Guild Wars 2

11-15-2012 – Ascended Gear introduced.

2-26-2013 – 5 more Ascended Stats added (Rampager, Cleric, Knight, Apothecary, and some wacky combo of precision, power, and toughness).

7/3/2013 – Still no Valkyrie/Carrion Ascended gear.

Gonna try this again because this has gotten to the point of absurd. For those unaware, Valkyrie and Carrion are two stat combos that have been in the game since Day 1, derived from Fangs/Beryl Orb and Bones/Chrysocola Orbs respectively.

Despite this, we’ve gone over half a year since ascended gear was released without these missing stat combinations being implemented. It took over 3 months to add other missing stats, but for some odd reason, they left out Valkyrie and Carrion and added some random new stat set and Apothecary instead, which wasn’t introduced until Lost Shores. The “why” on this is puzzling. What’s even more puzzling though is the silence after it was confirmed that this wasn’t intentional and that these stats would be added in the future.

We’ve been more then patient, and some type of response is more then warranted at this point. The “it takes time and there’s a huge amount of stuff on our list of things to do” isn’t cutting it as an excuse. Items are added all the time, and it is glaringly obvious to the players that there are prioritization issues. Hard to add new items? We’ll just add new stats combos (Azurite/Sentinel) while ignoring the missing ones. Icons? We’ll just change the Dragon’s Bash food icons out of the blue rather then make ones for the missing stat items. Skins isn’t even an issue since trinkets don’t have them and the ascended back ones use the same ones. If you’re prioritizing random things like the SAB or temporary kitten content rather then a glaring hole in gear implementation, I don’t know what to say. Something like this should be a top priority, not put on the back burner. Quite frankly we’re fed up with all this.

For those that would say, change your gear set, etc. That’s missing the point. Imagine if say Berserker or PTV ascended where missing and this situation occurred. Yet this is exactly what has occurred for Valkyrie and Carrion.

So once again, why has this gear not been implemented yet? Has this fallen through the cracks? What will be done to address this and when? Answers would be much appreciated.

Spot on.

ANET, when please?

I don’t understand why this hasn’t been resolved yet by ANet, especially when it was confirmed to be a bug and that they’d be added. Is it still intended that these will be added at some time, or have those plans changed? If it IS still intended, why the heck is it taking this long?

Hi Arkard !!!

I see you’re still at it!

ahahahahahahahaha

All our other UN-ascended friends should be here soon.

Where’s Loki?

He usually shows up to the weekly gathering of the un-ascended?

There’s loads of other stat types that are missing from ascended gear, too.

I want ascended magi gear. Right now I have to use cleric on my guardian, which is okay…but magi would be so much better.

As Verene said, there are other stat combos that still don’t have an ascended version available to us. I myself use Sentinel stat items on my armor. I know that ascended items aren’t available to armor yet, but with this current trend, I’m a bit worried that I won’t be seeing it if/when it does become available…

it’s just ridiculous

how hard can it be to implement 6 new items into the game? items that arent even visible.
All they need is a name, a picture and a description for the items. Everything else (level req, slot, stats, price, merchants) is already given…

The technology just isn’t there yet

deal with it.. valq/carrion jewlery isnt in the game sad but yes…

I, again, can only agree to what Arkard is saying. I think there were similiar threads to this issue already in the forum, but they seem to have disappeared.

I very much would like it, if they finally implemented carrion and valkyrie stat ascended jewlery. It shouldn’t take very long to make these items and some players really want them for their chars.
Why do we have to wait for this soooo long?

There’s also the “small” matter (that has been promised to be resolved long time ago) of back items being restricted to the first stat sets only. They were apparently completely forgotten when the second group of stat sets were added for ascended gear.

That, and i also would like to see carrion and magi ascended gear.

RoRo.8270:

The technology just isn’t there yet

Definitely due to technical limitations. It’s why we can’t have nice things in this game. The array was only defined for X amount, and X has reached max. Sorry, maybe next time!

No idea why this is apparently so difficult to introduce into the game. I don’t think my father, the inventor of toaster strudel, would be pleased to hear about this.

Usagi.4835:

No idea why this is apparently so difficult to introduce into the game. I don’t think my father, the inventor of toaster strudel, would be pleased to hear about this.

The most likely reason is that the devs found a particular build in PVP that would be OP in full Valkryie gear.

Khal Drogo.9631:

Usagi.4835:

No idea why this is apparently so difficult to introduce into the game. I don’t think my father, the inventor of toaster strudel, would be pleased to hear about this.

The most likely reason is that the devs found a particular build in PVP that would be OP in full Valkryie gear.

Or (far more possible) no dev actually used Valk gear, so they forgot it exists.

Now they added yet another new stat combo, Celestial…
Please just give us carrion and valykrie ascended jewelry. It can’t be that difficult to implement. Here are some name suggestions, if you are struggling with that ^^

Carrion:
Amuletts: Collar of Varesh, Jellyfish Pendant, Dryder Tooth Necklace
Accessoires: Mia’s Earring, Neersi’s Wine
Rings: Margonites Ring, Spiritwood Circle

Valkyrie:
Amuletts: Duncan’s Chain, Justiciar Emblem, Evennia’s Amulett
Accessoires: Urn of Saint Viktor, Moletariat Pamphlet
Rings: Morgahn’s Loyality, Deldrimor Ironband

Good post, people who want to use this stat should get a chance. +1

I would +1 the OP, but unfortunately the original post is a question.

Candacis.7048:

Now they added yet another new stat combo, Celestial…
Please just give us carrion and valykrie ascended jewelry. It can’t be that difficult to implement. Here are some name suggestions, if you are struggling with that ^^

Carrion:
Amuletts: Collar of Varesh, Jellyfish Pendant, Dryder Tooth Necklace
Accessoires: Mia’s Earring, Neersi’s Wine
Rings: Margonites Ring, Spiritwood Circle

Valkyrie:
Amuletts: Duncan’s Chain, Justiciar Emblem, Evennia’s Amulett
Accessoires: Urn of Saint Viktor, Moletariat Pamphlet
Rings: Morgahn’s Loyality, Deldrimor Ironband

Make it easier on them …

Carrion: Amulet of the Fail player. (rings and accessories too). Emblems for all 5 pieces – white background and the word “Fail” in dark black.

Valkyrie: Amulet of the Noob player. (rings and accessories too). Emblems for all 5 pieces – white background and the word “Noob” in dark black.

Trust me, after waiting over half a year, if they actually released the Ascended Carrion/FAIL and Valkyrie NOOB trinkets in the above manner …. we the UN-ascended would still be grateful and not a word of protest would be heard on the forums.

I have no idea why this isn’t resolved yet. It gimps (yes, only to a small degree, but still) build choices that weren’t fantastically popular in the first place, and for no reason I can discern.

I’ve pretty much stopped playing because of this. I used to log in and do dailies/guild events in order to get laurels and whatnot because they said they’d be put in. I got everything I needed and they’re still not in, and I just don’t see the point to keep doing dailies and events if I can’t even bring my P/D thief that uses carrion up to the level that other classes and specs are playing as. I realize it’s not a huge stat difference, but it’s mostly the principle.

Bump for great justice. Can we just have an update? Forgotten, not a priority, not happening, etc.?

Once again, I’m asking about ascended carrion and valkyrie trinkets.

Will this ever be implented?

It’s pretty bizarre that this still hasn’t happened. Are ArenaNet trying to retire Valkyrie/Carrion as stat combos?

Dont forget; No magi ascended rings, amulets or trinkets either. Oh and are there even any Assassins gear either? Funny that, new prefix and zero effort to implement it for BiS gear.

Do we really want full ascended Valkyrie thieves in wvw? Honest question.

Chopps.5047:

Do we really want full ascended Valkyrie thieves in wvw? Honest question.

Perhaps not, but if so, we could do with hearing that from ArenaNet, rather than just wondering if this is an oversight, a lack of content teams to make it, or intentional (it was seemingly an oversight previously).

It is never ever ever ever coming.

Sorry, but at this point we should just face it.