Guild Wars 2

Look at the stats of Zojja’s Visor, compared to the Exotic equivalent..

REALLY?!

I’ve also posted a screen, courtesy of my friend, which shows the work necessary to craft Light Ascended armour.

I’m actually stunned.

Zojja’s Visor has 127 Defence, which I couldn’t screen.

The table………….

Lol no.

We really don’t need any more vertical progression, so no.

Yep, it’s there so people can grind for “better stats” if they want to but not so much better that people get on the forum and complain (much) about it.

I don’t think they are going to buff the stats.

The obvious conclusion we can draw from what you posted is that the ascended armor is indeed too costly for its stats. Therefore, since increasing stats is a definite no, the crafting cost should be decreased.

No – the ideas of Ascended armor was a very slight increase but, the important part, was to add spots to add in Agony resist for higher level fractals. You don’t need ascended, really. If you think you do, then you really understand the game and builds at all. Exotics work perfectly well for 98% of the game.

Crafting cost should not be decreased, it is fine the way it is.

Astralporing.1957:

The obvious conclusion we can draw from what you posted is that the ascended armor is indeed too costly for its stats. Therefore, since increasing stats is a definite no, the crafting cost should be decreased.

This. 5 % more stats is more than enough, it’s just the price that’s ridiculous (especially for light armor).

The replies stating that it’s the cost that’s too high fit in with what I’m saying; the effort required to get these is absolutely insane, especially when you consider the fact that each set has its own required creation for different stat groups.

Legendaries make more sense than this, since at least with those you basically unlock every stat combo you want, instead of grinding and grinding for different sets.

WolfiKurisu.6894:

The replies stating that it’s the cost that’s too high fit in with what I’m saying; the effort required to get these is absolutely insane, especially when you consider the fact that each set has its own required creation for different stat groups.

Legendaries make more sense than this, since at least with those you basically unlock every stat combo you want, instead of grinding and grinding for different sets.

Ascended is armor for a specific purpose. Go ahead and try a level 40 fractal w/o it and the Agony Resist. That is why it costs, specific purpose = more cost.

The other nice thing with ascended armor is that you can now share them between characters. That alone is probably worth 3x the cost. Still the cost is probably still too high, but being able to build one set of armor and share it between characters helps justify some of the cost.

And still people say that you NEED ascended gear to be competitive …

Belzebu.3912:

And still people say that you NEED ascended gear to be competitive …

You don’t need it, but it certainly helps.
Of course, of all the ascended gear, armor costs the most and helps the least.

No, what they should do is lower the costs. Like, a lot.

As of now, I’m glad it’s barely any better than exotic. That way I won’t miss out, since I don’t want to grind months for all my characters. Now I can happily ignore it.

It needs a nerf, down to exotic stats. That way you wont need to grind for nothing and can actually go have… fun.
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