Guild Wars 2

Wouldn’t it feel, and actually be, infinitely more rewarding if ascended gear were only obtainable through challenging, but instanced content? That way you actually earn your gear rather than buying all the mats off the TP and waiting 30 days. Keep the crafting, but keep the stats midway between exotic and current ascended. Or, if that spread is too small, bump up the stats on the “new” ascended slightly.

Ascended gear doesn’t matter and the stat increases are meaningless, right? Or so I hear from the forums anyway. Well, if that is so, then this change isn’t going to affect you. Let the “elitists” down content so they can get their BiS, and the rest can “play how they want” in blues, or whatever. Boom, everyone’s happy.

that was fractals

people got bored of running it over and over and over and over

anet made laurel vendors

people still complain anyways

and the stats DO matter, in high end pve and any wvw. full pink gear is the difference between struggling to solo a supply camp and needing your elite, and not needing your heal at all.

insanemaniac.2456:

that was fractals

people got bored of running it over and over and over and over

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That’s because fractals is awfully boring due to boss centric focus of fractals. Boss design in this game is rather lacking.

Let’s compare a simple and old boss fight from Dragon Nest to say something like the Legendary Imbued Grawl

Judge Apocolypse

• Jiggle its tentacles then fire lasers in 8 directions. Light element.
• Charges up and unleashes a roar, launches and causes push back 3 times. Deals negligible damage.
• Rotating Laser – Charges up energy in its mouth for 5 seconds then fires an enormous laser and turns a full circle in either direction. Deals light elemental damage and pushes back. Turning speed is equal to running speed if the player is near Apocalypse.
• Pillar of Light – Conjures several purple spots on the ground. Fires a pillar of light after 1 second. Launches targets into the air.
• Tentacle Grasp – Reaches out in front of it with its tentacles.
• Shove its tentacles into the ground, sprouting tentacles at range. Each tentacle fires lasers.
• Eyes glow purple and phases backwards, then charge forward at a target at range.
• Hop around 2 or 3 times, deals impact damage to nearby targets. Launches targets into the air.
• (Hell Only) Grunts and turn a quarter way round, then shakes wildly while brandishing its tentacles. Rather long reach.
• Summon Tentacles – (At 2x HP bar) Shakes its body and drops several tentacles. The tentacle will latch onto the nearest player, immobilizing them, and removes all buffs.
• (At 3x HP bar) Grunts and turns a quarter way round, then spins and chases down its target while dealing multiple hits. Light element, causes knock back. Movement speed is equal to normal running speed.
• Pentagram – (At 2x HP bar) (Hell only) Conjure a large star-shaped spell centered around it, followed by an enormous explosion of light in that star shape.
• (At 1x HP bar) Shakes furiously then opens its mouth wide and unleashes 4 waves of pillars of light. Each wave is targeted at each player. Light element, launches targets into the air.
  * Judgment – (After 11 minutes) Casts Judgment, (shows of an animation of Apocalypse glowing and firing lasers at all directions), which OHKO’s all party members (unless blocked by a certain skill).

Notes:

• On normal mode, Apocalypse can’t be stunned, but on Hell Mode, you will need to attack his right & left rotation and his chin to stun him for a few moments.
• When he reaches 2x Life Bars, he will summon tentacles that will latch on the player and remove buffs. The tentacle can only be removed if the player is attacked by the player of by the Apocalypse or UNTIL the Tentacle self-destructs.
• If the fight goes beyond 11 minutes, the boss will cast it’s Ultimate, Judgment, and OHKO the entire party unless the attack is blocked.

Legendary Imbued Shaman
bilities

Shield Bubble
Knocks Back

Skills

• Shield Bubble – Summons a barrier that blocks all incoming damage. Must be destroyed through attacking.
• Fire Storm – Marks a large area to be assaulted with raining fire.
• Burning Shot – Burning attack on single target. If successful, target becomes inflicted with Enveloping Flames, emitting Defiant Inferno. This skill inflicts Agony from scale 10 and higher.
• Enveloping Flames – Deals additional burning damage to target and surrounding foes each pulse.
• Defiant Inferno – The flames pulsing from Enveloping Flames, damaging foes.
• Dive: Rises into the air before diving back towards the ground, causing a large explosion that deals heavy damage to any foe caught in its radius.
• Summon: Summons several Lava Elementals.

WOW IT’S kittenING NOTHING

That would be very much against the spirit of Guild Wars. It’s bad enough that Ascended gear exists to begin with, the last thing they should do is gate it behind a fractal or dungeon. Super fancy, ultra rare skins? Sure, gate those behind whatever. But you don’t gate the best gear in the game (which affects more than just PVE by the way) in a dungeon.

GW2 has always been aimed at those who want to play MMOs, but don’t have the time to say “I WILL be available at 7 o’clock Wednesday for 3 hours” to their friends/guild. While there are some of those players here, they are the desperate minority (I apply here), because most players of this “type” are playing MMOs aimed at them.

Sadly, locking BIS behind “heroic” dungeon content (forgive the WoWness – I didn’t know how else to coin it) would destroy the playerbase the game is actually aimed at.

Although this is how (new) Legendary weapons should be obtained, rather than being 90% of the materials off the TP (or just straight up buy the weapon if you don’t mind a hefty “fee” for someone elses Karma/100%). But this is ArenaNet, I doubt it’ll happen and the new Legendaries are just going to be exactly the same but requiring different lodestones/precursors.

No. This suggestion would kill the game if implemented.

Dark Catalyst.1028:

Boom, everyone’s happy.

I see that you’ve had a big helping of starry-eyed optimism today.

Gate Ascended Gear Behind the Chinese Border – that I would agree with.

Bloody grind for ascended items reminds me of an asian grinder…

Making another avenue for obtaining ascended gear behind instanced content (like dungeons and fractals)? (viable, and reliable, unlike current “RNG can, theoretically, give you a box with stats you don’t need” approach) Yes, definitely.
Making it the only option? No, thank you very much. We need to make ascended gear more accessible to people, not less.

If you gate the accessibility behind instanced content then you have to gate usability behind the same instanced content too.

No. There’s nothing more annoying than EVERYTHING being gated behind instanced content (I’m looking at you, FFXIV). Variety is not just good, it’s critical.

I’m not sure what’s more annoying, gate ascended gear behind instanced content, or gate instanced content behind ascended gear.

Sure gate it behind instances content BUT only if it gives you a ticket you can trade in addition to 100g per piece so the ones who already crafted the armor aren’t hosed by people that are just trying to be cheap and also BAM another gold sink… Everyone wins just like you said… And not like the elitist who can complete such content are short on gold anyway.

Magnus Steelgrave.6580:

Sure gate it behind instances content BUT only if it gives you a ticket you can trade in addition to 100g per piece so the ones who already crafted the armor aren’t hosed by people that are just trying to be cheap and also BAM another gold sink… Everyone wins just like you said… And not like the elitist who can complete such content are short on gold anyway.

Welcome to MMOs, where all your “hard work” is going to be useless after a certain update.
You got it first, that is your reward. All that stupid talk about reward for the reward because it was difficult (in fact it is just time consuming) is beyond me.

Surprising, the resistance to making something so meaningless (according to the forums), a little more difficult to get.

You still have exotics, which are easily obtainable and allow you to access and complete every area of the game. Ascended gear, obviously, won’t be in sPvP, but it will be in WvW. But don’t worry, that’s okay too. I’ve had people swear up and down to me on this form that they’ve defeated people in ascended gear while in greens.

Gee, I really hope people aren’t grinding out something so “meaningless” just because they have nothing to do. That would just be sad, because it’s not like the skins are anything special.