Only being able to get it via crafting and rng is really stupid TBH. What about all the other players? We don’t want to grind for gold and mats and then stand infront of the NPC and craft like a zombie (Thats boring as kitten). I spend most of my time roaming around WvW trying to find nice fights. How am i supposed to get ascended weapons? There should be more ways to obtain them!
1: Laurels + Badges. Why the hell not?
2: An epic story quest that works similiar to dailies. The quest takes about 2-4 weeks to finish and at the end you get the weapon of your choice.
3: New PvP Points in WvW. Everytime you get a stomp you gain a PvP point. For x amount of PvP points you can buy an Ascended weapon.
They better come up with new methods soon (at least for me).
Reading the new patch notes, I felt some excitement to come back and try out some new builds in WvW. But then I remembered the huge crafting gear grind I still had to do.
At that point, you have to make a rational choice. And I decided my time would best be spent elsewhere: finishing content I still had to do in other games, while preparing for ESO.
Thrumdi, Captain of The Tarnished Coastguard
—
The ultimate GW2 troll.
They better come up with new methods soon (at least for me).
Reading the new patch notes, I felt some excitement to come back and try out some new builds in WvW. But then I remembered the huge crafting gear grind I still had to do.
At that point, you have to make a rational choice. And I decided my time would best be spent elsewhere: finishing content I still had to do in other games, while preparing for ESO.
ESO will be a traditional MMO, grind and grind and grind.
They better come up with new methods soon (at least for me).
Reading the new patch notes, I felt some excitement to come back and try out some new builds in WvW. But then I remembered the huge crafting gear grind I still had to do.
At that point, you have to make a rational choice. And I decided my time would best be spent elsewhere: finishing content I still had to do in other games, while preparing for ESO.
ESO will be a traditional MMO, grind and grind and grind.
They better come up with new methods soon (at least for me).
Reading the new patch notes, I felt some excitement to come back and try out some new builds in WvW. But then I remembered the huge crafting gear grind I still had to do.
At that point, you have to make a rational choice. And I decided my time would best be spent elsewhere: finishing content I still had to do in other games, while preparing for ESO.
ESO will be a traditional MMO, grind and grind and grind.
They better come up with new methods soon (at least for me).
Reading the new patch notes, I felt some excitement to come back and try out some new builds in WvW. But then I remembered the huge crafting gear grind I still had to do.
At that point, you have to make a rational choice. And I decided my time would best be spent elsewhere: finishing content I still had to do in other games, while preparing for ESO.
ESO will be a traditional MMO, grind and grind and grind.
2: An epic story quest that works similiar to dailies. The quest takes about 2-4 weeks to finish and at the end you get the weapon of your choice.
I wouldn’t mind this. Would definitely be more alt friendly than ANets current method of time gating.
Have it start at 80 and let each toon have it independently so they can be done concurrently.
Bad@Ele: Alaric Von Manstein
Bad@Thief: Kiera Gordon
Sea of Sorrows, a server never before so appropriately named.
You can argue that one goal with the introduction of ascended weps is to put value back into crafting — although it’s “self value” since you cannot sell the weapons.
It has been a long standing complaint that crafting is essentially worthless in GW2 for gearing your character for end-game. Some of the most popular stat combinations are not craftable (Soldiers, Rabid). If it weren’t for zerker, it’d be nearly a total waste.
Adding other sources will start to belittle crafting again.
On a final note, be careful what you ask for. If you see ascended available through another source, expect the prices to be exceptionally high (1000’s of WvW badges for example). It would have to be to reflect the high crafting costs for the items currently.
Part of me thinks that someone in ANet was thinking “hey, wanna see something funny? Watch this…”
They’re actually shockingly easy to make tbh. It’s much harder to get crafting to 500 than it is to make an ascended weapon. Like, once I got Weaponsmith to 500 ascended weapons just started pouring in.
Also, come on guys. GW2 is not grindy. There is a difference between not getting your instant gratification and grinding.
They’re actually shockingly easy to make tbh. It’s much harder to get crafting to 500 than it is to make an ascended weapon. Like, once I got Weaponsmith to 500 ascended weapons just started pouring in.
Also, come on guys. GW2 is not grindy. There is a difference between not getting your instant gratification and grinding.
I agree with you here. Once I got my weaponsmithing to lvl500 I was able to make 2 ascended weapons in 3 days. Hell I could make a large amount of ascended weapons in no time at all. The ascended item that takes the longest to get is the accessories just due to their really high laurel costs or guild commendation costs, but I haven’t heard anyone complain about that one very much.
Ranger; Warrior; Mesmer; Elementalist; Guardian; Engineer
[GWAM] and [LUST]
Mess with the best, die like the rest.
They should have a mystic forge recipe/npc that will forge it that uses slightly more base materials, i believe it is a mistake to require each player to max crafts, its not a gameplay that is universally enjoyed.
problem with mystic forge is it doesnt have a recipe list officially.
any means of getting it should require a vision crystal, other than low chance drops, and vision crystal should be a level 0 craft, or have a mystic forge/npc version as well. the vision crystal is important because it gives value to high end activities
Grind