Guild Wars 2

The ascended weapons introduction went smooth for what I can tell but for the life of me I can’t understand why ANet put a 1 per day limit on these crafts, if one has the mats they should be able to craft any amount they wish.

What’s it to ANet crafting the weapon 1 day or in 5 days? It won’t hurt anybody. To me this is just a big hassle and waste of time.

Look at it this way, my main character which is a guardian has access to 11 different weapons, which take roughly 5 days to craft 1 that makes it 55 days total which is almost 2 MONTHS.

I have 4 characters which I play and love almost equally, does it even sound reasonable having to take more than 7 months to craft their ascended weapons?

Let’s be realistic.

Personally I like the timegate, slows it down a bit, everything shouldn’t be instant gratification. Prevents pay to win to get ahead of those who don’t too.

Aldjeron.1062:

Personally I like the timegate, slows it down a bit, everything shouldn’t be instant gratification. Prevents pay to win to get ahead of those who don’t too.

What’s the point of slowing it down for? If you want to craft 1 a day that should be your choice not ANet’s. If 1 per day is fine for you, nothing is stopping you from putting that your rule yourself.

I’m not saying timegates shouldn’t exist at all but this is one where I see it truly unneccessary.

Because they’re trying to make a vertical progression. Let’s say you get it your way and you can craft whatever ascended if you have the mats. Ok. Now you can’t reach for any higher thing. I made it, now I’m bored again, because I’m at max tier. The timegate is to add some sort of feeling of achievement, that yes, I spent the time and money on making the max tier of equipment

cant you just buy the time gated stuff for around the same price anyway meaning you can just craft as many as you please?

It was stated in an interview that they added Ascended because Exotic proved too trivially easy to attain, which I can agree with, especially after you get your first 80. They wanted Ascended to have that final accomplishment feel that Exotics failed to attain.

Also what Natsu said, you can buy most of the ascended stuff on the TP anyway, including the inscription, and I believe Spiritwood Planks and Deldrimor Ingots

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

cant you just buy the time gated stuff for around the same price anyway meaning you can just craft as many as you please?

That’s exactly the point of this thread, they can be bought straight from tp, there’s no point in making a timegate on crafting.

If you want it all in one day, buy the mats on the TP…you CAN buy the time gated ones you know.

I am thankful for the time gate, makes it so not everyone brags about having 10 ascended weapons the first day. Thank Anet