Guild Wars 2

why do you need 400 for exotics and not 300, or 200, or 1?

I’d rather see crafting expanded to include such things as armor repair. If we can craft our own armor, why the heck can’t we repair it ourselves? For ourselves, and for others. Thus:

Billiam Broadside: Forsooth! Yon deceased beastie didst make muck of mine armor! Whither hereabouts might one locate repair facilities?

Tedrick Tedrickson (pulls out hammer, tongs, and portable anvil): Fret not, frail human friend! For I, Tedrick, son of Tedrick, possess the skills required to mend your ills!

Billiam Broadside: Oh, good.

Wham! Bam! Tap tap tap! CLANG!

Tedrick Tedrickson: There! As fit and fine as when newly-forged!

Billiam Broadside: That… that was my skull!

Why can’t tailors make town clothes? Why can’t artificers make things like revive orbs? Why can’t any of the metal-working crafters make keys for Black Lion chests? Well, I guess the answer to that last one is pretty obvious…

What, fellow forumites, are some other practical and useful things crafters could and should be able to do that they aren’t able to do now?

I wish there was an upgrade option for existing gear for exotics esp celestial. I have already made 6 pieces of celestial and I would imagine ascended celestial would require more charged quartz.

Tachenon.5270:

I’d rather see crafting expanded to include such things as armor repair. If we can craft our own armor, why the heck can’t we repair it ourselves? For ourselves, and for others. Thus:

Billiam Broadside: Forsooth! Yon deceased beastie didst make muck of mine armor! Whither hereabouts might one locate repair facilities?

Tedrick Tedrickson (pulls out hammer, tongs, and portable anvil): Fret not, frail human friend! For I, Tedrick, son of Tedrick, possess the skills required to mend your ills!

Billiam Broadside: Oh, good.

Wham! Bam! Tap tap tap! CLANG!

Tedrick Tedrickson: There! As fit and fine as when newly-forged!

Billiam Broadside: That… that was my skull!

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Why can’t tailors make town clothes? Why can’t artificers make things like revive orbs? Why can’t any of the metal-working crafters make keys for Black Lion chests? Well, I guess the answer to that last one is pretty obvious…

What, fellow forumites, are some other practical and useful things crafters could and should be able to do that they aren’t able to do now?

Well done
Why can’t we craft a more unique skins- we can go on a rare recipe hunt!
Why can’t we have customisable design templates so we can decide how we want stuff we craft to look- and trade to other players?
Why can’t chefs craft hair dye and why can’t everyone craft stuff for their house?

oh wait we do not have housing but we get kitten ascended

Crafting is just dull (maybe except Cooking).
From 1-400 there is one schematic for just one type of item – weapon/armor with certain stats.
We really could use major overhaul. Don’t ask me what could be improved or changed. Much. Maybe I’ll think of something later.

Other than chief and creating food boosters, all other crafting has been almost useless. I hope new recipes include a mix level of crafting material and more like chief vs the make 5 of A,B,C, with tier 1 then wash, rinse & repeat tiers 2 through 6.

Will we finally be able to craft back pieces now?

Jeweler will once again be useful.

Will we all be farming Orr next week for material X & Y?

Sola.7250:

Other than chief and creating food boosters, all other crafting has been almost useless. I hope new recipes include a mix level of crafting material and more like chief vs the make 5 of A,B,C, with tier 1 then wash, rinse & repeat tiers 2 through 6.

Will we finally be able to craft back pieces now?

Jeweler will once again be useful.

Will we all be farming Orr next week for material X & Y?

No, you will need to farm WvW, a World Boss, a JP, a dungeon, and the daily for the new mats. They will be awarded once daily for each of those activities. Since Anet hates alts with a burning passion it is safe to assume that will be per account not per character.

LOL, you know what i find hilarious? The fact that ascended was first meant to be so you could handle doing higher levels fractal, but anet hasnt touched fractals since their release. In fact, they completely ignored them in their dungeon “revamp”.

I have a feeling ascended will be needed for more then fractals because they seem to not even care about fractals at this point.

rjnemer.7816:

LOL, you know what i find hilarious? The fact that ascended was first meant to be so you could handle doing higher levels fractal, but anet hasnt touched fractals since their release. In fact, they completely ignored them in their dungeon “revamp”.

I have a feeling ascended will be needed for more then fractals because they seem to not even care about fractals at this point.

What about people who don’t like Fractals and just want the higher stats? Anet seems not to care about those people either.

Lazy people who just want to deck out at start. What is the point of the game then?

Zindrix.1750:

rjnemer.7816:

LOL, you know what i find hilarious? The fact that ascended was first meant to be so you could handle doing higher levels fractal, but anet hasnt touched fractals since their release. In fact, they completely ignored them in their dungeon “revamp”.

I have a feeling ascended will be needed for more then fractals because they seem to not even care about fractals at this point.

What about people who don’t like Fractals and just want the higher stats? Anet seems not to care about those people either.

Fractals are a poor attempt at a classic “endgame”. GIVING MOBS/BOSSES MORE HEALTH DOESNT MAKE IT HARDER ANET.

And whats the point in having higher stats if there is nothing to use it on?

DJRiful.3749:

Lazy people who just want to deck out at start. What is the point of the game then?

The same as all those games that have no gear at all. To play because you enjoy playing it.

Having goals can motivate playing more, and be enjoyable themselves, but those goals do not have to involve making your character stronger. And as myself and others have said, it’s not even really getting stronger, because everyone else gets stronger too. Having 10% more HP/damage doesn’t matter when your opponent has 10% more HP/damage too.

rjnemer.7816:

Zindrix.1750:

rjnemer.7816:

LOL, you know what i find hilarious? The fact that ascended was first meant to be so you could handle doing higher levels fractal, but anet hasnt touched fractals since their release. In fact, they completely ignored them in their dungeon “revamp”.

I have a feeling ascended will be needed for more then fractals because they seem to not even care about fractals at this point.

What about people who don’t like Fractals and just want the higher stats? Anet seems not to care about those people either.

Fractals are a poor attempt at a classic “endgame”. GIVING MOBS/BOSSES MORE HEALTH DOESNT MAKE IT HARDER ANET.

And whats the point in having higher stats if there is nothing to use it on?

WvW.

Like you said, Fractals aren’t harder, just more annoying and takes longer which is why I don’t do it.

If crafting from 400 to 500 involves making exotics, I can see the cost of certain materials going through the roof for a while. Good luck to you if you ever planned on buying your legendary materials.

Zindrix.1750:

rjnemer.7816:

Zindrix.1750:

rjnemer.7816:

LOL, you know what i find hilarious? The fact that ascended was first meant to be so you could handle doing higher levels fractal, but anet hasnt touched fractals since their release. In fact, they completely ignored them in their dungeon “revamp”.

I have a feeling ascended will be needed for more then fractals because they seem to not even care about fractals at this point.

What about people who don’t like Fractals and just want the higher stats? Anet seems not to care about those people either.

Fractals are a poor attempt at a classic “endgame”. GIVING MOBS/BOSSES MORE HEALTH DOESNT MAKE IT HARDER ANET.

And whats the point in having higher stats if there is nothing to use it on?

WvW.

Like you said, Fractals aren’t harder, just more annoying and takes longer which is why I don’t do it.

And WvW is 90% zerging, where having ascended instead of exotics really wont matter.

rjnemer.7816:

Zindrix.1750:

rjnemer.7816:

Zindrix.1750:

rjnemer.7816:

LOL, you know what i find hilarious? The fact that ascended was first meant to be so you could handle doing higher levels fractal, but anet hasnt touched fractals since their release. In fact, they completely ignored them in their dungeon “revamp”.

I have a feeling ascended will be needed for more then fractals because they seem to not even care about fractals at this point.

What about people who don’t like Fractals and just want the higher stats? Anet seems not to care about those people either.

Fractals are a poor attempt at a classic “endgame”. GIVING MOBS/BOSSES MORE HEALTH DOESNT MAKE IT HARDER ANET.

And whats the point in having higher stats if there is nothing to use it on?

WvW.

Like you said, Fractals aren’t harder, just more annoying and takes longer which is why I don’t do it.

And WvW is 90% zerging, where having ascended instead of exotics really wont matter.

Why does everyone keep saying this? I don’t think WvW provides some kind of herd immunity from ascended gear.

XelNigma.6315:

This game isnt even subscription based, so why bother with time gate crap? Its not like you are tricking us into wasting our sub time so we have to buy more. Your just doing it to be kittens.

the more people logging in, the more people that may consider the gemstore

Shiren.9532:

I don’t understand why crafting is getting 100 new levels just for ascended gear. What exactly is it we are supposed to craft for 100 levels? We can already make level 80 exotics at level 400. Why is there a need for players to grind 100 more levels before they can craft a level 80 ascended item? It just seems like grind for the sake of grind.

it is designed for players to buy gems and as a gold sink for player to eventually buy more gems.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

I just knew some people would be unhappy with this….. I myself don’t like the time-gated idea, but I am glad I can at least craft ascended stuff now.

And what are you going to do with this new gear?

Not sure how this ascended crafting is all going to play out but I dont really mind crafting another 100 levels for some better gear here and there. What bothers me is that legendaries are getting a little boost making them more appealing, both in terms of stats and flexibility yet we still only have 1 legendary skin per weapon (aside from GS of course). Some of those skins just plain suck – many exotic mystic forge recipes seem much cooler though they lack some additional combat and stationary effects. The thought of crafting a legendary such as incinerator only to transmute it to say tear of grenth makes me cry inside a little bit. I really wish there were more legendary options.

Crafting is the worst part of the whole game. The only fun that can be had from crafting is picking up the profit from selling crafted items — but that really has nothing to do with crafting. We don’t need 100 more crafting levels (which is probably just a sneaky way to time gate the crafting of Ascended gear) what we really need is a revamp of the whole crafting part of the game. It needs to be more creative and less rote.

rjnemer.7816:

Zindrix.1750:

rjnemer.7816:

Zindrix.1750:

rjnemer.7816:

LOL, you know what i find hilarious? The fact that ascended was first meant to be so you could handle doing higher levels fractal, but anet hasnt touched fractals since their release. In fact, they completely ignored them in their dungeon “revamp”.

I have a feeling ascended will be needed for more then fractals because they seem to not even care about fractals at this point.

What about people who don’t like Fractals and just want the higher stats? Anet seems not to care about those people either.

Fractals are a poor attempt at a classic “endgame”. GIVING MOBS/BOSSES MORE HEALTH DOESNT MAKE IT HARDER ANET.

And whats the point in having higher stats if there is nothing to use it on?

WvW.

Like you said, Fractals aren’t harder, just more annoying and takes longer which is why I don’t do it.

And WvW is 90% zerging, where having ascended instead of exotics really wont matter.

Please, my server is extremely low pop, especially in WvW. There’s zerg sometimes, but rarely. Even then I like smaller groups of 5-15 more so than the zergy stuff.

mrstealth.6701:

DJRiful.3749:

Lazy people who just want to deck out at start. What is the point of the game then?

The same as all those games that have no gear at all. To play because you enjoy playing it.

Having goals can motivate playing more, and be enjoyable themselves, but those goals do not have to involve making your character stronger. And as myself and others have said, it’s not even really getting stronger, because everyone else gets stronger too. Having 10% more HP/damage doesn’t matter when your opponent has 10% more HP/damage too.

Many of us love making special trait build to see if they can withstand powerful foes and theorycrafting. That’s the fun.

Able to hold off a group a zerg with a customize build + gears set and level. Mhm… fun fun.

Molch.2078:

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Maybe anet should just GIVE ascended weapon for you?

Yes. Why not. I don’t want to work in a frigging game to play the actual frigging game.

Well they did GIVE you top level items when the game first came out and ppl felt that the game lack depth because of this so they made it a bit harder to get ascended items.

Jski.6180:

Molch.2078:

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Maybe anet should just GIVE ascended weapon for you?

Yes. Why not. I don’t want to work in a frigging game to play the actual frigging game.

Well they did GIVE you top level items when the game first came out and ppl felt that the game lack depth because of this so they made it a bit harder to get ascended items.

I must have missed the exotic gear charity wagon. I had to earn all of the exotics I have. Not that it takes a long time to get them, but they are still earned.

rjnemer.7816:

LOL, you know what i find hilarious? The fact that ascended was first meant to be so you could handle doing higher levels fractal, but anet hasnt touched fractals since their release. In fact, they completely ignored them in their dungeon “revamp”.

I have a feeling ascended will be needed for more then fractals because they seem to not even care about fractals at this point.

They said they are doing a revamp of fractals in 2013. Probably happen about the same time the Thaumanova fractal is put into the game.

They’ve got 4 months to go for that.

Ghettoblade.7962:

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

I just knew some people would be unhappy with this….. I myself don’t like the time-gated idea, but I am glad I can at least craft ascended stuff now.

And what are you going to do with this new gear?

Umm use it? Yes, that’s right….. I think I am gonna use the gear I crafted. I’m not worried about making gold since gold is obtainable by just pressing 1 and F a few times.