Guild Wars 2

As the previous one was deleted due using ANET in the title. I made a new one without ANET in the title.

ANET if it is possible, please, come with another blog about Ascended Armor to let all the people know what your plans are for the future.

• Do we get more Item types in the future?

• What the stat increase will mean for people playing for example, WvWvW. Will the rings and armor also be able to get in the dungeons rights now? In some sort of way? Or will you be able to buy them with tokens?

• How will Infusions work, will it give stats like sigils? Or will it just give plain buffs for certain type of monsters?

• Will runes still be able to put in Ascended Armor?

These questions are mainly ask by the majority of this forum right now. I think. If people want more questions in it. I will put them in the OP. And hopefully we can end this divided playerbase. I hope this will be the start of a more mature way of handling the explosing that is happening on the internet now.

from reading the introduction from the main page on infusions it looks like:

1) maybe (lets see how people like/dislike them)

2) you can use it in WvW but it will prob put you at a disadvantage (you give up that upgrade slot so while “base ascended” > “base exotic” then “ascended infused” < “exotic with rune/upgrade”). plus, infusions will do nothing for you in WvW.

3) it replaces the upgrade slot so no runes, gems, etc. meaning you are giving up something to get something

4) ascended gear so far is only backpiece and ring, so i would take it as a “No”

ANET, how did i do?

ScorpionX.6938:

2) you can use it in WvW but it will prob put you at a disadvantage (you give up that upgrade slot so while “base ascended” > “base exotic” then “ascended infused” < “exotic with rune/upgrade”). plus, infusions will do nothing for you in WvW.
3) it replaces the upgrade slot so no runes, gems, etc. meaning you are giving up something to get something

I suggest you reread.
You’re not giving up anything, the new ascended items are RINGS and BACK. The new ascended pieces have gems already in their stats + EXTRA stats.

You give up nothing. Ascended items are better for WvW/PvE outside of the dungeon.

ScorpionX.6938:

from reading the introduction from the main page on infusions it looks like:

1) maybe (lets see how people like/dislike them)

2) you can use it in WvW but it will prob put you at a disadvantage (you give up that upgrade slot so while “base ascended” > “base exotic” then “ascended infused” < “exotic with rune/upgrade”). plus, infusions will do nothing for you in WvW.

3) it replaces the upgrade slot so no runes, gems, etc. meaning you are giving up something to get something

4) ascended gear so far is only backpiece and ring, so i would take it as a “No”

ANET, how did i do?

1) False. They will in all likelyhood push forward with this regardless of what people think. There’s enough whiny ex-WoW players to make them a sufficiently loud vocal minority.

2) False. The potential gem bonuses are baked into the item in order to make room for the Infused slot. You give up the ability to pick and choose the bonuses and as such lose some customization, but you receive a net gain of stats. (Note: This is assuming that they will bake runes into the armor items as well. This might not be the case, but there is no evidence to suggest that they wont.)

3) See above.

4) Partially true. There will not likely be a gem slot, but they’ve already announced that they plan on rolling out a full range of Ascended gear, starting this weekend with rings and backpacks, with the rest coming by December.

You should probably actually read the blog post.

Please keep all discussions about this issue in this thread.

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