Guild Wars 2

As stated in the title, I am curious as to why this new system has been created. Can I first say I am very excited for lost shores, but the whole concept of ascended gear being a tier confuses me. In guild wars 1, completing a certain piece of content, allowed users to infuse their armor.

In GW2 this could be similar to turning the currently equipped armor into ascended gear, by consuming the slotted upgrade, and locking those stats in, and then adding an infusion slot.

PS:
As an aside, I am against agony, as previously, resistance gated content in MMO’s has been a bad idea. This can be shown by the many games that had it, and scrapped it (my personal experience being radiance gear in LOTRO). That said, GW1 had it, but it was a part of the story, to receive the resistance. I would hope that if Arenanet are committed to adding this sort of gameplay, they make it a simple case of completing a piece of PvE content, to get an infusion which offers complete protection against a given dungeons specific condition (EG : Fractals of the mist story mode, offers an infusion item, which offers complete resistance to agony, for fractals explorable mode. If another dungeon is released with corrosion as a new condition, the story mode for that, offers a 100% resist infusion for the condition.) I feel that the condition / resistance concept is flawed as a gating concept , and this is at least one way to avoid it being a case of trying to stack a ton of resistance, for no reason other than the game practically demands it.

Because WoW, Rift, Aion, etc.

Zombies request gear threadmills and carrots.

because of the cries of a few wow players that dont understand the nature of GW2, now we must endure all this mess of a new tier of gear

Because horizontal progression does not encourage gem sales for transmutation stones as much as vertical progression does.

Because the core designers of GW1 left around 2009, leaving only incompetents to imitate existing games while piggybacking the manifesto of their betters, without understanding it.

aaron.7850:

because of the cries of a few wow players that dont understand the nature of GW2, now we must endure all this mess of a new tier of gear

Or move onto the next game, as I will be if gear treadmill is implemented.