ANet has said that ascended armor/weapon sets will be coming out in the future and I’d like to share some of my ideas.
A way to incentivize the continued running of current explorable dungeons would be to come out with an “ascended” set version of every dungeon gear.
If they don’t do this then people will stop running those dungeons since everyone will want to have their ascended armor sets rather than waste time doing dungeon runs for exotics.
I believe there are two ways they can go about doing this.
One way is to simply have an ascended set for trade for a vastly higher amount of dungeon tokens. (It can be a new tab in the dungeon vendor, specifically for ascended)
The other way is to create some sort of mystic forge recipe, in which the player can “trade in” their current dungeon armor piece plus extra components. (Such as gifts of ascension, and/or a lot of tier 6 mats) in exchange for an ascended version of that piece of dungeon armor. (All socketed runes are destroyed of course)
The second way is very similar to the way players can currently upgrade their fractal capacitor. This way they don’t have an absolete set of armor cluttering their bank that they are forced to breakdown or destroy.
That’s my 2 cents.
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