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Posted by: flog.3485

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Dificult content should have better rewards, and raids are harder than losing in pvp or following a zerg in wvw.

This is a fallacy, as has been mentioned you can buy raid boss kills just for example.

But you have better rewards. And in fact it is not being better but exclusive rather. It is called the legendary skin with its animated pieces of armor. Let’s not forget we play fashion wars in this game mostly. Not who has the better gear.

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Posted by: Swagger.1459

Swagger.1459

Cool update! Keep it up!

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Posted by: Robles.7458

Robles.7458

Sounds really good, but i have a question. When we upgrade our wvw/pvp ascended gear, will they be ’ legendary ’ gear and have purple name like other legendaries in the game, or will they stay as ascended but have stat change ability ?

They will be legendary gear and have a purple name like other legendaries.

I hope that it will cost and take as much as it took those who had to work for their legendary armor …gifts…. provisioner tokens … 1500 of each map currency…. the raid legendary armor was not easy to get… and if all you need is skirmish tickets for a legendary set…this will kill your special raid wings because ppl can just wvw or pvp….

WvW armor now takes longer to get than raid armor.

Are you really sure?

The precursor of the second set of legendary armor requires 12 weeks and and 24 weeks for the legendary.
The wvw precursor of t2 armor requires 1310 tickets which mean 9 weeks of work.

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Posted by: quagganzilla.6450

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@ McKenna Berdrow

Can you please clarify this for me/us.

I bought the Triumphant Hero’s Exotic Armor which is the same amount of tickets as the Triumphant Hero’s Ascended Armor.
Obviously I wouldn’t have done this if I had known and I’m sure there will be hundreds of people in the same boat.

Will there be a way to turn my exotic into the ascended or even to trade it in for the tickets back?

The main issue I think we will all have it the tickets take a long time to earn and it would suck to feel like it was for nothing.
I know sorting out a method to not screw over people would be appreciated.
Can you clarify what will happen?

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Posted by: morrolan.9608

morrolan.9608

Sounds really good, but i have a question. When we upgrade our wvw/pvp ascended gear, will they be ’ legendary ’ gear and have purple name like other legendaries in the game, or will they stay as ascended but have stat change ability ?

They will be legendary gear and have a purple name like other legendaries.

I hope that it will cost and take as much as it took those who had to work for their legendary armor …gifts…. provisioner tokens … 1500 of each map currency…. the raid legendary armor was not easy to get… and if all you need is skirmish tickets for a legendary set…this will kill your special raid wings because ppl can just wvw or pvp….

WvW armor now takes longer to get than raid armor.

Are you really sure?

The precursor of the second set of legendary armor requires 12 weeks and and 24 weeks for the legendary.
The wvw precursor of t2 armor requires 1310 tickets which mean 9 weeks of work.

1. Now break that down into hours ie the hours required to get the skirmish tickets vs the hours required for raiding.
2. We don’t know the requirements for the gifts yet.

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Posted by: Sikamori.4791

Sikamori.4791

I thought it was 2620 tickets for T2? That’s way more than just 9 weeks.
Not counting the time you have to put into wvw just to get the 2k ranking since I’m sure not everyone has that.

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Posted by: Sarrs.4831

Sarrs.4831

I thought it was 2620 tickets for T2? That’s way more than just 9 weeks.
Not counting the time you have to put into wvw just to get the 2k ranking since I’m sure not everyone has that.

No, 2620 is for t3, 1310 is for t2. T1 is from reward tracks.

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Posted by: Sikamori.4791

Sikamori.4791

I thought it was 2620 tickets for T2? That’s way more than just 9 weeks.
Not counting the time you have to put into wvw just to get the 2k ranking since I’m sure not everyone has that.

No, 2620 is for t3, 1310 is for t2. T1 is from reward tracks.

Ah, then I guess the wiki is off as it has them listed as T1 and T2.

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Posted by: Dzjudz.9142

Dzjudz.9142

I thought it was 2620 tickets for T2? That’s way more than just 9 weeks.
Not counting the time you have to put into wvw just to get the 2k ranking since I’m sure not everyone has that.

No, 2620 is for t3, 1310 is for t2. T1 is from reward tracks.

Ah, then I guess the wiki is off as it has them listed as T1 and T2.

On which page do you see this? As far as I can see they are listed correctly.

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Posted by: Zaoda.1653

Zaoda.1653

Omg omg omg omg. I never thought this day would come. Holy (bleep). Yay!!!!

Thanks Anet! And trust me, I don’t care about the WvW and PvP legendary armors not having a unique skin, I just wanted the option to have legendary armor.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by: Sikamori.4791

Sikamori.4791

I thought it was 2620 tickets for T2? That’s way more than just 9 weeks.
Not counting the time you have to put into wvw just to get the 2k ranking since I’m sure not everyone has that.

No, 2620 is for t3, 1310 is for t2. T1 is from reward tracks.

Ah, then I guess the wiki is off as it has them listed as T1 and T2.

On which page do you see this? As far as I can see they are listed correctly.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skirmish_Supervisor
That one is the one I am looking at.

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Posted by: Sviel.7493

Sviel.7493

This is a good change, but I’m not sure what I’m going to need armor for if the issues plaguing the game aren’t ever acknowledged or addressed.

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Posted by: Zaoda.1653

Zaoda.1653

This is spectacular. It’s just like legendary without the skin? So the stat-swapping functionality will not be limited to when we are in wvw? I was not at all interested in the wvw ascended armor until this moment. Now I must get to grinding

Same! I might have to hold off on Warbringer now.

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Posted by: Aderic.6028

Aderic.6028

This is a big middle finger to those who like PvE but hate the raid content.

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Posted by: Sarrs.4831

Sarrs.4831

This is a big middle finger to those who like PvE but hate the raid content.

The mode which everyone says gets the least development time and is usually made fun of, said to be on life support, etc. gets something nice and all of a sudden it’s a big finger to PvEers.

Come on guys. You get new content and new rewards every two months. You got a legendary trinket just with the last patch. WvWers don’t get much. Let them have their day.

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Posted by: Zaoda.1653

Zaoda.1653

When the August 8th update is released, WvW and PvP players who own Heart of Thorns will be able to upgrade their WvW and PvP ascended armor to have legendary attributes! This new type of armor will not have a unique skin, such as the one that is part of the raids legendary armor, but instead will consist of an upgrade to WvW and PvP ascended armor that gives those armor pieces legendary stat-swapping capabilities without changing the skin.
The following PvP and WvW ascended armor can be upgraded to allow stat swapping:
• Triumphant Hero’s Ascended Armor
• Mistforged Triumphant Hero’s Ascended Armor
• Ardent Glorious Ascended Armor
• Glorious Hero Ascended Armor
To upgrade a piece of WvW or PvP ascended armor, combine 3 new PvP or WvW gifts with 1 piece of ascended gear in the Mystic Forge. You can purchase ingredients for the gifts from either Commander War Razor in WvW or the Ascended Armor League Vendor in PvP.

Just to clarify… by 3 new gifts, what do you mean by this? Can I put in 3 gifts of battle, or a mix of other wvw gifts? I’m not quite sure what is meant here

Edit: NVM – saw the post saying wvw new gifts coming on the 8th of august. Thought by ‘new gifts’ the ones required for warbringer, were the gifts, but no – new as in, REALLY new.

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Posted by: Espeon.3801

Espeon.3801

This is a big middle finger to those who like PvE but hate the raid content.

Yeah, if this is the direction that they are going, they might as well make all ascended capable of being upgraded to legendary. That seems like the fairest solution.

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Posted by: borgs.6103

borgs.6103

Should rename the armors to not be Legendary so the PVErs who complain about prestige would stop.
Let’s call these Stat-sWappable Ascended Gear or SWAG for short.

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Posted by: cptaylor.2670

cptaylor.2670

Will this armor include the new upcoming stats from the expansion? Would love to test out the new combos. I assume if not they will be added when the expansion comes out at least?

Excellent news for someone who doesn’t raid but still wants the convenience of legendary armor. Thank you!

Now to figure out who all actually has the qualifying armor on my account and to complete the sets…. hmm. lol

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Posted by: Cain.7382

Cain.7382

This is a really amazing change but I think the raiders gonna be so mad at it.

In before the complains.

It takes more effort to get this armor than the raid legendary armor so they haven’t got a leg to stand on.

I’m sorry what?
Ardent Glorious skins require more effort than 25 LI for first armor and 50 LI / piece?
Sorry, that made me laugh.

Even Triumphant armor doesn’t take that long. It’s T2, not even 8 weeks of WvW for a complete set.

It seems that you’ve forgotten that it takes a MINIMUM of 7 hours to get the maximum amount of tickets a week, and that’s assuming you have reached 10k WvW rank AND maintaining outnumbered the entire time. The average player would probably have to spend 15-20 hours in a week in WvW if they wanted to max out their tickets and get it in the 8 weeks you stated. So yes the Triumphant armor takes far more effort than the raid armor does, but the effort for pvp is pretty minimal, though you have to wait for leagues to happen so that can make it take a bit longer. I’ll also assume that the gifts will require even more Skirmish Tickets and the PvP tickets, so they’d likely take more than one tourney, and a bit more than one additional week of wvw to make your set.

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Posted by: Cain.7382

Cain.7382

Will this armor include the new upcoming stats from the expansion? Would love to test out the new combos. I assume if not they will be added when the expansion comes out at least?

Excellent news for someone who doesn’t raid but still wants the convenience of legendary armor. Thank you!

Now to figure out who all actually has the qualifying armor on my account and to complete the sets…. hmm. lol

Legendary armor and weapons have all the stat sets available.

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Posted by: azizul.8469

azizul.8469

now…can we have the sigil swapping ability on legendary weapon as well please, please…

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Posted by: hoostrax.7284

hoostrax.7284

There really needs to be a way to convert or pay the difference to buy the ascended equivalent if you already spent PVP or WVW currency to buy either the exotic Triumphant Hero armor or the skin version of the Ardent Glorious.

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Posted by: overlord.9107

overlord.9107

I have a doubt, I a few days ago bought a part of the armor triumphant hero but I had to change their stats in the mystical forge and has the name of a common ascended armor, does it mean that this armor no longer works to make it legendary?

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Posted by: Andromeda.8293

Andromeda.8293

So I wish they had told us this earlier, i bought the sublime t3 wvw chest piece for light with my tickets so far. If i had known that i could of used the t2 wvw armor to upgrade that to legendary (weeks of work and many many hours btw, MUCH more than a pve raid) I would of bought the ascended T2 chest. I bought the exotic one because it was cheaper and at the time i only had to unlock that skin to get the T3 piece which I wanted for the blue tentacle effect.

Had I known that there would of been added benefits to buying the t2 ascended I would of done that instead and turned it into legendary quality. That T2 chest piece cost me more hours to acquire than it would take me to obtain a legendary chest piece via the pve raid method if I started from nothing.

PVE raids take me ~2.5 hours a week to full clear, I don’t remember exactly but i believe spirit weave is like a 5 week time gate?
1 week of wvw is not enough to unlock the t2 wvw chest piece, and due to my rank it takes me ~15 hours per week to finish the diamond chest…….

seems really fair

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Posted by: Vova.2640

Vova.2640

Well this is unexpected…
Very happy to see this change, but at the same time Im scared to imagine how heavily time gated this will be… Prolly gonna take several years to make a single set lol.

Once again, while Im glad to see such reward changes come to wvw, I hope some major balance changes are coming some time soon.

Look at how effective someone is in a full Soldiers set.
Look at how effective someone is in a full Dire set.
Nice balance.

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Posted by: Klypto.1703

Klypto.1703

I don’t know whether to be happy about this or even more disturbed. Just pointing out some downsides to this system.

Skirmish tickets are time gated and roughly a player at wvw reset/weekend can get as many skirmish tickets as someone who is an active day to day player. Skirmish rewards are kinda meh and the fact that no tickets come in those is also a downside.

As well pretty much anyone who meets the rank requirements of those armors has all the ascended armor they could ever want anyways. So this just seems like a waste of time gated tickets that mostly have been put into the backpack. Only way I could really stomach this at the very least if there was a discount where you could trade in some pre-existing ascended armor for one of these. Especially being I figured this would never be an issue in wvw so I already have multiple sets for each weight armor type.

That is all I have to say but I don’t think I am going to bother with this unless its made more reasonable.

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Posted by: megaman.8396

megaman.8396

sooo fractal runners ever gonna get armorset/legendary armor love?

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Posted by: Deihnyx.6318

Deihnyx.6318

This is a really amazing change but I think the raiders gonna be so mad at it.

In before the complains.

It takes more effort to get this armor than the raid legendary armor so they haven’t got a leg to stand on.

I’m sorry what?
Ardent Glorious skins require more effort than 25 LI for first armor and 50 LI / piece?
Sorry, that made me laugh.

Even Triumphant armor doesn’t take that long. It’s T2, not even 8 weeks of WvW for a complete set.

It seems that you’ve forgotten that it takes a MINIMUM of 7 hours to get the maximum amount of tickets a week, and that’s assuming you have reached 10k WvW rank AND maintaining outnumbered the entire time. The average player would probably have to spend 15-20 hours in a week in WvW if they wanted to max out their tickets and get it in the 8 weeks you stated. So yes the Triumphant armor takes far more effort than the raid armor does, but the effort for pvp is pretty minimal, though you have to wait for leagues to happen so that can make it take a bit longer. I’ll also assume that the gifts will require even more Skirmish Tickets and the PvP tickets, so they’d likely take more than one tourney, and a bit more than one additional week of wvw to make your set.

I do both raids and wvw and I disagree that wvw requires “far more effort”. It takes time yes but the way you spend that time isn’t the same as raids.
It’s the same good old pip discussion again, only backward this time. If wvw vets acknowledge there is no proper way to reward skill in wvw and that instead time spent is all that matters, then it shouldn’t be that fast to get legendary armor from WvW.

T3 to legendary would make sense. it’s rank locked and it requires more tokens. T2? Nah. It doesn’t.

Now yes if the gifts requires more tickets then it might make it on par with raids.

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Posted by: Nikkinella.8254

Nikkinella.8254

Serious question here. Will it make a difference which gifts I use to upgrade it? Say for example i have the whole pvp set, can i use the wvw gifts to upgrade that? Or will i need pvp gifts to upgrade pvp armor, and wvw gifts to upgrade wvw armor? Or are they interchangeable?

I just want to know since i have a whole set of the pvp armor already and only some of the wvw ones. But i like wvw more than pvp, so if I can, I’d rather just spend my time in wvw and use those gifts to upgrade my already full set of pvp armor. I’d rather not deal with all the mouthbreathers in pvp anymore than i have to. But, i already have the whole set so it seems like a waste not to upgrade that.

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Posted by: draxynnic.3719

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If you have reforged either the PvP or WvW ascended armor you will need to earn a new piece of PvP or WvW ascended armor.

Reforged ascended armor will not work.

That’s a pretty huge flaw to have an already wildly stat selectable piece of precursor armor become worthless in regards to this legendary upgrade. Ironic too when it’s all about stat changes, and it makes me think this wasn’t thought through very well. There are a massive amount of players that have now essentially thrown entire sets of precursors away.

I hope you guys can change your stance and recompensate players for this. Really sad.

I suspect it’s because there are technical issues that mean they can’t. The server probably didn’t track which illustrious armour pieces were reforged versions of a PvP or WvW armour piece.

So, you’re literally undervaluing PvE Legendary Armor with this update? You can get a easier to get stat swapping version through these game types. Thats simply a smack in the face to people who got PvE Legendary armor. Wow.

You still get the exclusive animated skins.

Stat-swapping armour was a functionality that should never have been fixed to a single route of acquisition in the first place. In fact, I think ArenaNet raised the possibility of alternative routes for stat-swapping armour back when they were first talking about legendary armour, it’s just that they gave it to raiders first.

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Posted by: morrolan.9608

morrolan.9608

Serious question here. Will it make a difference which gifts I use to upgrade it? Say for example i have the whole pvp set, can i use the wvw gifts to upgrade that? Or will i need pvp gifts to upgrade pvp armor, and wvw gifts to upgrade wvw armor? Or are they interchangeable?

They aren’t interchangeable apparently, pvp armor can only be upgraded with pvp gifts.

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Posted by: Goatjugsoup.8637

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Awesome to hear

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Posted by: Sanity Obscure.6054

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If you have reforged either the PvP or WvW ascended armor you will need to earn a new piece of PvP or WvW ascended armor.

Reforged ascended armor will not work.

That’s a pretty huge flaw to have an already wildly stat selectable piece of precursor armor become worthless in regards to this legendary upgrade. Ironic too when it’s all about stat changes, and it makes me think this wasn’t thought through very well. There are a massive amount of players that have now essentially thrown entire sets of precursors away.

I hope you guys can change your stance and recompensate players for this. Really sad.

I suspect it’s because there are technical issues that mean they can’t. The server probably didn’t track which illustrious armour pieces were reforged versions of a PvP or WvW armour piece.

Yeah I was thinking that might be it. It’s just really disappointing, I stat changed more than an entire set of them.

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Posted by: Nikkinella.8254

Nikkinella.8254

Serious question here. Will it make a difference which gifts I use to upgrade it? Say for example i have the whole pvp set, can i use the wvw gifts to upgrade that? Or will i need pvp gifts to upgrade pvp armor, and wvw gifts to upgrade wvw armor? Or are they interchangeable?

They aren’t interchangeable apparently, pvp armor can only be upgraded with pvp gifts.

Ah I was afraid of that. Guess i need to suffer through 1 more season with incompetent teammates who somehow even when you get to high gold/plat play like morons who’s only pvp experience is farming daily maps in custom arenas. I really hope they bring back 5 vs 5 so i can go in with a team of my friends and not end up with random idiots i cant communicate with who refuse to cooperate. I played maybe for 1 week this season when it first started, got to gold 3, then said F it because it was too frustrating. I really would be better off finishing the wvw set, but it seems like such a waste not to upgrade the full set of pvp gear i already have.

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Posted by: Crimson.4972

Crimson.4972

And since you guys introduced this to the armors, can we please do this to the mist accessories as well, like the legendary accessories without the auras? please please please please

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Posted by: Firebaall.5127

Firebaall.5127

Good news!

It’s sad to see players saying it will devalue their raid armor. It doesn’t. The average WvW player needs to put in 2 months or more, playing 20-40 hours a week in order cap out the weekly ticket limit (to buy a T2 set). Not to mention whatever the gift costs are going to be.

That’s WAY more time investment than raid gear. Stop complaining. If anything, the raid gear is too easy to get by comparison. That’s a fact.

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Posted by: SkyShroud.2865

SkyShroud.2865

This is a really amazing change but I think the raiders gonna be so mad at it.

In before the complains.

It takes more effort to get this armor than the raid legendary armor so they haven’t got a leg to stand on.

I’m sorry what?
Ardent Glorious skins require more effort than 25 LI for first armor and 50 LI / piece?
Sorry, that made me laugh.

Even Triumphant armor doesn’t take that long. It’s T2, not even 8 weeks of WvW for a complete set.

It seems that you’ve forgotten that it takes a MINIMUM of 7 hours to get the maximum amount of tickets a week, and that’s assuming you have reached 10k WvW rank AND maintaining outnumbered the entire time. The average player would probably have to spend 15-20 hours in a week in WvW if they wanted to max out their tickets and get it in the 8 weeks you stated. So yes the Triumphant armor takes far more effort than the raid armor does, but the effort for pvp is pretty minimal, though you have to wait for leagues to happen so that can make it take a bit longer. I’ll also assume that the gifts will require even more Skirmish Tickets and the PvP tickets, so they’d likely take more than one tourney, and a bit more than one additional week of wvw to make your set.

I do both raids and wvw and I disagree that wvw requires “far more effort”. It takes time yes but the way you spend that time isn’t the same as raids.
It’s the same good old pip discussion again, only backward this time. If wvw vets acknowledge there is no proper way to reward skill in wvw and that instead time spent is all that matters, then it shouldn’t be that fast to get legendary armor from WvW.

T3 to legendary would make sense. it’s rank locked and it requires more tokens. T2? Nah. It doesn’t.

Now yes if the gifts requires more tickets then it might make it on par with raids.

I do raid, only takes me a week to get used to all the raids. Another week to perfect my dps. So that’s 2 weeks. About the same amount of time as a newbie grinding tickets in wvw.

Unlike wvw newbies, by the 3rd week you can speed things up.

4th week to 8th week maybe you start to use learn new raid classes. As for newbies wvw, they continue to spend 30 hours in it.

Raid is just muscle memories. The only difficult part is to get like minded raiders to raid with you.

Maybe you cannot use me as benchmark, I do learn faster than average people.

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Posted by: Andromeda.8293

Andromeda.8293

Good news!

It’s sad to see players saying it will devalue their raid armor. It doesn’t. The average WvW player needs to put in 2 months or more, playing 20-40 hours a week in order cap out the weekly ticket limit (to buy a T2 set). Not to mention whatever the gift costs are going to be.

That’s WAY more time investment than raid gear. Stop complaining. If anything, the raid gear is too easy to get by comparison. That’s a fact.

It’s largely the pvp set that devalues it all. Remember they handed out 5 pieces of the ascended pvp armor for pennies in season 5.

You’re right about the wvw though, i am kicking myself for purchasing the exotic t2 wvw armor just for the skin so that i could get the t3 ascended skin >.<

IMO they should of only made the mistforged triumphant hero’s (wvw) ascended armor and glorious hero’s ascended armor (pvp) upgradable to legendary though. That seems pretty fair. Otherwise it just feels like a hand out to me.

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Posted by: Saraneth.6021

Saraneth.6021

So as a new player this is good news!

Everyone should be happy about this. Just means more people can actually get legendary armor now. No matter what game mode you prefer. No reason to be mad at this. If you already have legendary armor for raiding, that’s brilliant. Should no try and stop other who don’t raid just so you can continue feeling superior.

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Posted by: Zephyra.4709

Zephyra.4709

As a WvWer, ANet, I thank you greatly for adding this change. I’m very happy to know I can work towards legendary armor pieces via WvW now.

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Posted by: BillC.4521

BillC.4521

Dificult content should have better rewards, and raids are harder than losing in pvp or following a zerg in wvw.

This is a fallacy, as has been mentioned you can buy raid boss kills just for example.

Already try raid before? Do you know how much each wing cost for only 3 li? Why the player from wvw/pvp not buy them then?

Well im just asking, i know it will depends on how hard to get the gift for pvp/ wvw legend armor later. Is it gonna have the same timegating or not, how easy its gonna be later or not. If its hard to get then i guess people can just buy raids right? Based on your suggestion

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Posted by: Sovereign.1093

Sovereign.1093

nice. hope the old ascendeds could be turned too haha.

time to grind wvw for this too after my warbringer.

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Posted by: Char.4209

Char.4209

The new armor will not progress the achievement.

As Raider and AP hunter I thank you for this. Because having that title would eventually serve as a KP for everything and 750LI.

On the other hand I wish for new achivements with Titles for WvW and PvP armor, Just to make them equal-

btw. GJ on the Time Gate Balance:
300 LI = 23,08 Weeks
2620 WvW-Tickets = 22,46 Weeks

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Posted by: ImLegion.4018

ImLegion.4018

For me this is just stupid. Giving something and punching someone in the face. Yes you can have Legendary, no you cannot have the skin.

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Posted by: Satenia.9025

Satenia.9025

Really now?

When compared to raids, obtaining the legendary armor through both PvP and especially WvW takes literally no skill at all. Just simple time-investment.

PvP rewards you for losing, simple as that. You can lose each and every game and still get the legendary armor, it’ll just take longer. Same for WvW, which is THE game-mode with the lowest skill-ceiling of them all: Hide within the zerg and auto-attack, that’s about it. And yet again, you get rewarded for losing. Personally, I couldn’t care less if the game mode has been neglected in the past or if it takes XY time spent to get the legendary armor there, neither of this is any justification for shoving these players endgame rewards up theirs for literally zero effort other than “being there”.

Disappointing and unneeded, nothing more to add. And yes this is coming from someone who also actively PvPs, participated in all the seasons and so on and so forth. I am perfectly at home in both game modes, but can only shake my head when comparing the kind of effort required to acquire this kind of functionality in either game mode.

(… and please don’t say cosmetics, two out of the three pve legendary armors look terrible. To add further insult, obtaining them in wvw/pvp even saves you transmutation charges)

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Posted by: Rapr.8526

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Hi, this reply hasnothing to do with this topic but regardless it needs to answered… and pretty simple… IS THERE GOING TO BE SIGIL SWAPPING for legendary weaps IN GW2???.

THANKS.

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Posted by: Tiawal.2351

Tiawal.2351

When compared to raids, obtaining the legendary armor through both PvP and especially WvW takes literally no skill at all. Just simple time-investment.

…WvW, which is THE game-mode with the lowest skill-ceiling of them all: Hide within the zerg and auto-attack, that’s about it. And yet again, you get rewarded for losing.

That is different topic, but another huge problem; that’s why WvW became extremely boring and frustrating to those of us who don’t just “hide and auto-attack”. But don’t even compare “skill” required to PvE vs. PvP. Good players are still “miles” ahead that dumb AI and scripted events – but indeed are still far better (though repetitive and guessable) than many “humans” in WvW, just don’t be “inclusive” and think that every PvP/WvW player is like that.

I don’t know the details, but likely it’s still a huge grind and gold investment, beyond the items that can be acquired with WvW tickets. That means that it’s still out of reach for most WvW players, since the gold income is still extremely low, if one plays nothing but WvW. It’s still a “gift” only to those who do both WvW AND PvE. There it is, the “skilled” PvE farmers, they are loved in this game. Thanks for nothing! That’s what we deserve for touching a PvE focused game.

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Posted by: Eowin Of Rohan.2619

Eowin Of Rohan.2619

Hi,

Can we assume that those wvw/spvp gifts will be a lot cheaper than their pve equivalents, given that the resulting items will come without skins (historically the only reason for legendary prices) and that wvw (and pvp ? not sure) specific ascended armor is already a lot harder to get than its PvE equivalents ?

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Posted by: The Geil.8605

The Geil.8605

When it says Ascended WvW armor, does this work for both T2 and T3 WvW armor? Or only T2 Ascended as most people might go for.

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