Guild Wars 2

common, uncommon, master work, exotic, ascended………something…….more something….legendary

they said they made ascended to “fill the gap between exotic and legendary” well ascended is now easy to get, as easy as exotic (from what I am reading and seeing, I personally haven’t tried accept through laurels which I’m saving till I get 500)

so what’s next? don’t tell me they won’t release something after ascended case we know they will….once on a treadmill, no matter how slow you go, always on a treadmill.

I mean also think about it, legendary is for he very few %, the very few that can put hours and hours and days and months into the game – according to anet. so im sure they will continue this treadmill path

Well considering how many colors are left… hmmm… I predict a ‘teal’ tier after the magenta/pink ascended. Sort of compliments the other colors perfectly.
It would be named something important you know to fit between Ascended & Legendary. Maybe Dedicated or Obsessed, or even something like Revered.
/sarcasm
JIC anyone thought otherwise
If you were intentionally serious then I apologize. The treadmill may be on the ‘walk’ setting but we’re still trudging on it. I don’t see Ascended as easy nor fully implemented. If it was we could sell it, craft it, and everything else we can do with exotics and legendary for that matter.

I can get Ascended via coin, karma, crafting, badges, tokens and random drops now?

And they have it for more than trinkets?

Wow, this sure was a stealthy patch. Last I knew there were only bangles and backpieces which were a royal pain in the babycat to get.

@Scumbag – At this time we can not get ascended through anything except guild commendations, FoTM, and laurels. Also during a guild mission you have a chance of it dropping just like in FoTM.
They have plans of making it available other ways just not right now.

wow apparently some of you failed to see the point:

let me make this real simple for ya’ll:

We are on a gear treadmill, on a SLOW implementation gear treadmill, while weapons and armour are not introduced, soon they will be.

ya’ll following? should I back up?

With this treadmill on slow ascended was suppose to be – before legendary, how ever ascended is easy to get from fractals and laurels, I would assume. with more and more players getting ascended – what is next? after they release weapons and armour. what is next?

They will release more types of gear simply because only that 1-3% of the community will ever get a legendary.

Only Anet knows what’s next. The only thing they have told us is that we will have vertical progression moving forward. We know that the power level of the game will increase over time, but we really don’t know how that will be accomplished. We know that the Ascended gear will be released over time, but we don’t know how they will inflate the stats after Ascended gear is fully in-game.

i doubt any of this is true /thread

I did get it, it’s why I said: “The treadmill may be on the ‘walk’ setting but we’re still trudging on it.” I also hope you are wrong about adding even more tiers. But as you say, the more people that have ascended the more certain types of players will lust for the next stat progression. The power creep.
All this has been said before in numerous threads on this topic. I was trying to make light of a situation I am not fond of. I didn’t mean to trivialize you or your point at all. I honestly saw a bit of sarcasm in your thread and used the same in my response to be funny not insulting.

Salacious.7358:

i doubt any of this is true /thread

Doh… I fed the troll. Should have known better.

Ascended gear was designed to be completely rolled out over the course of a year. After that, they can still toy with infusion upgrades to further progress ascended gear.

When the time comes, which will probably be in 1.5 years, they could add a new tier or reset everything by raising the level cap. It all depends on what direction they go in.

Legendaries were supposed to be for the “dedicated” players. Over the course of a year however, they can be easily obtained by almost anyone. If they ever actually add a way to get a precursor through some type of quest, you will probably see a legendary on every other person a year from now.

Salacious, you must have a crystal ball to see so clearly the feature. But I don’t see a gear treadmill. I see a new tier of gear that was clearly missing in the first place.

Exotics were way too easy to get and legendaries are monstrously hard. There was nothing after exotics and, for a lot of people, without having SOMETHING to work for, they walk away. So Anet compromised. The added a tier of gear that’s marginally better, made it time consuming to get, and people had something to work for again.

I mean legendaries put a whole lot of people off. They’re not easy to get. A lot of people, even people who play a lot, have no interest in getting them, for various reasons. For some it’s that they have to go into WvW and they don’t want to. For others they won’t run dungeons multiple times to get tokens. For others, it’s just the RNG surrounding the process, or the amount of gold you’d need, or the amount of time you’d have to farm.

People really do need goals in games, and for some people, cosmetic goals aren’t enough. That’s because too many people grew up playing games where stats meant everything, so it was what they cared about. Guild Wars 1 players were used to grinding for cosmetic rewards. Not so much other people.

But a tier of gear does not a treadmill make. Saying so doesn’t make it so. I’ll wait and see before I draw unwarranted conclusions.

Infernia.9847:

Salacious.7358:

i doubt any of this is true /thread

Doh… I fed the troll. Should have known better.

Also, I was sarcastically listing off all the ways to get Exotic gear to underscore how easy it is compared to Ascended.

I would be guessing that the next tier will be named Transcended tier. It’s the most likely tier after Ascended.

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

Infernia.9847:

Salacious.7358:

i doubt any of this is true /thread

Doh… I fed the troll. Should have known better.

Also, I was sarcastically listing off all the ways to get Exotic gear to underscore how easy it is compared to Ascended.

So you and I were both being highly sarcastic.
After seeing a few of the OP’s comments in other threads I realized it really was a trollish thread after all.
But thx for letting me know you were joking too. I thought something I said was making others think they could get ascended all those ways.

And I still like Revered -> Teal color
Then maybe Deified -> Red color

:)