Guild Wars 2

Has Arenanet mentioned a possible time frame for the arrival of the other methods of attaining Ascended gear, including karma, BoE selling on AH, etc? Since it appears to be here to stay, it would at least be nice to be able to attain it in a way that doesn’t involve screaming “LFG LFG LFG” or “LFM LFM LFM” for an hour per run. >_>

Tolmos.8395:

Has Arenanet mentioned a possible time frame for the arrival of the other methods of attaining Ascended gear, including karma, BoE selling on AH, etc? Since it appears to be here to stay, it would at least be nice to be able to attain it in a way that doesn’t involve screaming “LFG LFG LFG” or “LFM LFM LFM” for an hour per run. >_>

Maybe you should get a decent guild and/or friends’ list, to keep from having to shout.

What they’ve claimed is that the Jan Feb and March 2013 will have the biggest content releases to date. I’d expect a bit more of Ascended by spring time. Not sure karma, Invaders’, crafted or dropped, except that they’ve said they want to add more ways to get it.

I’m wondering/hoping that they’ll add another tab of dungeon-token gear with ascended offerings.

All we know is that other avenues of getting ascended gear will be opened “eventually”, and that the current grind required will be “looked into”.
It may mean that we’ll get easy to get karma/crafting/drops in the Dec 14th patch, or that we’ll get new ascended eq in a new FotM-style dungeon that will go in a year from now.

Seeing as there’s no furtther info about it (even though it was promised), i wouldn’t hold my breath yet.

Safest bet would be: somewhere in 2013 with the January update most likely for PVE and February for WvW.