Guild Wars 2

Due to the urge to make a massive long post that I nor you can be bothered dealing with while at work I had made a whole kitten tonne of dot points about what I think will come from these ascended gear / infusions etc Its more of a guess as what is coming.

• Ascended gear is a one time addition of a rarity of gear. Like masterwork and rares and exotics.

• They added it to fill the gap between exotics and legendaries specifically what legendaries will become in the future as they add armor etc

• Their perception of the “gap” between exotics and legendaries isn’t in the stats…Its in the ease of gaining them. Exotics are kittendedly easy to get while legendaries are this massive grind theres no mid ground…thats why I believe they added this new rarity.

• The upgrade slot on ascended gear is ONLY for infusion they added additional stats to counteract the lack of gem etc as shown on the pic.

• Infusions will be changed out depending what dungeon you are clearing through

• Ascended gear won’t increase in stats as additional content comes out aka no ascended tier 1 ascended tier 2 etc.

• Offensive infusion refers to x % increase damage to karka’s shields. If you recall they mentioned seeing damage of 0 for a bit won’t be uncommon as they have these impenetrable shields and you will visually see them crumbling off etc. Offensive infusions will assist with mitigating time spent chipping through their shields

• Defensive Infusions refers to y% damage reduction to the agony debuff

• Omni-Infusions refer to either a mix of offensive and defensive or completely different stats that also assist with killing of karka only. Aka keeps infusions only effecting the dungeon and nothing else.

• As new dungeons release that share the similar agony mechanic new infusions will be released with them.

• Ascended gear will be released in waves, First round is 6 items aka 5 trinkets and a back piece. After that we will probably see another 6 items next major content patch refering to helm, shoulders, chest, gloves, legs and feet. After that the weapons will come along with the scaling up of the legendary weapons to ascended level.

• Water based ascended items may coincide when we vs the unnamed underwater dragon.

• When they say more item progression will come I believe they mean the filling out of ascended gear and then from there there will be no more increase to stats. I don’t believe we’ll see stat increases but I do believe they have something planned regarding item progression still.

• WvW will have its own ascended gear in time, this has since been confirmed so I believe the wvw’ers won’t be screwed over by this.

• This last point isn’t something believe will happen but I just more so would love to see it. Have skill progression for example. ele casts a fireball for x damage…have some sort of progression system involving dungeons or wvw or whatever that changes and beefs up the animations of the fireball, it still does x damage, still behaves the exact same way it just looks heaps more amazing visually. /Shrug sounds baller to me.

Cheers guys.

u didn t read the blog well…

Maybe ascended gear will be a one time additions….but they plan to release infusions…….

My view of the forums atm: “OMG! After this patch people can get extra 45 stats total! It’s sooo imbalanced. And a infusion too, that will make everyone do this new dungeon even easier. And even worse, in a few months they might add this to the amulet and armbands too, and it will be 90 stats! And noone is gonna have exotic accesories, everything will be obsolite and everyone is just gonna treadmill all day. Poor WvW too, they will easily be pray of people with 45 more stats! Everyone will only be able to do this new stuff. How can a company even add new stuff too a game, it’s outrageous.”