Guild Wars 2

Hello all, I’m a little confused about the discussion of future ascended gear items. With all this talk about new methods to obtain the gear, I have only seen discussion regarding trinkets and such. Not actually visual items. (excluding back units) Even though they AN has stated in the past that they had intention to create Ascended Armor; has the incredibly varied, controversial and even negative reception from the community changed their plans to create armor and simply leave it at trinkets? Maybe adding a system similar to GW1 where you can upgrade your current set to gain agony resistance?

I ask this due to the lack of info regarding future ascended gear. Whenever Arena Net posts anything they typicality say “ascended gear”, not “ascended armor” or “ascended trinkets”

Personally speaking, I would prefer if they left the current availability of ascended gear limited to trinkets which are mostly non visual. While I will admit to being very against ascended trinkets earlier… have gotten used to the idea. They don’t hurt my experience to much, and I can obtain them without having to go out of my way in other areas.

However, should they implement ascended armor with higher stats, I would be less then happy. For what my opinion is worth (which probably isn’t much… XD) I would certainly re-evaluate my view of the game. To me, theirs a difference between non visual items and visual. If ascended armor were to be the new top armor, then everyone who worked hard to get a certain skin, multiple sets, even pay money to transmute these “top gear” level 80 items with fine transmutation stones would have spend their time and/or money for nothing.

The bigger difference is between not costing me money and costing me money. Sure, I could get Gems with in game gold. But had they been more clear about the addition of ascended armor earlier on (before fractals), this wouldn’t have been a problem.

What do you all think? Can anyone clarify for me?