Guild Wars 2

After the patch, I have been apathetic to the whole Ascended gear kerfuffle. I’ve read the arguments from both sides, and I think there’s a compromise to assuage both parties concerned.

Instead of adding a new tier of gear, they could add a consumable item that would add an infusion slot to a selected gear. You can call it “Infuser Stone”. There will be three types, which are the Defensive, Offensive and Omni. This way, we can keep Exotic gear as the highest tier, but also add a gating mechanic for the hardcore dungeoneers.

Thoughts?

The issue isn’t with the addition of the new tier by itself. Its everything else that went along with it.

I’m absolutely positive if they made WvW an even playing field (ala SPvP) you wouldn’t have this much negativity on the forums. PvE people can play their game – carrot and all!

Consumable, talking to an npc, or by whatever means: if the stats stay the same (apart from the infusion slot), and infusions only relate to agony, then everything would be fine.

Lothair.8942:

I’m absolutely positive if they made WvW an even playing field (ala SPvP) you wouldn’t have this much negativity on the forums. PvE people can play their game – carrot and all!

Absolutely right! If there wasn’t the looming threat of pay to win (at WvW) and a very very unfair, zero skill and pointless WvW, most complaints would come from jealous people or people who are absolutely desperate to have top tier stuff “NOW” (very illegitimate IMO) and people who think there will be gear checks and discrimination (very legitimate, but could still be worked around without removing stat progression).