Guild Wars 2

I took a semi-long break from GW2 to try some other games, but I missed GW2’s PvP, so I’m thinking about returning. I read a little about the new dungeon (Mist of the Fractals?) and it sounds like it’s now mandatory to run this dungeon if you want to play World vs World because of the new higher tier of exotic gear.

How big is the gear gap from normal exotics and this new tier of exotic gear?

I have yet to do one dungeon in this game, have no trouble doing anything else I want in this game.

Plus I think the extra bonus you get from the Fract gear has no effect in PvP areas.

Akiko.2364:

Plus I think the extra bonus you get from the Fract gear has no effect in PvP areas.

That sounds very reassuring, hope you’re right about that. Thanks for replying ;-)

It’s not mandatory. We all know WvW is more about strategy and server coordination rather than one character having 10 more toughness than another.

There is a slight difference but it’s not much. Plus it’s only a couple of pieces, not like armor and weapons (at least yet).

As long as you have sub-80s in WvW (which there always will be) it’s definitely not mandatory.

At this time it is not mandatory. There are only two pieces of equipment available. Ring and backpack-quiver-book -thingy. In the future it should not be mandatory either, for the Ascended gear will be available in other ways. Including crafting.

It is only mandatory to have that gear if you want to run Fractals past level 10. The new ‘Agony’ condition needs to be countered by that gear then.

Of course there are some people who do not wish to play with those not into the Ascended grindmill. They are a minority though. Vocal maybe, but still minority.

Piquet.1974:

Akiko.2364:

Plus I think the extra bonus you get from the Fract gear has no effect in PvP areas.

That sounds very reassuring, hope you’re right about that. Thanks for replying ;-)

sPvP yes he/she is correct. WvW No, he/she isn’t correct.

The ascended gear has higher valued stats on it, but only say 10 or so per stat. It also has agony resistance. The higher stats will effect WvW, the agony resistance will not. The agony resistance is only there to run higher level fractals.

You do get some better rings and back pieces from Fractals. But don’t worry, the next big patch should bring those pieces to the rest of the game as well. They’ve admitted it was a mistake to bring ascended gear to only 1 part of the game first instead of bringing it out in all parts at once.

Ascended gear is still being rolled out. So far they implemented just rings and back items and those for now require FoTM run. They did say they will roll it out to aquirable by other means as well including playing WvW itself. That being said this is primarily a skill based game. Ascended armor will give you a small advantage but I personally dont feel its such a big deal missing out on that advantage. I only have a 33% exotic set and do quite well in WvW. I would estimate about 10:1 kill to death ratio.

I also ran a little experiment for fun, tried an hour of WvW wearing no armor at all. Did 7 kills, died 2 times.

Thanks for all the fast replies, much appreciated. Think it’s downloading time!

Personal stats really don’t matter all that much in WvW. No single person is powerful enough to ransack the battlefield.

Dungeons are absolutely not mandatory.