Guild Wars 2

I’ve read many comments stating why Offensive Infusions are not available to buy with Relics.
In my understanding, when you reach Fractal level 10+ Agony becomes a problem to you.

1. You need agony resistance.
2. You don’t need an extra +15 power
3. If you want more power, work for it, it’s not necessary, but resistance is.
4. Say you had 1 health but 9000 power, it’s not going to help you, your going to die. Say you had 15000 health, but 2000 power, it’ll take more time to kill it but you will live.

I’m saying that the main point Offensive Infusions aren’t sold is because you don’t need them, but you need resistance to Agony. They give this option for you to buy it because you need to have it to advance, you don’t need to have 15 more power.

Post you suggestions under…

But a simple offensive infusion would be the same as the simple defensive one, with only agony resist on it, and no other stats. None of the simple infusions (the ones you can buy) have any stats except for agony resist. I get the impression you think offensive infusions wouldnt/dont have agony resist?

What most people have a problem with is that a lot of the rings (randomly obtained) have offensive slots which have no cheap way to get any agony resistance from in the same way as defensively slotted items, making them much more expensive to make use of in fractals (for the purpose of agony resistance, nothing to do with a little extra power or precision)

Hmm… well they are ascended and should require work to achieve and upgrade, other than necessary defenses.

syfro.6873:

Hmm… well they are ascended and should require work to achieve and upgrade, other than necessary defenses.

Agreed, my point is that the necessary defenses (agony resistance) for offensive slots are more expensive and limited than the ones for defensive slots, for no apparent reason. In terms of additional stats (the really expensive crafted infusions) they are the same cost.

edit – to answer your original question my suggestion would be to add a simple offensive infusion with only +5 agony resistance for 75 fractal tokens to that merchant in the dungeon.

We need some more suggestions from other players

If they are both gonna be the same stats (+5 agony resist) for that 75 token ones, why not just make the omni (or whatever its called) 75 tokens, that will surely solve the problem.

At 40+ it doesnt even matter how many res you have. Agony will always kill you. =)

syfro.6873:

4. Say you had 1 health but 9000 power, it’s not going to help you, your going to die.

Evasion-based combat would like to have a word with you. Not the greatest idea in most dungeon fights, but at some point you’re getting one-shot anyways if you can’t evade, so you might as well stack offense to bring things down before they get a chance to be dangerous.