Guild Wars 2

tkalamba.2541:

Rin.1046:

tkalamba.2541:

The gap has nothing to do with stats, but the time investment from getting a exotic vs a Legendary. You can get your full set of Exotic armour in about 3 days after hitting level 80. Likely sooner if you knew what you were doing, solely through regular play. Legendaries on the other hand require a rather large time/resource investment. There is such a large gap inbetween. They are giving players something to work towards in the end game. I had all my exotic (minus jewellery, never bothered) before I even finished my personal story.

I understand and agree with this, but why the stat boost? They could have achieved this without a boost in stats very easily.

The stats boost offered isn’t even proportional to the difference between Rare to Exotic. It’s there to differentiate Ascended from Exotic likely, sure it may not have been needed. But they wanted people to weigh the option of using a customizable exotic, or using the Ascended to avoid Exotics becoming fully pointless. So Ascended get a slight stat increase to be useful, but given the significant disadvantage of not being customizable. You can a full set of Ascended, but none of the stats could suit your build… which where as an Exotic set decked out with your chosen Sigils, Jewels, and Runes will be built specifically to your needs.

It’s not a direct upgrade in the same way that going from Rare to Exotic was. It’s more of Option A vs Option B. Which would you prefer? Having a set of Ascended that doesn’t suit your build, or the flexibility of Exotics? This prevents one overshadowing the other. The stat upgrade is so small, that it will barely alter your characters stat pool. The +5 stats over an exotic we’ve seen on that ring, out of your characters total pool is so small, it won’t affect anything.

You may be able to work Ascended gear to match your build, but we don’t know if all stats will be available, or if they will all use a primary stat of magic find.

I’m sorry mate bit.. wrong =( . You see, in ONE ITEM it is 5 stats. that means, in all 5 pieces of jewelery its +25, and in all armor another +25, so aprox. +50 of one stat. I am sorry, but that’s not a ‘slight’ edge. What they are encouraging is not new builds, or build A or B, but now some builds won’t even be viable. Say you had this fun vitcrit build (example). If there are no vit+crit ascended items your builds goes to trash.

(My humble opinion).

First of all: I don’t like ascended items the way they are.

The good news is that I thought of a solution..

I will try to explain a nice solution for this . I hope this is implemented this way , so please support this post (I hope it doesn’t sink in the post storm)

The big issue is that the whole grinding of exotic gear goes to the trash with ascended items, and we DO fall into a threadmill. So my suggestion is: why not UPGRADE an exotic item into an ascended one?

For example, in this image:
http://wac.7725.edgecastcdn.net/807725/website/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Ascended-EN.png

we see the two rings.. so why not put the [Orichalcum ring of the explorer] and, say, 120 [new dungeon tokens] inte the mystic forge to obtain [Yakkington’s Ring]? it perfectly fits, and this way your exotic gear just gets upgraded and you don’t have to trash it! Note that to make that upgrade you just need to run the new dungeon twice. It could be once also, but the idea is that the grinding is kept at a minimum.

Please vote for this, I think its by far the best choice!