why are we allowed to buy and sell precursors and legendaries but not ascended gear?
Because legendaries were added since the begining of the game and the dev didn’t even had the ascended gear in mind, then they created a gear tier where you need to actually play the game to acquire it.
why are players forced to craft if they want a reliable way to acquire ascended weapons and armor?
Wait … craft isn’t a reliable way?
I think you meant “.. if they want a fast way to acquire …”, but still with gold enough you can make an ascended set every day if you want.
My guess would be they wanted to give a purpose to craft. It was utterly pointless before unless you were looking to drop some cash to level your character.
It takes a lot of time and focus to get even one character in full ascended gear, but it’s very satisfying when you do.
If you commit to making ascended material every single day, it becomes easy and you will be surprised at how fast you can accumulate weapons and armor.
Also, some of the collections and achievements will drop ascended gear – and I’ve got a few of them as random drops (2 armor, 2 weapons) – usually not in the stat group you want, but hey – free ascended gear!
why are we allowed to buy and sell precursors and legendaries but not ascended gear?
Legendary’s were in the game at release, they have since realized that making them trade-able was a mistake and corrected that with Ascended so that a player must actually do the work themselves.
why are there only ascended trinkets for sale from laurel vendors but not ascended armor and weapons?
why are players forced to craft if they want a reliable way to acquire ascended weapons and armor?
Each Ascended piece has a primary acquisition method and a secondary method.
Rings: Primary Fractals, Secondary Laurel’s
Accessory’s: Primary Guild Missions, Secondary Laurel’s
Amulets: Primary Laurels , Secondary, Living world.
Back-pieces: Primary Fractals, Secondary Living World.
Armor: Primary Crafting, Secondary Drops.
That works fine, you’re being “forced” to craft about as much as you are being “forced” to use the laurel vendor. You just like that method and not the other. Alternately why should you be allowed to get a full set of ascended just from logging in each day?
any plans of adding additional methods to obtaining ascended armor and weapons besides crafting and rng in this new xpac?
Advanced content or these super challenging group missions they were talking about for HOT are likely to have these as drops. As for non-rng methods that’s what crafting is.
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why are we allowed to buy and sell precursors and legendaries but not ascended gear?
Because legendaries were added since the begining of the game and the dev didn’t even had the ascended gear in mind, then they created a gear tier where you need to actually play the game to acquire it.
why are players forced to craft if they want a reliable way to acquire ascended weapons and armor?
Wait … craft isn’t a reliable way?
I think you meant “.. if they want a fast way to acquire …”, but still with gold enough you can make an ascended set every day if you want.
any plans of adding additional methods to obtaining ascended armor and weapons besides crafting and rng in this new xpac?
Again, who knows? Maybe by some collections?
here are the problems…
“work to get” ascended weapons and armor, but precursors and legendaries (superior in function to ascended and will remain top gear when more is added down the road) can be “swipe cc to get” which bypasses all the “work”. If I were so inclined, I could simply buy legendaries through gem exchanges, but that is not possible with lesser in function ascended gear.
I had said that crafting is the only reliable method. “with gold enough you can make an ascended set every day if you want” means that we are still forced to level up crafting and craft (something I could completely bypass by purchasing legendaries through gem exchanges). some players don’t want to craft, yet have 0 choice when it comes to gear progressing with their character.
edit- I’m also pretty sure there are some time gated materials that you can’t purchase for ascended weapons and armor.
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some players don’t want to craft, yet have 0 choice when it comes to gear progressing with their character.
There’s your problem.
You do have a choice, and that choice is either:
1. Work hard to get the ascended gear you want
2. Settle for exotic gear, which puts you out a meager 5-10% stat increase that you absolutely don’t need
You are not being forced to do anything.
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some players don’t want to craft, yet have 0 choice when it comes to gear progressing with their character.
There’s your problem.
You do have a choice, and that choice is either:
1. Work hard to get the ascended gear you want
2. Settle for exotic gear, which puts you out a meager 5-10% stat increase that you absolutely don’t need
You are not being forced to do anything.
the principal of the matter is that you don’t have to “work hard” for legendary gear with enough gem exchanges, but you do have to “work hard” for (lesser in function and not immune to being obsolete) ascended.
settling has nothing to do with anything, again, it’s the principal of the matter.
New Main- 80 Thief – P/P- Vault Spam Pro
221 hours over 1,581 days of bank space/hot pve/lion’s arch afk and some wvw.
some players don’t want to craft, yet have 0 choice when it comes to gear progressing with their character.
There’s your problem.
You do have a choice, and that choice is either:
1. Work hard to get the ascended gear you want
2. Settle for exotic gear, which puts you out a meager 5-10% stat increase that you absolutely don’t need
You are not being forced to do anything.
the principal of the matter is that you don’t have to “work hard” for legendary gear with enough gem exchanges, but you do have to “work hard” for (lesser in function and not immune to being obsolete) ascended.
settling has nothing to do with anything, again, it’s the principal of the matter.
That was the flaw with legendary’s on release, they fixed that with Ascended. Don’t forget that Ascended was released after they had a chance to see what happened. I wouldn’t be surprised if the new set of legendary’s for HOT are account bound.
[RoF] and [BL] guild leader
11x level 80’s 80+ Titles 2600+ skins , still a long way to go.
I’m also pretty sure there are some time gated materials that you can’t purchase for ascended weapons and armor.
The time gated materials are components to create the items you can buy from the TP, so with gold there is no timegate.
Actually the only “timegate” is the laurels you need to buy some recipes, but if you have enough laurels saved it won’t be an issue.
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