Guild Wars 2

So i realized when the patch went out that getting the ascended materials isnt too bad its just the time gating that takes time. Its not really a grind but more of a wait.

However, if you have many alts it is a grind to get weapons that they all use all the time. For me personally i need to make 3 weapons just on my war and many more on my guard.

I was thinking why not reward people once they have made an ascended weapon. What i mean is it takes 15 days now to make one weapon so then why not reduce the time to 12 days the next weapon a person makes. On and on and on until the minimum limit of 5 days for an ascended weapon. This way making the first few weapons will take time but after a while making an ascended weapon for an alt will be less of a wait.

What do you guys think of this idea. Personally i dont think they should time gate it but i do understand what they mean when they say they want it to take a certain amount of time. Yes there are others ways to lengthen the process but this is what anet have chosen so i came up with this compromise

Yea it is a time gate, but I didn’t expect to be able to outfit even my main with ascended right off the bat. Thankfully (or woefully) Engi got our kits buffed then nerfed in 48hrs so ascended weps are useless unless I need AR (which I don’t). So I’ve only got 1 other toon I’ll shoot for ascendeds for….now to level crafting………

Yep. But really, this is getting old. As the proud owner of 7 80’s I feel you pain, but ANet knows and doesn’t care.

ANet could have solved that problem so easily by time gating the unlock of the crafting instead of the crafting itself :/

But they are incredibly alt unfriendly, starting from the dyes. Does their metrics show them that forcing players to regrind every boring thing in the game for each alt increases the retention rate? Weird.

This issue is as old as fractals, and they’ve only implemented more time gating since then. Don’t expect it to change anytime soon.

As a proud owner of 9 80s, figure itll take me a year to finish gearing them out before enjoying the perks of being 80.

And I am not even talking ascended items. I dont want to buy gear for most of them until the skill and traits additions.

The time gate is not in the crafting it is in the Vision Crystal that is account bound.

ArenaNet is not saying go grind they are actually saying the opposite. They are saying go do MOAR different stuff.

Makes me wonder If I did every location in the game All the temples,All the dungeons(Duno if different paths count as different locations) and all the world events in one day would I have enough to make a vision crystal.

I also have a feeling that if the game launched with this in game when we get to 80 it will not be so bad. Might try to get a ascended piece on an alt with no help from my main to see how it feels.

anzenketh.3759:

I also have a feeling that if the game launched with this in game when we get to 80 it will not be so bad. Might try to get a ascended piece on an alt with no help from my main to see how it feels.

By “with no help from your main”, I hope you include leveling your craft on your alt from 1 to 500 without any gold or saved mats from your main :p

stof.9341:

anzenketh.3759:

I also have a feeling that if the game launched with this in game when we get to 80 it will not be so bad. Might try to get a ascended piece on an alt with no help from my main to see how it feels.

By “with no help from your main”, I hope you include leveling your craft on your alt from 1 to 500 without any gold or saved mats from your main :p

Yep. That is exactly what I mean. However to properly I think buying a new game would be the best test. Not going to do it now. Or anytime soon. I barely have time to play the game as is let alone craft on a timegate. However….. I do have a feeling that it will not feel as bad as most of the wait is on the world event stuff like WvW and the like. Before you are level 80 as a new player you are just playing the game so you don’t have the NOW mentality as much.

anzenketh.3759:

The time gate is not in the crafting it is in the Vision Crystal that is account bound.

Can you elaborate that? Is there a timer on Vision crystal? Meaning you can only craft 1 per amount of time?

I already have 363 dragonite ore, and 224 empyereal crystal.

I dont’ think the probelm is with the time gate, the problem is it is too expensive. You can just buy all the material and powerlevel your crafting. But it is much cheaper if you do it slowly.