Guild Wars 2

With the expansion coming and new types of battles, it makes sense that the PvE meta could change. I’m curious to know if anyone thinks it will change enough to warrant waiting on making an ascended set.

I dont’ know but even if you are not making it now, you should probably try to get the material now.

silk price spike a bit over the past month, I suspect the new class might have something to do with it.

Unless there are events that drop the price like wintersday, it’s probably going to stay up for a while.

I’m still doing my daily mats, I just can’t decide if I want to keep storing them or start making the armor.

You should be making the components (Crystals, Damask, Spools, Deldrimor Ingots, etc.) Just hold off on the inscriptions and full components. I always make sure to stockpile multiple pieces of ascended components. They may introduce new ascended armors to increase the skin line, but I do not know. I also somewhat doubt it.

That is what I’m doing, I got all the materials needed for an ascended heavy set, now I’ll wait a bit after the HoT release to see if the pve meta will change or if a new stat combo appear or any other crazy thing.
So yeah, I recommend you to wait for HoT to finish the asc set.

Also, to be fair, Ascended really is not necessary at all unless you plan on doing a lot of the new HoT fractals.

Sure it isn’t, I barely notice any difference in my ranger with or without my asc set and I don’t do fractals at all, but we need to set some goals in the game, right?

Meta for PvE will still be Zerker. I’m confident of that. Though you might as well wait and see at this point. It won’t hurt anyway.

It will hold true for the current maps and dungeons, the meta may change for the new contents, you can see that cond damage and a bit of survivability is pretty useful in the Silverwastes compared to the rest of the game, even though zerker is the meta.

Personally, I have multiple sets planned anyway so not a huge deal to me, I guess.

My concern isn’t so much what will be the ‘meta’ for HoT combat, but rather is HoT combat balanced around ascended stats or exo stats. If it is balanced around Ascended, could we potentially see agony come into play in the open world? Could ascended become a necessity as opposed to its current status of ‘luxury’? (Can you imagine the screaming?)

laokoko.7403:

I dont’ know but even if you are not making it now, you should probably try to get the material now.

silk price spike a bit over the past month, I suspect the new class might have something to do with it.

Unless there are events that drop the price like wintersday, it’s probably going to stay up for a while.

Less people are probably playing the game and are certainly playing SW which also produce a lot of silk.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Personally, I have multiple sets planned anyway so not a huge deal to me, I guess.

My concern isn’t so much what will be the ‘meta’ for HoT combat, but rather is HoT combat balanced around ascended stats or exo stats. If it is balanced around Ascended, could we potentially see agony come into play in the open world? Could ascended become a necessity as opposed to its current status of ‘luxury’? (Can you imagine the screaming?)

This will not happen. Ascended is tied to Fractals more than anything else. further it does not have much in the way of stat increases to speak of.

gricks.1897:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Personally, I have multiple sets planned anyway so not a huge deal to me, I guess.

My concern isn’t so much what will be the ‘meta’ for HoT combat, but rather is HoT combat balanced around ascended stats or exo stats. If it is balanced around Ascended, could we potentially see agony come into play in the open world? Could ascended become a necessity as opposed to its current status of ‘luxury’? (Can you imagine the screaming?)

This will not happen. Ascended is tied to Fractals more than anything else. further it does not have much in the way of stat increases to speak of.

Yeah, I know it’s not a distinct different in stat change; however, never say something won’t happen. We’ve already seen that such a statement doesn’t hold true with Anet. We’ve already seen people speculate, even ask for, agony implementation in other parts of the game.

IMO, if you make a zerker set, you will still be using it in 5 years.

If i remeber correctly, “Agony Resistance” figured in one of the Mastery track thingies. I’m seriously thinking Agony will be relevant in PvE from HoT and forward.

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