Guild Wars 2

I like having Ascended weapons. Having it alone doesn’t let you steamroll over all the n00bs without it, and the way you obtain one has diversity, and breathes life into a lot of the areas which have been thus far dead content.

But that’s where it should stop. Let me explain my opinion on why.

Why not have level 90?

To put it simply, it adds nothing to the game.

You can introduce trait points using other mechanics, so the only point of it is to bring in another tier of gear, which is basically adding a gear treadmill into the game and destroying all the work we put into getting Legendary and Ascended gear (legendaries take months and months of intensive grinding to get all you need, and none of that is fun).

You could just scale all existing Ascended and Legendary gear to level 90 to prevent that, but, then, what’s the point of a new level cap?

The only other thing you could do is make new, more rewarding areas only available to level 90s, but as you can see in other games, that leaves a trail of dead content behind. As great as Illidan is in WoW (he’s still my favorite character out of the entire lore), and as much as everyone likes talking about the ‘good ’ol days of TBC’ no one does that raid anymore.

Why not Ascended/Legendary Armours?

People have keep all sorts of different builds and gear setups for different situations, and people change builds constantly as the metagame evolves and they find different playstyles appealing. Most of that change occurs in armor sets.

I can do witht he same weapons for both PvE and WvW, but if I go WvW with my pure zerk set from PvE I get (rightfully) melted in a blink. Having to get 6 pieces of Ascended armors for each build I have is going to be a nightmare and forces me to basically choose between game types until my Ascended set for that game type is ready, something you guys said you aim to avoid.

Also, going back to my first point, having a weapon which is slightly better than the other person in most cases in WvW won’t makes that much of a difference, but if you add armors into the mix, all those ’slightly’s add up and you have a major advantage over the other person. Steaming over noobs with your leet gear is something which does not belong in this game.