Guild Wars 2

if we dont want to farm fractal for weeks or farm materials we cant realy get one. but we have badges what is after exotic level. (and no exo back item in shops btw)

The main issue is that badges are way too easy to come by.
So unless it will take several thousand badges it will be rather unbalanced compared to the other ways of getting said item.

lordkrall.7241:

The main issue is that badges are way too easy to come by.
So unless it will take several thousand badges it will be rather unbalanced compared to the other ways of getting said item.

So what, why does it always have to be hard to come by. We/I did not want this gear grind, one of the reasons people bought this game you know.

lordkrall.7241:

The main issue is that badges are way too easy to come by.
So unless it will take several thousand badges it will be rather unbalanced compared to the other ways of getting said item.

It’s not big of an issue. They promised us no gear grind so yea.
And it is already unbalanced if you look at doing guild missions 2 times over 2 weeks compared to gather 40 laurels and 50 ectos for an earpiece. And you can get rings much faster in FOTM.

And ascended weapon drop rate is probably 10 times better in fotm than everywhere else. Soon fotm heroes whine that they have bank full of ascended weapons and we haven’t got any. It was same with rings.

Ascended armor, jewelry and weapons in WvW have been a very bad idea.

Please A-Net: Ban Ascended items from WvW or make them easily accessible so we can stop the grind and play what we bought the game for: WvW.

I like to twink and yes I like to change my build now and then – not in sPVP but big scale WvW / open World PVP. Right now I don’t even know if I will even be able to ever get one full set of ascended armor for only one build and one charackter.

It’s sad to see the game go where all other MMOs have gone eventually: grinding, grinding, grinding!

If grinding is so important: Let us grind for special skins and add interesting unusual or maybe even just slightly different skins for pretty much everything we can achieve in the game. It would be a much better descision to add different looks not in the jewel store but in-game, for achievements, crafting, etc. Why not have several looks with the same stats that need very special ingredients? (But NOT the way you did recently: adding a glow to T1 light armor… where have your designers gone???)

Also they need to make all armors available through WvW cannot buy a Dire Armor in WvW.

I think ANet really, really wants us to play Fractals.

DC has already said that back pieces will be available through WvW in the future. He didn’t mention the time frame though.

style.6173:

DC has already said that back pieces will be available through WvW in the future. He didn’t mention the time frame though.

Technically they are available right now, since the material needed for them changed from Fractal stuff to Bloodstone Dust.

drop the number of laurels for ascended in WvW and up the badges. issue solved.

15 laurels and 500 badges for any ascended piece. You would only be able to pull 2-3 a month which isnt OP for a time gate itemAnd it would reward active play in WvW with a high badge cost. It would make ascended much more alt friendly.

/agree … An ascended back slot with a unique skin should have been the Season 1 reward for all players.

fractals arent that easy a source, fractal 50 maybe, but youd have to earn your way to 50 first, then you can attempt it once a day. If its like 1/20 which is pretty good odds, it will take the average person 20 days once they reach max level. And then its still a random stat combo. So yeah still way easier to buy it from WvW earnings. The biggest problem is the mental hurdle of leveling crafting. It really should not be required. The crafters can sell the parts, let there be another way to put the parts together for a slight item cost increase.

you dont need a fractal item anymore, and to be honest the fractal item was never that hard to get.

the biggest issue with ascended and WvW is dragonite imo.

i still think badge+something for ascendeds would be a fair trade

lordkrall.7241:

Technically they are available right now, since the material needed for them changed from Fractal stuff to Bloodstone Dust.

I thought this was still broken. Is it working now?

not like exotic → ascended is such a huge stat gain on a back piece item.
please dont encourage more farmers to join wvw

Psst you already can get them with the last patch:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Symon%27s_History_of_Ascalon

See second recipe.

Yeah, as Jayne pointed out, as of the last patch you can obtain an Ascended Back item without stepping foot in a single Fractal. The mats will run you about 100g assuming you have none on hand, and you should be overflowing with Bloodstone Dust just from running WvW unless all you do is roam and kill other players.

Liquid.9672:

Yeah, as Jayne pointed out, as of the last patch you can obtain an Ascended Back item without stepping foot in a single Fractal. The mats will run you about 100g assuming you have none on hand, and you should be overflowing with Bloodstone Dust just from running WvW unless all you do is roam and kill other players.

You cannot make the quiver of 1000 arrows with bloodstone dust. No word if that is working as intended.

Sanduskel.1850:

You cannot make the quiver of 1000 arrows with bloodstone dust. No word if that is working as intended.

Clearly it is not working as intended, seeing as they said in the patch notes that ALL of them would be craftable without Fractal materials.
Thus it is a bug.

and the 250 skales are still a problem. in fractal you have fancy loots but here… what i suggest is change the t6 mat for something what we can buy for badges.

T6 mats aren’t easy for anyone to get, in any game mode. That’s one grind you’ll have to resign yourself to suffer through.

lordkrall.7241:

Sanduskel.1850:

You cannot make the quiver of 1000 arrows with bloodstone dust. No word if that is working as intended.

Clearly it is not working as intended, seeing as they said in the patch notes that ALL of them would be craftable without Fractal materials.
Thus it is a bug.

Unlikely to be a bug. The magic find gear recipes are obsolete, and using them to bypass the price of powerful bloods probably isn’t intended. I think it’s more likely that the patch notes were incomplete.

Actually, I would willingly buy the Mats. It’s the vial of essence I refuse to farm because I hate fractals and rng.

I like to fight non-stop in this game.

I don’t farm, I don’t craft, I don’t run fractals, and because of that I don’t have nearly the same access to gear that other people have flooding their bank space.

I should be rewarded for being an effective killer, not for smacking resource nodes and standing at a crafting station. This takes time and gold away from the things I would rather be doing.

Ascended gear for exclusive wvw players should have been in from the start.

The issue for me isn’t the ascended grind – the issue is the build lock-in.

You literally can’t switch from power build to a condi build without repeating the grind all over again.

You can’t switch your build to have more toughness and less crit damage or vice versa without repeating the ascended grind again.

Given the massive grind involved stats need to be freely customisable on ascended gear to that we can have more build variety.

Build variety helps with player engagement because they can continue to enjoy their class with another build and not have to go through all of the grind every time Arenanet nerfs their favourite build’s OP trait/skill.

Basically every ascended and legendary item needs to have selectable stats that you can just switch whenever you are out of combat.

I am an alt-oholic and I have resigned myself to exotic armour and weapons because everything is too expensive and time consuming for someone that likes to try different builds all the time.

To me, the game is WvW – I do not find gear acquisition fun in any way.

dzeRnumbrd.6129:

The issue for me isn’t the ascended grind – the issue is the build lock-in.

This is very true. That’s why I’m only intending to make one Ascended armor set for my characters, and it’s going to be a mixed set that’s capable of suiting various builds.

Sanduskel.1850:

Actually, I would willingly buy the Mats. It’s the vial of essence I refuse to farm because I hate fractals and rng.

Then go with something else.
If it is indeed not doable due to it being a cheap way to get any stats (which I didn’t really think about at first I admin) then it most likely won’t work with Vial of Mist Essence either.

pve players can buy everything, they have money and loot. wvw players are strucked in exotic level or maybe have enough money to craft 1 max 2 ascended.
the problem: we need to play pve for the good gears while pve players no reason to play wvw