Guild Wars 2

found this over on reddit

Obviously she is referring to the imminent implementation of legendary crafting. ;-)

Oooo some dev is in danger!

“announced”

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Oh no, the sky!

I can imagine someone is giving her a stern lecture right now in the office. Poor dev.

Likely talking about horizontal progression. (skins and stuff)

Well, people were complaining they were making announcements on facebook instead of the forum. Maybe this is the new, roundabout way. Make an announcement at Vigil and let some random player post it on the forum.

Or perhaps s/he is talking about something already announced such as Legendary jewelry.

That’s great !

I’m assuming we will see this by around 2022 – shortly after you release the ability to craft precursors.

So they need a whole team to create a grind that is worth called legendary.

“OK, so we have new ressources, skill points, new super rare drops from low level zones, silk, more silk, a whole mountain of silk, what else could we put in there, to make the grind legendary?”

“How about time gating?”

“Time gating is good, next?”

“Farming old content?”

“Nice one, good good, keep it coming!”

“How about you need more items, than you can ever carry arround in your bags?

“Wow, now we are getting to something!”

“Make it challenging!”

“Grea-… Wait, who put this clown in my team, get out of here!”

Azreell.1568:

That’s great !

I’m assuming we will see this by around 2022 – shortly after you release the ability to craft precursors.

I giggled. Stahp.

I doubt it’s precursor crafting or anything. It’s probably gonna be some vertical progression through infusion slots. iirc it’s been mentioned before.

inb4 power creep http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gear_Grind

Legendary armor has been talked about before. Nothing ground breaking. I doubt there will be endgame gear progression. That was a selling point before release, ANet didn’t want this game to be about endgame gear progression that reset every 4-5 months.

Gear progression could mean a lot:

• precursor crafting
• legendary jewelry
• new dungeon with armor set having ferocity as main stat
• jeweler at 500; craftable ascended jewelry
• ascended runes /sigils
• rare, exotic and ascended infusions

Yay ! Ascended crap 2.0 ! 4time more farm, 4 time more expensive 50% stat boost over exotic to imbalance the game even more.

I cant wait… oh yeah ! i cant wait to see the announcement of that next-gen power creep gear grind farm 2.0 to throw away GW2 in my computer trashcan.

Its going to be cool !

Of course, i dont except anything else from Anet now. Its not like they are going to do something nice like… gear stat switching like we want to be in harmony with the restat like we want..
More grind and farm <3

It could indeed mean a lot, but If this means gear that is even more powerful than Ascended, pretty much introducing a required grind, I’m out.

Xenon.4537:

I can imagine someone is giving her a stern lecture right now in the office. Poor dev.

She should get a kitten medal. At least she actually told us something about what the devs were working on.

Or it could be turn your bland ascended weapon skin into several different new skins using various methods.

Gear progression does not necessarily mean vertical progression. It could be horizontal progression. The Dev didn’t specify which.

Yes, I do realize the chances of it being horizontal progression is slim, but not zero based on the information we know.

I wouldn’t jump to conclusions yet. It could refer to many things:

- r500 Jeweler
- Legendary Armor/Trinkets
- Craftable Precursors

But yeah, if ANet introduces a tier even higher than Ascended, that’s where I draw the line too.

Jeez, why draw the line at ‘Legendary’?
That word has been used since the beginning to refer to the “final stage”… at least you’d know with certainty that there can’t/won’t be a tier higher then Legendary, ever.
C’mon, it’s the last tier… they have to do it.

(but I feel it should be almost horizontal from Ascended)

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

It could indeed mean a lot, but If this means gear that is even more powerful than Ascended, pretty much introducing a required grind, I’m out.

Xenon.4537:

I can imagine someone is giving her a stern lecture right now in the office. Poor dev.

She should get a kitten medal. At least she actually told us something about what the devs were working on.

She or he most likely got permission to make that comment.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

So they need a whole team to create a grind that is worth called legendary.

“OK, so we have new ressources, skill points, new super rare drops from low level zones, silk, more silk, a whole mountain of silk, what else could we put in there, to make the grind legendary?”

“How about time gating?”

“Time gating is good, next?”

“Farming old content?”

“Nice one, good good, keep it coming!”

“How about you need more items, than you can ever carry arround in your bags?

“Wow, now we are getting to something!”

“Make it challenging!”

“Grea-… Wait, who put this clown in my team, get out of here!”

“And lastly, how do we attach it all to Gems?”

:P

Pure Heart.1456:

Jeez, why draw the line at ‘Legendary’?
That word has been used since the beginning to refer to the “final stage”… at least you’d know with certainty that there can’t/won’t be a tier higher then Legendary, ever.
C’mon, it’s the last tier… they have to do it.

(but I feel it should be almost horizontal from Ascended)

inb4 the Jesus tier where the Legendaries become the precursors for Jesus.

Where is the rest of the conversation? It is difficult to ascertain what is meant by an isolated line of text.

she is talking about precursor scavenger hunt , you know, like the one in GW1 where you have to do certain tasks to get the Black Moa Chick…..

My personal favorite option: You can attach ascended Inscriptions and Insignias to weapons and armor respectively, giving them a stat spread you can swap between like with Legendaries.

lcpdragonslayer.7895:

Pure Heart.1456:

Jeez, why draw the line at ‘Legendary’?
That word has been used since the beginning to refer to the “final stage”… at least you’d know with certainty that there can’t/won’t be a tier higher then Legendary, ever.
C’mon, it’s the last tier… they have to do it.

(but I feel it should be almost horizontal from Ascended)

inb4 the Jesus tier where the Legendaries become the precursors for Jesus.

A bible as backpiece and a Wooden Cross Focus Skin

OMG! Confirmed everyone gets a free Legendary! WHOOO

And this is why they never want to talk about anything. As soon as they mention one thing it gets shown to everyone like this.

Yargesh.4965:

OMG! Confirmed everyone gets a free Legendary! WHOOO

We already do, at every monthly you complete. Even got 5 for having an account created before SAB back to school.

It was obvious why they introduced ascended gear the first time round. Seems logical to do the same again now.

Evans.6347:

Yargesh.4965:

OMG! Confirmed everyone gets a free Legendary! WHOOO

We already do, at every monthly you complete. Even got 5 for having an account created before SAB back to school.

Wow! I thought I was the only one. Bank is getting crowded though, can only have 6 equipped per character plus spares.

Yargesh.4965:

Evans.6347:

Yargesh.4965:

OMG! Confirmed everyone gets a free Legendary! WHOOO

We already do, at every monthly you complete. Even got 5 for having an account created before SAB back to school.

Wow! I thought I was the only one. Bank is getting crowded though, can only have 6 equipped per character plus spares.

Personally I used them up, but they are pretty to stare at I suppose. Weird that you can only have 6… I can hold over 25.000 on my character.

and then people wonder why Arenanet arent more communicative. They wonder why they dont share their plans in advanced and just tell us they’re subject to change etc…

Well I guess OP did an excellent job of telling us why.

Woljnir.7810:

Legendary armor has been talked about before. Nothing ground breaking. I doubt there will be endgame gear progression. That was a selling point before release, ANet didn’t want this game to be about endgame gear progression that reset every 4-5 months.

Except they’ve already broken that promise and started vertical progression 3 months after release.

Evans.6347:

Yargesh.4965:

Evans.6347:

Yargesh.4965:

OMG! Confirmed everyone gets a free Legendary! WHOOO

We already do, at every monthly you complete. Even got 5 for having an account created before SAB back to school.

Wow! I thought I was the only one. Bank is getting crowded though, can only have 6 equipped per character plus spares.

Personally I used them up, but they are pretty to stare at I suppose. Weird that you can only have 6… I can hold over 25.000 on my character.

I mean physically equipped in slot, need room for the 10 precusors that drop from every world boss. Amazing how many people don’t do dailies though since demand is soooo good.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

It could indeed mean a lot, but If this means gear that is even more powerful than Ascended, pretty much introducing a required grind, I’m out.

Xenon.4537:

I can imagine someone is giving her a stern lecture right now in the office. Poor dev.

She should get a kitten medal. At least she actually told us something about what the devs were working on.

At least she told us that the devs are working.

Not sure that was any big secret

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

It could indeed mean a lot, but If this means gear that is even more powerful than Ascended, pretty much introducing a required grind, I’m out.

Xenon.4537:

I can imagine someone is giving her a stern lecture right now in the office. Poor dev.

She should get a kitten medal. At least she actually told us something about what the devs were working on.

At least she told us that the devs are working.

On something other than the China release.

I hope that if they add jeweler 500 for ascended trinket crafting, that they also open up a laurel/commendation vendor for ascended armor and weapons…

“Gear progression” could mean a whole bunch of different things. I think this is pretty ambiguous and doesn’t specifically point to anything, except “gear” and “progression”. Perhaps the dev was talking about new motorized mounts in-game.

Quick, start speculating on materials.

Precursor weapon hunt and crafting.

Legendary armor, precursor armor hunt and crafting.

If this means more vertical progression and other tiers of gear – I and many other will be very mad.

Since anet has loosely stated that they don’t feel the need for another gear tier, and have previously stated that they had plans of legendary gear, as well as more horizontal gear ‘progression’, at this point I am going to not worry about it. It’s likely not more stat progression, although we do know that some of that is coming as well. They have stated that there will be some power curve, as additional infusion tiers become available. She could be talking partly about that too.

I hope that legendary armor, if it comes, will not look like the legendary weapons. I neither want to be a disco ball nor I want the effect of the armor interfering with my legendary weapons.

Harper.4173:

If this means more vertical progression and other tiers of gear – I and many other will be very mad.

I think many people will leave if they bring in vertical progression. (I dont mean ledg armour..but better stats.) since people came to this to get away from that..but we’ll all just have to wait and see

Getting ascended armor is expensive enough. I hope they don’t add even more grind on top of that.

Xenon.4537:

Getting ascended armor is expensive enough. I hope they don’t add even more grind on top of that.

haha, c’mon now… with everything, you just know they will……):

They might be working on higher levels of the same tiers of stuff for a level increase past level 80.