I did dungeons to obtain exotic gear
Technically you could farm dungeons for gold and buy them off the TP if crafting is truly such an issue for you... Who knows otherwise.
Technically you could farm dungeons for gold and buy them off the TP if crafting is truly such an issue for you… Who knows otherwise.
No, you cannot purchase the unique combination of skins + exotic stats that dungeon gear offered. Also, ascended trinkets are not tradable hence I have absolutely no evidence to believe ascended armor/weapons will be purchasable as well.
From the blogpost…
At 500, crafters will be able to craft ascended weapons and armor. Once you reach 500, a new tier of crafting materials will be available to you; this new tier of materials will be made by combining lower tier materials. This tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.
This new tier of crafting material, along with the new guaranteed material rewards mentioned earlier and some other materials we’ll introduce will be used to craft ascended weapons, armor, and more. These weapons and armor will also be able to be found as rare drops from locations in the world. Ascended weapons and armor will remain account-bound like other ascended gear.
Maybe I’m just reading it wrong, but it looks like mixed messages to me. Craftable ascended items with the ability to buy and sell them, but ascended account-bound weapons and armor? At least you can farm events/dungeons with the hope that you’ll get lucky? Yay for RNG dependence for BIS gear – or old-fasioned grinding. That sounds familiar…
You asked about ascended weapons/armor, so I commented on this aspect.
Regarding Colin’s announcement;
At 500, crafters will be able to craft ascended weapons and armor. Once you reach 500, a new tier of crafting materials will be available to you; this new tier of materials will be made by combining lower tier materials. This tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.
Sounds like ascended weapons and armor will be sellable (possibly); thus, farming gold from dungeons to in-turn purchase ascended weapons/armors from the TP is a viable option if you are so dead set against crafting. They also could offer it through dungeons, but it obviously has not been brought up yet nor do we know if they’re looking into this. If anything, non-crafted ascended weapons/armors will probably also have some kind of option in the future to be obtained for a set amount of laurels + mats.
I read the blog as saying that the new time-gated crafting materials will be sellable, whereas the ascended items made with those materials will not.
They will still need a solution for dungeons and karma vendors that currently provide top line exotic items that will become ignorable exotic junk once ascended is available. (Assuming that ascended will be widely accessible and not just for an elite few).
They will still need a solution for dungeons and karma vendors that currently provide top line exotic items that will become ignorable exotic junk once ascended is available. (Assuming that ascended will be widely accessible and not just for an elite few).
Not really, dungeon gear will become skins for those with ascended stats. T3 Cultural are RARES.
Because I do not like crafting. Will new ascended armor still be able to be obtainable through normal dungeoning methods? Or will we be forced to craft ourselves to 500 simply for ascended weapons/armor?
You can buy crafted ascended armor/weapons or get them as rare drops…but as I understand it…the dropped ascended armor/weapons will be account bound…
At least that is how I understood the blog post.
Crafted ascended gear will be account bound. But the components to make them will be sellable. Either way its gonna be hell to gear up loads of alts in full ascended. Its already bad enough trying to get full ascended trinkets on multiple alts lol.
So I guess the question is, if the components to make them are sellable, you still need to craft to obtain ascended armor/weapons then, no?
This is the death of choice, Anet.
This is going to be fun….lol
No one is forcing you to have ascended gear/weapons. All content is easily doable with exotics. The stats are negligible.
Shoe/other foot aside..it’ll be interesting to see where it all boils down to.
Serenity now~Insanity later
No one is forcing you to have ascended gear/weapons. All content is easily doable with exotics. The stats are negligible.
No, I’m forcing myself to get ascended gear/weapons. If it ends up solely through crafting, I shall do that. However, I won’t like it and I am voicing my opinion on this issue.
Options NEVER hurt.
No one is forcing you to have ascended gear/weapons. All content is easily doable with exotics. The stats are negligible.
No, I’m forcing myself to get ascended gear/weapons. If it ends up solely through crafting, I shall do that. However, I won’t like it and I am voicing my opinion on this issue.
Options NEVER hurt.
As ascended weapons will just be legendaries without as many visual effects, you already do have another choice and a year head start on getting it.
I can see where the confusion is coming from reading the blog post, but what I think it means is that the crafted ascended weapons and armour can be bought/sold on the TP, but the ones that you get as mob loot are account-bound.
Needs moar clarification on blog post.
I’m not looking forward to this change. The new ascended equipment will become standard, since it gives around 8% more stats (7.5 on minor stats, 9.5 on major stat, compared amulets for reference), and that will add up to be quite a bit. Time-gating the whole thing, while not affecting the rest of the economy, ultimately makes the whole thing slow to obtain while favoring only the richest players in the game. The rich players can afford to get all the things needed for a full set by buying them, which will instantly create a divide between the have and have nots.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens now that there is 30 more AR readily available to players. I imagine uber-level fractals will be sick.
I don’t have opinions. I only have facts I can’t adequately prove.
Needs moar clarification on blog post.
I’m not looking forward to this change. The new ascended equipment will become standard, since it gives around 8% more stats (7.5 on minor stats, 9.5 on major stat, compared amulets for reference), and that will add up to be quite a bit. Time-gating the whole thing, while not affecting the rest of the economy, ultimately makes the whole thing slow to obtain while favoring only the richest players in the game. The rich players can afford to get all the things needed for a full set by buying them, which will instantly create a divide between the have and have nots.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens now that there is 30 more AR readily available to players. I imagine uber-level fractals will be sick.
Level 50 jade maw will still tick for millions. That’s why it’s called locked.
Crafted ascended gear will be account bound. But the components to make them will be sellable. Either way its gonna be hell to gear up loads of alts in full ascended. Its already bad enough trying to get full ascended trinkets on multiple alts lol.
You actually have it backwards…
You will be able to sell crafted armor/weapons…the components will be account bound.
Ascended armor/weapons for world/mob drops will be account bound.
Crafted ascended gear will be account bound. But the components to make them will be sellable. Either way its gonna be hell to gear up loads of alts in full ascended. Its already bad enough trying to get full ascended trinkets on multiple alts lol.
You actually have it backwards…
You will be able to sell crafted armor/weapons…the components will be account bound.
Ascended armor/weapons for world/mob drops will be account bound.
“We’ll also add a new set of account-bound crafting materials to the game. You’ll receive these materials as guaranteed rewards once per day per unique location for completing content within a category of gameplay in Guild Wars 2.”
This refers to crafting mats from reward chests.
In another section:
“Once you reach 500, a new tier of crafting materials will be available to you; this new tier of materials will be made by combining lower tier materials. This tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.”
This refers to crafted mats.
In the same section:
“This new tier of crafting material, along with the new guaranteed material rewards mentioned earlier and some other materials we’ll introduce will be used to craft ascended weapons, armor, and more. These weapons and armor will also be able to be found as rare drops from locations in the world. Ascended weapons and armor will remain account-bound like other ascended gear.”
Looks to me like:
Ascended items and crafting mats from reward chests are account bound.
Crafting mats built by 500 crafters are salable.
Fractals is technically a dungeon… not sure why the OP left that out…..
I get my ascended gear currently from the WvW Vendors… so I imagine that would be one guaranteed source as well, assuming either Armor or Weapons are next
(whichever comes first)