Guild Wars 2

Ascension Crystals that cost Gems and converts current exotics to ascended. Yes, A.NET. Take my money! it’s alright! I hate farming and grinding!

Latinkuro.9420:

At this point I don’t mind ascended gear at all, what I mind is the moronic restrictions they place on getting them.

I say,
add hard mode to dungeons, and make higher than 30+ fractals drop ascended items other than rings instead of limiting acquisition to daily laurel crap and guild missions which you only earn 2-3 marks per week.

and stop introducing a new currency every time you introduce a piece of ascended armor for the love of all that is holy !!

I agree still waiting on the retro we were supposed to get for achievements already earned on laurels.

Ya sure in time i have no problems with minimum vertical progression in a game. Its going to be a lot like ff11 with there HQ items vs the NQ items. Yes the major HQ items did not add realty all that much most of the time 2+ to all the things that it did and truly it did not make you better but it made you “feel” stronger then the NQ items user lol. Mind you numbers in ff11 where always on the lower ends so +2 to something was a good bit stronger but for a player to take the places of 2 or even 1.5 players was comply unheard of.

Sure..why not? They are going to expand the game anyway, unless this is it.

I don’t want ascended armor, I just want new exotic skins, or skins in general.

More skins not more stats. Pointless to add more stats if it will get nerfed in some way anyhow.

No, I don’t want Ascended armor any more than I wanted Ascended Trinkets. But, Anet has ventured down the well-worn path of vertical progression and given that it is vertical and will progress, I don’t think there is any doubt about whether we will have Ascended armor…sadly…whether I want it or not.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Whether we want it or not, they have already said they will be releasing full Ascended armor and weapons.

And seeing as how the current trend on Ascended gear is (adding a new currency for every new piece they release), we are going to have a lot of new currencies each time they add more Ascended gear.

And they also said they’ll eventually add more levels.

Which, of course, would nullify all this ascended armor everyone is grind grinding for because then they would have to re-grind grind for the level 90 or whatever the max level version is.

=D

In answer to your question in the title:

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Tolmos.8395:

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Whether we want it or not, they have already said they will be releasing full Ascended armor and weapons.

And seeing as how the current trend on Ascended gear is (adding a new currency for every new piece they release), we are going to have a lot of new currencies each time they add more Ascended gear.

And they also said they’ll eventually add more levels.

Which, of course, would nullify all this ascended armor everyone is grind grinding for because then they would have to re-grind grind for the level 90 or whatever the max level version is.

=D

In answer to your question in the title:

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So? That’s an mmo. Carrot on a stick. Hook-line-and sinker. Whatever you want to call it. It would also nullify more than just ascended armor. Don’t really see what your point is.

It would be nice to get a 10 or 20 man run that comes with a slew of different ascended armor sets.

Also add different sets of ascend armor sets to WvW!

Make a few sets obtainable by dailies/monthly and everyone should be happy!

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Whether we want it or not, they have already said they will be releasing full Ascended armor and weapons.

And seeing as how the current trend on Ascended gear is (adding a new currency for every new piece they release), we are going to have a lot of new currencies each time they add more Ascended gear.

And if they decided that the current 6 pieces were as far as it went, this would not be the first time they changed their minds.

No not at all, but if it must be added i’d prefer it to be extremely easy to attain. I’ve hit the cap on 2 classes and am getting closer to the third. I’ve played this game for over 1000 hours (and that’s with taking months off for a break)

I’ve done the hardcore 10+ hours a day in this game for a LONG time already. I worked hard doing tons of dungeon runs and buying different exotic weapons/armor/accessories. I should be able to just relax and play casually now without worrying about “falling behind” and have to spend countless more hours playing catch up.

No, i never wanted Ascended, never asked for it, and all its done since it was introduced was cause huge damage to the game, the companies name and created a huge rift in the playerbase..

I would like to see new gear and armor just with the same stats we have or some new combinations, i’m not against new gear just against treadmills in general…

Only if it magically appears in my mail on the day its released, free of charge and for all 9 of my characters otherwise NO

I don’t care for more ascended gear. What I do want is more armor skins.

the thing that bothers me is: why?
i farm ascended gear so i can go deep in a dungeon that is always the same but add a cheap difficulty by increasing mobs hp and damage and a new condition called agony?
and i farm it so it can get even more difficult? why?
what’s the reward in doing any level of fractal?

don’t get me wrong, i still like it and since i don’t want to buy/drop too much ascended i set myself on celestial stat, so i can still change build if i wish so, fractal dungeon has good loot and nice mechanics, but i’m getting tired of the same istances over and over again for no reason.

if they can answer my question at why should i run high level fractals than an ascended armor (maybe with celestial stats) would do, but until than it’s not only pointless, but what will happen to runes and sigils? jewels orb already dropped in price so much that gems are worth less than salvageable items during those monthly salvage achievement (but the ruby for the obvious reason that everybody likes big number and run berserker builds).

another reason i would say no to ascended armor is because they are messed up only for the sake of agony slots. i have to give up stats for agony resistance, look at the new backpack for example, these new backpack they added are nice, but as a matter of fact less effective than any exotic backpack with an upgrade in it. if you ascend them they don’t get better because they will always have 3 stats instead of 6…
also there is a lack of celestial stats on backpack (this is the reason i still don’t have one, i don’t want to choose and than farm 250 stack of any tier6 mats in case i change my mind).

so unless they do this in a less chaotic way, with no new currency, with no alt unfriendly time consuming way of get them, i would say no.

i will always say yes to more skins or maybe legendary armor

As long as they add more of a ability to do it outside fractals won’t care dungeon grind only? No thanks

dcypher.2590:

Tolmos.8395:

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Whether we want it or not, they have already said they will be releasing full Ascended armor and weapons.

And seeing as how the current trend on Ascended gear is (adding a new currency for every new piece they release), we are going to have a lot of new currencies each time they add more Ascended gear.

And they also said they’ll eventually add more levels.

Which, of course, would nullify all this ascended armor everyone is grind grinding for because then they would have to re-grind grind for the level 90 or whatever the max level version is.

=D

In answer to your question in the title:

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So? That’s an mmo. Carrot on a stick. Hook-line-and sinker. Whatever you want to call it. It would also nullify more than just ascended armor. Don’t really see what your point is.

Considering we didn’t know ascended gear was coming, I think the phrase you are looking for is “bait and switch”

hmmm seems like majority of people do not want ascended armor.

what if dungeons tokens could be used to redeem ascended armor?

i.e. all dungeon armor weapon vendor gives out ascended armor weapon while taking in dungeon tokens.

existing dungeon armor weapons would become ascended stats.

hahah wun happen. nexon nc soft too greedy for monies.

YES good idea just upgrade statc like that awesome like token sistem

I actually want 5 things:

1. Ability to enhance exotic into ascended via mystic forge/infusion process.
2. New Ascended armor/weapons with open slots with ascended jewels/runes/sigils (no more of this fixed stat crap)
3. Ability to get it in normal play, dropping from mobs/chest/players in wvw in addition to a vendor.
4. New skins for ascended/exotic sets altogether
5. Tier4 exotic cultural

After that I want:

1. More exotic/ascended skins

While I wait for:

1. More Legendary Weapons
2. Legendary Armor

With hopes to get:

True Legendaries, skins with multitudes of lore behind them.

fair enough.

i think most people would want this too.

upgrading from exotic to ascended via mystic forge would make lots of people happy provided if the price is reasonable.

Akari Storm.6809:

I actually want 5 things:

1. Ability to enhance exotic into ascended via mystic forge/infusion process.
2. New Ascended armor/weapons with open slots with ascended jewels/runes/sigils (no more of this fixed stat crap)
3. Ability to get it in normal play, dropping from mobs/chest/players in wvw in addition to a vendor.
4. New skins for ascended/exotic sets altogether
5. Tier4 exotic cultural

After that I want:

1. More exotic/ascended skins

While I wait for:

1. More Legendary Weapons
2. Legendary Armor

With hopes to get:

True Legendaries, skins with multitudes of lore behind them.

Amadan.9451:

the thing that bothers me is: why?
i farm ascended gear so i can go deep in a dungeon that is always the same but add a cheap difficulty by increasing mobs hp and damage and a new condition called agony?
and i farm it so it can get even more difficult? why?
what’s the reward in doing any level of fractal?

don’t get me wrong, i still like it and since i don’t want to buy/drop too much ascended i set myself on celestial stat, so i can still change build if i wish so, fractal dungeon has good loot and nice mechanics, but i’m getting tired of the same istances over and over again for no reason.

if they can answer my question at why should i run high level fractals than an ascended armor (maybe with celestial stats) would do, but until than it’s not only pointless, but what will happen to runes and sigils? jewels orb already dropped in price so much that gems are worth less than salvageable items during those monthly salvage achievement (but the ruby for the obvious reason that everybody likes big number and run berserker builds).

another reason i would say no to ascended armor is because they are messed up only for the sake of agony slots. i have to give up stats for agony resistance, look at the new backpack for example, these new backpack they added are nice, but as a matter of fact less effective than any exotic backpack with an upgrade in it. if you ascend them they don’t get better because they will always have 3 stats instead of 6…
also there is a lack of celestial stats on backpack (this is the reason i still don’t have one, i don’t want to choose and than farm 250 stack of any tier6 mats in case i change my mind).

so unless they do this in a less chaotic way, with no new currency, with no alt unfriendly time consuming way of get them, i would say no.

i will always say yes to more skins or maybe legendary armor

I believe if you upgrade the tentacle back, you get the 3 additional fixed stats.

As far as fractals, I also believe that more are coming. Year 1 is laying the foundation for other systems/armor/weapons/dungeons to come.

With that said, no more currency pls. If we keep getting all these currencies, not gonna need 1 but 2 panes in the bank to accommodate. I know that’s not coming for probably 1-2yrs if at all.

Not unless 1 of these 2 options are available
1. We’re given some free Transmutation Crystal as compensation for already transmuting our looks onto high end gear (that was supposed to be top tier…) [unlikely]
2. We’re given means to cheaply ascend our current exotics…by cheap I mean no 250 globs+250 t6 crap [more likely, and likely to be expensive]

NO.
I want new skins but no higher stats

I wouldn’t mind if they added ascended weapons though, as long as it doesn’t take anything exceptionally grindy to get.

Nuka Cola.8520:

What i want is new armors. I don’t care about increased stats i just want freaking new looks. In nine months we got NADA, not a single new armor, gg.

THIS!

We’ve only gotten weapon skins, and most of them were only obtainable by RNG from BLC. I would LOOOOOOVE new armor skins. I like the look of those new gauntlets (wasn’t able to get those due to RL stuff Q.Q) and back pieces though.

We don’t need ascended gear as we don’t need higher stats. Give us sets of cool looking gear to work on, but with the same exotic stats everything has right now.

Has to be obtainable only in wvw first

silkysoft.6749:

Has to be obtainable only in wvw first

hmmm yeah they really should work on this.
it has been almost half a year and still no news.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

it has been almost half a year and still no news.

THAT´S what they really need to work on :
C O M M U N I C A T I O N !

ANet, tell us already what your kitten plans are with them fractals and the ascendant situation.

Personally I really don´t want to see old exotics getting “obsoleted” the standard MMO way.
I could live with the mystic forge idea though or even new types of ascendant Sigils/Runes to replace our current ones. Quasi a grind-light.

No.

Ascended gear takes way too long to get. I can only imagine how long a complete armor set could take. For how much time investment it requires, every armor piece would feel like it “locks” me more and more into a specific build because of the power creep, especially with the terrible agony mechanic (AR shouldn’t even exist. It is a lousy way to create gear checks and artificial difficulty, and is the reason I don’t bother with FoTM). For this reason, I will never use ascended gear.

IMHO ascended items should’ve never been about better stats, but should’ve been about infusion slots (that is, exotic gear + infusion slots + socket/runes). Infusion slots shouldn’t offer any in-combat advantage, and should’ve been purely fun/convenience. For example, +MF, +GF, +Out of Combat movement speed, +No Repair costs, +cosmetic effects, etc.

But really, I don’t care as long as it doesn’t keep me from experiencing parts of the game, or bar me from PvE progression like FoTM does.

NO to ascended armor. Ascended gear is horrible design, when ANet could have just gone the way of GW1 where we simply infused our armor we already had to fight the Mursaat. In the case of GW2 it’s to get to higher fractals and we would upgrade our exotic armor. But you know, that would never happen because they want to put vertical grind in the game.

We all know it’s coming, whether we like it or not.

Mathias.9657:

We all know it’s coming, whether we like it or not.

duh thats kinda sad.
do u think this is happening bcos “consortium” nexon nc soft is pulling the strings from the shadows?

It’s a matter of when, not if.

I personally want ascended armor in sooner than later IF they add a good way to get them and not a time gate like the other pieces are.

well both time gate and alternate time rush methods so everyone can be happy.

People were using codes to link Legendary Armour sets in LA today. May not be Ascended, but will undoubtedly have a bigger grind to acquire. Based on observations made with previous codes, it’s likely that these will be released fairly soon, so you’re going to have something else to worry about before Ascended armour is out there.

<- Guessing those Legendary will be ultra rare BLTC drops…
Sorry, but ANet has lost all my trust in this department.

No to ascended armor/weapons. We’re stuck with the ascended trinkets we already have, I suppose, and I finally did spend some laurels on something for my warrior, although I felt dirty afterwards, but please, no more ascended gear.

What I would like in terms of armor is a wider variety.

For light armors wearers, more garments that aren’t skirts or long robes.

For medium armor wearers, more non-trench coat stuff. Something like that town clothes (what a waste) pirate outfit. How about a simple leather vest over a shirt?

For heavy armor wearers, I would love a suit of plain armor. No spikes. No flames. Just regular plain armor. Also, some more ‘barbaric’ items (with fur, yes, but without all the darned spikes). Why does everything have to be so darned spiky?

And cloaks/capes. I don’t care if they clip.

Absolutely not. Ascended gear should never have been introduced. It was a knee-jerk reaction, and I do not believe ArenaNet when they say they had planned on it from the start. There is no evidence anywhere of Ascended being mentioned before the Southsun update in November.

Ascended gear is a big, big factor in why I don’t play much anymore. I’m so far behind on the gear grind that my motivation to log on is close to zero. I’m waiting to see if ArenaNet get this game back on track. Adding more Ascended gear, for me, equals an uninstall.

Noo, I don’t want to grind all gear again >_<

Astralporing.1957:

Argon.1563:

If its in FotM. then no, if its anywhere else, then yes.

There is no contradiction here. It should be in FotM – just as any other ascended gear should be accessible through FotM. It should also be everywhere else – including WvW, TP, dungeon/karma vendors, open world drops and crafting (the normal kind, not the Mystic Toilet one). Otherwise there’s really no point.

That saying, no, i’d have been happier if ascended gear was never implemented at all.

I think that pretty much sums up what the majority of the community thinks.

It’s incredible for how long ArenaNet already failed to realise this, and continues to do so.

There is no going back from Acended, we get it, but for the love of gamedesign, change the freaking system to get them.

Nobody plays GW2 for the grinding or a gear treadmill, and nobody likes timegating.
Also I’m pretty sure the majority of people actually despise fractals (i know i do), so what happened to ‘play the way you want to play without being screwed’?

Also ANet, get the f over your million currencies. Nothing in the game couldn’t have been handled with Gold/Karma/Badges just as well, if not better.

So veteran players can get new stuff immidiatly because they saved up their hard earned Gold/Karma/Badges? So what? They earned it.
Do you think a new grind for the sake of a new grind will keep the playing?
Higher Stats are NOT new content.

Stop constantly devaluating everything people have worked for, making it absolutely redundant to play until new gear is out, so you know what the next stupid thing is you have to grind, or work 10 timegated months for, to get +2 redundancy as stat.

/E:

Do you know what we really want Anet?
Just what you promised (and what we had in GW), cool new skins, nothing more.

“Guild Wars 2 is about cosmetics, not grinding and no gear treadmill”.

All we got so far is a new gear tier, tons of repetitive activities to get said gear (also known as grind) and not a single new armor skin, NOTHING, just some ridiculous kid aimed burning weapons and some backpack skins since they are little work.

Come on, you can do better. At least some people still hope so, the question is for how long they will still hold on to that.

While i have maybe only played for 10 hours this past month, the only reason I’m still kind of here is that i waited 5 years for this game and played GW for 7 years.

Otherwise i would be long gone with a lot of other people.

GW2 is turning into a “wait until something better comes around” game and the hardcore crowd who really is there because they love what you are currently doing gets smaller every day.

Hope that ESO gets a sub fee tagged on to shy customers away, and be happy that games like Neverwinter screw hard with their customers to milk them via cash shop.
The moment something new with a remotely fair business model comes along your dayli logins are gonne drop hard.

I’m not saying this as QQ or to hurt anyone or flame at Anet, but as a well meant warning.

Get your s straight and make the game you wanted to make 5 years ago and stop catering to vocal minorities while the majority despairs.

Probably never reaches a dev, but for my and their sake, somebody has to write that stuff.

only if I could get it in delicious celestial and we had the option of choosing utility infusions instead of just offensive or defensive (because honestly, 20% MF, or 4 power, decisions decisions, decisions. it’s not like I can’t slot AR (or even AR and stats) in a utility slot anyway)

Sometimes i think that a mmo community it s just a bunch of whiners..
What is an issue about ascended gear? u say getting the to much of a grind?
if that is grind then making an legendary weapon is only wow no lifers… and to boot that is only a skin which has no meaning other then being pretty and shinny…
we grind for armor every day through cof and other dungeons, we farm the for money and octos every single day. Why the hell is fractals and ascended gear such a major issue with the community it s just the same old thing with a different color and god forbid some better stats in gw2..

I’m not particularly enthusiastic about the spectre of ascended armor showing up, with how much effort ascended equipment takes to get currently – especially since it also renders most crafting professions useless for endgame gear. (Could we get that fixed, by the way?)

If there’s an upgrade process (I don’t particularly want to replace my armor skin, and I’d prefer not to have to pay for transmutation stones which for some reason are not available in-game, only through gem exchange) that doesn’t cost an arm or a leg – or 2-3 months of laurel grinding for a full armor set – it would make it a lot more acceptable though.

Sure if It’s account bound.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

do you want ascended armor?

No.
I want more and better armor skins, that i can obtain witout grinding like a bot or hoping to be one of those account with RNG in favor.

Because, you know, i’ve been told that this game was all about cosmetic progression…

No.

/15characters.

Rooks Zaer.5846:

No.

-Anything- would be better than what they’ve done so far with the current ascended gear.

Implementing a new gear tier was unnecessary. Giving the gear better stats was unnecessary. Adding agony resist was unnecessary and cheapens the whole skill/teamwork aspect of fractals progression. Making the gear available only through certain venues was dumb. Using the gear as shallow (and extremely obvious) time-sink is dumb. Implementing the gear in the most alt/build unfriendly way possible is dumb.

Part of me wants them to raise the level cap so they can deprecate the current garbage and implement better/more interesting item progression.

^^

Pretty indifferent about the whole thing.
I’m mostly a PvE player with the occasional bouts of World versus World, so I get by on rare items and a few exotics if I can manage to get some. Hell, I use my laurels to buy gear boxes and unidentified dyes anyways, and I hardly ever do fractals, so I couldn’t really care less if ascended armor and weapons were introduced.

Unless they look pretty, then I’d be all over that like a witch in a sugar mill.

Only if it has the same stats as exotic but looks better.