Guild Wars 2

Seems so obvious that the game wasn’t meant to have more than one upgrade slot on an item so the Ascended “jewel” stats were “baked in” so that the upgrade slot can be used for infusion and used as a quick fix while dealing with this other “issue” that doesn’t apply trinkets…

How will this baked in and infusion slot stuff translate to weapons and armor that have upgrades which aren’t simple jewels/stats? Is a Sigil of Fire (worth over 4g) or a Sigil of Something Bad (worth like 10s) going to be “baked in” to ascended weapons? Will a 40g+ set of divinity runes be “baked in” to ascended gear or will it be “baked” with 6s Krait Runes?

And what if I don’t want the baked in rune or sigil? If the plan isn’t to have two upgrade slots and just the one, will there be an entirely new tier of sigils that do the exact same thing (plus some) and add agony resist (making current superior sigils/runes basically worthless)?

Since this has all been long planned and stuff, what is the actual plan? Two slots? A whole new tier of sigils and runes that add resist?

Would really like to know this before I save up and drop 30g-40g on runes and sigils that will be outclassed and be like a fraction of the price in a couple of months.

if I was in Arena.NET’s “Department of Making Awesome Excuses”, i will make it appear like Ascended item was the natural progression of item upgrades.

How?

By telling you players that Exotics which accomodated runes and sigils are meant to be ascended with the runes and sigils and jewels attributes.

See, exotics will be the first step in the process. you can configure your exotic jewels to be berserker+emerald jewel and whalla, ascend it to have berserker+emerald stats with a slight increase. or you can configure your exotic weapons and armors with runes and sigil, ascend it and the ascended version will have the rune/sigil attributes.

this ascended versions are fixed and cannot be reconfigured but the infusions and the only way to reconfigure your ascended gear is to go the exotic way again and do all the configuration there with the appropriate jewel, rune or sigil and ascend them again.

with this setup, exotics are not obsoleted and is a prerequisite to get the ascended item.

and yes, thank you, A.NET in advanced. i’ll take a donation.

I would be okay with that.

IMO Ascended gear is kind of boring since you can’t tweak the stats in the jewel slot and have fewer options for infusions.