Guild Wars 2

The biggest issue I have with the implementation of ascended gear, the primary thing personally blocking my progression, is the artificial time-gating through Laurals. Time-gated content is not fun at all and this really needs to be resolved as it is killing my enjoyment of the game. Having made 8 ascended weapons and 1 peice of armor so far (will be making a 2nd after reset later after doing the daily) I find the use of Laurals to buy a single armor stat slot recipe (and only for that armor class) to be absurd and sickening.

As someone with 8 level 80s the design of this is just pure frustration for those of us who have alts and play them regularly. And what about those with alts who like to run different stat sets depending on what they are doing (dungeons, WvW, soloing) to play different roles? The time-gated requirements of Laurals are pure insanity when you consider such things. Using Laurals would be fine if everyone was restricted to playing only a single class, however that is not the reality of the situation for myself and many, many others. I realistically should not have to wait for almost a full YEAR just to do every daily and monthly only so I can get all recipes needed to get all my characters geared up in top tier armor and weapons, that is absurd and goes against the core features discussed in interviews prior to launch and me purchasing the game. The original statements made about the lack of gear grind and the manifesto were the primary reasons I ever considered buying GW2 and recommending it to friends.

Give us a way to earn Laurals and stop with this time-gated nonsense. Why not allow us to convert karma or dungeon tokens into Laurals? Why weren’t like a dozen Laurals given as a reward from the WvW season 1 chests? Why not make Laurals a reward for some Living Story meta completions?

I’m not asking for Laurals to be removed or anything so dramatic, I just want to see other means of earning them that aren’t purely time-restricted through such things as dailys, monthlies, or achievement milestones.

As for the topic of ascended box drops. Out of doing countless world bosses, temple clears, hours upon hours of WvW, various fractals, and easily thousands of champion boxes opened since the introduction of ascended weapons, I have yet to have a single ascended weapon box drop and I have talked to countless others who are in the same situation. The droprate is far, far too low to be meaningful. Should one actually get lucky enough to have an ascended weapon box drop, the chances are it will be a stat set that won’t be desirable for them. I would strongly prefer we get a weapon box and pick the stats instead of getting a box of a certain stat and then choosing the weapon. Same could be said for ascended armor boxes assuming they function in the same manner.

Just opened on Northern Shiverpeaks (US) @ 7:55 PM PST.

Uncontested on Northern Shiverpeaks (US) at 6:20 PM PST.

Just re-opened it on Northern Shiverpeaks (US) at 6:50 PM PST.

Looking at the map it is still open on NSP. Make sure you aren’t in overflow or it will still show as contested. Not sure how much longer it will remain open though. We will likely clear it again in a few hours after it goes contested again.

Edit: Contested now.

Just opened on Northern Shiverpeaks (US) at 3:05PM PST.

Just opened on NSP at 6:45 PM PST.

Edit: Defend event completed at 8:40 PST. Should remain open for about 1 more hour.

Grenth just opened on NSP.

Edit: Contested now.

Vol.5241:

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Vol.5241:

You do know that event rewards (the exp,karma and coin) are not affected by DR right? What did you expect? More gold for each event completed?

And what do you want? Guaranteed rares in each chest?

You’re wrong. You do get hit with DR with the exp, karma, and coin.

Here is proof.

That shows nothing.

Show me another screenshot of that same event on that same character and level with different reward amounts for the gold medal.

Here is my level 80 in Cursed Shore after only playing for 2-3 hours this morning. To make matters even worse I had karma booster going with almost half the time left on it by the time I noticed. I was not just farming the same events either, I was doing a loop going around with the R&D Camp tar elementals, Jofast caravan escort, Jofast defend event, Fia escort and gorilla vet, Penitent defend event, Shelter’s Gate defend event, Scholar Zepa & the vet risen chicken, Graveborn’s Landing defend event, the vet spider near Graveborn’s Landing, and the Rakkan events (not in that order obviously).

DR on event rewards needs to be fixed or just completely removed. It is not fun. 889 XP, 19 karma, and 9 copper is just insulting and a waste of time. I’m not even sure how many events I had completed before I even noticed, for all I know that could have been happening from the moment I logged in.