Guild Wars 2

I have no objection in terms of stats, what i’m objecting on is the method we obtain it.

i know ANet wants us to play their “cool” “new” dungeon, but having to run a dungeon just to get the best gear in certain categories is just absurd.

I don’t like doing dungeons, especially when it turns into a grind, that’s why i craft my own gear and buy my own skins, and it was all good until Fractals were introduced.

now everyone has this necessity to play fractals to obtain materials to create ascended gear to be the strongest.

I don’t know what ANet still has in mind, but it better be craftable Ascended gear, because this game is starting to become a Dungeon Runner and as a result will become very stale.

IMHO ascended gear is really pre-mature, the game is only very few months old, it’s too early to introduce higher stat equipment.

Have you searched for similar threads on this forum? I’m pretty sure you haven’t. Because this issue has been discussed to death.

To bring you up to date, ANet has already admitted it was a mistake to release fractals by itself as the sole way to get ascended gear FOR NOW.

They are aware that this has caused an exodus of sorts where every tom richard and harry is in the fractals instance, and theres a diminishing number of players elsewhere.

They released only fractals as a method of getting ascended gear because the other methods weren’t ready to be released, so they pulled those back to work on them some more.

Not that i see a point in causing a hullabaloo regarded ascended gear in the first place. Why? Because the gain in stats is so small that ascended gear is practically for stroking your cyber member in /map chat.

EVEN IF more ascended slots are released, the gain in character performance is negligible. To the extent that it’s unnoticible. If you have 1500+ points per stat on average across the board, do you really think an increase of +2 to the relevant stat will make you deal noticibly more damage/have more damage mitigation? If everyone in your party rolled with ascended gear instead of exo, MAYBE you’ll shave off a minute of time from running all the paths in a dungeon. MAYBE.

You won’t take down lupicus faster, you won’t be able to tank more hits from kohler’s vacuum attack, you still wouldn’t be able to sit in the spider boss’s red circles in ta, or survive longer defending magg while he plays with his kaboomium in cof.

The time you ‘save’ beating things up with ascended gear as compared to exo gear in a month of gameplay will be way less than the time it took for me to read your post and respond with this reply.

I mean, let’s put things in perspective.

If you don’t want to run fractals for a minute cosmetic improvement in stats, don’t.