Guild Wars 2

Seems like a good thing to me if you really think about it. Exotic armor is pretty boring; just stats for you to skin however you like. If Ascended armor has bonus effects that makes each one unique or interesting it can add a nice layer to getting loot that isn’t there currently. This also isn’t tiered progression. Tiered progression would be getting more exotics just higher stats. This seems to be a whole new level of gear that hopefully more varied then what we have atm.

I believe they have said something about balancing underwater combat but don’t have any quotes for you.

They should make it so you have a chance to salvage a skin from your spvp gear to be used outside the mists; or maybe a rare chance to get an appropriate rank item skin instead of the pvp armor from pvp chests. Atm some gear looks are just unobtainable outside of spvp and would be a good way to alleviate that.

they could really just make p/p that playstyle with a couple trait changes.

I have no trouble in pve with s/d and shadow rejuvenation and sometimes shadow protector(not if someone else is using Regen; it says it gives allies regen but that also includes YOU). Almost doesn’t seem fair.

If they buffed richochet or gave pistols a piercing trait p/p would be so much better.

They need guild commander option that costs influence so you can actually form large groups with your guilds.

Much of the stalwart medium armor is missing from the pve game. Most notably the shoulders and helmet; two of which are the most recognizable and to me are very desired looks. I remember back in BWE1 that the helmet actually showed but as a really low level common drop headgear but since then they have made every common drop piece look exactly the same.

On this subject, I really think they need to be diversifying the world drop/karma vendor looks on armor. Just adding the stalwart and commando looks into loot drops would be a big start.