lets talk ascended k k. first these are not easy sets to genuinely get nor are they cheap for the avg player. they combine time gating and grinding in order to get stats you want and can easily take months to get for a single character.
the big issue isn’t about the grinding one could even argue it’s not entirely about new sets being introduced.
the issue bottomline is that when a change happens we are stuck with what we have and while this was not worth mentioning during the exotic times it is now. the fact is that when combat or stats are changed and they have been quite drastic ones players are at times stuck with quite sub par stats / sets. back with exoitics it was a simple day maybe a week get your gold buy a new set with ascended it can set you back MONTHS.
this is ….crushing. now we have new sets of armor stat wise being introduced that would had likely enticed player prior but now we must either make a brand new set in order to get those sets or just well deal with it. this can be a BIG problem or a MINOR problem depending on how much work you’ve already put in and how many alts you have.
honestly is it about time to either make it so ascended weapons are a buyable or b give us a option to swap our stats for ascended at the cost of gems or bloody hell give us a salvage kit tha will let us get the mats used to make said weapon. not a chance but for certain.
why am I saying this simple sinister armor put me in a awkward spot. back when I was origionally starting condtion warrior knowing how hybrid the warrior sword and bow were I wanted the set that is now known as sinister.
grinding to get my ascended armor was not fun.. in fact to be blunt it is probably one of the most boring tedious and monotonous things I’ve done.
sigh I hate grinding but I understand that their needs to be content for people to do but time gating is just as bad as a ludicriously stupidly high requirement that takes absurd amounts of time and effort to get. while it’s not as kittenome mmo’s it’s definitely way to much.
argument can be made exoitic is perfectly viable in pve this is correct you cn finsh content insanely quick in pve although it’s not impossible that future updates will change this as the content must be reasonably challenging for the best sets making it harder on lower sets as well. so that is quite possible to change as the game ages.
the issue i’m trying to point out is it quite sucks to be on the end of a update that makes you feel like your hard work adds up to nil. ill be blunt their is no reason ascended armor / weapons should not be buyable on the tp. will it cause legends to crash yes likely it will. but why is that a bad thing? if you quip a legend (most who make them do) you can’t sell it the fact is only thing not allowing asc to be sold is keeping legend artififically high and that kinda of ironic that the end game ish content is buyable the not quite as good tier isn’t.
gems swapping asc I doubt would likely replace legendries swap stats. since 1 costs either a ton of gold or irl money! and the other does not. if your worried that it would then implement a wait period that would give another edge to legends who can swap out of combat by making us use the same stat combo for lets say 24 hours. that’s semi reasonable will improve the legendary prospects and still fix this problem.
(edited by wildfang.9670)