Guild Wars 2

Is ASC accessories only available through grinding FOtM?

I read from dulfy that back-pieces are available from FOtM and also through the mystic forge.

http://dulfy.net/2012/11/17/gw2-ascended-gear-and-infusion-recipes/

But, from the site, it seems to suggest that ASC accessories are only obtainable through grinding FOtM.

Are the developers planning to create other avenues to get ASC accessories? Or is there already one, which i do not know of?

The link you posted contains all of the methods to get Ascended back pieces at present. You missed out on “Method 2.”

Really, though, more importantly- don’t worry about it for now at all. Easier methods are confirmed to be coming and the only stat boost is quite negligible at this time.

Hawkian.6580:

The link you posted contains all of the methods to get Ascended back pieces at present. You missed out on “Method 2.”

Really, though, more importantly- don’t worry about it for now at all. Easier methods are confirmed to be coming and the only stat boost is quite negligible at this time.

Not necessarily “easier” because that of course depends on what you do in game. If you’re doing fractals progression for the fun of it, you’ll get the pieces as you go.

Definitely the stats boost is so small (at least so far with what’s in-game) that even a full set of ascended represents no discernible performance increase in-game.

Well, I meant, ArenaNet has sort of hinted at just straight up patching the recipes to have fewer reqs. That would be easier :P

Some sort of info on the timetable of implementing it would be nice. If they aren’t going to do it soon (and by “soon” i mean real soon, like “next patch”, not “eventually, someday… we hope”) then it would mean they, contrary to what they claim, are generally okay with ascended eq requiring heavy grind.

Are there any plans to add these as drops from the standard dungeons too? Might serve as incentive to do those again. Currently everyone’s only going Fractals or you got the odd groups going Arah/CoF/CoE…

You’re about a month late with this. Really a quick search would have easily answered your question.

Hawkian.6580:

Well, I meant, ArenaNet has sort of hinted at just straight up patching the recipes to have fewer reqs. That would be easier :P

All depends on whether the drop rates stay the same or not. I wouldn’t draw any conclusions until you see the patch notes. Oh wait, that won’t help. No, you’ll find out once it’s implemented.

Hawkian.6580:

Well, I meant, ArenaNet has sort of hinted at just straight up patching the recipes to have fewer reqs. That would be easier :P

Oh, but they already did! I laughed hard when I saw it, but they technically did lower requirements.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Adjustments-to-the-Cost-of-Infusions-and-High-End-Materials/first#post998529

Ballistic.4531:

Hawkian.6580:

Well, I meant, ArenaNet has sort of hinted at just straight up patching the recipes to have fewer reqs. That would be easier :P

Oh, but they already did! I laughed hard when I saw it, but they technically did lower requirements.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Adjustments-to-the-Cost-of-Infusions-and-High-End-Materials/first#post998529

Yeah, i laughed long and hard when i saw that.