Guild Wars 2

Please post your thoughts here on the new gear and having to do rng pve to obtain this gear. Most importantly suggestions of how this gear should be obtained in wvw.

I purchased this game solely for wvw, with the understanding and knowledge that there would be a grind to get my character/s to 80 and to get exotic gear on them. I thoroughly enjoyed the game, then last Friday’s bomb shell hit.

Not only have Anet introduced new and better gear, there is no way to get this gear in wvw, in fact you have to rely on RNG in a dungeonWhich I do not enjoy) to obtain this gear. Us wvw players know we have been left behind when it comes to gear, only being able to either craft/ buy karma gear or use our badges for gear (Having played wvw since day one and saved all my badges I still cannot even buy a full set of soldiers gear.)

So rather than continue moaning, I have started this thread in the hope that like minded WvW players can put suggestions here of how you think we should be able to obtain this gear through wvw going forward.

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Sure people say that the gear difference is not that high or whatnot, but as far as i know most of the guys who play WvW HAVE to get the best gear available to them. Yes I’m one of them who HAS to get the +1 extra hp, since its the best!!! :P
Here comes the problem, I dislike dungeon farming immensely. And as of this moment there is no other way to get the Ascended Gear
Having played WvW that much has netted me with some 2m karma and I have already got 2 sets of gear from the badges and right now, the only thing i do with my karma and badges is let it sit there … Ok badges i actually use to buy siege weapons :P (Yes yes i can use karma for legendary crap)
Having the option to buy the Ascended Gear from a Karma/Badge merchant in WvW would seem the most easiest way i guess, sounds a bit dull though.

I’m not entirely opposed to getting gear used for WvW via PvE.

I am however opposed to gear being obtained via a dungeon system that forces players to play for more than an hour in a single sitting.

I know WvW players that love this game but cannot devote more than 45 minutes in a single sitting to the game due to real life obligations, this completely rights off the higher level fractals for them and the ascended gear with it.

I’m not saying it needs to be made easy to get but it would be better if people could make some sort of progress towards it in a 30 minute play session, even if it takes them 3 months instead of 1 month, it should be a possibility.

All the rest of the stat’ options in the game can be obtained via multiple routes. If you want an exotic set and don’t have time for dungeons you can farm crafting materials and get there eventually.

Also the numerous amount of zoning/loading screens in the fractals means they are impossible for people that occasionally crash during these loading screens because they cannot re-enter the same fractal. I’ve seen one person crashing then being unable to re-enter cost the entire party an hour.

This hasn’t harmed WvW yet in my opinion but if this the 1st layer of the onion Arenanet is planning to cut into there will be tears and WvW will be damaged.

Arenanet, please add more funky skins and designs and make them as easy or as difficult to get as you want, but please try to keep stat options achievable via multiple routes.

You have a great game here, don’t turn it into the competition we left behind for you.

The devs have mentioned that Ascended gear will be available in WvW and crafting in the future at some point. They have not yet stipulated a time frame but rest assured, you guys have not been forgotten about.

^ What they said, it will be available via WvWs & crafting.

That`s where I think it went wrong though.

It would`ve made more sense to release all ways of getting it at the same time.
I`m not a dungeon fan in the least (in any game, not just this one), think I`ve done 4 since beta & live, but I can happily live in WvWs for hours on end, until this happened.

Hopefully it`ll be solved fast

First the only ascended gear you get from dungeon right now is ring. (I believe this wont make any difference in WvW). The second is back (which can be crafted by mystic forge with ridiculous number of ingredients (250 T6 crafting component, next upgrade 250 ecto)).

The only suggestion I have: Anet should make all players have access to these gears (especially all armors) by crafting or by another means (buying with karma, badge, or token) at the same time.

Don’t you think it’s a tad early for the usual noise from the PvP peanut gallery? They announced already that ascended gear would be available in other ways and places, wait more then a month before you get all agitated.

I think any gear and any weapon should be obtainable in several ways like crafting, pvp, wvw, karma or dungeons. That way any kind of player could obtain anything he/she likes. It does not have to be easy, but there are plenty of people that don’t like dungeons.

Sernius Alathar.6538:

Don’t you think it’s a tad early for the usual noise from the PvP peanut gallery? They announced already that ascended gear would be available in other ways and places, wait more then a month before you get all agitated.

No. For those of us who only play to WvW this puts us at a distinct disadvantage in our preferred style of play, which ANet originally said should not hamper anyone in any way at all. Every style of play was supposed to give us the ability to be on an even playing field, gear wise. I shouldn’t have to do dungeons to earn the best gear out there, it should be attainable via WvW right now.

What if it was the other way around? The PvE peanut gallery would be freaking out because they would have to PvP to get the best gear. They already complain when we kill them at the jumping puzzles.