Guild Wars 2

Skipping the tedious monologue meant to draw sympathy..

I recently obtained a second Khilbron’s Phylactery ring from my daily fractal reward, which – I thought at the time – was perfect, now my necromancer has two rings perfectly designed for the rabid style conditionmancer.

Turns out, as the title of this thread would lead you to believe, you cannot equip two ascended rings of the same type.

Am I blind and just missed this catch? Is it a bug? Confirmation on this would be appreciated so I may feel appropriately foolish or justified in my annoyance respectively.

Regardless, I feel it should be more boldly stated if this is not a mistake – what if it wasn’t merely from the daily but someone actually bought a second ring with their pristine relics? 10 of the blasted things down the drain.

There is a keyword on all Ascended Rings: Unique, this means you can equip only one. Usually there is a second ring with different name but similar stats you can have

That doesn’t make any logical sense, clearly it is not unique seeing as I have two of them sitting in my bag.

It is “Unique” as you can’t equip a second one

Working as intended. This is the reason why you have two different rings with the same stats, to be able to stack them even though they’re unique.

Others have made the same mistake https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Ascended-ring

The reason the rings are unique is that despite the same stats, one uses an offensive and one uses a defensive infusion.

We’ve been told that the majority of linear gear progression in fractal levels would be in terms of tiered fractal infusions rather than higher gear tiers, it’s only logical that this is a built-in measure early on to prevent people from stacking future heavily statted fractal-specific infusions. Think about stats like agony resistance, but that give you +stats or +procs or +HP on attack or something while in fractals. This is essentially the plan for fractal gear progression, as Ascended is the literal stat tier ceiling, and constant linear progression isn’t intended for non-fractal content.

Non-Fractal infusions will ikely have a very shallow stat bonus, or perhaps a unique set-based runelike bonus for general PvE use, while the name of the game in terms of fractal infusions is “bigger numbers to do higher levels” like agony resistance when you’re talking about fractal level progression as that gear upgrade PvE endgame content for the types of players it’s aimed at.

Hi everyone,

Psynocide, items labeled as “unique” mean that you can only have one of those equipped.
This is the case with the ascended rings.

Thanks for your understanding. This thread is closed