I’m super happy with these ascended boxes, basically my sole reason to do FOTM
Though the armor pieces seem to make jokes on me…
At this moment I’ve got (unused):
- 4 Ascended Boots Chests
- 2 Gloves Chests
- 4 Armor Chests (w00t!)
- 2 Weapon Chests
My entire point I’m trying to make, EVERY SINGLE WEAPON chest has been a “pick your own weapon” chest.
Why am I being delved with boots chests, when they could just be awesome “Armor” chests?
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Why do these “gloves/boots” even exists when weapons are always “pick your own”
That’s how all the drops function. For more “prestigious” rewards you get a box that lets you pick any armor piece regardless of slot, while basic drops are restricted to certain slots. It’s the same with the HoT armor. If you finish the story, you get a general armor box while drops in VB and DS are slot-specific.
My guess with the ascended armor is that it keeps players from relying on drops completely- if you could just farm fractals and pick whatever armor piece you happen to need then a lot of people would do that instead of craft.
Also, what Ellieanna said makes sense for why weapons don’t work that way.
I’ve looted 4 glove boxes so I sort of understand your pain. However, I sort of understand because it keeps me from relying on these boxes. This also makes the hours of maxing every crafting somewhat relevant.
I agree that any box of a specific armor piece is potentially useful. However, in practice, specific armor pieces are much less rewarding than generic ones, because, due the laws of chance, you are much more likely to get duplicate boxes before you get one of each piece. Not only that but generic armor boxes stack with each other, while type-specific armor does not.
In other words, the game would be more fun if ANet did away with the type-specific boxes.
Nevertheless, I’m okay with the current system because I’d rather ANet spend time on other QoL issues before addressing this.
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I’d guess it has a lot to do with stat distribution and crafting costs. The larger pieces, like the chestpiece are by default more valuable drops, as they’re more expensive to craft, and are an overall bigger stat buff.
They likely avoided making a distinction between weapon boxes since choice of weapon is a major build choice, and one some classes one drop or the other would be useless for the build despite 2h weapons being generally more valuable.
Armor on the other hand, assuming you don’t have the piece, is always a useful drop since everyone uses the same armor slots.
its funny because i have yet to receive an ascended weapon or armor chest, been doing the dailys for while, best item i got so far was golden fractal pistol…my luck is absolutely asinine.
tbh i would keep the 4 boxes. under no circumstance would i ever try to reroll 4 into 1 fresh random one. i would sooner buy 4 toon slots and put only those single armor pieces on them.
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Heh, Mr. “if I ever get an asc. chest out of fractals, chances that it’s a pauldron chest are 99%” here
May be they could add a mystic forge recipe to change them boxes like you can change the stats of asc. gear already.
Thinking about something like “Chest of asc. Glove (or whatever you got and don’t need) – Anthology of Heroes – X Ectos (not sure if only 5 would be ok) – Exotic Armor Piece” = Chest of asc. Armor
I don’t think PRL matters since everything is tied to the chests you get from completing the achievements.
Can you get the master’s chest from T4 if you don’t have a personal level high enough?
Yes. We’ve got a friend on t4 run lately. He got the chests even though his personal is still somewhere in the middle of t2.
Personal level seems to affect now only the usual end-of-fractal rewards. So, besides for karma bonus for doing lower level fractals, it isn’t really important anymore. Even its former main function (limiting access to higher levels) can be easily ignored now, as long as someone else is high enough.
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I don’t think PRL matters since everything is tied to the chests you get from completing the achievements.
Can you get the master’s chest from T4 if you don’t have a personal level high enough?
Yes. We’ve got a friend on t4 run lately. He got the chests even though his personal is still somewhere in the middle of t2.
Personal level seems to affect now only the usual end-of-fractal rewards. So, besides for karma bonus for doing lower level fractals, it isn’t really important anymore. Even its former main function (limiting access to higher levels) can be easily ignored now, as long as someone else is high enough.
Thanks for the answer.
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