First up, I’m actually OK with all the ‘ascended’ items becoming the stock-standard for endgame. It makes sense to have ascended on all gear slots and that being officially ‘completed’ your build. I’m happy with the difficulty level too – mainly just time and farming. It’s fair and it’s straightforward.
I really don’t want to see more items added beyond this point though. Maybe more stat options, but even then that’s a 50/50 because of possible imbalances that arise.
I actually think the best way to make a pve end game. Is to add timed skins.
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Skins would be an end-game item that could be crafted, dropped, or purchased much like ascended gear, just cheaper. Once applied to an item, the skin on it lasts a set period of time.
- You could farm up more, and harder content (higher level fractals/difficult areas) would net longer-lasting skins.
- So, you could casually play around to get a short-term skin to see how it looks for maybe a week or so duration, and then commit to farming up for a skin that lasts 6 months to a year long.
- New skins can be added to the game all the time, and all have similar requirements, so if you’re half way through building one, then it doesn’t really matter when new skins arrive cos you can still use everything toward the new set of skins if you like their look..
- These skins would be the best looking armour in the game with some animation effects and glows etc, but of course – would be timed.
So people then have an end game to continue playing for. After the 2 weeks time-gating of ascended items, it becomes ongoing replayability to obtain the best look – for the duration of your choice.
Once you have everything ‘end game’ what do you do? Just sit around in Lions Arch? This would keep people playing some content for a nice aesthetic bonus beyond the permanent options.
