Guild Wars 2

The new dungeon drops Ascended items that have an infusion slot – basically as it is now (with one difference, stated at the end).

The new dungeon also drops “infusion cores”, with enough of these cores you use the mystic forge to combine them with your current gear to give them “The power of the Ascended” to turn them into Ascended items that have an extra infusion slot.

The catch?, they all have the same stats as exotic level gear and the only upgrade is the extra infusion slot, this makes it so people haven’t just wasted loads of gold/time on items already as they can be upgraded to Ascended items if the want/need to. And people haven’t wasted a load of gold/time as unless your in the new dungeon in the harder levels the infusion slot won’t be needed (you will earn infusion slot items on the way from easy to hard) – to be clear outside of the dungeon only the infusion slot won’t work.

The outcome?, peoples current exotic items will be just as good as anyone elses in every other aspect of the game (prevents gear grind if you don’t like dungeons) and the new slot items will only be needed as you level up in the dungeon (which again, you will get as you go through the dungeon so this is fine).

Simple – ascended items stay in, infusion slots stay in, infusion items stay in and the gear grind stays out.

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I think you should hold off on this suggestion until we know exactly how this gear is going to drop/work/etc.

Also your post is confusing. You mean you’ll need to go into a different UI equipment screen to see what my current items are in a dungeon or something?

Why not just suggest gear like PvP gear that’s only worn in endgame designated dungeons or something.

Eternis.1746:

I think you should hold off on this suggestion until we know exactly how this gear is going to drop/work/etc.

Also your post is confusing. You mean you’ll need to go into a different UI equipment screen to see what my current items are in a dungeon or something?

Why not just suggest gear like PvP gear that’s only worn in endgame designated dungeons or something.

How is it confusing?, it’s the same as posted in the blog apart from a stat increase with a way to turn your current exotic items into Ascended items to get the infusion slot needed for higher levels in the new dungeon, it’s pretty simple.

And i disagree on holding off on the suggestion, once it’s live they will not take it out and we already know how it’s going to be as they’ve explained it.

So you turn your current ones into ascended, then what happens to your current gear? You can’t use it elsewhere? Aren’t you still losing gold? What about my current upgrade slots, that cost just as much/more gold to get a full set of “of the ____”?

I don’t think this was very well thought through. Just a reactionary response to a system that we have no real substantial information on other than it exists.

WvW gear sets approve of this message.

Pretty much they should just let us infuse our armor and get back to making pretty skins for us to farm and pve areas that are fun.

Eternis.1746:

So you turn your current ones into ascended, then what happens to your current gear? You can’t use it elsewhere? Aren’t you still losing gold? What about my current upgrade slots, that cost just as much/more gold to get a full set of “of the ____”?

I don’t think this was very well thought through. Just a reactionary response to a system that we have no real substantial information on other than it exists.

You can use your gear anywhere else, it just gets upgraded to have an extra infusion slot needed for the new dungeon that only takes effect in the new dungeon.

I thought it was explained pretty clearly, i have no idea how you came to the conclusion that it would make your items not work outside of the dungeon.

I would support this

I still think it’s ridiculous to ask to change the system before we really know anything about the ease of obtaining them, how the upgrades will work, or anything like that.

And to go on record: No I’m not hardcore. I’m against ridiculous gear grinding. I just refuse to ask to change something when we don’t have all the facts.

Well unless WvW starts using pvp gear, or unless ascended gear is banned from WvW, I can already tell you I am against ascended gear.

I am not into longer grinds for my WvW gear and destroying the exotics I have already made.

I would hold back on this suggestion for the reason that currently all posts on this topic are consolidated into one unholy megathread, and this suggestion, which I fully support, will likely remain unnoticed.

MajorMelchett.6042:

And i disagree on holding off on the suggestion, once it’s live they will not take it out and we already know how it’s going to be as they’ve explained it.

Realistically speaking, it’s 2 days before the update. You’re not going to stop it. The press is already out there. The blog post is already out there. The update has likely been planned for a while. Public outcry on forums very rarely elicits change when there’s an overall development direction followed.

I like your suggestion, but I doubt ANet will change anything til they have live data to support any notion that it should change, so while “wait and see” requires more trust and patience, it’s probably the more realistic suggestion to follow.

I would support this.
I would hate to have to grind for an all new set of gear to play new content and I don’t understand at all why the new items need better stats.

Just chasing higher and higher numbers every few months – for me at least – isn’t very fun and doesn’t help Anet’s goal of making the game fun and persistent imo.

Agreed, something like this would definitely help to ease my “gear grind”-fears

Colin Johanson:
“The rarest items in the game are not more powerful than
other items, so you don’t need them to be the best. The rarest items
have unique looks to help your character feel that sense of
accomplishment, but it’s not required to play the game. We don’t need to
make mandatory gear treadmills, we make all of it optional, so those
who find it fun to chase this prestigious gear can do so, but those who
don’t are just as powerful and get to have fun too.”

Anet stay true to your words… This solution is fine.