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Posted by: Aitadis.8269

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So it would appear that you now need to complete the Byzantium chest a total of 18 times to get the same amount of shards(1200) that you would have gotten last season. Not sure how I feel about that but at least ascended shards of glory are now grindable and you get 20g every time you complete Byzantium. So if you complete it 18 times to get a full set of ascended armor, your also getting over 360g just from pvp’ing. Obviously no ones going to grind that in a day, it was ridiculous it was grindable in a day last season, so I guess this is a good change, not sure what the cost to make the new ascended armor is in crafting mats though.

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Posted by: OriOri.8724

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It costs about 300 gold to craft the gifts needed to purchase a full set of light ascended armor. So after doing all of that work to complete the Byzantium chest 18 times, you will only be left over with ~60 gold.

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Posted by: Acrisor.8097

Acrisor.8097

The more PvP you do, the more PvE you need. Awesome game. As a PvP player mostly, I love it when ArenaNet wants me and forces me in a “very elegant” way to start doing PvE. Sometimes I think ArenaNet is not actually thinking about me doing PvE, but about PvE players doing PvP to get their reward.

Anyway… possible patch notes for S7: Added crafting stations to all PvP maps so players can craft their ascended while waiting for match to start.

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Posted by: KrHome.1920

KrHome.1920

The more PvP you do, the more PvE you need. Awesome game.

For sPvP you don’t need any ascended gear.

It should not be possible at all to get it in that game mode.

Ascended gear should only be accessible in PvE and WvW.

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Posted by: Acrisor.8097

Acrisor.8097

The more PvP you do, the more PvE you need. Awesome game.

For sPvP you don’t need any ascended gear.

It should not be possible at all to get it in that game mode.

Ascended gear should only be accessible in PvE and WvW.

You live in the past my friend. This was in the past, long ago. PvP rewards were about skins, not about items and ascended and legendary. Now rewards for PvP are ingredients useful in PvE, whether it’s crafting, salvageable content or essence of luck. This is why I stated “the more pvp you do, the more pve you need” because I guess you would want to do something with PvP rewards, and actually use them at something. We all know PvP players love PvP, but PvE rewards are shoved down our throats whether we like it or not. We might as well use them and increase our crafting levels and do dungeons and fractals as ArenaNet wants us to. Who knows, one day we may as well forget about PvP so they can freely erase all PvP from the game.

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Posted by: ulchanar.4309

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The more PvP you do, the more PvE you need. Awesome game.

For sPvP you don’t need any ascended gear.

It should not be possible at all to get it in that game mode.

Ascended gear should only be accessible in PvE and WvW.

You live in the past my friend. This was in the past, long ago. PvP rewards were about skins, not about items and ascended and legendary. Now rewards for PvP are ingredients useful in PvE, whether it’s crafting, salvageable content or essence of luck. This is why I stated “the more pvp you do, the more pve you need” because I guess you would want to do something with PvP rewards, and actually use them at something. We all know PvP players love PvP, but PvE rewards are shoved down our throats whether we like it or not. We might as well use them and increase our crafting levels and do dungeons and fractals as ArenaNet wants us to. Who knows, one day we may as well forget about PvP so they can freely erase all PvP from the game.

You feel forced to do PvE to get something out of your rewards. That sounds like you don’t enjoy PvE at all. In that case you don’t need ascended armour anyway. You might complain about giving ascended gear as pvp rewards, but not about being forced to PvE for getting them.

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Posted by: Solstace.2514

Solstace.2514

The more PvP you do, the more PvE you need. Awesome game.

For sPvP you don’t need any ascended gear.

It should not be possible at all to get it in that game mode.

Ascended gear should only be accessible in PvE and WvW.

Most people dont just play one game mode.

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Posted by: PlatinumMember.5274

PlatinumMember.5274

The more PvP you do, the more PvE you need. Awesome game.

For sPvP you don’t need any ascended gear.

It should not be possible at all to get it in that game mode.

Ascended gear should only be accessible in PvE and WvW.

Most people dont just play one game mode.

Fine but why should papers get a free ascended set while pvers have to invest hundreds of gold?

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Posted by: Buran.3796

Buran.3796

Who knows, one day we may as well forget about PvP so they can freely erase all PvP from the game.

PvP was the best part of the game and the only one to move decent numbers in twitch.tv Say what you want about the PvE raid crap but since the release of HoT I saw most of the guilds I known to crumble and mostly fade. ESO is better game for lore/quest and WvW, and BDO is better for open PvE/end game contest. Combat and PvP were the stars in this game and leting it die looks like a waste of potential.

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Posted by: Aitadis.8269

Aitadis.8269

The more PvP you do, the more PvE you need. Awesome game.

For sPvP you don’t need any ascended gear.

It should not be possible at all to get it in that game mode.

Ascended gear should only be accessible in PvE and WvW.

Most people dont just play one game mode.

Fine but why should papers get a free ascended set while pvers have to invest hundreds of gold?

That’s a complete load of garbage, I ran fractals for a short while, and in that time I received enough ascended armor crates for 2 full sets of ascended armor and quite a few weapon crates as well. PvE has it so much easier in gold acquisition and ascended drops compared to both SPvP and WvW combined. WvW where ascended stats matter more than in any other game mode including pve raids, have to be acquired through a random miniscule droprate, they don’t drop every other day from our daily chests like in fractals.

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Posted by: PlatinumMember.5274

PlatinumMember.5274

The more PvP you do, the more PvE you need. Awesome game.

For sPvP you don’t need any ascended gear.

It should not be possible at all to get it in that game mode.

Ascended gear should only be accessible in PvE and WvW.

Most people dont just play one game mode.

Fine but why should papers get a free ascended set while pvers have to invest hundreds of gold?

That’s a complete load of garbage, I ran fractals for a short while, and in that time I received enough ascended armor crates for 2 full sets of ascended armor and quite a few weapon crates as well. PvE has it so much easier in gold acquisition and ascended drops compared to both SPvP and WvW combined. WvW where ascended stats matter more than in any other game mode including pve raids, have to be acquired through a random miniscule droprate, they don’t drop every other day from our daily chests like in fractals.

I totally agree with WvW but PvPer don’t need Ascended gear so your argument with respect to that is not good.

Also if getting Ascended gear from fractals was as easy as you claim most people who would have it.