Guild Wars 2

Hello, any chance we could get Ascended Accessories with Pristine Fractal Relic?

The currency does not see a lot of use apart form the rings and the backpiece related collections and as a guildless player i think it would be nice having a different method of acquisition for the accessories apart from laurels+ecto and guild commendations.

The only con i can see is it could be a disincentive for guild missions, but i think the unique rewards and the fact guild missions have a social aspect attached to them should be enough to keep them alive.

Thoughts?

Can we get the new stats purchasable from the fractal vendors? Things like Viper, Sinister, Traveller’s etc. Why do I have to all the achievements in content unrelated to fractals to obtain the BiS gear for my build in fractals?

Sean Hughes.2487:

We did want to add more ways to acquire accessories, and in fact added them as a rare drop to some of the daily chests. I’m not sure if we want to go all-in and make them directly purchasable for relics at this point, though.

It would be really nice to have a direct purchase option for ascended accessories in the various game modes. It would be amazing if we could craft them as well.

In addition to crafting ascended accessories, perhaps this could be the ascended purchasing formula throughout the game…

X game mode currency + X Laurels + X Gold

So for fractals you could do something like this…

Have all pieces individually cost 20 PFR + 5 laurels + 20 gold… Finals costs for a set of five become 100 PFR, 25 laurels and 100 gold, which seems pretty fair. Y’all could use that same format for all pvp and pve game modes.

So in WvW/EotM…

200 Badges of Honor + 5 laurels + 20 gold

HoT zones…

200 zone currency + 5 laurels + 20 gold

Not sure if I mentioned, but it would be amazing if we could craft ascended accessories as well.

Having reasonable paths like these would make me more likely to spend more gold and resources on building full sets of gear instead of just hoarding stuff and transmuting gear.

But…that would decrease the value of salvaged brillance and therefore the value of my shiny title…
Kidding tho. Accessories are one of the harder things to come by, a lot of players even found it more beneficial to swap them around their characters.
Right now every method of aqquistion is kinda timegated, so it would probably be best to also base any form of fractal vendor on it in order to make this an additional method, not a superior one.
@swagger. I would decrease gold and increase pfr heavily. Pfr are used for almost nothing else and would tie this form of aqquistion almost exclusively to people who actually run fractals.
There are enough other things to waste gold on.
So more like 150-200 pfr (you really cant use them for anything else) and 5 gold.

Ah, so they were added, I got an ascended accessory drop on the first day post patch, useless stats to me, but a nice addition:)

I did get one from a daily chest yesterday. Thanks for that, guys. 40 laurels and 50 ectos is really an exorbitant price (considering how easy it is for ppl in guilds). It’s nice that something you need for fotm can now be earned in fotm.

Please o it Sean!

Sean Hughes.2487:

We did want to add more ways to acquire accessories, and in fact added them as a rare drop to some of the daily chests. I’m not sure if we want to go all-in and make them directly purchasable for relics at this point, though.

https://youtu.be/ZXsQAXx_ao0

Sean Hughes.2487:

We did want to add more ways to acquire accessories, and in fact added them as a rare drop to some of the daily chests. I’m not sure if we want to go all-in and make them directly purchasable for relics at this point, though.

i like that theyre in the daily chest, i dont like that its rng. i got a useless one. fortunately i needed 1 more ball of dark energy, but next time i get a useless drop i wont need a ball. let me pick from a stat selection or something. this complaint is a thing your team should have already learned, its the same logic as to why pristine relics were introduced in the first place — to allow rng to not be a debilitating factor. i get it that adding these items to the drop tables is a “bonus” thing that is supposed to be in addition to whatever was already there, but once i get used to it being there all im going to think is “this is useless to me and should have been done in such a way that it is not”.

Might as well make everything purchasable if that’s the case.

Illuzion.3576:

Might as well make everything purchasable if that’s the case.

you dont have to make everything purchaseable, just make every drop have a use. clearly outdated and outclassed stats have no use.

Sean Hughes.2487:

We did want to add more ways to acquire accessories, and in fact added them as a rare drop to some of the daily chests. I’m not sure if we want to go all-in and make them directly purchasable for relics at this point, though.

Can you open up the remaining stat combos in accessories to laurels and fractal relics?

Condi builds have a much more tedious process of gearing up as viper/sinister accessories are much harder/time consuming to acquire than berzerker/assassins stats.

insanemaniac.2456:

Illuzion.3576:

Might as well make everything purchasable if that’s the case.

you dont have to make everything purchaseable, just make every drop have a use. clearly outdated and outclassed stats have no use.

You are aware that salvaging ascended accessories can yield a drop worth multiple hundreds of gold? Of course that’s RNG on top of RNG, so this is not the best solution, but still better than absolutely nothing.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

insanemaniac.2456:

Illuzion.3576:

Might as well make everything purchasable if that’s the case.

you dont have to make everything purchaseable, just make every drop have a use. clearly outdated and outclassed stats have no use.

You are aware that salvaging ascended accessories can yield a drop worth multiple hundreds of gold? Of course that’s RNG on top of RNG, so this is not the best solution, but still better than absolutely nothing.

wont be worth hundreds of gold for long given that weve just been granted salvage fodder that drops it.

Sean Hughes.2487:

We did want to add more ways to acquire accessories, and in fact added them as a rare drop to some of the daily chests. I’m not sure if we want to go all-in and make them directly purchasable for relics at this point, though.

How about adding them to higher tiers to the guild trader? The guild trader’s late upgrades are a little underwhelming since “more purchases per day” aren’t very compelling when most of the things you’d want to buy multiples of have been moved to the scribe vendor. Nobody really needs two ascended weapon recipies, or all that many trader-only decorations, etc.

Guild commendations are already the most efficient way to acquire many accessories, so it only makes sense that having put the effort in to the guild trader would up the efficiency by somewhat lowering the cost but having an RNG element.

So, currently, you need 12 commendations and some gold, but you can buy whatever you want.

What if a max level vendor has a rotating page of 4 random ones per day that she sold for 6 commendations and no gold? it seems like a logical upgrade from the commendation vendor in the initiative HQ the same way the weapon/armor recipies are a logical upgrade.