FoTM and my long term goal

FoTM and my long term goal

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Posted by: Ath.2531

Ath.2531

1) To not lay my hands on a single ascended item, ever. At least not until they are provided through other means such as WvW. I will not be lured with a carrot like a donkey, ignoring my guildies who are more casual in order to have the edge, which comes at an incredible monetary cost.

2) To never spend a dime on the gem shop supporting this new system which promotes elitism and gated content. On the contrary, i will farm with traditional methods, and in due time, finish up my T3 cultural set.

3) I will hunt people with full sets of ascended gear in WvW and destroy them in my nice and shiny exotic set. I will fight with the odds against me and make videos, showing how irrelevant it is for people who pve to have an edge in pvp.

That’s what my long term goal is. What is yours?

Commander Athrael ThunderBorn
GM of Crew of Misfits (CoM)
Piken Square, EU

FoTM and my long term goal

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Posted by: Faceless.7549

Faceless.7549

That is very pointed of you, OP, but I have only one question, how will you know who on WvW has Ascended gear? Currently, it’s only the back piece and rings, the former of which can have its visibility turned off on a whim. Even if it is not, you’ll waste time looking for players who actually sport the back piece.

Even if you decidedly ignore the gem shop and Ascended gear, there will be a vast majority who don’t, either because they don’t mind it or because they deem it necessary. I find I will eventually (inevitably) get the necessary ingredients for an Ascended gear item, and I will not pass that opportunity up, even if I am strongly opposed to their inclusion.

Think hats in Team Fortress 2. Sure, there were people who were against them and decided they would never use them, but you’ll be hard pressed nowadays to find a single player who doesn’t sport some sort of hat or non-vanilla weapon. If something has the power to change the mind of a developer, it’s active feedback, not passively ignoring/hating the content they introduce. Unless whatever they changed hurt the game enough for you to not play it entirely, which TF2 did for me and GW2 is encroaching on for me as well.