Guild Wars 2

Why is it that Ascended Amulets, which give better stats AND can come with a utility infusion are 30 Laurels, but rings are 35 for lower stats, and now accessories are 40 PLUS 50 ectoplasm for even lower stats?

I just don’t understand this. What am I missing?

I believe they made it that way so people would be more interested in doing Guild Mission content.

because anet wants you to get rings through fractals & accessories through guild missions.

this way everyone can say “u don’t want to join guilds – just get them through laurels” or “u already hate fractals after grinding out the backpiece u wanted – just get rings with laurels”.
they are totally overpriced, but still there. and anet also kept their word, that u can get the ascended things via several ways. at least somehow (even though they didn’t remove the timeconsuming grind for thes new BIS-items).
u still have only 1or 2 ways to get each piece but hey, it’s better than nothing and maybe in 2014 we can finally get ascended trinkets for a resonable price wherever we want to – and have to think about how to get the armor and weapon…