ascended items review and advice + fears
VERY TIME CONSUMING if you have a life out side of gw2 this is all the worse to put this into perspective the quickest ascended items you will aquire (possibly) will be the rings from fotm (if your computer can handle the jademaw more on this later) but even with this the rate of aqurin rings via the tokens will take 10 days from the day you finally manage to get the reward level 10 allowing you to be rewarded pristine relics. sadly what I have said is a bit on the optimistic side. as in reality inorder to level up your reward level will take you at least a hour if you have a very very good team and nothing goes wrong sadly perfection is often sought rarely obtained.
to put it another way inorder to level up your reward level you must complete 4 fractuals but so much relies so heavily on the jade maw fractual it becomes a genuine pain because if anything goes wrong prior all your effort was for not. what a fractual this is too it’s by far the most demanding fractal of the lot (computer wise) leading to severe fps shock in my case between 1-2 fps through the fractual that compiled with jumps makes for a Extremely frustrating and grating experience with not real advantage to it other then it’s done. the severe lag simply makes the jumps almost impossible I am not exaggerating on this I have spent in one run alone 30 mins holding up my team trying to make 1 single jump to get the maw and later to the chest before giving up out of frustration and just clicking ready.
however anet did something amazing with said reward they made many ways of obtaining it. make fun of me if you wish but my rings were all paid for by laurels other wise I would not had even bothered.
but this is not even the beginning of the issues with ascened lets take vial of ascended essence the crystal the globs all that good stuff!. which serves virtually no point except making you ascended back piece. so yeah 1 item and your done UNLESS YOU HAVE alts then you have to have 1 per alt (for me that would be this means this item is usually outright useless on the majority of the game and the ability to sell said items would be much appreciated as it would not only increase $ for those who no longer need the item but make it easier on those with alts. no I don’t expect it to be cheap but a alt to being FORCED to play fotm if I don’t like it would be nice but there is none for this ascended item the fact that it’s totally rng is also a pain why not for instance allow us to buy it with say tokens being another idea.
as far as the back piece as a whole goes great idea horrible execution I like the idea of being able to aquire a piece of gear through the mystic forge by using other items. sadly vial of condensed essence just kills it.
lets not forget that this also requires 250 t-6 items while I do find such a large amount to be a little extreme it’s still well forgiveable it does feel annoying as hell to pay 40+ gold (currently) to not even get a item but if vial of condensed essence was purchase able i’d be rather happy to do so with no real major gripes. as at the end of they day I could do what I want and still acquire said items.
the rest of the items are well ….extremely time consuming almost to the extent of being ubsurd
1 ascended amult MUST be acquired though 30 laurels this will require around 2 weeks AT LEAST. this is mind you if your hardcore and complete every single daily complete your monthy as well as possibly every single achievement in your living story ever single week.
now I want to make something clear this is not too bad I love the fact that laurels can be acquired though various means I can do my daily monthly don’t feel like that well there spvp where I can also aquire them not in the mood for either of those hell i’ll do some living story that is the work is spread out.
however this is a major issue in respect to time people have a limited amount of time in gw2 and if you have alts well time to pick a fav better pick a fav build to and make no mistakes along the way. to put it another way because the way to aquire laurels are all very time contrained that is 1x day 10x a month 0 +0 that means it takes a long period of time to get these items which once again are not sold on the tp so you are forced to wait weeks to get 1 ascended item through laurels with amulets out right requiring it.
however we do have comedations that is 12 comedations +5 gold = 1 ascended accessory this will once again take at least 2 weeks if your guild even runs guild events and you never miss out which unless your extremely hardcore is going to happen eventualy
now I will mention that you can aquire accessories through the laurel vender at 40 laurels per accessory it’s just easier to get the amulet through the guild commedations and even better to do the laurels at the same time (if you have the time) but this still takes a rather long time for a individual to do per acc.
now lets move on to something that makes me scratch my head about why no ascended items are sold on the tp. legendaries so the reason legendaries exist is simply to give a player a long term goal to work towards to get a skin that looks nice but with stats = to the top tier. so dear I ask why a legendary can be bought STRAIGHT FROM THE TP when the vial of condensed mist can not.
to make matter worse I do genuinely fear how they weapons and oh god the armor will be handled at this point it’s difficult to have a decent alt and content is going to have to be made to give these items a point (i.e. stronger monsters and dungeons) later down the line we may well see exotics put I the same position as rares that group will kick on sight or the buffed dungeons become increasingly difficult to manage simply because my time is limited and I want to have alts.
they main thing I truly thing would greatly ease this problem would be the addition of ascended items to the tp when or slightly after weapons come out. easily arming accs if you time is limited on gw2 or if you have alts. to behonest this would be a improvement in areas such as fotm where ascended ingredients are only of limited importance if you have your back piece you don’t need another.
now that I’ve talked about the bad I want ot highlight the things I like. you can aquire the items in a wide and deverse manner meaning I feel free to do what ever and I can still even if it’s at a incredibly slow pace climb up the ladder. as well as for now at least (although this will become much more of a issue as more items are made following this formula which could eventually spell dieaster) a slight difference in my stat. hoever keep in mind that this is becoming large rather quickly weapon strength of a ascended item will be larger then that of exotic same for armor meaning that those small boosts are stronger then they appear.
the difference with a accessory and a sword one gives stats the other gives stats and a base value making said stats more effective.
in closing my argument is that ascended should be sold because it would enable players who have excess mist essence to make a larger buck and easier on players who have alts you could work toward acquiring your item while at the same time being able to do something you prefer.
simply put please treat these items like you treated exoitcs
simply put the way ascended items are being treated is killing the desire and possibility for people to make alts especially if they have a job or such time is limited let me stress this is not exactly a post against ascended items far from it. I am saying that they should be added into the trading post want to make them you can don’t care fo all the what not that goes into making them let them buy them. mind you at a reasonable fee rate of introduction needs to be somewhat high enough to get them around 10 gold or so which i’m referring to the weapons which for the case are usually around 2 gold so that’s still a 500% increase but making them cost as much as a precursor would still be a bit much.
(edited by wildfang.9670)
A whole new gear tier is a waste of time for me, I used to be able to gear through just playing the game. Tokens etc. were a free way to gear. Now I actually have to undergo a massive grind to compete. 0/10
A whole new gear tier is a waste of time for me, I used to be able to gear through just playing the game. Tokens etc. were a free way to gear. Now I actually have to undergo a massive grind to compete. 0/10
agreed I wouldn’t mind a new tier of gear if it was handled proplerly farily easily obtained tradeable and doesn’t take ages to rack up either gold or just time. it seems like ascended has precisely none of these atm.
really all ascended weapon sound like is a fun killer forcing you to constantly do specific things to get specific items to get a single weapon then repeat. to be blunt people are really going to hate this update unless your a hardcore gw2 player and it will end up punishing the casuals unless something is done.
(better gear = content becomes a breeze = content needs buff = pain for sub quality gear)