Guild Wars 2

People are going crazy right now over not being able to progress in FotM because of the randomness of Ascended ring rewards.
But or not, this has revealed itself to be a bad system, the failures of random loot are plain to see. For the first time in GW2 people are being denied progress not because of boss mechanics or anything like that, but due to LUCK.

This is unacceptable. Whole groups are being divided because some get agony resist and some don’t. You cannot make an item a REQUIREMENT to progress and then make it’s acquisition completely random.

The solution is simple, put these items in the vendor. You decide the price as that’s an argument I don’t want to go into here.
Currently, the vendor is next to useless. Sure, the bags are nice (though their gimmick is pointless) and so are the entry level infusions (presumably), but the rest is useless.
15 tokens for a shard I can buy with karma? 1350 tokens for an exotic back item you already made obsolete in the same patch? No thanks.

Placing Ascended gear in the vendor will allow a return to logical progression instead of the random facegrind we’re currently dealing with. Please consider this.

No its unacceptable they added the gear with better stats then exotics. Should have just added that infusion slot to the armor and such and many more players would have been happy.

Adding more skins, weapon types, with new skills, titles. Adding new costumes for armor in the gem store of things other then town cloths, character remakes so we could adjust our hair, etc would have been a much better idea then new stats on gear. We do not need to progress the stats, just reset them to exotic level and most of your loyal fan base from gw1 and others who do not want any gear grinds will more then likely stay with you.

GW1 went for many years without needing to add more stats to gear and weapons. They made mobs more intelligent, added new skills and for the players to be happy. Not to mention dual class system was amazing for my necro back then. It was more about the skill of the players and not the gear.

Yes but the damage is done now, they added them. Now we have to get lucky with the RNG lottery before we can progress in Fractals?

What kind of idiot move is that?

At least if they cost 2000 tokens or whatever you could actually get one by playing the dungeon, as opposed to playing the dungeon and also getting lucky on RNG…

Just go hit up Xiao Ping and get ULTRA FAST GOLD DELIVERY and make your quiver. Duhh