(edited by dietzero.3514)
Ascended gear grind is OTT ridiculous
um…. I dont feel its to long at all. I have many full armor sets and LOADS of weapons, Its suppose to be something you work towards, and it is exactly that.
SAB or RIOT
For those curious. Weapons are based on buy orders. Light armor jumped up 30 gold within the past week.
2-handers 40 gold cheaper than two 1-handers, and light armour 100 gold more than medium. Anet need to hire an economist.
It wouldn’t change much considering that 24.4 gold of it is in the inscription alone.
For those curious. Weapons are based on buy orders. Light armor jumped up 30 gold within the past week.
2-handers 40 gold cheaper than two 1-handers, and light armour 100 gold more than medium. Anet need to hire an economist.
It wouldn’t change much considering that 24.4 gold of it is in the inscription alone.
well they could have designed two handed weapons to take twice as much of the item of the highest value.
and they could have not have made silk us twice as much materials, or make cloth be required by all 3 armor types.
didnt really take a genius to see that things would develop this way.
The only reason I bothered with ascended armor (2 whole pieces) was to get me from 60AR to 70AR without worrying about weapons (more weapon choices to make). I command in WvW, do arah, and haven’t noticed a difference in my performance. Keeping my rotation up, and maintaining the group buffs are so much more important that I’m not sure I would ever notice a difference unless I joined DnT or one of the other hardcore dungeon guilds (and I know I’m not that good).
You need ascended gear to complete hearts?
It has been said 100 times, but I will say it the 101st, aside from fractals, the difference between ascended and exotic is negligible. Get two evenly matched players put one in ascended and one in exotic and have them meet up in WvW, the results may skew out to 55-45.
What part of your journey has been delayed by your need to get ascended?
And before you try the “Why wear armour at all?” line, the difference between rare and exotic is noticeable. The difference between exotic and ascended is not.
Never claimed that I needed ascended to complete hearts. Really not sure where you got that from what was actually said.
I notice a performance difference when I equip a trait that increases damage by 5%. Unless full ascended weapons/armor/accessories provides significantly less than that (and the math has shown that it is actually more) it is noticeable (for me).
Well, you started off by saying that doing hearts was playing the game for you and you concluded by saying that getting BiS armour was the start of the game for you. I thought that was a little inconsistent and was hoping to draw your attention to it. You still didn’t answer my question as to which part of the game you needed ascended for.
As for making a noticeable difference, if you can tell the difference between 20 hits to knock out a veteran and 19 hits by the end of a fight, you are doing better than me.
The poster to whom I had replied compared killing mobs/doing hearts to crafting in terms of leveling. I was pointing out that crafting is not play for me while the others are.
A 5% damage increase is noticeable to me both in play and because I check my combat log frequently. Then again monitoring my own damage output is something I do in every game I play.
BiS gear is not about a need to be able to overcome specific opposition for me. It is about developing my mastery of my character at his best. For me the journey doesnt hit its full stride until the character is at max level and has BiS gear.
So, the only thing not having BiS is stopping you from doing is knowing that you have BiS, and the only way you could tell the difference is by checking the combat logs afterwards. OK, I am sure those things hold some relevance to you, but I am not overly sympathetic.