Guild Wars 2

oh i hope so much that ppl keep the illusion of “this is top tier”, that way exotic tier because that way i can finally gear up my lvl 80 characters without losing all my gold.

Legendary isn’t a new tier. The current tier of legendary (ascended) has been in since November 2012 approximately. While they have added more items that can reach ascended stats, they have not actually added a new tier.

So no, legendary armor is not a new tier any more than adding ascended armor crafting when ascended equipment already existed was a new tier.

thefinnster.7105:

Methods.4023:

It’s something you want but don’t need. It’s not a new tier

many players would argue the same thing about ascended in fact i know quite a few players who haven’t even bothered to make ascended yet coz its stat gain benefit is so insignificant
so anyone who made it didn’t relay need it they wanted it coz i think we can all agree that you can manage just as well without it using exotic armours
i think too many players are hung up on the fact that theres no better stats on it and compleatly missing the fact that this armour IS better than ascended simply because of the option to change stats
no matter how i look at it i see this as an upgrade and the next step up on armour quality

Upgrade yes, a convenience/quality upgrade
New tier nope , i dont think you understand the meaning of “Tier”
for eg :
Ascended is a tier upgrade to exotic gear

A lot of misconception about the increase in damage from ascended. Sorry Skitz, but Dinks is right.

Here three figure when compare a full exotic character to a full ascended character

- The increase of points of stat is around 5%
- The increase in DPS for a normal DPS build is around 13-15%
- The increase in DPS for a DPS build in a full buff situation is around 10-11%

When someone talk about a 5% increase in damage when talking about ascended over exotic is usually because they only talk about armor because ascended trinket are easy to get and ascended weapon are usually worth it, but ascended armor not so much. The diffence in DPS between a character full ascended and a character full but with exotic armor is between 5-3%.

Thaddeus.4891:

A lot of misconception about the increase in damage from ascended. Sorry Skitz, but Dinks is right.

Here three figure when compare a full exotic character to a full ascended character

- The increase of points of stat is around 5%
- The increase in DPS for a normal DPS build is around 13-15%
- The increase in DPS for a DPS build in a full buff situation is around 10-11%

When someone talk about a 5% increase in damage when talking about ascended over exotic is usually because they only talk about armor because ascended trinket are easy to get and ascended weapon are usually worth it, but ascended armor not so much. The diffence in DPS between a character full ascended and a character full but with exotic armor is between 5-3%.

This was specifically about exotic armor over ascended armor….

I’ve read the spreadsheets, I know how much full ascended is over full exotic, but that was not what this is about… its purely the 6 armor peices which are the parts MOST players don’t bother going for since its a pain to get all those bolts of damask lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/31wbip/ascended_vs_exotic_gear_comparison_spreedsheet

I know how much full ascended DPS buff is, you don’t have to tell me.

The thing is, a lot of avg to casual players have some forms of ascended equipment (mostly the trinkets and a weapon since its most important) …. but full ascended armor is thing a lot dont go after because of the grind…

In that case i was correct, staying in full exotic + ascended jewels/weapon is only a 5-7% dps loss compared to full ascended everything….
that is infact, insignificant…