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Sorry for upping this thread but i’ve seen a problem brought up by several players and it hasn’t been answered yet.
Before the previous patch you told us to use all the glory we had because it was going to be turned off, now you’re telling us to craft all the stuff we want because pvp mats are going away; how are we supposed to get the components we need if we are at 0 glory left?
I know for sure that a lot of players have stocks of arcane powder, orbs, crystals and rank tokens but surely they lack item tokens that are the last component needed in the forge and u never get the chance to have a stock since u generally buy them for glory when u need to craft something specific.
Could you allow us to buy item tokens for silver just as we can do with pvp salvage kits so we can use at least a part of our pvp mats without it going to waste?
Pretty good build, i’ve used it as a base for the one i’m using now in solo q which is more tanky but still does good damage. Took 10 out of zeal and put into radiance for more crit chance, reset on justice and vuln on blind (i kinda felt that if u have to rely on yourself only burning is not always present on you enemy). Also using barbarian amulet with zerker jewel and runes of melandru to be able to use the big retaliation uptime with a small direct damage loss. I’m low ranked though so don’t take it too seriously, anyway i wanted to say thanks for sharing, it’s been quite helpful to me ^^
I think that you guys at Anet did not have a right perception of time-gating wrt ascended armor…. It doesn’t mean having enough stuff in stock and enough money to buy the mats on the trading post. You can craft a full set of ascended armor in a few days, just need to order bolts of damask on the tp, and have laurels and 12 of each refined ascended. Why u made bolts of damask, deldrimor steel and elonian leather tradeable? I mean seriously you made the first step of refinement account bound and the second step unbound…
To me ascended armor is not a sign of progression, it’s just a matter of materials and gold piled up. In my opinion you really understimated the impact of the trading post.
PvE-wise the biggest part of progression both horizontal and vertical now can be just substituted by “in which way i can get gold faster”?
Lodestones, t6 mats, precursors, bolts of damask, heck even legendaries.
When i see someone with a legendary i don’t feel like he has achieved something more than me. He’s just more wealthy, spent more time or was more efficient farming or had the rng on his side for the precursor drop.
Wvw rank is a good measure of progression, fractal level could be aswell but it doesn’t feel that meaningful right now.
On the other hand tons of laurels are being wasted for ascended, since it’s a time gated and account bound currency if u want to craft 2 different sets for 3 chars each light medium and heavy you’re going to spend much more than what would be reasonable (5×6×2x3=180). With 45 laurels x month being more than large you need 4 months, and that’s if u don’t spend them on anything else.
Karma and dungeon tokens also feel left out in the new ascended landscape.
Adding new trading options for those would be a good thing.
You could have karma allow to get bags of t6 mats like laurels and dungeon tokens be tradeable for specific cores+chance of lodestone (the theme should be pretty easy since u already have gifts tied to specific dungeons)
I mean trading an account bound currency for a component of a legendary would feel better than farming 100 gold and buying what i need on the tp.
I also feel like the work you’ve done with Twilight Arbor had a sad end. Tequatl feels hard but it fits into the context of ascended gear, but why should one try any harder path in a dungeon while he can just farm the easiest/fastest one?
You could add bonus challenge events (for the whole dungeon or on boss fight) with added ascended mats and chance for unique rewards, that are not good to do just to get the 5-10 achievement points and be done with it.
Yesterday got a blue screen crash just after the update (jumping puzzle in sparkfly fen) reporting dpc_watchdog_violation, today again blue screen with page_fault_in_nonpaged_area. Windows 8 professional, gt650m driver version 314.22. Had no crashes in the last few weeks in Southsun, even during crazed Karka Queen events.