Guild Wars 2

I would like to know if crafting will be the only way to get the new ascended weapons and in the future armor too.

I like the idea of being able to craft these gear pieces, but are we gonna be able to buy them with laurels too?

After getting all the ascended trinkets for my characters I’m now stuck with at least 100 laurels and it would be nice to be able to put them to good use instead of buying a cat…

I feel like many people out there don’t really care about crafting, or just plainly do not like crafting and hunting for materials so forcing them to do this in order to get end game gear would be going against the idea of letting people choose the way they enjoy to get the gear they want.

One way to avoid this would be to allow people to sell the ascended gear they craft but do you think this will happen? or every ascended item crafted will be automatically account bound?

Lastly, exotic gear is by no means easy nor cheap to get. Gearing a lvl 80 character with full exotic gear costs at least 40+ gold, not counting the fact that many people actually do need to transmute the gear which consumes at least 2 stacks of 5 fine transmutational crystals and we all know that gems aren’t really becoming cheaper. 500 gems at the moment cost around 20+ gold.

Thus, I believe it would be a good idea if the new ascended gear could also be crafted at a lower material cost if we drop the corresponding exotic piece into the recipe so all that exotic gear that we have soulbound doesn’t end up in the bank without any further use.

This is all speculation but, given the trend, they will most definitely not be tradable or sellable (account bound by default, soulbound on use), they might be available for laurels, but at obscene prices compared to the “main” forms of acquiring them (such as crafting for weapons, it would seem).

If it is account bound, I call kittens. You can sell Legendaries; if you cannot sell Ascended gear it is literally just to punish those that haven’t leveled the necessary crafting skills… It would be contrived and asinine to do that.

Soji Vec.1708:

If it is account bound, I call kittens. You can sell Legendaries; if you cannot sell Ascended gear it is literally just to punish those that haven’t leveled the necessary crafting skills… It would be contrived and asinine to do that.

I do agree with you on that one, thats why I leveled every crafting profession when all this farming started taking place and the prices of materials fell.

However not everyone can do this, or wants/enjoys crafting at all. I feel like forcing them to craft their way up to ascended gear would be pretty much going against everything GW2 was supposed to be.

At 500, crafters will be able to craft ascended weapons and armor. Once you reach 500, a new tier of crafting materials will be available to you; this new tier of materials will be made by combining lower tier materials. This tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.

These weapons and armor will also be able to be found as rare drops from locations in the world. Ascended weapons and armor will remain account-bound like other ascended gear.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

Sounds like:

Crafted ascended weapons are tradeable.
Dropped ascended weapons are not.

can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.

This is such a bullkitten argument… A lot prettier than saying “virtually inflating content duration” though.

ezhcim.3075:

Soji Vec.1708:

If it is account bound, I call kittens. You can sell Legendaries; if you cannot sell Ascended gear it is literally just to punish those that haven’t leveled the necessary crafting skills… It would be contrived and asinine to do that.

I do agree with you on that one, thats why I leveled every crafting profession when all this farming started taking place and the prices of materials fell.

However not everyone can do this, or wants/enjoys crafting at all. I feel like forcing them to craft their way up to ascended gear would be pretty much going against everything GW2 was supposed to be.

That was exactly what I was trying to say. Forcing people who just kitten around on WvW or sPvP into leveling their crafting just to get the best gear would be the antithesis of the ‘Play how you want’ model. While I am not in either of those groups and am looking forward to crafting further up the chain… you don’t force Alliance Marauders to Carebear, you just don’t…

Soji Vec.1708:

If it is account bound, I call kittens. You can sell Legendaries; if you cannot sell Ascended gear it is literally just to punish those that haven’t leveled the necessary crafting skills… It would be contrived and asinine to do that.

that’s what i’ve been saying for almost a year… their kitten makes no sense

I really wish that we can use our exotic armor in some way when crafting ascended gear, maybe making it cheaper material wise. That way we dont have to use this hard earned gear as salvage or have it taking up space in the bank.