Guild Wars 2

I think we should to be able to acquire ascended armour as easily as PvP players are currently acquiring it (I really don’t think I’m being that entitled when saying that).

Since the patch launched my guild mates have been playing PvP to get ascended armour. Some of them already have 1 full set and starting work on their second set.

How about giving our chosen game mode the same ascended love?

WvW is one of the most gear sensitive game modes in GW2 yet we have absolutely the worst access to gear and stat modifications.

We have to go into PvE and PvP to get our gear (and many of us have a deep dislike of other game modes).

Occasionally we’ll get an ascended level up chest but the drop rate on that seems to have been nerfed heavily since it first launched when you’d get the chests all the time.

While you’re there add some ‘stat reset capacitors’ to WvW so we can switch our ascended stats on everything easily.

I’ve been asking for ascended armour merchants in WvW since ascended armour first came out.

The blood ruby and petrified wood reward tracks have been a breath of fresh air in terms of trinket acquisition but we need to cover off the armour and weapons.

Please make no mistake, I am not delusional, I know all too well this post will change nothing, probably won’t get read and I’ll get no reply. I just had to put it out in the ether.

Do you even grub bust?

Yeah I really don’t understand Anet’s obsession with trying to push players into the other game modes. Any time I try and force myself to gear grind in pve/pvp I end up logging off for weeks at a time because the game stops being fun and if I’m not having fun I have no reason to waste my time or money on the game.

Packit.8576:

Do you even grub bust?

Don’t hurt the grub, what did he ever do to you? Just sitting there minding his own business and suddenly grub OJs.

Just started playing. i had to quit after they released those awful desert maps… Anet please tell us if your gonna give ascended armor in WvW or not. I don’t want to waste any more time on this game if this is not coming soon because i will not be leaving WvW to get it for my 3 main characters.

WvW is like that dog left outside in the cold, trying to maybe get some scraps when the trash is taken out. In other words: I would very much love to get these ‘scraps’ but I doubt it will happen.

You guys want too much from Anet. WvW is not important gamemode in GW2. If is not true, wvw woudlnt be dead as is it now.

Anrkides.4083:

You guys want too much from Anet. WvW is not important gamemode in GW2. If is not true, wvw woudlnt be dead as is it now.

I’d wager more people play WvW than PvP on a regular basis.

Wvw still has a higher population than pvp. And most over players log in, raid then either don’t show up again or afk in la announcing their presence to the world seeking verification.

Game slayer. dang i guess i didn’t look into the award tracks enough. which ones give asceded gear? i completed 5 of the tracks and didn’t get any ascended gear. if you got 13 in a month i should expect around 3 drops a week? i must have had a bad weekend…

What we want is a non rng way.

Having completed probably far more reward tracks than the above poster you can get a streak of 3 boxes in a day and never see another for 3 months. The rng is that bad.

So is the armor attainable in PVP without RNG?

Teanti.2376:

So is the armor attainable in PVP without RNG?

Yes to get the pvp ascended armor you have to play ~100ranked games(60 if you win 100% of the time or 180 if you never win) and you can only get 5/6 pieces this season.

Need to go play afk in PvP then.

Junkpile.7439:

Need to go play afk in PvP then.

Thats awesome i didn’t even connect the two I can watch my favorite shows on one monitor while i kinda play pvp on the other! or they could just add the same rewards to WvW and then I would have fun while getting ascended armor!

I got the whole pvp set from 50ish games so like a day and a half playing to see what I could do.

lol I think it wasn’t the best move to make pvp to get it when they need it the least. But since they opened up that route…

I think heroics + gold + badges+ karma, or even better yet, badges + karma + heroics and if they don’t want that, to make it possible to buy damask and whatever those things are with heroics and badges too.

Although,as a note to you all, I’m sure most wvw players should have a good amount of karma. Try buying those festive bags for wintersday. I spent 8 million and while opening those bags was obnoxious, I have enough to craft another set of ascended for one of my characters. Yea, there are better ways to convert karma, but those are tedious and I am skeptical any WvW minded person would waste their time on it. You’re probably not going to be using that karma on anything else, right?

Silk is also dirt cheap atm….

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Festive_Bag_of_Materials

Deflate bandwagoning by offering unique server armour that takes at least three to six months to acquire a full set.

Bonus: Boost to server identity, linked or not.

Jayne.9251:

Deflate bandwagoning by offering unique server armour that takes at least three to six months to acquire a full set.

Bonus: Boost to server identity, linked or not.

This I like. Server loyalty rewards. Must remain on the same server for 1-3 years then a merchant appears and it becomes purchasable for heroics+badges. Maybe this could be our wvw legendary armor. Since loyalty to a server seems to be the hardest thing for anyone to do these days. It would take a year to get from scratch, so pvers cant whine about it being too easy for us. But those of us who have been on the same server for years can get it right away and are rewarded for our loyalty with out own unique legendary armor different from the pve set. It wouldnt even need any fancy effects. just give it the same skin as the exotic wvw armor but make it stat swappable and i’ll be happy.

Has the Triumphant Hero set been released yet? Maybe that should be the skin used if we get an Ascended set that you need to do WvW to obtain.
Question would be how you would obtain Ascended Memories of Battle, well if it would be the WvW equivalent to the PvP vendor. Shards of Glory and Ascended Shards of Glory. For WvW Memories of Battle and Ascended Memories of Battle. Rank chests maybe? So the winning server gets more bonus chests, more AMoB for players in winning server. Or maybe only the bonus rank chest. Your serve wins, your next 3 rank ups will have a bonus chest that contains AMoB, come in 3rd place, 1 bonus chest, 1 lot of AMoB until next week.
In WvW the gear you have equipped matters, so seems a good idea to have a vendor for ascended. Seeing as PvP has it and armour is more important in WvW.

I agree its too easy getting armor in pvp now. Ive played barely 40 matches at just over 50% win rate and I have almost 4 pieces of armor already.

And FYI the max number of armor pieces you can get is 5. So OP is incorrect when he says his guildies are working on second set of armor. You can only get 1200 ascended shards this season and you need 1300 for ONE full set.

40 matches at 4 matches per hour is 10 hours of gameplay without even a good win rate and you can get 3 almost 4 armor pieces. Try getting that many in WvW. Not a chance without RNG heavily in your favor.

Nikkinella.8254:

Jayne.9251:

Deflate bandwagoning by offering unique server armour that takes at least three to six months to acquire a full set.

Bonus: Boost to server identity, linked or not.

This I like. Server loyalty rewards. Must remain on the same server for 1-3 years then a merchant appears and it becomes purchasable for heroics+badges. Maybe this could be our wvw legendary armor. Since loyalty to a server seems to be the hardest thing for anyone to do these days. It would take a year to get from scratch, so pvers cant whine about it being too easy for us. But those of us who have been on the same server for years can get it right away and are rewarded for our loyalty with out own unique legendary armor different from the pve set. It wouldnt even need any fancy effects. just give it the same skin as the exotic wvw armor but make it stat swappable and i’ll be happy.

The key is making each server set unique to make it something you have to work for and … STAY … to get.

Better still make it viral and have players submit designs for their server, have it voted on, then implemented. Engaged players, stronger community branding, win win win.

And those wanting the different pieces will have to invest years in getting them all.

In the interim three to six months is enough time to get to know a community and figure out your final home if you’re an obsessive collector.

None of the gear should have any stat better than another, but different look, unique to the server. And voted in.

Yep, WvW’ers are allways left out or behind. No WvW ascended back, no ascended vendor for WvW aquired currency. You have to unlock the new rewards tracks in PvE. Which was lame to do. Anet doesen’t have enough the people to develop the game/expansion into something good it seems. So much that is unpolished. Even when you do emotes it hides your character back item, which is also hidden in the character menu.

I have gotten 2 ascended weapon chests and around 3 ascended armor chests in the last six months. I have gotten about 3 ascended rings also.

These are coming from the reward boxes on the track. It’s quite rare, but they do drop.

Definitely need to buff those drop rates then; I’ve gotten maybe like one weapon and armor piece these past few months.

I don’t consider ring drops, since oftentimes it’s some useless stat; would really appreciate stat selection given how rare they are.

At any rate, once upon a time we could buy the “best” gear from wvw vendors but with ascended this is no longer the case. Thus I think it would really just be modernizing the vendors, really.

I simply don’t understand how people are having so much trouble with ascended armor and weapons. Collecting materials doing crafting and increasing the level of crafting is apart of the game . Aside from Scribe ,it’s so easy to do .Changing armor stats at the mystic forge is relatively cheap now compared to the old way of having to create a whole new set.
Holy smokes ,if you put the effort in you get the rewards.
If you make the game to easy then theirs no fun in it.

Because wvw players don’t want to craft, which is a pve thing. The fact they removed crafting stations from wvw should tell you this much. We should just be able to buy our armor and go kill people. You can buy ascended armor with pvp currency, even though pvp doesnt need armor. So, there’s no sensible reason why we shouldn’t be able to buy ascended armor with wvw currency, where stats actually do matter.

In PvP the armor you buy is not usable in any other environment other than PvP. Also its limited in that infusions , can’t be added to any armor,weapon or accessorys.Allowing ascended gear and weapons to be openly purchased in WvW would make the specialized system of crafting and the collection of materials completely pointless game wide, destroying an important aspect of the game. By presetting armor and weapon limits exclusive to WvW like that in PvP would destroy the vibrancy and variety currently available in WvW.The game would become stagnant .Even if they did have separate WvW armor and weapons would be a programmers nightmare based on the current mechanics of the game.
If your expectations are instant gratification in a complex game such as Guild wars 2 then maybe Tic-Tac-Toe is more your speed.

You have no idea what you’re talking about. I’ve gotten 5 pieces of the pvp armor, it can be used in wvw and does have infusions. I don’t know where you’ve gotten your information from.

Mokk.2397:

In PvP the armor you buy is not usable in any other environment other than PvP. Also its limited in that infusions , can’t be added to any armor,weapon or accessorys.Allowing ascended gear and weapons to be openly purchased in WvW would make the specialized system of crafting and the collection of materials completely pointless game wide, destroying an important aspect of the game. By presetting armor and weapon limits exclusive to WvW like that in PvP would destroy the vibrancy and variety currently available in WvW.The game would become stagnant .Even if they did have separate WvW armor and weapons would be a programmers nightmare based on the current mechanics of the game.
If your expectations are instant gratification in a complex game such as Guild wars 2 then maybe Tic-Tac-Toe is more your speed.

There is so much wrong with this post……

Mokk.2397:

In PvP the armor you buy is not usable in any other environment other than PvP. Also its limited in that infusions , can’t be added to any armor,weapon or accessorys.Allowing ascended gear and weapons to be openly purchased in WvW would make the specialized system of crafting and the collection of materials completely pointless game wide, destroying an important aspect of the game. By presetting armor and weapon limits exclusive to WvW like that in PvP would destroy the vibrancy and variety currently available in WvW.The game would become stagnant .Even if they did have separate WvW armor and weapons would be a programmers nightmare based on the current mechanics of the game.
If your expectations are instant gratification in a complex game such as Guild wars 2 then maybe Tic-Tac-Toe is more your speed.

Everything you said is basically false?…

I hate the idea of adding ascended armor to pvp. I hate it even more in wvw reward tracks. People should be coming for the game mode. Not for the armor

blackgamma.1809:

I hate the idea of adding ascended armor to pvp. I hate it even more in wvw reward tracks. People should be coming for the game mode. Not for the armor

You’re missing the point.
The armor/stats are already available in PvE and now PvP. For those of us that hate those game modes acquiring them is a mind numbingly awful grind. Not having them available in WvW forces players out of WvW

Our choice is to leave WvW and play something we hate to stay competitive, or continue to play at a disadvantage.

blackgamma.1809:

I hate the idea of adding ascended armor to pvp. I hate it even more in wvw reward tracks. People should be coming for the game mode. Not for the armor

The rewards should be equally good for each game mode so that people only come for the game mode itself, not the rewards.

I allready have full ascended. Don’t talk like you know something when you clearly don’t.

The only way that i can viable see ascended armor in wvw is if anet did tournaments where you would use your wvw claim tickets. That way its at at least somewhat hard to obtain

It’s not somehwat hard to aquire in PvP/PvE, and shouldn’t be that in WvW either. Anet has allready stated that they won’t do more tournaments. So they could just simply add another reward track or currency or use the proof of heroics.

Timelord.8190:

So they could just simply add another reward track or currency or use the proof of heroics.

The best choice would be the combination of gold + laurels + WvWvW specific currencies, mainly: proofs of heroics and badges of honor.

I feel that 5 laurels + 5-10 g + 150 proofs / 3000 badges sounds reasonable for 1 piece of armor. It would still be faster to get the ascended in spvp tournaments.

Ten times the above cost ascended back piece with selectable stats.

Nah, not laurels. I hate that time gated currency. And the new ascended vendors in PvE/PvP doesen’t require laurels either. Gearing up in WvW doesen’t have to be 10x worse.

dzeRnumbrd.6129:

I think we should to be able to acquire ascended armour as easily as PvP players are currently acquiring it (I really don’t think I’m being that entitled when saying that).

The irony is we actually are entitled to it.

Spartacus.3192:

And FYI the max number of armor pieces you can get is 5.

You get 1200 ascended shards, gloves, boots and shoulders are all 150 each, which means you can get 8 pieces if you stick to these, which is what I did, I don’t care about the skins, they are just a diff color glorious anyway.

Timelord.8190:

Nah, not laurels. I hate that time gated currency. And the new ascended vendors in PvE/PvP doesen’t require laurels either. Gearing up in WvW doesen’t have to be 10x worse.

You need acended armor to be time gated in some way. You cant have ascended armor be consistently farmable. If you do, about 50 items on the tp becomes useless.

Deniara Devious.3948:

Timelord.8190:

So they could just simply add another reward track or currency or use the proof of heroics.

The best choice would be the combination of gold + laurels + WvWvW specific currencies, mainly: proofs of heroics and badges of honor.

I feel that 5 laurels + 5-10 g + 150 proofs / 3000 badges sounds reasonable for 1 piece of armor. It would still be faster to get the ascended in spvp tournaments.

Ten times the above cost ascended back piece with selectable stats.

I’d say a combination of currencies you get in WvW. Proof of Heroics, Memories of Battle and Badges of Honour. Gold and Laurels aren’t needed with the PvP vendor.

Ascended armour rate of acquisition has already increased exponentially over the last 6 months. If they really wanted to maintain the value you the tp items the creep wouldn’t have been introduced.

Let the pvers who hate wvw do the grinding and crafting. They alone will keep the value of that crap up. No need to time gate us or force us to do content we dont want to in order to gear up. pve and pvp both have easy and fast ways of gearing up in ascended, wvw should have a way as well. Proofs of heroics+ badges is enough. And if they feel the need, add a new reward track that gives a new wvw currency for wvw ascended armor at the end of it.

I like the fact that devs do not reply or participate in wvw problems posted by users. when they do have a poll its about everything but what players have been asking for years.

yeah, new track for ascended armor would be sufficient. or make use of current currencies, PoH, BoH, Karma etc etc. whichever, i don’t care. if pvp players can get almost full set within 3-7 days of casual play, so should wvw players.

Electra.7530:

I have gotten 2 ascended weapon chests and around 3 ascended armor chests in the last six months. I have gotten about 3 ascended rings also.

These are coming from the reward boxes on the track. It’s quite rare, but they do drop.

2 weapons, 3 armor pieces, 3 rings in SIX MONTHS? You can get 5 armor pieces in about 2-3 WEEKS of casual PvP ranked play now.

You can have only 1 set for season … not more …

PierPiero.9142:

You can have only 1 set for season … not more …

You don’t need ascended armor at all in PvP, they can afford to wait…..