Guild Wars 2

I have a suggestion to remove agony resistance from the gear and have it moved to the account, similar to the change that was made in the past for magic find. I post it here as it is only applicable for FotM.

Since the fractal levels are account bound instead of character bound, I am still kind of doing them on 1 character only as she has the agony resistance needed for the fractal level I have unlocked on my account. By moving the agony restistance from the gear to being account wide, I can start bringing my other characters too, that will never get agony resistance. So far the change to make fractal level account wide, did not have an impact on my gameplay due to this restriction.

Ofcourse balancing this might be tricky as a lot of players already have agony resistance, but that could give them a head start on their account directly. Also a stat buff will occur due to the infusion slots that become available (neglectable or not?). Next to that a part of the grind from the game will “disappear” as we do not have to get ascended items and agony resistance for every single character that we want to bring to the higher levels of fractals. I am confident this all could be re-balanced.

It would open up fractals for a lot of characters for a lot of players, which makes us enjoy that part of the game just that much more!

Having farmed two sets of AR before the change, I’d actually be in favor of this, but I can’t see how they could implement it easily. Ascended armors infusions would become next to useless and people would entirely drop the motivation to get ascended gear.

I am not saying it is easy to implement either, but I believe the same holds through for the magic find change they managed to pull off. People farmed armor sets there too. I feel the infusions could work as consumables towards your account AR. So that when the patch hits they are removed from your gear and mailed to you so you have a headstart to start with from the AR you already collected (I am pretty sure that people do not want to start over farming their AR). Or possibly have slots for AR infusions somewhere in your hero page, so that people can still craft and use the higher AR infusions that they implemented a while ago and a market remains for that.

I am not an expert on balancing all that myself, but I think there are options to work with and make it account wide.

So we end up buying absolutely nothing for our fractal relics?

I have outfitted 4 chars so far to be able to do 49 and currently working on the second for 50 and to me that alone somehow feels rewarding even when it takes a lot of time getting all the mats, infusions and what not.

Why would I even bother with ascended gear with a change like that? Not going to happen as far as I see it.

Before they do that they should make Agony a default instability on all levels and fix a lot of other issues with fractals.

Why would there be nothing for fractal relics? You would still have to collect tokens for the AR. You would be collecting it for your account instead of per character. It could mean an increase in price even.

The work you have already put in, could be translated into a headstart for your account, in order to not lose that work put in.

I think a lot of players would still get ascended. It is not only used in FotM and also in WvW. You could personally chose to no longer get it ofcourse, but a lot of people already chose so. And a lot of players who do not go to FotM still chose to get ascended even if it is not really needed in your opinion.

What can i possibly get for the relics what I don’t have? As I’ve said 4 chars at min. 55 AR, why would I get more if I had enough AR after such a change with no additional fractal levels (51+)?

I don’t need more back pieces, I don’t need more Inventory bags. The only thing I would actually like is to be able to buy not only rings (two bank tabs full of them already just from daily chests) but amulets and accessories. Then it would actually make sense .. but then again, I wouldn’t need them since I had enough AR already on the account.

I’d also like my laurels, badges of honor and guild commendations back from the items I bought for my alts since those wouldn’t be necessary anymore.

A friend of mine has over 10k relics .. maybe you have an idea what he should spend it on since he’s also full ascended with “max” AR.

In my opinion, which may vary to others, ascended stuff is only really necessary for fractals .. in WvW you can do just fine with exotics. So why bother spending the time and probably money to get ascended just for that?

Also remember resetting AR for everyone, with introduction of leaderboards.