Guild Wars 2

So this is something that I’m hoping to see in HoT.

Gear currently has the issue of being completely useless in some iterations for certain play styles, this is obvious… I.E. Berserkers don’t like healing gear, etc.

When you complete, say… Fractals, and you get an ascended ring or armor box and it has stats you cannot use on it, it feels terrible and like a huge waste of time.

My suggestion is this:

Allow us to change gear stats on the fly. In a game with the ability to easily, and constantly, swap builds, skills, and even play styles, it makes no sense to gate this ability by making people collect multiple sets of gear for no reason. Also, we know stat selections tech is already in the game because we can select stats on gear in betas and the like… plus they’re been talking about allowing us to do this when we first obtain ascended gear in the future (I’m just taking it one step further).

If this game is truly about playing your way, you should be able to do so without being hampered. This would allow the finding of new loot to be more rewarding, and it would allow people to change from power, to condi, to support, to bunker, at a whim—adjusting to the needs of their party and situation. This would also allow us to not have to carry around armor and weapons that fill up half our inventory.

You may say “This trivializes loot stats!” Does it though? Are the stats not already trivial for the most part? Anet has said many times they don’t want everything to be about gear stats, and the game allows you to hit max 80 exotics relatively easily.

You may say “This makes the game easy because you can just adjust on the fly if you’re having trouble!” Okay, but the game already does this with literally EVERYTHING else you have at your disposal… why should gear be any different?

Anet plz.

You can change stats of Ascended armor and weapons through mystic forge.

would it be really convenient? yes. Would it completely screw up the economy, crafting etc in more ways than one? yes.

As convenient as it would be for me personally. My vote on this would be a no.

Rump Buffalo.2594:

You may say “This trivializes loot stats!” Does it though? Are the stats not already trivial for the most part?

Yes, it would. No, they are not.

They did implement the Mystic Forge transmute ability, which costs maybe a grand total of 15g for converting to Berserker with no crafting on your part whatsoever. Loot stats are supposed to be random to some extent, at least within this game. However, although the Mystic Forge changes do trivialize loot stats a bit, I think it’s still a healthy change. People had dozens of unopened chests of ascended gear with junk stats on them that they would never use but couldn’t sell or salvage. Now that we can change them, even bad stats can be useful (for a slight cost).

The stats are also not trivial. Try going against content with wildly different stats (Berserker vs Nomads, Sinister vs Clerics) and you will see that things will be quite different in battle.

Also, legendary weapons have stats that can be switched on the fly. If they introduced legendary armor (though I doubt they will) with the same stats as ascended, like weapons have, then that would be the solution you’re hoping for, I’m guessing. It couldn’t be crafted like ascended armor though, it would have to be done through the Mystic Forge like the weapons.

If you are doing FoTM then you are getting relics and greater relics which can be used to buy the rings/accessories you want.

Weapons/armor can now be converted in the mystic forge to whatever stat weight you want/need.

Your Amulet is a mere 35 laurels, and you must choose it.

And your Back item, either the infused cap from FoTM or you can build any of the Backpacks available with the stat you need (most are MF combines)

So, I really fail to see the issue here.

What I would LIKE to see is a way to salvage those useless rings into more Ascended mats. Selling them for 3silver~ is not bad, but it feels wasteful when you know they could be broken down.

sirsquishy.8531:

Selling them for 3silver~ is not bad, but it feels wasteful when you know they could be broken down.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3af1qv/a_system_to_change_stats_on_ascended_gear_is/csccn80

The above dev statement might be of interest to you.

Crise.9401:

sirsquishy.8531:

Selling them for 3silver~ is not bad, but it feels wasteful when you know they could be broken down.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3af1qv/a_system_to_change_stats_on_ascended_gear_is/csccn80

The above dev statement might be of interest to you.

yea, they said this in the past too and it has yet to happen. Rings are easy to come by so I dont have any ill feelings about selling them off to make bank space for the weapons I am getting from Teq :-)

If they do add in a system, that would be awesome. But I am not holding my breath. A way to deal with the crappy rings from FoTM/WoW/PvP chests/Drops has been asked for over the last year at least.

sirsquishy.8531:

to make bank space for the weapons I am getting from Teq :-)

Wait, what… Teq actually drops loot other than vendor trash and salvage items (aka. rares).

/s

If you are actually getting the good stuff from Teq frequently enough to worry about bank space in andvance, then I am really envious right now.

I think the way OP means it:

1. I buy a berserker coat
2. I buy a magi’s coat for some reason.
3. If they have the same skin, I can combine them into one item, and I can right click to swap stats and upgrades, saving inventory space.

Having like 8 gear sets messing up your inventory isnt fun xD