Guild Wars 2

Everyone know how Expensive is make an Ascended Light Armor.
2-3 times more expensive than make a Medium Ascended Armor.

But ANet already annunced time ago that to make Raids of high level every player NEED a FULL ASCENDED ARMOR.

Then, a Medium User will make at a good price. A Heavy user will craft it at a higher price and a Light user will be Mad to craft an Ascended Light Armor why it’s so expensive that a lot of players don’t even try to make one and hope to drop chests of ascended armor to make they’re set.

Can ANet make something about that?

A easy way is Reduce to 50 the amount of Bold of Silk a crafter need to make a Wool of Silk, instead of the actual 100 (that is 300 scrap of Silk, more thana entire stack of Silk!!!).

Please, do something.

They said it is recommended. Also ascended armor only contributes roughly 2% to DPS. The price difference between medium and light is about 100G. Reducing the wuantity of silk doesn’t do much to reduce the difference in cost between the three armor weights.

Full ascended is RECOMMENDED. They never claimed you would NEED it. If you have Ascended weapons and trinkets you will probably be fine. Ascended armor is the least valuable parts of the set.

Reduce by 50% the amount of Silk needed to make a Wool of Silk will decrease the price of Silk by 25% (countinf that it’s needed also in other crafting processes).
It’s not a solution but it’s someting that can reduce the price of an ascended armor piece from 100 to 75-80. And it’s still a good thing.
With the same amount of golds you can make 5 of them and you have more or less enough money to make the 6°.

They have no plans to change it. Someone linked proof that there’s currently no plan in the other thread you created on this topic.

I’ll just quote John Smith’s reply when asked about reducing the amount of silk required:

Swagger.1459:

Swagger.1459:

Howdy John! Any plans to reduce the amount of bolts of silk required for crafting spools of silk weaving thread?

Nope

Is recommended mate, they mean it as they will balance the encounters based on the highest tier of gear available which is ascended and that makes sense. But if you take a look at the stat difference, it is absolutely tiny especially considering how easy it is to get the accessories. The only thing you have to worry about are weapon and that’s really it.

Silv.9207:

Everyone know how Expensive is make an Ascended Light Armor.
2-3 times more expensive than make a Medium Ascended Armor.

Yep, Silk and Gloss are a kitten to get. Supposedly, Map Rewards will help with that.

Silv.9207:

But ANet already annunced time ago that to make Raids of high level every player NEED a FULL ASCENDED ARMOR.

You’re almost right… The Raid Lead Dev did actually say you will need Ascended Gear, but then later recanted and say if you got the skill, you can pull it off with Exos, but the content is scaled for Ascended Gear.

Silv.9207:

Then, a Medium User will make at a good price. A Heavy user will craft it at a higher price and a Light user will be Mad to craft an Ascended Light Armor why it’s so expensive that a lot of players don’t even try to make one and hope to drop chests of ascended armor to make they’re set.

Speaking as someone that crafted his entire Set of armor with no assistance from the trade post, I can tell you, Yes, it is a timely process, but it is in no shape way or forum insanity-inducing. It’s just a Mat Grind, and one that is worth it in the long run.

Now, RNG’ing a precursor out of the Forge… THAT is insanity.

Silv.9207:

Can ANet make something about that?

Yes they can, the real question is “Will they?”… and the answer to that is HERE.

A easy way is Reduce to 50 the amount of Bold of Silk a crafter need to make a Wool of Silk, instead of the actual 100 (that is 300 scrap of Silk, more thana entire stack of Silk!!!). Please, do something.

I agree with you on this, I never understood why Tailors had to go through so much more mats then the other two weight-classes, but they have already stated they are not going to be changing this at all sadly.

The FULL set of Ascended Armour give +20 primary stat and +16 secondary stats, this will never be a big enough difference to “require” it. Don’t worry too much and collect the pieces in your own time.

So use exotics until you can afford ascended. Just don’t rely on your armor to carry you.

As long as your not pugging it…not a concern. There will be concerns though for pugs. It’s just the way it’ll be.

Ascended armor is the most marginal of increases. Having weapons and trinkets ascended should be your main concern.