Guild Wars 2

I am throwing out this question because I am a bit concerned of what dungeons will be actually good for once ascended armor or weapons come out? I decided to put these into the general discussion instead of the dungeon subforum because the content of my post does not relate to any spefic dungeon, but a lot of other stuff aswell.

Rewards:
Mostly 1g per path is pretty bad, before the patch that was about the amount of gold you would make out of running a dungeon too, the only difference was beeing able to do that multiple times (cof was the peak of it and I can understand why this was nerfed, but still, gold/item rewards in Dungeons just suck)
Ascended Fragments:
Dungeons are not the only source for obtaining them (unlike dragonite ore, which can only be obtained by participating in world events)
Karma:
You pretty much don’t get any Karma for running a Dungeon anymore (it used to be around 2k karma, depending on the amount of bosses). The most effective way to obtain karma nowadays is running low lvl odd number fotm; if you run a higher lvl you even get the chance on getting an ascended weapon, although it might have unfitting stats.
Skins:
Pretty much the last thing that Dungeons are good for after ascended armor has come – altough a lot of skins just do not look nice.

Will there be some new use of Dungeon Tokens or are dungeons just going to be a source of skins for transmutation and a nuisance for obtaining a Legendary?

Possible changes could include:

• An overhaul of the less used/less popular dungeon armor/weapon skins
• Giving back some of the karma rewards dungeons previously held, not all of them of course.
• Making Dungeon Tokens useful regarding ascended crafting; I’m not asking for a cheap way to get ascended weapons, more something like exchaning tokens for stuff like dragonite ore (doing wvw rewards you with all 3 kinds of ascended material, so does open world running, why should dungeons only nail you two of the three?) or crafting materials.

Skins all the way. Ascended weapons are ugly, IMO. I hold no hope of the armor being appealing. If I ever do get one, it will be transmuted immediatly.
Exotic is still endgame for many people. Some of us are unwilling or refusing to grind one Ascended weapon, let alone for alts or full armor (assuming it follows the same time-gated grind). Exotic is still end of line for me and others.
And also, Ascended changes nothing for gameplay. It was a carrot added for the sake of being a carrot. There’s no content that needs it.
So, IMO, dungeons will remain the same as they ever have and not much need for alot of concern.

Would be fine a recipe to upgrade dungeon weapons/armors exotic to ascended status.

The game was not designed with full ascended and it is causing and will completely cause the game to be completely restructured. Even now world events/bosses are being reconstructed due to this.

Anyways just hanging around til a better game appears.

gold would be nice. I mean not every dungeon needs more gold i just think certain paths should have more. p3 arah should have 2g, path 4 should have 4-5g just because of length. Ta f/u should be 1.5g-2g etc…. its kind of boring how every dungeon but arah and ac are 1g even though ac isnt too bad.
apart from that karma needs to be given, as well as ascended weapons and armor in exchange for tokens.

Mark my words. Dungeons will be redesigned for the Ascended stats. Possibly first first one for when Armor comes out.