Guild Wars 2

I would like to pose a question to ArenaNet. Is Ascended gear the last tier we will ever see or is more coming? I know we have the Ascended armor coming later this year, but it is the same tier as the new weapons we got. So that is fine. I would like to know where the ceiling is, if there is going to be one at all. I also think it would help to assuage a lot of the fears of the player base on whether or not ArenaNet is going to perpetually raise the cap of the gear.

I remember that early on in the dev blogs about this game, it was potentially not going to have a level cap. Now we are talking about maybe never getting an expansion, but we are seeing gear ratings go up without any new permanent content being added yet. I understand that teams are working on permanent content for the future.

As a long time player of this franchise (hard to believe I started playing GW1 8 years ago) I know that we have never seen time gating of gear as far as stats go at least, in this order of magnitude. Is this a pattern? Will I finish my Ascended gear off for all 7 of my level 80 characters in 6 months or so(I am including the Ascended Armor in my time frame) only to get a new tier or a level cap increase a few months later? Is there a ceiling like there was in GW1?

I ask because I started playing the Guild Wars franchise because I didn’t like this sort of thing in the other MMOs I played. I am TOTALLY willing to do Ascended Armor and weapons even with all of the time gating IF (and it’s a big IF) this Ascended gear is the ceiling of the loot spectrum in terms of power. If not, I want to know, because my game time is precious to me and I don’t want to be on a treadmill.

With how the past 8 years has gone, I don’t think this is an unreasonable question. With the time gating of the weapons, I feel a precedent has been set by your company. Is it a portent of things to come or is this the last stuff I will ever need? Thank you in advance for an answer to my query, and thank you for a really great game.

That’s actually a very good question, and asked in a polite manner.

The problem I think is that they don’t know themselves. The game may need it to survive (even though timegating won’t mean more fun for some). In my opinion, it was a very, very bad idea to add this gear threadmill in the first place. Not the least because of the way it was added (needing seperate items for each statcombo and infusion version).

Time gating does mean having to login in daily or falling behind, which makes for very stressful gameplay. Like the original poster, the trend seems obvious given all the daily stuff. It would be good to have an advance warning though I sincerely doubt we’ll get one if it is in fact, intentional.