Guild Wars 2

Haven’t been playing HoT lately as I wanted to get my characters with Ascended gear first before going there, never realized what I was letting myself in for.

So my routine with GW2 is not trying out HoT but keeping with a strict plan.

Log on reward.
Karma Converter Reward.
Dailies.
SW.

Getting really burned out with Guild Wars 2 as of late, can’t really enjoy HoT because I don’t have time to do the Expansion or the grind for ascended gear, so here is my suggestion that everyone will hate.
Let me buy Ascended gear on the TP that is un-salvageable and bound to a character once used.

Why? Because right now I’m stuck against a time wall and I would rather be against a pay wall. Will it be bad PR? Yes. Is the grinding bad PR? Yes, it’s a complete lie to how they advertised Guild Wars 2 to begin with.

If raiding and fractals didn’t ascended gear, I wouldn’t have a problem and this kind of direction is not Guild Wars, it’s WoW.
I remember buying my end game set in GW1 at Droknars forge and being set for every single expansion in the game, the only thing holding me back was my own skill as a player, that’s guild wars.

But, maybe I’ missing something here. I didn’t mind the grind when I felt like I was making progress at a good pace (before the SW reward nerf) but now it’s at a snails pace and because I can’t buy all of the mats, I have to do the same content over and over to make any progression that will last me throughout the expansions.

Either make all of the mats ready to buy on the TP, get rid of the time gating, lower the cost or all of the above, or just cut out the middle man and let me pay you for it so I can start enjoying the game again.

Want to stress though.

I don’t mind the grind for cosmetics.

I do mind the grind for progression and no, leveling doesn’t count because I can’t pay RL money to make the grind less frustrating though I wish I could.

http://dulfy.net/2015/09/30/gw2-ascended-gear-will-be-needed-in-raids/

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/ArenaNet's_MMO_Manifesto_trailer

the final pieces of recipe ascended gear is all buyable on the TP… go farm some recipes, get ur craft to 500, and each piece cost about 100g to craft using the final pieces from the TP.

The armor you can buy but not the weapons and the prices are far more than 100g some go for 70g per 3 stacks.

I tried getting a 2H sword today for my guardian and I needed 5 empircal stars (or however they’re spelt) to make 1 crystal, I can’t buy either from the TP meaning I have to wait (and grind) for 5 days to get one weapon.

Let’s see, every mat needed outside of a select few are purchasable on the TP, the Vision Crystals can be made as many in a day as you have mats, they are not time gated, only the Spool of Elonian Cord, Spool of damask Thread, lump of Mithrillium, and Spirit wood Resin are time gated……. all of which are not used in making Empyrial Stars……. so complaint is invalid. Same with all other Obsidian Refinement. All you need to do is provide the Obsidian shards which are easily accessible and the base mats be it Empyrial Fragments, Bloodstone Dust, Dragonite Ore.

My last run of SW I got 36 fragments out of 100 and I need to 400 to make the gem to finally finish the greatsword and that’s not including the alts I’m thinking of making for raiding. You have to understand that this is just one character I’m gearing up and getting burned out on, I would like to play multiple classes in PvE but of course that would mean there would be more grinding in SW to do.

If I could buy the mats needed for weapons like I could with armor smithing that might make it better…getting armor was very costly and I can only do it once per pay day.

Guild wars 1 did something like this when you could either grind for skill points and get them for free or you could play and unlock every skill in the game, I personally don’t see why they couldn’t do this for Guild Wars 2 with ascended gear, just make sure you can’t salvage it.

Sw is not the fastest way for Empyrial Fragments fastest way is champ trains, Wvw zergs and dungeon farming. I don’t even play that much and I have bags filled with them and I have geared 2 characters with full ascended items. Really the Empyrial Fragments are the easiest to come by

I’ll have to try that, I’m struggling allot as of late with this game, more so due to players not wanting to do old content due to HoT. I get the feeling allot of this will kick off when raiding becomes the forefront of end game and people find they don’t have the gear for it yet.

Are there any communities outside of the official forums you would recommend?

Depends on server If you are on SoR then Gsch is the best community

BlaqueFyre.5678:

All you need to do is provide the Obsidian shards which are easily accessible and the base mats be it Empyrial Fragments, Bloodstone Dust, Dragonite Ore.

Which you need to grind for. Which the OP didn’t want to do. Did you even read the post before commenting?

Yes, I even provided him with ways to get them faster, the content he was doing does not provide them in any decent amount, I play very rarely and I have way to many of all the mats, that I either have to refine them, or feed them to my Princess/mawdrewey. It’s not much of a grind, you can spend less than 2 hrs doing champ train or wvw and come away with alot of the Empyrial stars….. did you fail to read the others posts the OP and I discussed? Apparently not.

The reason I want to see ascended gear become tradable is not because I’m having trouble getting it, but because I keep getting ascended gear drop for me that I have no interest in using because the stats aren’t what I want. Gear that other people want and would be willing to pay for, but to me it’s only worth what I can sell it to an NPC for.

I am sick of the feeling I get when I get a rare drop that I know a guildie really wants but is completely worthless to me.

There is another option, just play the game to enjoy it.

You’ll eventually get ascended armor. I have an entire medium set thats all came from drops/boxes either from PvP, wvw or fractals. You don’t have to craft to get the gear. You just have to play the game and your going to do that more if your actually enjoying your self. Please stop grinding and just do things with friends, guildmates what ever. You’ll get there eventually.

This who attitude of I can’t do content because I don’t have ascended armor is confounding.The difference between exotic and ascended is only 12.5% and the largest portion of it is rings and the weapon. The armor its self is only worth 1.8% increase in stats. The accessories minus the back piece are all easily obtainable. Weapons are much cheaper to make. Exotic gear is decent for armor.

No one will notice your lacking 1.8% stats in raids. I can tell you that now. As for fractals you can get 60 ar without a single piece of armor only use +5 infusions. Which is enough to do up to scale 50. Which along the way to level 50 rewards level, you’ll probably get some ascended gear as rewards.

The reason I want to see ascended gear become tradable is not because I’m having trouble getting it, but because I keep getting ascended gear drop for me that I have no interest in using because the stats aren’t what I want. Gear that other people want and would be willing to pay for, but to me it’s only worth what I can sell it to an NPC for.

I am sick of the feeling I get when I get a rare drop that I know a guildie really wants but is completely worthless to me.

You do know you can convert stats on ascended gear right? https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Anthology_of_Heroes