Guild Wars 2

So with the new patch armor is getting an increase of 10% over exotic, currently only 5%. It’s always been BIS but the gap has been made bigger now.
With HoT right around the corner and ascended being buffed slightly i think now would be the time to fix the problem of obtaining certain stats.

I recently theorycrafted a build which used zealots armor, The recipes costing from 100g to 200g, JUST for the recipe. This would mean each piece would be costing me from 200-300g which is over double the cost of most stats. I wondered why that was so i looked it up, Turns out the only place to get these things was the marionette event in living story one. Which happened like 2 years ago?

Nevermind, I’ll theorycraft again using zealots on the trinkets and try to get it as close as possible. Turns out they don’t exist in ascended form?

Why do we have stats which are time exclusive on BIS gear? Since ascended gear isn’t tradable, once these recipes run out, we no longer have access to that gear stat, Neither do any of the new players. I don’t think this is right.

Zealot’s is power/prec/healing power, The only place it would get used when it was released was in a pvp scenario to fine tune stats on a build, Yet it came from a PvE event? The same applys with Nomads trinkets, Not only do you need living story season 2 but you also need to complete all of the achievements. That’s not “Playing the game how you want” as Anet wanted it to be.

Not only that but when you get fractals ascended boxes or craft backpieces with chooseable stats, These stat combos are left off of them, Making even less sense.

TLDR: Anet should make all ascended gear equal, If you can buy 6 difference ascended recipes from the vendor for 21k karma you should be able to buy them all. Same applies with laurels and trinkets. Also guild comms and trinkets.

Having one recipe cost 21k karma and another cost 200g because of your choice of stats is ridiculous.

The same applies to trinkets although less so because they require a bit more than just a gold grind, Having some buyable with laurels and others requiring living story to get is just silly.

Stop punishing people for build diversity and stop locking stats away behind unnecessary walls.

There are no Magi trinkets either. Aside the two rings you get from 100% the collection from Twilight Arbor and Honor of the Waves. Thats the only two Magi trinkets in the GAME and you can only get them once each per account. So only one character can have half magi ascended trinkets. (Magi = Healingpower/Vitality/Precision)

We can’t know the extent of the impact until the patch hits. And even if we did, ANet would have to stop the patch to make any changes in the amount stats are affected and/or the availability of certain types of ascended stats.

Personally, I would prefer to see a different system, one in which we could pick the the stats directly (instead of memorizing an arcane nomenclature of names-to-stats) and one in which it was easier to update stats in ascended gear than in exotic (whereas it’s easier to change exotic stats right now). In the meantime, though, we can make good use of the system going live on Tuesday (Pacific Time).

Would like to see a few more options become more readily available as well. Be it future or soon. Would still like to see it.

thank you Anet make the Gap bigger like 20%

Raven.3957:

There are no Magi trinkets either. Aside the two rings you get from 100% the collection from Twilight Arbor and Honor of the Waves. Thats the only two Magi trinkets in the GAME and you can only get them once each per account. So only one character can have half magi ascended trinkets. (Magi = Healingpower/Vitality/Precision)

Quite wrong. You can buy them for 40 laurels and 3 gold, and they arent rings either

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary_Master_Collector_Rednax_Youngblood

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

oooo!

You just won me back. TY for the clarification Colin!

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

That new system is amazing!!!!!!!!!!! Omg thank you!!! <3

EDIT: Does this apply to weapons too?!

@Colin

Does it include Rings as well?

Aré we going to be able to change stats from ascended rings, amulets and trinkets?

ColinJohanson.2394:

Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

So would it be unreasonable to assume ledgendary armor and trinkets are coming? ::nudge nudge, wink wink::

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

this is great news….will this work on trinkets?

why no valkyries trinket?

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

Will this preserve the runes/sigils on the equipment?

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

that is amazing news! Thank you so much!
Is that a one-time-change to the stats that we can do? Or could it be done everytime we want to change the stats?
That would be sooo awesome! <3

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

Insignia? Does it mean it only applies to armor?

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

Please sticky this.
Faith restored.

Excellent news! I’ve been holding off on crafting my ascended gear until after HoT. But with the ability to change it if needed…..why wait?

I hope weapons are included as well. Would love to change the stats on my Sunless weapons.

Regardless, a welcome addition. Thanks!

Spiky.8403:

Insignia? Does it mean it only applies to armor?

I’d imagine so. Weapons are not as expensive as armor, but mainly doing this would allow for an easily and cheaply method of obtaining all skills for a single weapon.

Coroner.3168:

Insignia? Does it mean it only applies to armor?

I’d imagine so. Weapons are not as expensive as armor, but mainly doing this would allow for an easily and cheaply method of obtaining all skills for a single weapon.

Obtaining skills? Sorry I can’t follow all news coming out, could you explain, please?

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

God you need to be more specific Colin! Does it apply to all Ascended gear and if you convert an ascended weapon to another stat, do you unlock a new skin!? I need to know now! xD

I’m just glad of having a full bank tab with ascended gear from fractals that have stats without use for me.

I wonder if this is via the mystic forge or what. I do have so very expensive infusions in my gear would hate to lose them.

I hope it applies for weapons, too. Then I can unlock all the ascended weapon skins.

Will this apply to rings & weapons ?

As Yoyi said I also got a full bank tab of ascended armor/rings/weapons I dont currently use.

Spiky.8403:

Obtaining skills? Sorry I can’t follow all news coming out, could you explain, please?

Think he meant skins

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

Thank you so much for all this stuff Colin!

Off to change the post on Dragon Season

ColinJohanson.2394:

Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

Too bad its a bit useless feature cause we cannot change sigils on them.

One could predict that insignia prices will rise fast.. we will see

That’s pretty awesome news. One thing worries me, though…will re-statting a piece of gear destroy the runes and infusions in it?

I really hope that the stat-changing system will include accessories. Or at least, give us something to do with all these rings! I’d take salvaging/forging!

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

CHEERS IN RELIEF

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

Will this work with Jewelry too? I have so many useless Ascended rings that would love to be repurposed :-)

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

Amazing news! Thank you so much!

What happens to infusions and runes that we have in the armor after we change stats. Do we keep them?

That’s an awesome change. I wonder if it applies to weapons as well – I hope it does!

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

Just needed to log in to say thank you!

Yeeeeeesssssssssssssssssss!

Getting random armor boxes from fractals just got a lot better!

Quick clarification though, will this be for all gear (Weapons, Armor and trinkets)? That would be amazing.

This allows a work around for Zealots gear and its price.
Or am I understanding it incorrectly?

oohhhhh snap!
I threw away tons of ascended gear that had useless stats to me :S :S

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

Very interesting. This may be a game changer for me.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

I need to pick up more gems because I gotta support a game that provides other forms of progression besides gear grinding AND keeps the difference between BiS gear and second-tier gear low enough to prevent the delta from being a barrier to entry.

So nice. I can just spend my time playing for fun instead of grinding forever at my casual pace until I get to some goal post so I can compete, only to have the goal posts moved again. High praise for having the opposite philosophy, Anet! High praise!

What about multiple sets then? i got 3 sets of ascended armor for heavy class each with a different stats.

Will I unlock the stats of one on the other 2?

ColinJohanson.2394:

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

omfg

the hype intensifies

Thats awsome news. Thank you very much!

Does this include weapons? I really want more ascended Weapon skins, and to get the stat I want when I get a weapon box..

Thank you for this info! I will be making the rest of my ascended armors (medium & light). I have been sitting on the ascended mats trying to decide what stats I wanted and this is what I wanted to hear!

ColinJohanson.2394:

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear.

But I’m pretty sure Ascended trinkets are 10% better than exotic ones currently. Are they getting “downgraded” to fall in line with the rest then?