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Posted by: Kanebrake.6192

Kanebrake.6192

If it’s not worthy then don’t get waste your time/money to acquire ascended items. Easy solution. I’m perfectly happy in exotics +ascended trinkets.

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Posted by: Xavi.6591

Xavi.6591

On the other hand, increasing the stats makes it a gear grind. Adding to this, WvW players are at a disadvantage because they cannot craft this gear by purely running WvW – or at least in a timely fashion on par with PvE.

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Posted by: Black Regent.5897

Black Regent.5897

On the other hand, increasing the stats makes it a gear grind. Adding to this, WvW players are at a disadvantage because they cannot craft this gear by purely running WvW – or at least in a timely fashion on par with PvE.

I don’t see how the primary goal at level cap isn’t still gear grinding just because it’s not stat-based. The only real goal, aside from AP grinding when new living world patches drop, is ascended gear and legendaries for the “prestige” look. Stat or appearance, it’s a grind either way, only difference from your typical MMO is you can grind world PvE, dungeons or simply farm gold to achieve the same end as what would require dungeon running in most other games.

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Posted by: Vol.7601

Vol.7601

Well, we can also ignore the extra infusion slots

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Posted by: Oghier.7419

Oghier.7419

The big advantage of ascended armor is the defense stat. It’s similar to ascended weapons, where the biggest difference was in damage.

If you’re only looking at power, precision, etc, you’re missing the big picture.

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Posted by: Xavi.6591

Xavi.6591

If it’s not worthy then don’t get waste your time/money to acquire ascended items. Easy solution. I’m perfectly happy in exotics +ascended trinkets.

On the other hand, increasing the stats makes it a gear grind. Adding to this, WvW players are at a disadvantage because they cannot craft this gear by purely running WvW – or at least in a timely fashion on par with PvE.

This game its about grinding are all of you blind?
The improovement they did in armor its a joke.

What I am saying is that the difference in stats is minimal. If they made ascended gear have much more significant stats than exotics then you would have to make them to remain competitive. Right now, it’s not a huge improvement in stats.

My feeling is ascended weapons and gear should never have been introduced.

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Posted by: chronometria.3708

chronometria.3708

All I can say is thank goodness, as it means I don’t have to craft it.

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Posted by: curtegg.5216

curtegg.5216

I have only forge 2 ascended armor pieces for added AR (needed for fractal lvl 40+), but in no hurry to craft others. Just work on it a little at a time.

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Posted by: Toroxus.9256

Toroxus.9256

The Ascended armor is perfect. Anet doesn’t want to game to be only for hardcore players and alienate casuals.

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Posted by: morrolan.9608

morrolan.9608

Anet failed here bigtime, comparing same types of gear ascended and exotic and we can see an improovement in ascended gear giving +2 stats per piece and for thoose 2 stats we need to spend 40G to 60 depends.

This is a big fail please increase the ascended stats to make it worthy to get.

No they should not, its the one thing keeping the ascended armor situation somewhat tenable, the fact that if you have ascended weapons and trinkets the armor clearly isn’t worth it except for fractals.

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Posted by: Obtena.7952

Obtena.7952

You should be THANKING Anet that it’s worthless if you don’t need it because of the effort and cost involved to make it.

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Posted by: Malediktus.9250

Malediktus.9250

ascended should have the same difference to exotic like rare to exotic. its abysmal right now

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Posted by: Obtena.7952

Obtena.7952

What makes you think it should?

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Posted by: Keiel.7489

Keiel.7489

It’s kind of common for almost every MMO. Top Tier gear stats is marginally better than the 2nd best but is usually god aweful expensive or hard to get. Not really a big deal, it gives absolute min/maxers something to do while making minimal impact on balance.

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Posted by: Obtena.7952

Obtena.7952

The Ascended armor is perfect. Anet doesn’t want to game to be only for hardcore players and alienate casuals.

The Ascended armor its not perfect cause you see this as a casual player to get whatever you want in the easyway, so everything they put in game that requires effort to get you runaway thats why you want to defend your slacker opinion.

If you are serious, you’re going to have to actually explain yourself without making nonsense assumptions and insulting people that don’t agree with you:

If I understand you right, you say casual people don’t have a problem with the stats on Ascended gear … because they are slackers and run away from ‘something’? People that don’t want big increases in stats are actually advocating skill over gear; they aren’t running from anything … I would say if anyone is trying to hide or run, it’s someone trying to push for better stats on higher gear to make up for their own lack of playing skills.

If the design/cost/looks/purpose of this teir of armor don’t tell you what the intention of this armor is, then you have failed to understand what this game is about. You can argue what other MMO’s do, it’s not relevant.

Toroxous is 100% correct … this game wouldn’t EXIST with it’s present business model if it didn’t focus on what average players have time and motivation to do. Making ever increasing tier armor sets with significant stat increases is not inline with the approach of this game. You want gear to be a differentiator between players when it should be skill.

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Posted by: Zanshin.5379

Zanshin.5379

My feeling is ascended weapons and gear should never have been introduced.

Well, Anet wanted to keep their hardcore gamers. I have no idea why, since they’re probably the people who put the less real money into the game. “Buying gems? Pfff, I just flip items on the market or farm dungeons and exchange gold for gems…”

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Posted by: Windu The Forbidden One.6045

Windu The Forbidden One.6045

You want gear threadmills, boring grinds and insult everyone with a different opinion..

yep, typical elitist right there.

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Posted by: Aberrant.6749

Aberrant.6749

Title made me think of this

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Posted by: cranked.3812

cranked.3812

Anet failed here bigtime, comparing same types of gear ascended and exotic and we can see an improovement in ascended gear giving +2 stats per piece and for thoose 2 stats we need to spend 40G to 60 depends.

This is a big fail please increase the ascended stats to make it worthy to get.

Another typical casual player with their lack of view ….

Oh the irony. In your “lack of view”, you fail to realize what ascended gear would be like if the stat increases were actually “worth it”. If ascended gear actually added 10-20% stat increase coupled with time gating, this game would not only become WoW, but think of the level of QQing on the forums if that were actually the case. What you see now would be nothing comparatively.

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Posted by: Juba.8406

Juba.8406

ascended armor + infusion slots is a good deal to me.

6 Resilient WvW Infusion = 30 toughness + 6% decreased damage from guards, that will help a lot soloing fully upgraded camps.

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Posted by: Cyninja.2954

Cyninja.2954

ascended armor + infusion slots is a good deal to me.

6 Resilient WvW Infusion = 30 toughness + 6% decreased damage from guards, that will help a lot soloing fully upgraded camps.

Upgraded camps are already easy to solo. Not sure how ascended gear is in any way needed unless you want to faceroll them even more.

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Posted by: Windu The Forbidden One.6045

Windu The Forbidden One.6045

Another typical casual player with their lack of view ….

You call everyone with a different opinion a slacker and envious, yet I have a lack of view..

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