Guild Wars 2

Fun impacts decisions. Every time you finish a dungeon you get tokens you can trade in for reward items that you want, rather than having a small chance of getting it as a drop, because it’s more fun to always get rewarded for finishing with something you want to have!

This isn’t currently how things work in fractals in regards to ascended rings. Ascended back pieces, sure, you get your choice of stats, but rings are totally random drops and you have to roll with what you get (if you get anything at all, but that’s another topic).

It’s more fun to always get rewarded for finishing with something you want to have!

This is the part I’ve had the most contention with. I’ve gotten 2 rings so far from doing fractal dailies (done 11 times over 7 days and 2 difficulty tiers) and both of them have had the exact same stats. Berserker’s. And I’m a full Soldier’s Guardian.

I was grateful for the rings I got, and I sucked it up, equipped them, and spent 300 fractals putting infusions into them so that I could survive better in the higher difficulties. But it’s always nagging at me that I’ve got these 2 less than ideal pieces of gear on my character. My character that I spent so much time on getting into the perfect gear set for my build.

So today, during the AMA, I asked (repeatedly) if anything was being done about the seeming shift in design philosophy.

TheRabbit

Chris, will the Ascended rings continue to be “double random”?
What I mean is that not only do you have to beat the RNG in order to receive a ring, but you also have to beat the RNG to get a ring that is useful to your build. I have received 2 ascended rings, and both of them have the exact same stats (Berserker’s) whereas all of my other gear is Solider’s.

Would it be possible to replace the ring drop with a ring token that could be used at an additional vendor? Or perhaps a mystic forge recipe that would convert rings into other stat packages?

Thanks for staying up so late to chat with us

Chris Whiteside

We were talking about this this afternoon Red and we certainly believe that some method of meaningful replacement would be a good idea. we didn’t however come to a conclusion yet so there is no more detail.

Chris

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Obviously you can’t read too much into this, and he was being intentionally vague, but it gives me hope that one day I’ll be able to choose which 2 ascended rings I’ll wear rather than grind the daily chest rewards endlessly hoping that the RNG gods will bless me with the rings I want.