Guild Wars 2

There are quite a number of people who simply don’t enjoy crafting but would like a reliable way to get ascended weapons and armor.

Can we just buy them with say badges of honor or laurels or glory or anything that is more pvp oriented?

At the very least can you make ascended gear tradable so we don’t have to craft?

This is really the only game where crafting is essential on a per character basis.

YUCK (imho).

The more ways to get ascended the better!

I dont’ know how they can make it fair, because the sheer amount of gold and material that is required to craft ascended gear.

People can level 8 pression to 400 in 3 hours. So the crafting part isn’t even the focus.

The focus is sheer amount of gold and material you need to gather.

If they make the amount of bades or honor or laurels or glory too large, people are just going to whine anyway.

Lets be honest: its not gonna happen, unfortunately.

Seriously, its more than 1 year after ascended introduction to the game and they havent done somenthing as simple as define an amount of karma, dungeon tokens and badges of honor for each piece. All they had to do is define how many it would require. Something like:

- exotic full set: 1380 dungeon tokens or 252k karma or 950 badges of honor
- ascended full set: 2000 dungeon tokens or 400k karma or 1500 badges of honor

So, if instead of doing something as simple as that, they have done all the work of creating a new tier (grandmaster) for crafting professions, ascended materials, recipes, etc., its because they dont wanna do it.

^ I think that’s a perfect example of what’s wrong.

You are expecting like 2000 token for a full set of ascended gear when the sheer grind require to craft ascended is much larger than that.

2000 tokens and 400k karma covers like 10% of the requirement to crafting ascended gear. (you need empyreal crystals and crafting also require karma)

Seriously, do you think clicking a few button to level crafting to 500 is hard? That part take less than 1 hour. It’s the sheer amount of material required that is hard.

laokoko.7403:

^ I think that’s a perfect example of what’s wrong.

You are expecting like 2000 token for a full set of ascended gear when the sheer grind require to craft ascended is much larger than that.

2000 tokens and 400k karma covers like 10% of the requirement to crafting ascended gear. (you need empyreal crystals and crafting also require karma)

Seriously, do you think clicking a few button to level crafting to 500 is hard? That part take less than 1 hour. It’s the sheer amount of material required that is hard.

The numbers were just an example. Anyway, everything necessary to ascended crafting (apart from skill points) can be outright bought with gold, if Im not mistaken. All you need to do is follow the champ train spamming skill 1. Or you can play the TP (but in this case you would still need the skill points – not that they are hard to get though).

Getting the mats and money is not hard, just time consuming. I’ve not even looked at Ascended armour. Hell I’ve only just before Christmas leveled my weapon smith up to 500 and made an ascended great sword. Maybe once I’ve made a few more of the pre mats I’ll have a look, until then, there’s no point in worrying. It’s all time gated anyway.

caiomacos.1694:

laokoko.7403:

^ I think that’s a perfect example of what’s wrong.

You are expecting like 2000 token for a full set of ascended gear when the sheer grind require to craft ascended is much larger than that.

2000 tokens and 400k karma covers like 10% of the requirement to crafting ascended gear. (you need empyreal crystals and crafting also require karma)

Seriously, do you think clicking a few button to level crafting to 500 is hard? That part take less than 1 hour. It’s the sheer amount of material required that is hard.

The numbers were just an example. Anyway, everything necessary to ascended crafting (apart from skill points) can be outright bought with gold, if Im not mistaken. All you need to do is follow the champ train spamming skill 1. Or you can play the TP (but in this case you would still need the skill points – not that they are hard to get though).

You need those empyreal fragement, dragonite ore etc. You also need karma. You can’t buy those.

Nothing is hard. Just time consuming.

That’s why your number is absurd. I didn’t check but you already are require to do a bunch of dungeons and requrie a bunch of karma. What you write down is like 10% of the material already required to craft ascended gear.

I gotta say, this whole ascended stuff, the way it was delivered, really made me frustated with the game at the point I hardly find a reason to login anymore…

My playstyle is that I don’t farm. I’m hardly rich on any game and I really don’t do anything about it. I always have enough money so I can play comfortably but I never pursue being rich.

GW2 was a game that would fit my playstyle perfectly before because the horizontal progression on equips. If I feel the need of a different look I’d pursue it but that’s it… I never cared about crafting and I still don’t like it.

What I do is guild events and WvW mostly and I’d love to be able to achieve ascended gear with those things. I don’t mind if it takes some time, as long as I’m doing an activity that I enjoy.

Since there’s no “endgame” on GW2 and your options are just go after looks before ascended, the least that Anet could do is that one could achieve those gears doing something enjoyable. My opinion is that they should be tradable and/or bought with different tokens like guild and WvW ones. Otherwise WvW players don’t have any reason to even login.

They should allow to trade armors and weapons. By now, it won’t make anything unfair anymore. Those who crafted to 500 will have the chance to craft for earning money and recover what they spent. Those who don’t want to craft, will gladly buy for a fair amount of gold. Win-win.

As a person that only maxed jewellery & cooking I felt very left out of the additions to crafting. Now they bring out a gem item that makes any food buff last for 12 hrs.
Add to that the ascended jewellery cannot even be crafted.
They promise content for everyone but that is all SPIN.

Grinding for ascended equipment is the worst thing that has happened to this game. It’s horrible and created a two-class society. I understand that some people might enjoy grinding, but for me personally it’s the worst thing that can happen to any MMO.
One of the reasons I bought this game was that they promised that there is no grind for gear.

Well, here we are O:
Fooled by a company, once again. Guess I’ll never learn.

It’s like, do we really need one more setting on the treadmill? Will that make the ride any better?

DeadSign.1942:

GW2 was a game that would fit my playstyle perfectly before because the horizontal progression on equips. If I feel the need of a different look I’d pursue it but that’s it… I never cared about crafting and I still don’t like it.

Agreed. I really wish getting Ascended stat gear was only slightly more difficult/expensive/time-consuming to obtain than Exotic stat gear was to obtain. The “grind” would only come into play if you wanted the flashy, rare, or prestigious looking skins for those items.

Raine.1394:

It’s like, do we really need one more setting on the treadmill? Will that make the ride any better?

We have a treadmill?