Guild Wars 2

That’d be great

I have 5000 fragments and dusts, this stuff just keeps building up

Or they could make it not look like crap first. That’d be great.

Do you know for a fact that armor will use the same mats?

would also recommend releasing it together with the legendary armors so at least players would have an option on which to go for and establish goals.

this opinion probably sounds ridiculous but i’m pretty sure a lot will be disappointed once they release the legendary tier right after releasing ascended version.

Guaranteed not to happen until after the conclusion of the current WvW season.

ANet will introduce new stuff you have to grind for ascended armor. Most of your stockpiled stuff will not even be part of what you need for the armor.

More power creep. This game is like some grindville. At least give those armors free if player have killed enough enemies in www.

1. They want ascended “content” to last for the hardcore players.
2. They know that hardcore players stockpile stuff.
3. They need a sort of timegate to keep new ascended items a long term goal.
4. They introduce new grind to get new ascended items.

Meanwhile WoW boost new characters to level 90…
Vertical progression is simply a dumb way to deal with some kind of peculiar people.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

1. They want ascended “content” to last for the hardcore players.
2. They know that hardcore players stockpile stuff.
3. They need a sort of timegate to keep new ascended items a long term goal.
4. They introduce new grind to get new ascended items.

People continue to play anyway….Priceless.

Boggles the mind, it really does.

lol i cant even reach 500 in weapon smith!

I’d prefer if they made it so you could buy ascended weapons from a laurel vender using a rather large requirement first. 50 laurels, 100 ectos, 10 gold and 250K karma would work.

RyuDragnier.9476:

I’d prefer if they made it so you could buy ascended weapons from a laurel vender using a rather large requirement first. 50 laurels, 100 ectos, 10 gold and 250K karma would work.

I think you should be able to acquire ascended dungeon weapons and armor as well. You have to take an existing piece of exotic armor from a dungeon and get one of those barter items from that dungeon for 200 tokens and put it in the forge together to make an ascended version.

There needs to be Ascended Fractal Armor, and also WvW Ascended Armor. Weapons as well.

If Ascended weapons can drop rarely, then armor should too.

If you take a look at the Ascended materials section of the Collection tab of your bank, you can see that there are already slots for 5 items that have yet to be released. Those are: Crystalline Ore, Crystalline Ingot, Spool of Silk Weaving Thread, Bolt of Damask, and Xunlai Electricum Ingot.

I have a feeling that Ascended Armor crafting is going to be very similar to Ascended Weapons with slight alterations in the building process, and Spools of Silk Weaving Thread are going to be time gated just Elder Spirit Residue and the others.

They have 4 patches left to get it in. So at least we know it will be sometime in the next 8 weeks.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

They have 4 patches left to get it in. So at least we know it will be sometime in the next 8 weeks.

I wish they would decide in the next 8 weeks to leave it out forever…

RyuDragnier.9476:

I’d prefer if they made it so you could buy ascended weapons from a laurel vender using a rather large requirement first. 50 laurels, 100 ectos, 10 gold and 250K karma would work.

I’d just like any method besides crafting, crafting is a grind watching a bar surge up, I don’t enjoy it, most player I know don’t enjoy it, the game is supposed to be enjoyable. I am not going to do it, and they need to provide another way.

Conncept.7638:

RyuDragnier.9476:

I’d prefer if they made it so you could buy ascended weapons from a laurel vender using a rather large requirement first. 50 laurels, 100 ectos, 10 gold and 250K karma would work.

I’d just like any method besides crafting, crafting is a grind watching a bar surge up, I don’t enjoy it, most player I know don’t enjoy it, the game is supposed to be enjoyable. I am not going to do it, they need to provide another way.

well i dont like it to, but crafting makes more sense that having that gear spreaded by other types of grind, lets see:
-Backpack needs alot of fractals
-Trinkets are obtained by laurel and fractal drops after serveral levels.
-Weapon expensive leveling from 400-500 not all have gold for that, and theres no other way to get one.
-Armor probably will see the same as weapons.

Now lets see, as a WvW player i have lvl 5 on fractals no weaponsmith nor armorsmith, becouse there never was content that oblicated me to craft anything i wanted.

AtriustheGod.6785:

If you take a look at the Ascended materials section of the Collection tab of your bank, you can see that there are already slots for 5 items that have yet to be released. Those are: Crystalline Ore, Crystalline Ingot, Spool of Silk Weaving Thread, Bolt of Damask, and Xunlai Electricum Ingot.

I have a feeling that Ascended Armor crafting is going to be very similar to Ascended Weapons with slight alterations in the building process, and Spools of Silk Weaving Thread are going to be time gated just Elder Spirit Residue and the others.

This.

You can already do the necessary calculations to figure out what you’re going to need material wise. Dust, Fragments and Ore are most liekly going to be used in ascended armor crafting. Thick Elonian Cord and Elonian Learther Squares from Huntsman tree hint at how armor mats are going to be handled as well. Everything seems to have a matching counterpart with a bit of tweaking, because we are dealing with the slightly more complicated armor crafting trees.

Xunlai Electrum Ingot = Thermocatalystic Reagent (I think) or a T7 version of Thread/Cords for Armorsmithing.

Crystalline Ore = Unrefined Material (Lump of Mithrilium/Glob of Spirit Residue) and/or it’s the armorsmith T7 version of Thread/Cords.

Thick Elonian Cord and Silk Weaving Thread = Unrefined Material (Lump of Mithrilium/Glob of Spirit Residue) while also acting as a T7 version of Thread/Cords.

Crystalline Ingot, Elonian Leather Squares and Bolt of Damask = Spiritwood Plank/Deldrimor Ingot. The crafting requirements (t2-t5 mats + unrefined ascended mat) will be identical which can be seen by the existing Squares/Cords recipe.

Based on that we can buy/gather all the materials right now and only be limited by the time gates.

As for other means of aquiring ascended armor and weapons i’m all for it. With enough Guild Commendations, Laurels or Prestine Fractal Relics, all ascended items should be available for purchase. The cheapest, fastest and/or most efficient way to gain ascended armor/weapons should still be through crafting however so it doesn’t become useless again.

lol, why was the title changed, now it doesnt make sense

With the way they will probably time gate armor, you’ll probably just be finishing off your ascended set when they release the new tier.

The armors look terrible. I cant wait to grind for them and then grind for transmutation crystals to apply my t3 armor. /sarcasm

their original philosophy was that gear grind wouldn’t be part of their model…redefining M.M.O’s..and yet, here we are…introduce new modes for the hardcore, not absurd grindcore for the masses.

If only there was UW and FoW and FoW was ascended armor / legendary armor, something you could obtain by playing the game, instead of being in front of crafting benches.

No interested in ascended armor or weapons. As far as I am concerned, my exotics are the last set of armor I will ever get. If it gets to the point where you have to have ascendeds to play, I will simply stop playing.

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

…introduce new modes for the hardcore, not absurd grindcore for the masses.

They could easily have made ascended armor have the exact same stats as exotic, and just have it be the equivalent of legendary weapons/FoW armor from GW1. In other words, just prestige and looks for those that want to spend the time on it.

But unfortunately, the complaining WoW crowd ruined the whole idea of Guild Wars with their constant whining that there’s no endgame, nothing to do, no content etc..

I would like an armor set that changes it stats outside of combat, I dont need multiple sets if anet is not going to make a wardrobe system

Juclesia Elcritian.8410:

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

…introduce new modes for the hardcore, not absurd grindcore for the masses.

They could easily have made ascended armor have the exact same stats as exotic, and just have it be the equivalent of legendary weapons/FoW armor from GW1. In other words, just prestige and looks for those that want to spend the time on it.

But unfortunately, the complaining WoW crowd ruined the whole idea of Guild Wars with their constant whining that there’s no endgame, nothing to do, no content etc..

Endgame at this point is WvW, leagues exacerbated the problem by glorifying stacked servers.

If Ascended armor is going to be anything like the Ascended Weapons I’ll pass. They should have separated cosmetics from gear stats in all honesty.

At least we won’t have to worry about horrendous color coding on the armor.

“Look at my ugly red weapon… I do OP damage”