Guild Wars 2

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but I’ve always seen a lot of complaints about gear creep and such like that – people not wanting ascended gear in WvW, etc.

Would a possible solution be just to make WvW like sPvP? Where you only get a necklace and everyone is on the same page in terms of gear?

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Yes, totally. I have 1 full set of ascended and working on my second, and I think it is totally stupid that to get the most competitive stats I have had to take months doing meaningless dailys just to stay competitive in WVW. And I have only done it so other people won’t have a stat advantage on me. With that being said I would be happy if it were removed today and all we had was the amulets so almost everyone would be on an even playing field.

I feel like the only people who are against this are people who need a crutch to stand on in terms of pvp.

zaragoz.6351:

Yes, totally. I have 1 full set of ascended and working on my second, and I think it is totally stupid that to get the most competitive stats I have had to take months doing meaningless dailys just to stay competitive in WVW. And I have only done it so other people won’t have a stat advantage on me. With that being said I would be happy if it were removed today and all we had was the amulets so almost everyone would be on an even playing field.

I feel like the only people who are against this are people who need a crutch to stand on in terms of pvp.

I don’t want this because the stats options in spvp are horrid. A LOT of my builds don’t work with the very limited stat options. Want your balance pvp? Spvp is that way

I feel like the only people who are against keeping ascended gear are people who need the “he has more stats” excuse when they lose.

Lol okay so they just add more amulet options and that alone throws your idea out of the window.

Also let me add that while I play spvp I moreso enjoy the open world aspect of WvW, which is a totally different aspect of gameplay. Therefore you telling me to go play spvp because I want balanced fights is just ridiculous.

I wouldn’t mind WvW only armor that was free as long as we could replicate all stat options. If so that would allow people to truly play the game the way they want. For those super against this, is it because you like your power creep and don’t feel confident in your skill to beat someone with the same power level?

I would also be perfectly fine with that option. I just do not like the time-gated daily requirements of ascended even though I currently have it. Not to mention I feel locked into the build that I currently have full ascended on even though I would like to play a different one from time to time. Stat customizable armor would be great.

so long as it’s not like the amulets in spvp and I can still level my alts in wvw I’m fine. Power creeps isn’t an issue in this game tbh. I have yet to find a fight where it was lopsided because they had ascended stuff and i didn’t. And you are not locked into 1 build because of your ascended gear, you will do just fine in exos and so long as your opponents have equal or lower “skill” you will at the very least have a close fight regardless of what gear they are running

Its pretty common info that full ascended adds a 10% damage bonus over exotics. That is as much as some of the traits I choose to take on my engineer to pull out a stronger burst. So yeah its pretty significant in my opinion. Not to mention it will become even worse once the armor is introduced.

zaragoz.6351:

Its pretty common info that full ascended adds a 10% damage bonus over exotics. That is as much as some of the traits I choose to take on my engineer to pull out a stronger burst. So yeah its pretty significant in my opinion. Not to mention it will become even worse once the armor is introduced.

only on power builds. The increase in condition builds is much less. Condis tend to be stronger than most power builds atm,lol

Regardless you made mention that power creep wasn’t even a concern, and it absolutely is. Not only currently a problem, but something that is only going to get worse as more ascended is added.

power creep will only be an issue when people can’t run uplevels in wvw and still be successful. >.>