Please let me "Ascend" my Exotics.

Please let me "Ascend" my Exotics.

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Posted by: Sad Swordfish.9743

Sad Swordfish.9743

I don’t like gear treadmills. That is why I don’t play other games. It doesn’t interest me. I want my skill to speak for myself. I’ve spend a lot of time hunting for unique skin exotics for my own vocation. Not the notion that I want a crotch to own people.

It’s not just sPvP. Even if WvW is made to be unbalanced and not fair, it’s still silly to assume you wont have balanced 1 vs 1 encounters. If this new stats tier starts infusing that, it’s bad. It’s bad for discrimination in Dungeons.

I suggest a way for people to take their current Exotic Armors, Upgrades, Accessories and Weapons, and ascend them. Give them that little 2-5% stat bonus. They will not be “Exotic” but Ascended as an item type.

How?

I suggest – By playing the game. By doing the content in the new zone. By playing events everywhere.
We dont want to just grind a dungeon, collect tokens, or do farm parties. I want to go play the entire game world.

Set up some ascending shrine. ask us to track down world bosses, events in all the unpopulated zones. lets do 100% in new zone, do something alternative that tests our skills.

This allows people to get their new cool looking high tier natural looking ascended armor. But it also allows the rest of us, to just take our current exotic armors and ascend it! I think its fair to ask players to play the content. if you got stuff for us, lets do it. But dont ask me to run a dungeon 10-20 times. thats unreasonable, repetitive and so far away from what GW2 was advertised as.

GW2 is a game based on skill. thanks for everything you’ve done and all the stuff you’ve made. But even a 2% stat boosts gives me a headache and concerns.

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Posted by: Trock Bronze.9625

Trock Bronze.9625

What is ascendent stuff anyway though we don’t even know yet, or if something has been discovered… well I haven’t seen it and would love to know.

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Posted by: Brown Fang Thump.9482

Brown Fang Thump.9482

@ Trock Bronze

You can find more information about ascended gear from the ArenaNet news site:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/linsey-murdock-unveils-new-high-end-ascended-gear/

There is a picture of an ascended ring compared to an exotic ring there.

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Posted by: rubmywontons.3972

rubmywontons.3972

What is ascendent stuff anyway though we don’t even know yet, or if something has been discovered… well I haven’t seen it and would love to know.

There’s more information here.

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Posted by: Raksha.8049

Raksha.8049

You want to be able to upgrade straight to Ascended from Exotics? Those same exotics that cost no more then 20 – 30 silver for some on the trade house?

Hmmm, somehow I don’t think that will fly.

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Posted by: Black Wolf.7348

Black Wolf.7348

If some armor sets were to be able to be upgraded it should be cultural tier 3 armor.
right now T3 cultural armor cost 120g (most expensive armor in the game) and is only rare. should at least have been exotic but up gradable to Ascend would be nice for a decent price.

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Posted by: stof.9341

stof.9341

You want to be able to upgrade straight to Ascended from Exotics? Those same exotics that cost no more then 20 – 30 silver for some on the trade house?

Hmmm, somehow I don’t think that will fly.

Reserve it to the level 80 exotics if you want.

I’d go farther than the suggestion though : make it so that ALL Ascended items require you to upgrade a level 80 exotic to get it.

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Posted by: Ice Furl.4982

Ice Furl.4982

A very good idea and it would make alot more ppl more accepting of the new item tier if they could upgrade their current gear instead of having to throw it out and get new.
A very big +1 from me.

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Posted by: Cutterslaine.2689

Cutterslaine.2689

Yep fantastic Idea, people would not feel cheated at losing their existing exotic armor and include drop items from the world and/or dungeons as well as the new dungeon.

At least then other world area’s would be more populated.

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Posted by: Keal Mindblaster.5783

Keal Mindblaster.5783

I ABSOLUTELY AGREE.

My Addition: I feel you shouldn’t find new Ascended items, instead let us find Upgrade components that can either upgrade exotics OR multiple of them can be used to generate a new ascended item. You can use the Mystic Forge or the related profession for that. This way there’s no need to throw away expensive exotics and if there wasn’t any exotic it is possible to instantly get an ascended item.

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Posted by: Lord Aargadon.4135

Lord Aargadon.4135

Theres not even ascended armor or weapons in this update, so don’t worry about losing that stuff just yet. As of this update it will only be rings and back slots, with about 2+ stats over the old ones. Thats less stats gained than eating a level zero food item, tiny, probably won’t even make a single difference in any fight since your doing maybe..40 more damage on a monster with 20000hp? So people don’t get frustrated and make another 20 post on this. Im willing to bet exotic armor sets won’t be left out either, I wouldn’t be suprised if you have to “infuse” your armor like in GW1, where it required a quest and you’re good to go.

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Posted by: Tunacarp.9723

Tunacarp.9723

I share the concerns of the original poster, and agree with his idea. I have a set of yellows and oranges at the moment that I’m content with. I’ll finish off some other exotics at some point, but it is nice knowing my ability at the game is a greater factor than the fact I still have a few yellow bits of gear.

I liked the sideways progression of GW 1. You hunted for specific skills, and you collected specific runes to go with your build. When you put everything together correctly, it was indeed an increase of power. A truly subtle one, however, and if you started a new character, and just dressed them in max armor, you were still good to go on your quest for perfection.

I don’t care to start down the treadmill and leave behind my friends who have less time to play to gather these ludicrous things to become uber powerful and able to go into the dungeons I do and what all. I want to be able to play with them as equals on equal footing, not spoil them by overpowering the encounters they are working on. I’d also like to come away from their encounters satisfied that the loot/gold/karma/whathaveyou has as much value to me as it does them.

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Posted by: Sad Swordfish.9743

Sad Swordfish.9743

It’s so important to recognize here; nobody is asking for “free epics”. Nobody wants that.

We just want not to be forced to do something. because of power differences.

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Posted by: CureForLiving.5360

CureForLiving.5360

The underlying idea seems simple enough if ANet implement a system by which you must have specific gear to do content then that means all other gear becomes useless. What you have is a gear grind. By implementing a system to ascend current gear you’re not rendering previous gear obsolete. The problem is not for this particular new dungeon but for the next one or the one after that if each requires you to get new gear.