Guild Wars 2

I gotten 3 ascended rings so far, yet none of them are the stat combo I want (I’ve run a LOT of fractals btw I didn’t just get lucky 3 times in a row or anything). There needs to be some way to get the stat combo we want, since I’ve seen people get the exact ring I want yet they DON’T want it. You should be able to trade rings with each other, or maybe have some vendor who will trade in 2 or 3 rings for 1 specific ring of our choosing. The RNG is bad enough getting the rings in the first place, but getting the specific ring we want out of the almost 20 different ones is just crazy. The prospect of getting like 50 rings and never the one I want is ridiculous and yet completely possible. Please do something about this Anet.

If this is a random reward, why you ask a way to make things easier? Just keep farming.
There is people who never got one, go figure. Welcome to RNG

Easier? How about less idiotic. Those people who never got one WILL get one eventually, the drop rate on rings is fairly decent. But fast forwarding two months and you have a whole bank full of rings that do you no good and you can only vendor them for 4.95s… that’s just plain idiotic. I don’t see who would be harmed in letting us swap rings between players at least. Or make it so the rings can be broken down into some component that’s used in a mystic forge recipe to create the ring you want. That would be a perfectly reasonable way of doing it I think.

These are rings (at bottom): http://dulfy.net/2012/11/17/gw2-ascended-gear-and-infusion-recipes/

The stat combo you want might not even exist. Not only that, but the rings are ‘unique’ meaning if one has the stats you want, you can’t equip that ring twice if you had two. This makes it more challenging because you have to decide: do I want my specific stats from exotics or the agony resist? So the trade/sell thing wouldn’t be that useful since rings might not have the stat combo you want, and even if it did, you could only have 1 with that combo.

@wookalar This isn’t so bad basically you finish the “grind” after one ring if you are into maxing a dps build or a certain one. Problem is the RNG wall the first one is get lucky to a ring drop and the second rng hits when it’s completely worthless stats to your stats class. This isn’t right and it should be fixed.

You can’t equip the exact same ring, but every stat combo has 2 rings, one with an offensive infusion slot and one with a defensive infusion slot. Trouble is getting 2 specific rings among all the possibilities. I really think my idea above about being able to break down rings and use the extracted component in a MF recipe would be a good way to go. Seems like such a waste to vendor an ascended item.

elderan.2638:

Easier? How about less idiotic.

I second this.

Anet should allow you to purchase ascended gear via tokens as with gear from other dungeons atm.

Perhaps even include a small chance of it dropping too so ppl who hate RNG and ppl who (Aion and Wow which revolve around it for gear progression) adore it are both happy!

I think they just want to turn this into an 8 year old MMO. Gated content and RNG progression. So everything is right on track.

Also quit complaining about the wrong stats when there are people who haven’t even seen 1 ring yet. The wrong stats doesn’t outright kill you during a boss fight. 1st 1st world problems.

I can’t bring up an issue because some people haven’t got a ring yet? First, like I said I’ve done a lot of fractals. Second I’m grinding fractals for the rings stats not the agony resistance, I don’t really care about progressing into higher level fractals, I just want the best ring for my character (I don’t think I’m alone in this). I don’t even use the rings I have because it seems like a waste to slot them when you only need one person with agony resistance at level 20 to survive maw, and apparently level 30 and 40 chests don’t give anything better than 20. So not having a ring isn’t detrimental to getting the best gear, you just do 10 and 20 everyday for a ring chance. Those people who don’t have one will get one, but who cares really if it doesn’t have the stats you want and you can only use it in fractals for agony resistance.