Thoughts on ascended gear and it's future
It is all about establishing a norm(than that you need the items at the moment) and ensure that they can introduce new tiers when they want more cash flowing in. The introduced recipes require a serious time investment, as drop rates and DR make it hard to farm them fast and craft the items without investing much time, it is easier to buy gems, get gold and buy the materials.
Think about it, when they pull this through, every player that starts GW2 after the introduction of the new tier will be accustomed to the fact that there is a tier beyond Exotic, so there will never be as much uproar about introducing a new tier as now, if any at all.
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They are and it is already in game because the legendary items had the stats boosted to ascend levels when the patch on the 15th went live.
I believe I saw data mines for the other possible ascend stuff on redit but could be wrong.
They wouldnt start down this path if it wasnt ready. This wasnt a hasty choice it was deliberate and took time to implement.
You always start small in something like this cause it is less likely to provoke a reaction instead of releasing say weapons as the first thing.Back slots ect are meaningless compared to armour and weapons and would cause less blow-back from community.
my 2cp.
Trust me, this is a dark path Anet are taking and its not going to end well. Not without levelling the playing field and that would literally require handing out equal level ascended items for 10% of the cost current best in slot ascended and future ascended items ~ otherwise, the gear divide will become so bad, the only people left playing the game will be the hardcore crowd and lets see how the game functions with 10k people playing or less.
Get it taken down -
Do whatever it takes if you care about this game -
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You always start small in something like this cause it is less likely to provoke a reaction instead of releasing say weapons as the first thing.Back slots ect are meaningless compared to armour and weapons and would cause less blow-back from community.
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If this was a small blow-back I really don’t know if I want to see a big one. Maybe it would involve cracking ANets servers or something (Not that I’m condoning that, I just don’t see how much bigger a responce could get without something like that).