Guild Wars 2

Has there been any info about whether crafting legendary armor requires ascended armor as a crafting material?

If not, and you intend to get legendary armor, then you might want to skip ascended armor completely.

The blog post said that raids would have a chance of rewarding the legendary precursor armour pieces upon completion.

So… from what I understood there, no.

But my bet is that ascended armour will be very useful (or even a requirement?) in the raid instances, so you practically have to make ascended armour anyway before you’re able to make legendary armour anyway.

Crimson Clouds.4853:

The blog post said that raids would have a chance of rewarding the legendary precursor armour pieces upon completion.

So… from what I understood there, no.

But my bet is that ascended armour will be very useful (or even a requirement?) in the raid instances, so you practically have to make ascended armour anyway before you’re able to make legendary armour anyway.

Ascended armor differs from exotic in a small enough amount of stats that I can’t imagine that would be what makes ascended armor required in raids.

HOWEVER, Ascended armor does have infusion slots while exotic don’t. If they want to make Ascended armor required, they could have raids require “raid infusions” .. kinda like agony infusions for fractals. But this would surely cause a huge amount of rage amongst the players.

Doubt they “require” Ascended armor for new Raids-would be seen as a slippery slope for many players.

A net may not require ascended armor, but the raid leaders might.

simplesimon.2084:

A net may not require ascended armor, but the raid leaders might.

And just as now, people will be free to make groups according to their won playing preferences. I for one would never join such a raid leader, and would rather start my own group.

Compared to the current situation, I can’t see any intelligent “requirement” of Ascended armor, as the stat differential is really inconsequential. Only infusion slots matter for that armor type-will it matter for future content? In my opinion, no, but it’s up to ANet.

If ascended isn’t part of the recipe that really sucks for those people who actually made ascended armor sets. I find it perfectly reasonable to be able to upgrade ascended instead of deleting it because there is no use to it.

Kronos.2560:

If ascended isn’t part of the recipe that really sucks for those people who actually made ascended armor sets. I find it perfectly reasonable to be able to upgrade ascended instead of deleting it because there is no use to it.

Unless they introduce some sort of rune library to legendary armor having two sets of armor with different stats and runes would still be superior to just the one legendary set so I would just keep my ascended armor for one stat set and legendary for another. If I even bother crafting the legendary armor. I’m assuming it’ll have awesome effects.

In another blog post they said that ALL new legendary crafting neds mats
that you only get from salvaging ascended stuff. The only thing that was
not clear was if you really need to salvage armor and weapons or if all
can get from rings.

i think its more likely that legendary armour will require ascended mats to produce rather than an actual finished piece of ascended Armour
personaly im hopeing they raise cooking/jewelcrafting to 500 and give us new ascended mats via that to use in crafting leg Armour so no one has a jump on it via cash