Guild Wars 2

With the recent announcement of MF gear going away, it seems celestial gears which contain 3% MF is going to be obsolete before anyone can make them.

I was going to replace all my MF armour and weapon with celestial but now it seems I wont need to. By the time I can make enough charged crystal, ascended gears will be available.

This make me wonder if the left hand know what the right hand is doing at Anet.

Depends what’s going to replace the MF. If it is boon duration, as suggested a couple of times, that would still be amazing for the niche celestial fits in (elementalist, engineer/guardian in lesser degree).

ascended armor at lv 500 crafting will render the recipe for the new exotic celestial gear useless ..

Celestial was obsolete the moment they bound them to the account.

Celestial was obsolete.

Before anyone can make them? I have 2 pieces already.

With or without MF, Celestial is perfect for what I do on my ranger. Which is mostly just open world stuff … dailies, explorer achievements, guild missions. I do dungeons, fractals, and WvW on other characters.

Regardless of the MF issue that pertains to any gear that has it, Ascended gear, i.e., gear with higher stats, will always make the gear that has gone before it obsolete. That’s one of the unfortunate aspects to vertical progression. The real headscratcher would be the statement in he blogpost “We specifically said we don’t want to get caught up in the trap where every 3-6 months the game adds another tier of gear to the game; that invalidates all your hard work and the rewards you’ve earned.”, if they were intending, at all, to continue on with vertical progression. Personally, I don’t care if it’s every 3-6 months or every 3-6 years, I don’t want to chase meaningless stat increases that just means I have to hop on a treadmill and grind it out their way. I’m hoping their focus on horizontal progression in “Progression Advancement” means the end of VP altogether.

One thing a lot of people aren’t considering is that there’s no upgrade slot on ascended items. That’s not a huge deal on trinkets where you could only put a jewel in, but with armor are you going to give up all the special effects from Runes?

It’s also likely that the single stat bonus from a rune set will exceed the small bonus you may get to that stat from ascended over exotic.

Shout warriors and guardians, are you willing to give up your soldier runes for a small increase in stats and likely lower vit/tough?

i can understand the gear progression argument if we were gated out of content. we aren’t though. they have also proven that it is a very friendly gear progression system with many ways in which to acquire the gear. as far as the celestial thing is concerned, i agree. why release stuff like this so close to when you are adding a higher tier? i think this was just more for ArenaNet. I think they are using this Quartz fusing thing as a metric to see how many players want to make armor this way and also the time gated mechanic. I can’t say I agree with it. I think if you have the money and the mats you should be able to make a set in a day or just outright buy it. I have 7 level 80’s. What ArenaNet is telling me is that if I want a set of celestial armor for all of them, I need to spend 30 days per character making it.

Am I getting that right ArenaNet? You want it to take me 210 days to make this armor? And that is IF I play every day. If I miss any days of play time it takes longer because that is a fused quartz piece I won’t have made and that is the time gated part.

You should still make the charged crystal.

For all we know the ascended gear needs those crystals.

500 crafting and ascended crafting makes me really want to level up some LW & Huntsman to 400 before it goes live.