Guild Wars 2

Ascended armor is on its way, people may dislike it but its still gonna happen. Personaly I dont mind the whole ascended thing, it gives depth to the game and there is some sense of progress.

There is however a big issue with Dragonite for WvW players. You have to farm PvE mobs to be able to craft the ascended weapons you need. The keep lords give 3-5 dragonite which means you have to kill atleast 100 keep lords for each weapon. For a WvW only player like me this takes way to long to make all my weaponsets ascended.

For the WvW only players it will be a blessing to have a merchant that trades badges for dragonite. The ratio can be 2:1 or even 3:1. In this way a player can make a decent amount of dragonite and has no advantage over the players in PvE (which is still faster). It also gives a use for badges for players that dont want to buy siege with them.

So please make us WvW players happy and insert something like this. I think many people would be very happy.

Feel free to discuss!

forget dragonite. ascended weapons and armor need to be purchasable for badges/gold/laurels just like the accessories.

Yes, I absolutely agree with making the our easier to get…
Although I wouldn’t turn down the straight up buying the gear with badges either. Although, that won’t happen cause PvE people would complain about us not having to craft for the gear.

People are burning piles of blood stone dust because in WvW you get tons of it, every tower or keep lord has some in a little pouch for you, perhaps there’s a reason we got so much of one and hardly any of the other? I know gossamer is gonna get pricey…..that’s about all I can figure at this point regarding armor. ANet seems to be pretty quiet about the new Tier 7 mats for armor.

Trading dragonite for badges gives an unfair advantage to heavy WvW players, the cost would have to be proportionate to the ease of acquiring badges. I don’t hear people complaining that they can buy exotic level armor with badges, rather cheaply, I might add.

Also realize that PvE champion farmers (who get piles of dragonite) mostly stay in PvE rotating their toons to get more and more.

Ok let me trade bloodstone dust for dragonite and the other way for pve players. I can’t do champ trains they put me to sleep after I worked all day brainless monotonous game play does that.

Actually all Anet needs to do is create an exchange merchant in Lions Arch where one could exchange Dragonite Ingot, Bloodstone Brick, or Empyreal Star. “Got to much Bloodstone Brick and not enough Dragonite Ingot go exchange your Bloodstone Brick for some Dragonite Ingot—that simple.”

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Actually all Anet needs to do is create an exchange merchant in Lions Arch where one could exchange Dragonite Ingot, Bloodstone Brick, or Empyreal Star. “Got to much Bloodstone Brick and not enough Dragonite Ingot go exchange your Bloodstone Brick for some Dragonite Ingot—that simple.”

This, is a great idea…..

Totally agree. I am a solo roamer and don’t find karma-training interesting nor do I like PVE. I play GW2 to fight other players in the WvWvW lakes, and do not expect to be forced on some hamster-wheel in order to have gear that’s on par with PVE-ers, zergers or door-PVE-ers.

Sad part is there will probably all new materials that must be gathered and their refinements time gated.

Please add a merchant that sells ascended gear for badges and karma.

Or even better:

Please remove ascended gear from WvW. Power creep kills the game.

Being able to purchase ascended weapons/armor with badges only is something that will not likely happen. People brought their crafting level to 500 already and it would be unfair to them.

I like the idea though of a trader that is able to convert multiple type of crafting materials for dragonite. Although i would be happy if they just did the badges to dragonite thing.