Guild Wars 2

Simply put: why there are ascended trinkets sold for laurels, instead of being like all the other crafting professions? Does not that make it jewelry really uneven and less useful?

They were introduced for fractals before ascended crafting became available a year later. We may see crafting soon when we can get jeweler to 500. Many speculate that jeweler will actually server another purpose such as allowing players to craft items that give the special effects such as the rare drop from VW or the items from the trick or treat bags.

Being available for laurels makes ascended more widely available to players due to how incredibly easy it is to get them. Players can get 55 laurels every 28 days just by logging in. Ascended trinkets also provide the bulk of the stat increases that ascended gives over exotics.

Ayrilana.1396:

They were introduced for fractals before ascended crafting became available a year later. We may see crafting soon when we can get jeweler to 500. Many speculate that jeweler will actually server another purpose such as allowing players to craft items that give the special effects such as the rare drop from VW or the items from the trick or treat bags.

Being available for laurels makes ascended more widely available to players due to how incredibly easy it is to get them. Players can get 55 laurels every 28 days just by logging in. Ascended trinkets also provide the bulk of the stat increases that ascended gives over exotics.

So Anet decided to keep a crafting way less useful compared to others so anyone can have a better time at entering fractals? not being salty, i just think it is so strange and unfair for all the other jewelers…

hennrick.4623:

Ayrilana.1396:

They were introduced for fractals before ascended crafting became available a year later. We may see crafting soon when we can get jeweler to 500. Many speculate that jeweler will actually server another purpose such as allowing players to craft items that give the special effects such as the rare drop from VW or the items from the trick or treat bags.

Being available for laurels makes ascended more widely available to players due to how incredibly easy it is to get them. Players can get 55 laurels every 28 days just by logging in. Ascended trinkets also provide the bulk of the stat increases that ascended gives over exotics.

So Anet decided to keep a crafting way less useful compared to others so anyone can have a better time at entering fractals? not being salty, i just think it is so strange and unfair for all the other jewelers…

Not quite. More like, the ascendd gear tier was a quickly and messy addon duct-taped and welded on top of all already existing systems without really interfacing with them.

When the first items from the tier (rings) were introduced, they were hurried so much devs didn’t have time to create a crafting system for them(*). They managed to do that only in time for weapons and armor introduction. By that time, one more system (laurels) that wasn’t originally envisioned was added to it. This created a situation, where just following through and introducing jeweller 500 was not satisfactory, as getting accessories through other means would likely be way cheaper and easier than through crafting.

Most likely they are withholding the final 2 crafts till they get the idea what to introduce to make their higher crafting levels useful.

(*) It is also quite possible, that rings were originally intended to be a fractal-eclusive drop, and that got changed only as a result of players’ generally negative reaction.

(TL/dr: When they introduced rings, they were in such a hurry, i doubt they even thought what they’d do to crafting – or to the rest of the game. That seem to have changed later, but we still have to live with thar original mess they’ve done)