Guild Wars 2

A full armour set costs 1300, Will kind of suck only being able to get 5 of the 6 pieces and then having to wait 2-3 months to get the last piece. Just wondering if this was intended.

The last pvp reward can be repeated as much as you want.

Somehow.4769:

The last pvp reward can be repeated as much as you want.

Unfortunately this is not so. It is capped to 1200 shards.

Somehow.4769:

The last pvp reward can be repeated as much as you want.

I had some guild mates tell me that the ascended shards won’t be rewarded on the repeats of the last chest. They said they saw this posted somewhere, anyone know for sure?

Honestly 5/6 pieces of Ascended for virtually no real investment is absolutely still fine. Yea, it’s unfortunate that you can’t finish the set for completion sake, but you can lose 300 games and win zero and still get the full set for no material investment, no gold investment, etc. My first set of Ascended gear cost me nearly 500g. This is free.

It’s fine. Strange to inhibit the full set, but fine.

It’s not repeatable for shards.

bLind.6278:

Honestly 5/6 pieces of Ascended for virtually no real investment is absolutely still fine. Yea, it’s unfortunate that you can’t finish the set for completion sake, but you can lose 300 games and win zero and still get the full set for no material investment, no gold investment, etc. My first set of Ascended gear cost me nearly 500g. This is free.

It’s fine. Strange to inhibit the full set, but fine.

Free? it costs you time.

With a 50% winrate it takes about 86 matches (28 hours) to get the 1200 shards.

28 hours of my time does not equal “Free”.

Stiofan.6720:

bLind.6278:

Honestly 5/6 pieces of Ascended for virtually no real investment is absolutely still fine. Yea, it’s unfortunate that you can’t finish the set for completion sake, but you can lose 300 games and win zero and still get the full set for no material investment, no gold investment, etc. My first set of Ascended gear cost me nearly 500g. This is free.

It’s fine. Strange to inhibit the full set, but fine.

Free? it costs you time.

With a 50% winrate it takes about 86 matches (28 hours) to get the 1200 shards.

28 hours of my time does not equal “Free”.

Only 28 hours for 5/6 of ascended armor? Seems pretty low if you count in the fact that you get so much raw gold, dyes and materials while doing it. I’ve spent way way more time on my first ascended armor.

Tomiyou.3790:

Stiofan.6720:

bLind.6278:

Honestly 5/6 pieces of Ascended for virtually no real investment is absolutely still fine. Yea, it’s unfortunate that you can’t finish the set for completion sake, but you can lose 300 games and win zero and still get the full set for no material investment, no gold investment, etc. My first set of Ascended gear cost me nearly 500g. This is free.

It’s fine. Strange to inhibit the full set, but fine.

Free? it costs you time.

With a 50% winrate it takes about 86 matches (28 hours) to get the 1200 shards.

28 hours of my time does not equal “Free”.

Only 28 hours for 5/6 of ascended armor? Seems pretty low if you count in the fact that you get so much raw gold, dyes and materials while doing it. I’ve spent way way more time on my first ascended armor.

28 hours spent in fractals doing dailies, or farming mats, might be able to make 500g. Granted, it is lower/easier than other ways to me. (bloody fractals keep giving me shoulders!) However, I think you could get close with the same time elsewhere.

Sorin Noroku.5342:

Tomiyou.3790:

Stiofan.6720:

bLind.6278:

Honestly 5/6 pieces of Ascended for virtually no real investment is absolutely still fine. Yea, it’s unfortunate that you can’t finish the set for completion sake, but you can lose 300 games and win zero and still get the full set for no material investment, no gold investment, etc. My first set of Ascended gear cost me nearly 500g. This is free.

It’s fine. Strange to inhibit the full set, but fine.

Free? it costs you time.

With a 50% winrate it takes about 86 matches (28 hours) to get the 1200 shards.

28 hours of my time does not equal “Free”.

Only 28 hours for 5/6 of ascended armor? Seems pretty low if you count in the fact that you get so much raw gold, dyes and materials while doing it. I’ve spent way way more time on my first ascended armor.

28 hours spent in fractals doing dailies, or farming mats, might be able to make 500g. Granted, it is lower/easier than other ways to me. (bloody fractals keep giving me shoulders!) However, I think you could get close with the same time elsewhere.

True or even 28 hours spent doing AB multi, Way over 500g I imagine.

Yeah, Tarir Multiloot will probably yield more gold per hour as doing PvP matches, but I sure prefer those 30 hours spent doing PvP to mindlessly looting chests.

I don’t think we should see the PvP ascended pieces as something else than goodies.

Not being able to get one full set is dumb

Stiofan.6720:

Sorin Noroku.5342:

Tomiyou.3790:

Stiofan.6720:

bLind.6278:

Honestly 5/6 pieces of Ascended for virtually no real investment is absolutely still fine. Yea, it’s unfortunate that you can’t finish the set for completion sake, but you can lose 300 games and win zero and still get the full set for no material investment, no gold investment, etc. My first set of Ascended gear cost me nearly 500g. This is free.

It’s fine. Strange to inhibit the full set, but fine.

Free? it costs you time.

With a 50% winrate it takes about 86 matches (28 hours) to get the 1200 shards.

28 hours of my time does not equal “Free”.

Only 28 hours for 5/6 of ascended armor? Seems pretty low if you count in the fact that you get so much raw gold, dyes and materials while doing it. I’ve spent way way more time on my first ascended armor.

28 hours spent in fractals doing dailies, or farming mats, might be able to make 500g. Granted, it is lower/easier than other ways to me. (bloody fractals keep giving me shoulders!) However, I think you could get close with the same time elsewhere.

True or even 28 hours spent doing AB multi, Way over 500g I imagine.

I can get ~9 gol coins in 30 minutes just farming and selling wood logs, an can repeat this every hour, but the point is: farming (put here your activity) for hours IS NOT FUN; if you play PvP the main reason should be having fun. PvP lets you to have some fun and save a TON of gold (each piece is ~130+ gold coins currently if you want to craft it) giving you the EXTRA reward of tokens to buy ascended armor/weapons at no cost.

As an owner of 4 ascended armor (3 heavy, 1 light) and 5 legendary items I’m grateful for the chance that PvP gives me to get a new ascended set doing nothing but having fun/ragequitting. This just multiplies the rewards of playing PvP x25 in terms of gold and time saving.

Buran.3796:

Stiofan.6720:

Sorin Noroku.5342:

Tomiyou.3790:

Stiofan.6720:

bLind.6278:

Honestly 5/6 pieces of Ascended for virtually no real investment is absolutely still fine. Yea, it’s unfortunate that you can’t finish the set for completion sake, but you can lose 300 games and win zero and still get the full set for no material investment, no gold investment, etc. My first set of Ascended gear cost me nearly 500g. This is free.

It’s fine. Strange to inhibit the full set, but fine.

Free? it costs you time.

With a 50% winrate it takes about 86 matches (28 hours) to get the 1200 shards.

28 hours of my time does not equal “Free”.

Only 28 hours for 5/6 of ascended armor? Seems pretty low if you count in the fact that you get so much raw gold, dyes and materials while doing it. I’ve spent way way more time on my first ascended armor.

28 hours spent in fractals doing dailies, or farming mats, might be able to make 500g. Granted, it is lower/easier than other ways to me. (bloody fractals keep giving me shoulders!) However, I think you could get close with the same time elsewhere.

True or even 28 hours spent doing AB multi, Way over 500g I imagine.

I can get ~9 gol coins in 30 minutes just farming and selling wood logs, an can repeat this every hour, but the point is: farming (put here your activity) for hours IS NOT FUN; if you play PvP the main reason should be having fun. PvP lets you to have some fun and save a TON of gold (each piece is ~130+ gold coins currently if you want to craft it) giving you the EXTRA reward of tokens to buy ascended armor/weapons at no cost.

As an owner of 4 ascended armor (3 heavy, 1 light) and 5 legendary items I’m grateful for the chance that PvP gives me to get a new ascended set doing nothing but having fun/ragequitting. This just multiplies the rewards of playing PvP x25 in terms of gold and time saving.

That argument can be applied to Raiding and Fractals as well…. since you can purchase Ascended there as well while having fun..

Personally I’d like to see the costs for each piece increased a bit and have a weekly reset for 1200 shard cap, simillar to how raid rewards go.

BeLZedaR.4790:

Personally I’d like to see the costs for each piece increased a bit and have a weekly reset for 1200 shard cap, simillar to how raid rewards go.

However, if people hit that many shards in a week already (since TUESDAY?!?!), the raiders are left with only 150 a week (more if sacrifice minipet drops).

Maybe a compromise? Since raids are perm content and can be done between seasons, increase the cap for shards to half of pvp current cap (600), and make pvp chest end repeatable for 1/4th the value of the last chest? Which I believe would be 50 a chest complete then? After the week ends, reset the last chest to 200 for the first complete then resume it at 50 until reset again.

Sorin Noroku.5342:

BeLZedaR.4790:

Personally I’d like to see the costs for each piece increased a bit and have a weekly reset for 1200 shard cap, simillar to how raid rewards go.

However, if people hit that many shards in a week already (since TUESDAY?!?!), the raiders are left with only 150 a week (more if sacrifice minipet drops).

Maybe a compromise? Since raids are perm content and can be done between seasons, increase the cap for shards to half of pvp current cap (600), and make pvp chest end repeatable for 1/4th the value of the last chest? Which I believe would be 50 a chest complete then?

I was saying to increase the costs of the items as well, so that you can get 2-3 pieces (depends on which parts) each week. Not too off from raiding considering you can also get extra shards from raids by getting minis and ascended items.

As it is, you can’t even get a full set of the new armor which is a shame.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

That argument can be applied to Raiding and Fractals as well…. since you can purchase Ascended there as well while having fun..

I don’t have fun at Fractals and I do hate PvE raids; I did them to some extent due being polite with other members in the clan, but talking mainly as a WvW/PvP player I couldn’t care less about those both. Ascended gear at a predictable pace (instead of random drops) in PvP seems like a big step forward to me; hopefully they add something similar in WvW also.

Buran.3796:

BlaqueFyre.5678:

That argument can be applied to Raiding and Fractals as well…. since you can purchase Ascended there as well while having fun..

I don’t have fun at Fractals and I do hate PvE raids; I did them to some extent due being polite with other members in the clan, but talking mainly as a WvW/PvP player I couldn’t care less about those both. Ascended gear at a predictable pace (instead of random drops) in PvP seems like a big step forward to me; hopefully they add something similar in WvW also.

I was just stating that overall people can acquire Ascended with minimal Cost/effort in multiple game modes that people find fun. And I hope they find away to introduce Ascended to WvW through a Vendor

I’d be ok with just having a full set per season, just feels really weird right now to have 100 shards less than the full set.

I think they should keep ~50 Ascended Shards of Glory for each repeated completion of the last chest

That is not too much but still gives a little bit of progress to ascended gear for players who REALLY play pvp

Orangensaft.7139:

I think they should keep ~50 Ascended Shards of Glory for each repeated completion of the last chest

That is not too much but still gives a little bit of progress to ascended gear for players who REALLY play pvp

I think this is fair.

Sell them obv….