Guild Wars 2

Ascended gear is useless outside of Fractals. By giving World and Dungeon bosses Agony attacks it would make it worthwhile and help thin out the leechers.

The casuals won’t like it, and they are the majority.

Ascended gear has higher stats, so it’s not useless.

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

Ascended gear is useless outside of Fractals. By giving World and Dungeon bosses Agony attacks it would make it worthwhile and help thin out the leechers.

It also helps to thin out anyone who carries his or her own weight in boss battles, but hasn’t gotten into the <5% of the game where ascended gear becomes available.

You know, the ‘casuals’.

Absolutely not. There are plenty of people who don’t like fractals, I am one of them. I’ve always been able to simply avoid this place, because it’s completely optional. Adding Agony to the PvE world would make doing fractals mandatory.

Well, what could be done is make a map like Southsun Cove or Labrinthine Cliffs that is not required for 100% World Completion that has bosses and such that give Agony. Giving those who have done Fractals enough to get the gear another place where they can put their gear into good use. But doesn’t hinder those who do not like fractals from getting their 100% World Completion.

And maybe that map can hold the mats and such to craft the ascended gear.

I’m personally someone who doesn’t do Fractals and therefore does not have any Ascended gear nor any desire to get any. So while I do not want Agony out in the world I play in, I understand that people want to put their gear into use in multiple different aspects and feel that ANet could do something that would be acceptable to both parties in this case.

As for other dungeons, maybe additional paths can be added that would have the Agony and clearly labeled in game that those paths have Agony. That way there are still paths that don’t have agony but give some different dungeon type paths to those who have done Fractals enough to get Ascended or crafted some Ascended gear.

No.
If they did it would actually make the Ascended gear a real “required” grind and much more like a gear threadmill than it is now due to people being “forced” to “grind” certain items in order to even do certain content.