Guild Wars 2

One of the things I enjoyed most in this game was that no matter what, all the dungeons were beneficial for me to do as they lead to me getting stuff that was useful to me at one point or another.

However, now that ascended gear is being introduced, it seems to me like all 8 of our current dungeons and their rewards will become obsolete. There won’t be a point in running any of them besides getting the skin you want or tokens for a gift for a legendary weapon.

I detested how all content became obsolete as soon as the newest raid was introduced in WoW. Does Anet plan on going that same route? Are they just gonna let everything they had starting out be blown into the wind for this ascended stuff?

I think they other dungeons will still be done for gearing up purposes at the very least, the question will be I think more where will everyone be hanging out at and because of this will it be even harder to find a group to run dungeons since the current grouping mechanism isn’t used and needs replaced.

Atm the only ascended pieces being introduced are rings and a back piece.
Also, the main reason people get dungeon gear is for the skins, not the stats, at least thats how it is for me. Exotic gear is already easy to get outside dungeons, but people still do them. Most people doing dungeons have full exotic gear, but they still run them.
Its not going to change anything.
Dungeons are for fun first, gear second.

I think they should incorporate the ascended gear in the current dungeons, as people who really dont care about skins, (Yes there are a few of them) will end up not doing them at all, and just go straight to doing the new dungeon.

I don’t think you have to worry. At least, not how I read this post

It seems that existing content will be getting Ascended gear rewards in future updates, keeping it relevant. I’d desperately hope this is the case, as I’m quite a fan of most of the current dungeons – excluding CoE, because Alpha is just silly.

alpha is silly if you wanted it to be. so is lupi, so is everything else in this game. Nothing is hard if your group fully understood the mechanism in play… excluding pvp of course.

back onto the topic. they should make it so you can trade your current dungeon gear back for ascended gear (or tokens) if the goal was not to make a gear grind out of this thing. because as it stands, everybody need to grind dungeons, and if nothing changes, then most people will be doing AC across 3 or 4 toons till everything they had was transmuted into new set of gear (or tokens for that gear)

I’m a little worried too, it’s already hard to find SE, CoE, and Arah exp groups on my server.

the new dungeon only drop ring/accessories atm but Anet will ….wait until u fully gears dungeon exotic and then ….introducing ascended gears so…..u can continue …grind. congratz

My guess is it’ll be like when the Mad King Dungeon was introduced; the majority of players will only want to run the new dungeon for a week or two. In that time the other dungeons will suffer for lack of players. After that, depending on how the new dungeon is received and the loot drop quality/quantity, we’ll see if it stays that popular or if it’ll even out to the current dungeon popularity levels. No way of knowing until it comes out.