Guild Wars 2

tom.7468:

rjnemer.7816:

tom.7468:

rjnemer.7816:

tom.7468:

Introduced in fotm no thanks pugging in fotm is awful you expect competent players at level 40 thats not always the case.

You may find it bad but when i run 48’s it always goes very smoothly. Why cant it just be one of the ways to get the gear? You can still craft the armor if you wish. Heck, add another way to get the gear. Would be a perfect way to introduce hard mode to dungeons. Why must it only be crafting and extremely small chances of a box, with an even smaller chance of a box you can even use?

It doesn’t introduce it to arah, se and coe and i would be happy with that.

re-type that. I dont understand what you are trying to say.

Basically. If there is different ways to acquire ascended armor then why not. But if fotm is the only way its better if its not implemented in the first place.
The best thing to do is probably to make it obtainable from different content so more people can enjoy it.

Thats what i am trying to say. If people want to craft, let them! If people like to do fractals, let them! If people want play WvW, let them! Obviously they should all take roughly the same amount of time (not taking into account speed clearing).

Dungeons (as they are now) should not reward ascended gear.

rjnemer.7816:

Dungeons (as they are now) should not reward ascended gear.

I can’t wait to see dungeons becoming a wasteland à la Southsun once ascended armour is released.
It’ll be glorious.

Pariah.8506:

rjnemer.7816:

Dungeons (as they are now) should not reward ascended gear.

I can’t wait to see dungeons becoming a wasteland à la Southsun once ascended armour is released.
It’ll be glorious.

No they wont. They still reward the best amount of gold if you dont like mindless champ farming in circles. Though the gold rewards need to be better thought out. 1g for all the path except ac and arah just doesnt cut it. Thats just lazy.

Fractals are a wasteland though. Thats because the rewards absolutely suck. i havent done a 48 in weeks. Fractals should be the best money in the game at high levels. But anet has no clue how to balance risk vs reward so champ farming is king as of now.

I am predicting multiple ways to get ascended armor, but one of them will be pristines, regular relics, and perhaps shards of cystalline mist essence. Perhaps also crafted via 500 armorsmith, tailor, etc using those as mats. I hate that 500 armorcraft is likely going to be needed, but it makes sense.

I think we might see a change to the payout of pristine relics, otherwise there is no real incentive to doing higher level fractals. You’d be better served running an 18 and a 28, then say one 48, as far as getting regular relics or pristines. You could run those lower ones in the same time as a 48 with your eyes closed.

We’ll see what they do, but I expect shards to come into play.