Guild Wars 2

Another monthly patch and nada. Still nothing after months. This has seriously gone beyond ridiculous. Can we get some type of clarification that this is even remembered much less soon to be implemented like was stated?

Thank you.

I would prefer we give our poor and down-cast WvW players access to ascended gear for their efforts in that environment.

sometimes i look at patchnotes and think: “really? that is all what you guys were doing in these 2/4 weeks?”

its rly ridiculous sometimes.
implementing 2 more sets of ascended gear to 3 merchants cant be that difficult at all.

There are things like this all over the place, really. It makes their team seem myopic at best.

Honestly, at this point, I’m really not surprised.

A.Net seems to be almost purposefully dragging their feet when it comes to the implementation of equal access to equipment across formats. WvW players are still waiting for something to use their badges on, and for the longest time only had access to one set of armor (P/v/t). The fact that some combinations of stats are still plain missing doesn’t help either…

Implementing a few extra pieces of gear and some badge merchants (which I would think is really just a matter of copy/paste once you figure out the cost of items) should have never taken this long.

- Mana

ManaCraft.5630:

Honestly, at this point, I’m really not surprised.

A.Net seems to be almost purposefully dragging their feet when it comes to the implementation of equal access to equipment across formats. WvW players are still waiting for something to use their badges on, and for the longest time only had access to one set of armor (P/v/t). The fact that some combinations of stats are still plain missing doesn’t help either…

Implementing a few extra pieces of gear and some badge merchants (which I would think is really just a matter of copy/paste once you figure out the cost of items) should have never taken this long.

- Mana

But you’re missing a very important thing: not dragging their feet on important issues that they’ve been “aware of” for months would take time away from designing neat new things to stuff into the lottery boxes in the gem store.

The silence is deafening.

They are “dragging their feet” on this issue, because the very idea behind ascended eq is dragging their feet. It’s a stopgap content that is needed to pad the one year gap that was created by this game shipping much too early.
In other words, they need to stagger ascended eq releases widely enough to cover a whole year.

Astralporing.1957:

They are “dragging their feet” on this issue, because the very idea behind ascended eq is dragging their feet. It’s a stopgap content that is needed to pad the one year gap that was created by this game shipping much too early.
In other words, they need to stagger ascended eq releases widely enough to cover a whole year.

Bingo, and Bingo again. I have posted it before, but the way they have approached Ascended is very time-line specific for a reason. They have to make the grind for Ascended last as long as they can before an expansion comes out to add in more content and skins etc.

If they release new Ascended stats every few months, people feel like they are moving and working on that, and it gives them something to do, maybe ascended gear for an alt that likes that new stat combo for instance.

Every so often they will also have to release a new item (back/rings, then neck, then accessories), spaced out as far as they can stand, without enraging people. Here very shortly they will have to release yet another Ascended item (my money is on gloves), or risk losing the PVE players as the game gets stale.

Keep in mind the entire reason behind the living story is also to prolong this tredmill as well. As long as people are killing crabs and enjoying themselves, they don’t need to worry about any new ascended stuff.

WvW players have traps now to fiddle with, and some new trait lines in new siege, that will keep them from complaining about Ascended not being available there for at least a little while.

All along, they just need to stretch out this delay as long as possible, because the day the release Ascended weapons that hit harder and make a signficant impact in damage from the zerker classes, people will rage till no end.

Not implying any of this negatively. It is very smart business sense.

And just like an update every month we have this threat too! There a lot still missing for Ascended gear and there some missing for exotic at this point i am not sure if these threat even effect when they add them in. I am thinking that when they add in Ascended items for wvw we may see some of the new sets.

Adding additional ascended equipment like carrion and valkyrie really wouldn’t take much time away from their current developers. The legwork is already there, adding a new item should not be that much effort.

Adding these items to WvW vendors should not be that difficult a task either. All they have to is settle on a cost and add them to the vendor.

I tend to believe, like others have said, that it is more a way to prolong things. Gradually introduce new items to keep the game ‘fresh’.

A new update rolled out and there are no new stat combos, AGAIN.
What is the idea behind all this, it’s not making the game fresh and interesting, its downright frustrating!

Oh, please, it took them almost seven moths to add a merchant in wvw with “discounted” ascended items, this task is way harder, I guess you are not gonna see valkyrie asc for at least other 2 months.

I would have never expected to say this, but… yeah… I’ don’t see this game lasting as long as GW1 did.
Every patch note i read looks like a fail.

Good thing there’s this complaint thread I guess.

I´m getting seriously kitten ed off with anet atm. Not only doesn´t it cost any effort to change a few numbers in the files, this kitten just promotes zerker wearing kittenbaggery all over. It is UNACCEPTABLE to not have all gearsets released evenly. There is no excuse for making certain specs wait half a year to get any ascended gear at all. If it won´t change i´ll just jump on the zerker bandwagon and ista gib people like 90% does anyways. GG anet with your poor planning and longetivity, if this continues your game won´t last nearly as long as GW1 did.

The WvW discounts are sheait. At least wvw is better than grinding dungeons or southsun .

So, is this going to be implemented in the Dragon Bash patch, or is this gonna set the record to 4-5 months without anything?

PLEASE……ADD CARRION ASCENED

Jenrah.5403:

PLEASE……ADD CARRION ASCENED

Haha, Anet still hasn’t implemented this? Then they probably never will.

Why, why aren’t we getting the missing ascended stat combinations?
This actually is a great reason for criticism, and non-standart builds (pure DPS) are really hurt for that.
Please, Arena Net, tell us something, why isn’t carrion/valkyrie ascended gear in the game, are they going to get added some time soon, are there problems that prevent you from doing so. Something, please…

I was going to make a new thread and found this one. I have the same question, I want full Carrion items, that’s the stat I need in my build right now, but there’s no ascended version of it. Why?

Not even an alternative, only 2 ascended items combo has maxed condition damage, and none of these has power at the same time.

It’s really difficult to come up with names and icons for ascended items, first you have to go back to GW1 lore and find a character or group that isn’t used yet and create the “Amulet/Ring/Earring/Toothbrush of <character or group>” then you have to get an icon, set the stats to be the right ones and add them to the various vendors tables you have to do that three times for Offensive, Defensive and Utility slots (which is a dumb and unnecessary distinction, just have one Infusion slot you can put any Offensive, Defensive or Utility Infusion into, that way you only need one amulet and two rings/accessories for each stat combo).

I don’t think we’ll see these now, these combos will be player crafted in a month or two.

Astralporing.1957:

They are “dragging their feet” on this issue, because the very idea behind ascended eq is dragging their feet. It’s a stopgap content that is needed to pad the one year gap that was created by this game shipping much too early.

Exactly, GW2 (and most MMOs) are designed to drag out content to keep people logging in and playing, it’s just the way it works.

It’s hard to believe that it takes more effort to add Valkyrie/Carrion gear that don’t even require an ingame 3D model when they’re releasing a whole line of ascended weapons in a couple of days.

Hayashi.3416:

It’s hard to believe that it takes more effort to add Valkyrie/Carrion gear that don’t even require an ingame 3D model when they’re releasing a whole line of ascended weapons in a couple of days.

It doesn’t, it’s pretty trivial and one person (two if they wanted new icons) could probably do do it in an afternoon if they wanted to.

What I really want is Cavalier and Rabid Exotic Trikets.

Mikau.6920:

What I really want is Cavalier and Rabid Exotic Trikets.

Wait what? That’s already possible:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats

And it’s really easy actually, get them with Karma from a temple vendor (Balthazar and Dwayna respectively).

ghost.3208:

Mikau.6920:

What I really want is Cavalier and Rabid Exotic Trikets.

Wait what? That’s already possible:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats

And it’s really easy actually, get them with Karma from a temple vendor (Balthazar and Dwayna respectively).

We don’t have the jewel to put on them

The crest of the rabid have lessstatus than a jewel.

For example, this two amulets looks redundant in some way, I think one of that was originally designed to be carrion, but then they decided to don’t make carrion ascended version for some reason, maybe they don’t want we use that stats:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hymn_to_the_Prophets
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Symbol_of_the_Deceiver

Mikau.6920:

ghost.3208:

Mikau.6920:

What I really want is Cavalier and Rabid Exotic Trikets.

Wait what? That’s already possible:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats

And it’s really easy actually, get them with Karma from a temple vendor (Balthazar and Dwayna respectively).

We don’t have the jewel to put on them

The crest of the rabid have lessstatus than a jewel.

Ah I see, thought you wanted only the items. Yeah now that I look at it we don’t have an Orb/Crest for every stat combination… hmm we do need more variety with them…

Hey, Guys.

It has been months since ascended trinkets have been available. Any news on if there will be Carrion or Valkyrie Ascended Gear?

So far the only way I am aware to get Carrion or Valkyrie Trinkets is to make Tempered Spinal Blades, Light of Dwayna or Shadow of Grenth back items and they are ALL very expensive to craft, not to mention you need to have a crafting discipline leveled to 500 to make any of the three.

Edit: There is no such thing as a Carrion back item. I just made another Tempered Spinal Blades back piece and upgraded my exotic Carrion back piece to an ascended one and there isn’t a stat option for Carrion. My fault for not checking, really.

As far as Amulets, Rings or Accessories go nothing is available yet.

What gives? It would be great if an admin or one of the Devs could let us know what the score is. Even a vague timeline like “maybe early next year” would be highly appreciated. If you guys don’t plan to release these items in the next year, a heads up would be nice too, so we can find alternatives.

Thanks in advance.