Guild Wars 2

1. Is ascended gear the “highest” tier? That is to say, will ANet ever release new gear with directly better stats than this stuff? Note that releasing harder to get ascended gear with higher stats later counts as a “no” to this question.

2. Is there anything in place to prevent this from making the jeweler profession useless? If you can no longer craft top-tier jewelry, there’s considerably less point to the craft, as it doesn’t even provide custom skins.

Honestly, if we could get a firm staement from ANet on those two questions, I think it would settle a lot of the worries people have. As it is, if the answers are “no” and “no”, I expect a huge percentage of the game’s players to actually quit, and maybe a few to come in from WoW. If they are “yes”, and “yes”, I think people can live with it.

(Oh, and creating this outside of the combined thread, as it’s sort of an endless ocean of sadness just now.)