Guild Wars 2

More of a thought, but also a realization.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/linsey-murdock-unveils-new-high-end-ascended-gear/

As we release more new end game content in the future, you’ll see more Infusions and Ascended item types being added to the game.

This got me thinking about something.

With the idea of new Infusions being released in the future, are we going to expect new monster mechanics? Like for instance, we currently have Agony. The current Infusions provide protection against Agony. So in future content, are we going to have a new monster ability (like Agony) with new Infusions to defend against it?

Now this is where I started getting this disheartened realization.

In order to use our current Infusions, we have to farm the new Ascended gear. They said over time they will release more and more Ascended gear, meaning eventually we will have a full set of Ascended gear. Then we will socket that gear with Infusions to protect us against Agony.

So if a new monster ability comes out with new Infusions, does this mean we are going to have to farm a whole new set of Ascended gear just to use the new Infusions? Sure we can just replace our old Infusions with the new ones, but what if you want to run FotM again? You’ll have to farm those Infusions again and replace your new ones. Then do the same again vice versa if you want to do the newer dungeon with different Infusions.

So we are going to have to have multiple sets of gear now with different Infusions for different dungeons, just so we can survive all the different types of new monster abilities added.

Anyone else come to this realization or am I just looking too far into it? Thoughts?

i made a topic saying this about 4 days ago, got merged into the big pile of junk, let’s see how long this one lasts

You’re not the only one to realize it, no. It doesn’t get mentioned a lot, because it’s a long-term problem, and the Relentless-Optimism-In-The-Face-Of-All-Reason crowd that actually advocates for Ascended gear takes a “Let’s cross that bridge when we come to it” stance on anything that isn’t actually more than a week old, so it wouldn’t gain a whole lot of traction.

Still, you’re right – it’s yet another grind that Ascended gear will almost inevitably lead to.

yeah those of us that realized what the inclusion of the ascended gear truly meant made this comment and was told we were exaggerating.

Look for “We have re-vamped Orr to provide ascended gear as very rare drops now, and added more DE events and made the mobs a bit tougher to compensate.” In a few months..

probably in the same blog as the “New Dungeon with Blessed Gear!”

Ostra.3927:

probably in the same blog as the “New Dungeon with Blessed Gear!”

Ooh! Ooh! Blessed Gear? Where do I get this?