily buy all the ascended gear I could even need if it suddenly became available. I’m that guy and still I’m telling you it’s a bad idea.

My POINT was, how exactly is anyone being screwed over? The problem here is not Laurels, nor what used what kind of currency. The problem is that Ascended gear should be on Fractal vendors first, and available anywhere else later. Ascended gear is for Fractal players. That is why it exists. To allow Fractal players to survive in tougher fractals. Until Agony becomes a thing outside of Fractals Ascended gear really isn’t necessary in any way, and no one is losing out by being unable to acquire them easily.

ANET said after they introduced Ascended items that they would be available for other types of behavior so this is not solely FOTM. Have you taken a look at the Laurel vender recently? Some of the infusions offer no agony resistance.

A really simple fix instead of offering all these currencies is to either remove all the other currencies in the game and just have one or two, or have a way to convert all these currencies into one currency used for ascended items. If people are worried that people who have millions of karma to cash in all they need to do is raise the karma needed to purchase an item or the consolidated currency thats needed for ascended items. It’s that simple.

On top of this this will not force people into 2 paths to obtain ascended gear, but reward all behavior.

They said that OVER TIME you will be able to gain ascended gear by other methods than just FoTM. They JUST added the laurel system way to get them; they’re likely to add a WvW way to get them soon enough, and probably karma ways as well. kitten just give them time and quit being so impatient.