Guild Wars 2

Does anyone still hope that we’ll get to see some changes in the upcoming patch? To be honest, I’ve lost hope and don’t think we’ll get, for example, more combo stats for fractal capacitators and that we’ll be able to do anything to the unwanted rings (save for vendor).

In this patch? Not likely, or they would’ve already said so.

Has anyone heard anything about whether Ascended Valkyrie items will be coming?

Bump for great justice, and/or carrion ascended. Double points for adding a means of acquiring ascended gear in WvW.

carrion carrion carrion! Still no carrion? Why does it take this long to put in missing stat combos. I don’t see why its being overlooked at all, other than to give certain builds an edge over others in wvw. Here’s a list of all the stat combinations. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Armor_stat_combinations

Sorry but, this is just another reason why Guild Wars 2 is inferior to Guild Wars.

Why didn’t they just go with the Guild Wars model? You buy a set of gear, you get armor points from it (and negligible stats). You then fully customize it to work the way you want with runes… Runes gives you the stats, not the gear. I mean, you get runes now, but the bonuses are so freaking weird and have little to no impact on gameplay…

This would eliminate having to create the same item several times but with different stats. It also seems pointless to me that certain gear that I think looks aesthetically pleasing is useless to me because it doesn’t have the right stats…

dimgl.4786:

It also seems pointless to me that certain gear that I think looks aesthetically pleasing is useless to me because it doesn’t have the right stats…

Uh transmutation stones.

dimgl.4786:

Sorry but, this is just another reason why Guild Wars 2 is inferior to Guild Wars.

Why didn’t they just go with the Guild Wars model?

The best answer to this that I can come up with is:

They need to make money, and they need to keep people playing. They had a choice in strategy here:

Keep people in the game by working hard and making a quality product that is enjoyable, and keeps people around for it’s own sake. One with a great story that’s interesting, epic, and leaves the player feeling like a hero. One with fun, repeatable content. A world that feels alive and vibrant – one where players feel they make a difference. Honestly competitive PvP that rewards team behaviour (remember HA? GvG?). A host of skills and attributes that can be mixed and matched in various creative ways. Legendary items that are actually interesting to acquire (perhaps there’s a legend involved?). RNG not required for the best content. Events that work. Content that doesn’t have to be patched immediately after release. Basic quality of life systems that are present in every other game, like a LFG, ways to directly trade with other players, and all those other things that people have mentioned over the past few months…

…or…

Put in as little effort and investment as possible. Don’t worry that the story has no imagination. Try not to put in skill systems that would require any more attention to detail than absolutely necessary. Instead, introduce low-RNG farming and gear grind and nerf it as much as possible to keep people trying as long as possible, and incite a desire in them to just buy gold. Give people the option to buy gold from the cash store, then try to annoy them into doing it (low-RNG, anyone?). Take advantage of the negative in people (obsessive completion-ism, elitism, impatience) to keep them playing, rather than making something that’s immersive and fun. Essentially, create a game that’s just designed to make money, and set aside any pretension of quality, workmanship, or pride. Just hype the hell out of it instead, and try to get people to think you made something that you didn’t.

Which do you think they went with?

This is not the ArenaNet that came up with Guild Wars and put all that love into it over the years…

Edit: grammar

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

We do plan on adding more stat combo to existing ascended item types as well as adding more stat combos to new types.

~Izzy @-’—-

Its been months since ascended released and still no carrion/valk and other regular stats exotic transformed to ascendand……

can we expect this happening anytime soon? gotta know what to do with 150 laurels just waiting for this …

any plan to do this soon?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Missing-Ascended-Earring-Accessories/first#post2096584

Magi’s stats as well, been 4 months since I created the topic above, the artists can place a pacman icon for the accessory’s image for what I care, All I want is the stats.

I’m highly disappointed with the way things are being handled ( or I should rather say ignored) for such a simple and small request. This lack of dedication is what keeps me from supporting the game and it’s also the reason why I’m not inclined to buy future expansions/addons.

ArmoredVehicle.2849:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Missing-Ascended-Earring-Accessories/first#post2096584

Magi’s stats as well, been 4 months since I created the topic above, the artists can place a pacman icon for the accessory’s image for what I care, All I want is the stats.

I’m highly disappointed with the way things are being handled ( or I should rather say ignored) for such a simple and small request. This lack of dedication is what keeps me from supporting the game and it’s also the reason why I’m not inclined to buy future expansions/addons.

I agree. I think there is something going on in-house they are trying to keep quiet about. That or the fact that they probably only have like 5-10 employees doing on going work gw2. But seriously, communication with customers is so so so important. Especially for a product like video games where the audience are passionate about the game.

I suspect a ruling fist from the parent corp, I know that ArenaNet is better than this.

Don’t forget about ascended settlers stats! Im probably one of the few that uses them but still…

I wouldn’t hold my breath for this, I use carrion gear myself and it’s been well over 3 months wait for the ascended equivalent of this gear set. Supposedly the missing ascended gear sets will be put in with the next ascended gear update. It’s been stated by a Dev. but I have my doubts; I mean they have had 3 separate opportunities to include these sets before and have failed to implement them each and every time. Why will it be any different this time? Let’s just say I don’t put much stock in their words until I see actions.

Seeing as all the ascended accessories/trinket items have been implemented into the game, the missing sets of these items will probably only be introduced when ascended weapons or armor (whatever comes first) are implemented. Seeing as how I don’t see them implementing ascended armor or weapons any time soon; I’ld venture to guess that it’ll be another 3-4 months before we get any headway on this subject.

anet standrd eta is 10 mnoths, wtf are u complaining, started topi ONLY 4 moths ago, u didn’t have carrion stats, but hey u got new plush backpack!

So 4 months and they still haven’t activated the Mystic forge recipes for the amulets even though the upgraded versions have been shown to be in the .dat file from the first day they were introduced…….

upgrades are not activated to pose an atificial lmitation to fractal lvl reachable atm.
atm lvl 48 is the top they want us to play

That would be fine if they had given us other ways of getting the laurel infusions or made it so u don’t lose the infusions on upgrading but how it is atm me and others I know are still waiting to upgrade our amulets because none of us want to just throw away 10 days worth of gaming.
It either that or throw away a months worth and get a second amulet just for upgrading when its possible which with the limit on laurel acquisition atm is just not an option for me and mostlikly the same for anyone that runs alts.
What is thier reasoning for limiting fractals to 48 anyways?

I foresee a Timesaver package in the coin mall, complete with laurels.

Other games have already done it. It’s just a matter of time.

i feel your pain, have 3 80’s and one on the road, which i’ll never dress in ascended.
but we fail to see that it doesn’t really matter what is fair, is’t just playing with our wish to have bis gear to keep you logging in every day no matter to do what.
if you have to destroy 10 days of gaming is just a win for them and a loss for you, same as gold sink.
new better stats? lot’s of daily, guild comm and ectos to spend, for EACH alt.
is the revisited way to keep people playin agame which is no longer fun for them, the carrot on the stick, or whatever we wanna call it
the motivation for not going over fot 48 is simply because they won’t give that out for free, better make colorfull blog post, a nice press release and shout loud how good they are giving you for free such an expansion Worth of content.
never played a mothly fee gamelike wow, but her’s the price of no fees, ofc they cant make tons of money without rng boxes, self gold selling, and wasting people time.
gonna make another exaple, they promissed a scavenger hunt, as well as new legendary weapons.
so i guess that like me lots are stocking up mats to complete the legendary as soonas the hunt come out.
I bet one f my boll***s that there will b new legendarys, but will follow another recipe, so all those who stocked up will be kittened.
you’ll basically end up with a bunch of useless pixels called “gift of Xkitten” without a chance to turn it into something usefull.
and the grind starts from scratch, you login every day to get the daily to get the mats and so on.
or like the rings dropping from fotm, Always crapy stats non salvgeable no tradable. wtf having a chance to salvage into mist essence/shard was really so game breaker? like you drop 50 a day if you farm it.. o wait that’s time gated too.. LOL
they’ll make it possible, at some point, and you’ll find insulting yourself for all those purple shinies you vendored for some stupid coppers.
the’rs notting better than sell sand to desert people saying that is indeed sugar, they may belive yu but desn’t make your coffee sweet.