Guild Wars 2

Healix.5819:

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

Ascended Gear was implemented (if I am correct on this) for those of us without a spare 520 USD to drop on the Gem to Gold Conversion system so that we would have enough to buy a Legendary Weapon.

Ascended gear was implemented because exotics were a joke. Within the first month, even the first week of the game, “dedicated players” (what ArenaNet called them), exhausted the game’s content, had full exotics and were left with nothing to do.

And? The first ascended weapon i saw was three days after implementation (crafted. Those from drops were being shown in LA on day one). And i am pretty sure there were people that did it even faster. The so called “dedicated” players (so called, because they are not really any more dedicated to GW2 than many other players that do not blow through content in days) cannot be used as a baseline for content, because doing that makes sure that 99% of the players will get kittened by it. And the people the content was designed for will do it much, much faster than designed anyway. As it happened in this case.
And the exotics weren’t a joke. They were a good implementation of the original plan of people being able to acquire best stat gear as soon as they hit level 80. In fact, they were a bit harder to get than in the original design idea.