Guild Wars 2

We were promised a game with a stat cap and no gear grinding, and equally as important, a game where max gear could be earned in PvE, WvW, Dungeons. The game promised options rather than grind. I think all the people who started the game because of that promise demand you stick to that model and not continue this Ascended Gear Grind.

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If I want to a grind mmo I’d have have bought one of those

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PmsDw6AfTYzy7Wh1j_bnaz4Fyop3_8wpbxGcxrhgNUI

From the recent AMA. Read through it. I’m one of those who was initially up-in-arms over this becoming a gear treadmill. It’s clear from this interview that there will be no more rarities of gear beyond ascended, but there will be a “shallow power curve”. How? It’ll most likely be through the release of stronger and stronger infusions. Considering their current bonuses being +5’s, I doubt everyone’s going to be going for them unless they insist on going deep into FotM or care so much about <1% of a boost.

They’ve admitted that the handling of the release of ascended gear was less than optimal. It was something they intended to include from release but never did. They also stated that the acquisition of ascended gear will not be limited to FotM and become available through general PvE and PvP.

Call me ignorant, naive, etc., but I’m going to wait until they’ve rolled out the next ascended items before raising hell about it.

I think, it is fair to reward also those, that play a lot (which excludes me) through a small sort of progression, those people keep the community running!

I’m with ExTribble, except I wasn’t up in arms from the start—I had kinda seen it all coming and was ready for it.

The bottom line is there will be stat creep, and they will introduce new abilities over time. Balancing will err on the side of buffs, not nerfs. Expect it to be very gradual and retroactive, as it was with GW1.

They wanted Ascended gear at release, but it wasn’t ready. FotM required ascended gear to be implemented so they decided that a partial implementation was better than no implementation.

The limited availability of ascended gear forces a grind, but when they make it available through additional means, it won’t be a grind any more. A +5-10% stat buff to 3 slots is a mouse fart in the air conditioning (14 inventory slots that, combined, make up ~25% of your stats, this is effectively a 0.5% overall stat buff).

Ok I see people’s complaints, but what I don’t understand is, regardless of releasing a Gear grind aspect, for the average gamer’s it will never affect them in any way.

The game still holds true to what they said, you can go through and get your exotics the same as you always did. Ascended gear from what I have seen is only about 3 to 5% better in stats, but offers agony resistance. Agony a mechanic that is not in any other part of the game minus FoTM.

If your so attested to the idea of Ascended gear, then don’t participate in it. Nothing is penalizing you for doing so.

Also before people start ranting about how it is still a gear grind take into consideration that Legendary’s were meant to be a gear grind. They were meant to takes months upon months to acquire the base ingredients for it . This is why there is a medal for having one, no one has complained about the grind for Legndary’s but yet Ascended gear makes it’s debut and people are up in arms.

Seriously people please please try to do a little research and find out the stats of Ascended gear to the stats of Exotic gear. You will find out that the stats are almost the same there is only a slight difference in them. Sure they have infusion slots and there will be more and more powerful infusions.. although with that said the Infusion slots are meant for Agony resistance. People will be getting Ascended gear to progress through FoTM not for WvW or anything else.

So I am sorry but I do not feel Arena Net has deceived or lied to anyone as they originally intended to have he gear in he game, they just made sure everything was right before releasing it and I am glad they did. There are many things to chase in this game, if there wasn’t GW2 would be a pretty dull game. There has to be something that puts X players above all other players be it cosmetic or stat wise. This simple machanic makes people keep playing.

Look at it this way if you started working for a company and was told you get paid 11 dollars an hour and no matter how much you work your butt off you will always make 11 dollars an hour.. Even the President and CEO makes 11 dollars an hour. Presonnaly I wouldn’t want to work for that company, there is nothing to differ me from the lazy slack offs, nothing to show for my hard work. Guild Wars 2 offers this exact thing. They say you can get to level 80 and easily with in a week in a half have a full set of Exotics. Although if you want the Legendary your going to have to work your butt off for it, if you want the ascended gear to run FoTM Lv. 35 your going to have to put in your time. There is nothing wrong with this ideal.

There’s basically no reason to have the Ascended gear unless you desire to grind out Fractals. Those who want to grind have a reason to grind and a reward for it. Those who don’t want the grind have no reason to get the gear in the first place, or participate in the grind.

You can experience all the fractals at any level with blues and greens if you want to… Just run the lvl 1 fractals over and over and you’ll eventually see all of them. No content blockers here AT ALL.

I agree that they should have kept their word but what can you do, they sold out for money – dont blame them.
I dont believe anything in that PR exercise of an ama sorry.
If ascend gear was to be introduced they would have mentioned it in all the promo material up to launch and legendaries would have had diff stats than exotic.This was to the effect of a stickier experience as pops were slowly dropping off.

They rolled everything out exactly as they wanted to – the only mia culpa is that it didnt go as planned that is all. As of right now 1 group of people have access to more powerful gear by design.
Yes it is gated content cause if you dont have infusions you cant continue on in fractals.
They dropped 25% of the population in 1 patch. Now we have Raids and trinity type mechanics incoming for Feb-March.
You believe they were honest in that ama? I believe they were honest that they got caught and that they rolled it out exactly as they wanted it to.

I hope they can recover and be truthful about the plans ect but I see a lot of cover up and misinformation they are distributing.

Narkosys.5173:

I agree that they should have kept their word but what can you do, they sold out for money – dont blame them.
I dont believe anything in that PR exercise of an ama sorry.
If ascend gear was to be introduced they would have mentioned it in all the promo material up to launch and legendaries would have had diff stats than exotic.This was to the effect of a stickier experience as pops were slowly dropping off.

They rolled everything out exactly as they wanted to – the only mia culpa is that it didnt go as planned that is all. As of right now 1 group of people have access to more powerful gear by design.
Yes it is gated content cause if you dont have infusions you cant continue on in fractals.
They dropped 25% of the population in 1 patch. Now we have Raids and trinity type mechanics incoming for Feb-March.
You believe they were honest in that ama? I believe they were honest that they got caught and that they rolled it out exactly as they wanted it to.

I hope they can recover and be truthful about the plans ect but I see a lot of cover up and misinformation they are distributing.

Where are you getting your information?
Raids and trinity type mechanics incoming for Feb-March
please specify something from Arena net on this thanks.

How have they not Kept to their word?

*They specifically said there would be no raids or end game content such as that at launch.
*They specifically stated that Legendary’s would be a long term goal in order to keep people interested in the game
*They specifically stated that More gear will be introduced as the game developed.
*Legendary Two hander Sunrise
+179 Power
+128 Toughness
+128 Vitality
Sigil of Superior Strength

*Exotic Dawn
+179 Power
+128 Precision
+9% Critical Damage
Superior Sigil of Rage

How is this changed from how legendary’s were?

Ascended Armor is not something new they just springed on us, Ascended Armor has been around since Guild Wars.

I have included a picture of exotic rings to Ascended Rings your looking at a +3 to every stat with no Agony resist yet as the infusion slot has not been used. Are you telling me that you are crying and thinking of leaving over +3? You realize that is a .248 % greater of a stat right, which means if Ascended gear person misses one second of a CD and you don’t you have just beat him in what ever you were going for.

Please do not tell me that people are seriously crying over a +3 stat boost. Please please people do not say well they have the infusion spot they can use still. Cause that infusion slot will be used for Agony resistance. Anyone running through Fractals to get Ascended items is not going to gear up all Ascended armor like and then put in more stats that is not agony resistance.

People need to stop crying over stuff, like Ascended gear and raids and new content, when Arena Net has never hid the fact they are putting these things in, it just wasn’t going to be at launch.