Guild Wars 2

When a player reaches a set incremental WvW level, give them a grand chest that has an ascended drop in it. Lets say every 100 WvW levels. This way players can routinely get ascended items just by playing the game and there is a tangible reward for playing WvW. The system certainly works well enough with achievements. A system like this would easily drive more players into WvW and keep players interested longer.

Quality loot and character advancement are the two things that keep players going. We see it in every aspect of MMOs. Players farm areas of the game that produce quality loot. Infuse the fun parts of the game with better loot drops and you will have happier players. Currently 99.999999% of loot drops are horrible and cause more inventory work than game enjoyment.

Higher tier players have more ranks. ArenaNet literally pays people to play on higher tiers. This would just make it worse.

Just make crafting cheaper. Like, seriously. How many hundreds of gold pieces is it to build one set of armour? That loot is so important to playing WvW (thanks to all the gold sinks) is so stupid. People don’t log in for WvW ‘cause they have to go farm some thing, ’cause they need runes you can only get in dungeons, or only log in because they want to ride a karma train. That’s bad.

I actually got an ascended armor box from my 110th rank on my guardian.

Have yet to get one on my elementalist after 350 ranks though…

I don’t mind not having great loot in WvW. I’d prefer it though, that upgrades used Karma instead of Gold, and that there were no repair fees in WvW, balanced with no loot drops from either players or NPCs. It’s actually not that hard to get all your ascended crafting materials purely from WvW these days because of how much trash loot you get to salvage.

styx.7294:

People don’t log in for WvW ‘cause they have to go farm some thing, ’cause they need runes you can only get in dungeons, or only log in because they want to ride a karma train. That’s bad.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter. Players that just want to play WvW and not farm are screwed right now which is part of my point. If they had some mechanism to output top tier gear for play, more players would play rather than spend time grinding some part of the game they don’t enjoy.

The only option to get an ascended through play is to get ridiculously lucky (I have 2k hours in the game, 145 MF, gone through 4 BDay gifts, 800+ WvW levels and have never seen an ascended drop). The other option is to spend a giant wad of cash along with grinding out crafting levels. There currently is no reasonable mechanism in place to earn ascended through regular play.

They should just make ascended Armour purchasable with laurels and badges OR permit them to be sold on the TP.

Straegen.2938:

When a player reaches a set incremental WvW level, give them a grand chest that has an ascended drop in it. Lets say every 100 WvW levels. This way players can routinely get ascended items just by playing the game and there is a tangible reward for playing WvW. The system certainly works well enough with achievements. A system like this would easily drive more players into WvW and keep players interested longer.

Quality loot and character advancement are the two things that keep players going. We see it in every aspect of MMOs. Players farm areas of the game that produce quality loot. Infuse the fun parts of the game with better loot drops and you will have happier players. Currently 99.999999% of loot drops are horrible and cause more inventory work than game enjoyment.

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Got 2 ascended rings in 1100 ranks. That is actually better than I expected.

2k+ hours of play, 6-700 levels overall and not a single ascended drop. what i realy hope: they add it to the wvw merchants as exo armors, weapons. maybe for badge, gold and laurer. or mystic forge it for a gift of battle+ exo piece, the vendor thing what u need to craft ascended and obsi shards.
personaly i dont like the idea of muchmuch better loot. a little extra is ok but i dont want to see ascended farmers here. what i want more badge and ways to spend it.

The only problem i have is lack of Dragonite in WvW. The only half viable way is capturing Stonemist and its situational and still hundred times slower than doing it in pve. Just allow to buy dragonite and ascended mats for badges.

Preacher.9018:

The only problem i have is lack of Dragonite in WvW. The only half viable way is capturing Stonemist and its situational and still hundred times slower than doing it in pve. Just allow to buy dragonite and ascended mats for badges.

This.

Dragonite is such a problem it isn’t even funny. I have so much empyreal and blood bricks to create multiple gear sets. I barely scoured enougu dragonite ore to make 1x Ascended piece so far.

As a WvW player, I have to ask. What’s ascended gear?

Disclaimer: this is a slight exaggeration, I did spend the little gold I had to craft a staff. Armor just isn’t happening, and Greatsword is doubtful.

Reverence.6915:

I actually got an ascended armor box from my 110th rank on my guardian.

Have yet to get one on my elementalist after 350 ranks though…

I don’t mind not having great loot in WvW. I’d prefer it though, that upgrades used Karma instead of Gold, and that there were no repair fees in WvW, balanced with no loot drops from either players or NPCs. It’s actually not that hard to get all your ascended crafting materials purely from WvW these days because of how much trash loot you get to salvage.

The issue is that ascended rewards shouldn’t be based mostly on RNG in WvW. There should be a path to gain ascended armor in WvW that is comparable in efficiency to the PVE route.