Guild Wars 2

So, I haven’t visited these boards for a long while, and it’s no great surprise to see all the QQ hasn’t gone away, despite the fact that my in-game experience is fantastic and that my guild is full of positive hype about the coming ascended weapons.

Just to offer another perspective, I love the fact that Anet has an overall mantra to keep the gear grind to a minimum — and in this case, I define “gear grind” as the ever refreshing wow style grind… where the moment the critical mass of players has geared up to the current tier, a new tier arrives, etc etc. They’ve laid down Lengendaries as the end-grind, and that’s fine.

But as a semi-hardcore player, who doesn’t want to commit to the long haul of Legendaries, I also felt the design at launch didn’t leave a realistic middle-ground for players like me to strive for. I’ve geared up with the nicest exotics that I could — those priced in the 100-200g range — but I’ve for a long time wished there was something at the mid-way point between these exotics and legendaries.

And obviously I’m not alone in this. I would argue that I’m among the silent majority who’s lives are too busy to even HOPE for a legendary, but enjoy the game and still would like a mid-tier, long term goal.

So, thanks Anet, for listening. I know we’re not as loud as the extremely noisy minority on these boards, but we’re out here and we’re playing daily

If I were you, I would go for a Legendary instead of Ascended.

1) There is no guarantee that Ascended is the ‘final’ tier of equipment. There could easily be another for 2014 or 15.

2. They have said Legendary will always equal the best stats. So once you have your Legendary weapon no more gear grind EVER, at least weapon wise..

3. Legendary will allow you to swap your stats for free whenever your out of combat, so you can go zerker, switch to knights, cleric…whatever…

Just my opinion but I feel what they are doing is actually worse than WoW’s gear treadmill.

While I’ve never been a fan of WoW’s system the content that always came with a new step on the ladder was entertaining. Every time a new piece of gear was added you would get a dungeon, raid or some form of new content that you could enjoy even if you were not a gear grinder.

ANet was very good in this regard with first 3 pieces of Ascended gear. With the rings came the fractals, with the amulet came the laurels, and with the accessories came the guild missions. But with the weapons we get...nothing. As a matter of fact, we haven’t had a permanent content addition to the game since the guild missions back in February.

Ascended weapons add nothing to the game.

I could actually make the argument that they detract from the game by continuing to further trivialize dungeons and open world encounters that were really not designed with ascended gear in mind.

Meglobob.8620:

If I were you, I would go for a Legendary instead of Ascended.

1) There is no guarantee that Ascended is the ‘final’ tier of equipment. There could easily be another for 2014 or 15.

2. They have said Legendary will always equal the best stats. So once you have your Legendary weapon no more gear grind EVER, at least weapon wise..

3. Legendary will allow you to swap your stats for free whenever your out of combat, so you can go zerker, switch to knights, cleric…whatever…

Legendary will have ascended stats the only changes is with legendary you will be able to change stats of the weapon itself.

IF and a big IF, legendary armor will be introduced will be like the weapons where u can select the stats you want to choose from, that makes ascended the last tier.
The gear progression is GW2 isnt that bad, also i think it is a very good concept instead of having like 10 lvl’s of it with huge gap we find in some other mmo’s.

p.s Im more hyped to reinstall the game when the classes get balanced or decent mechanics or with more traits to choose from.

Yeah I have to disagree — as the previous poster points out, it’s more of a case of bridging the gap rather than adding a new tier. There is some argument about whether it’s worthwhile to go for ascended weapons or straight to Legendary, but I think that’s a matter of preference (which is the great thing).

To me, as I initially posted above, the important thing to me as a player is that I have a long term goal which I feel is attainable. That makes the game more interesting so that I can do all of the fun things I like to do, in-game, while still having that in the back of my mind.

I kinda wish rather than just weapons, that they’d release them all.

I mean, I’m a Jewler and honestly, my profession feels redundant because you have ascended accessories available as it stands, so my exotics are redundant in the long term. And I know you can learn multiple disciplines but redoing a crafting branch I find is horrendously boring.