Guild Wars 2

Ok, so I’m frustrated about this. I’d heard about the ascended armors coming out, but I was under the impression it was a long way off. Alas, it is not.

I spent my time working on a suit of celestial armor for my divinity runes. And I have been doing the daily grind of working on the charged quartz for a second set for traveler runes (for my wvw set).

And NOW, I find out ascended isn’t as far off as I’d thought. My concern is celestial armor is now going to be- well, as worthless as any other non-ascended exotic armor. And considering we haven’t had the charged quartz nodes all THAT long in comparison, that you can only get one a day, etc, I feel a bit like I just wasted time.

Unless, of course, there isn’t an ascended celestial ascended armor set. I’d be torn on my view of that.

Why would it be a long way off? They said that it was planned to be released this year, and this year is over quite soon.

No, it will not be worthless. Just like how Exotic weapons and accessories are not worthless.

We have had charged quartz possibilities for half a year, that means well over 100 charged quartz if you charged one every day.

It is quite likely that there will be Ascended Celestial Armor, seeing as all other slots do have Celestial.

Lord Krall, I’ve been working on two sets of celestial armor, and I’ve also had other things: not everyone can play every day. I am a divorced father whose kids live 4 hours away, through no choice of my own; when I want to see my kids, that’s time lost there, just as one example. Charging quartz, and playing, every single day just isn’t possible for everyone.

I think my real gripe is this: most exotics can be forged immediately, with the acquisition of the materials. BLTP or whatever.

But you can’t do that with celestial. You can only charge 1 per day. now comes along ascended armor; its mats will most likely also have a limit, just as ascended weapons have. So, I reach level 80, and see I have a daily limit to make exotic celestial armor, or ascended celestial armor?

With the other exotics, I could just buy the materials if i have the gold and forge it in a small amount of time. But I can’t do that with celestial. I have to take my time. which I also have to do with ascended.

So why bother with the time investment with the charged quartz?

Well, there will be celestial ascended armor, wupwup is the celestial stat for it, and that’s coincidentally the armor preview code we’ve had for a while now. Your exotic celestial stuff will be fine; though, I would never give a character a second set of it, and some I wouldn’t even give a first.

like i said, I wanted a set with divinity runes and a set with traveller runes.

Maybe that’s crazy. But that’s how i roll… lol

In the most optimal experience they would make it so that you have to have one piece of Exotic gear as part of a upgrade to Ascended recipe. You would still need the rune and two other ascended pieces of mats.
But not gonna hold my breath.

They did say it was coming this year. The Ascended Armor that is.

The good news is… that Ascended Armor will be time gated just like the charged quartz is. So technically… you’ll have more time to charge up quartz for Ascended Celestial Armor.

Good luck

You can also get a free charged Quartz from mining the Quartz Node in your home instance. So you can occasionally get 2 per day if that is what you are looking for.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Charged_Quartz_Crystal

If it works like Exotic weapons, then MAYBE you can salvage the Exotic Celestial Insignia from the Celestial armor and use it to make the Ascended armor. It sucks if you applied T3 cultural skins or something similar on it though.

Morfedel.4165:

Ok, so I’m frustrated about this. I’d heard about the ascended armors coming out, but I was under the impression it was a long way off. Alas, it is not.

I spent my time working on a suit of celestial armor for my divinity runes. And I have been doing the daily grind of working on the charged quartz for a second set for traveler runes (for my wvw set).

And NOW, I find out ascended isn’t as far off as I’d thought. My concern is celestial armor is now going to be- well, as worthless as any other non-ascended exotic armor. And considering we haven’t had the charged quartz nodes all THAT long in comparison, that you can only get one a day, etc, I feel a bit like I just wasted time.

Unless, of course, there isn’t an ascended celestial ascended armor set. I’d be torn on my view of that.

Ascended armor will probably require exotic insignia to make the ascended insignia, just like ascended weapons need exotic inscription to make the ascended inscription. Therefore, salvage your celestial exotic armor after patch hits for a chance at getting back celestial exotic insignia, which would mean you will need less quartz for the ascended celestial armor by doing so.

I definitely understand your frustration with this. But if it helps, the stat boost from exotic to ascended armor won’t be so significant that your existing exotic armor will be useless. It’ll still be more than adequate for most areas of the game. The only place where ascended really makes much of a difference is in high level Fractals of the Mists runs, and that’s more for the agony resistance than for the stats.

If at some point down the road we can start crafting masterwork, rare, exotic, and ascended infusions that also increase stats in addition to agony resistance (i.e., upgraded versions of the current fine infusions), then ascended armor will ultimately start having a bit more of an edge. Even then, it shouldn’t turn people with all ascended gear into unstoppable power gamers. In other words, you’re going to be perfectly fine stat-wise for quite a while I think. And there will definitely be ascended armor with celestial stats.

My suggestion is to just keep working on what you’re working on and then start working on ascended armor when you’re able to. There’s no rush.

Think about it this way, the stat differences will most likely be about the same as exotic to ascended trinkets. So, while having the entire set will be nice, it won’t be game changing in any way. Because the game was designed and scaled around exotics, the only “disadvantage” you might have will be higher level fractals and possibly new content. If there is anything to complain about ascended crafting, it would be how much it discourages alts :/

Don’t worry about it. Your Celestial gear will still function, and since it isn’t very good anyway, the ascended version also won’t be very good.

Continue playing the game normally and you will eventually have your set of not very good ascended Celestial.

Also, please buy my Quartz.

Majuub.6215:

Think about it this way, the stat differences will most likely be about the same as exotic to ascended trinkets. So, while having the entire set will be nice, it won’t be game changing in any way. Because the game was designed and scaled around exotics, the only “disadvantage” you might have will be higher level fractals and possibly new content. If there is anything to complain about ascended crafting, it would be how much it discourages alts :/

hmm not only alts, I have 3 builds on my ele "-_- . My ele is my main. So I will need to craft 3 of them. 1 for staff support, 1 for d/d roaming and 1 for commanding. Than I did not even mentioned my alts yet —→ running around in circles and getting crazy. On the bright side however staff support is main build for fractals so 1 set of accended celestial armor will fix the job, since it should be able to keep preforming good enough with exotics in wvwvw.

However the point is you will most likely not suffer to much form the time window in celestial stats since there will be a time window on armor also.

They said ascended armor will come out in 2013. It’s December.

It’s your fault that you were misinformed. The correct information has been readily available for a year.

“when I want to see my kids, that’s time lost there, just as one example.” not my intention to offend you, but since I had been living without a father basically since birth I find it well …priceless.

and info about ascended armor has been here for quite some time, 3 months if not more?

Majuub.6215:

If there is anything to complain about ascended crafting, it would be how much it discourages alts :/

I believe if there’s anything to complain about ascended crafting, it would be how much it discourages ascended crafting.

Personally, I avoided it until stacks of unrefined, account-bound material became a storage problem. Just finished bumping one discipline to 450 to simply store these new materials for the future, and I’ve seen enough destruction of my own wealth.

I came to play and have fun, not annihilate everything I’ve accumulated and jump on champ trains to get more to pour down this pink-name drain.

i believe it will be the same with the crystal guardian and wupwup claymore the difference will be + 4 or +5