Guild Wars 2

I think there’s a gap between points of view.

I’ve been playing since day one (with a few breaks) and introduction of ascended gear gave me a goal to achieve. I’m currently running 7 sets (armor+weapons+trinckets) on 5 different characters (for fotm mostly). If ascended stats were downgraded to exotic level I would rage quit, no matter any expac.
I believe this is the point of view of any vet player who has invested a lot of time in crafting these sets.

On the other hand, new players must find ascended gear really expensive to craft and might find hard to get the tiny but existing stat difference.

@ OP : I’m wondering why do you want to change ascended gear anyway? For WvW purposes? WvW is not SPvP where only skill matters. It’s actually PvPvE where strategy and equipment make a difference. How many sets have you made already? Do you realize that the only reason i’ve been playing for more than a year is to gear my toons? And I know a lot of other vet. players in the same situation.

Sorry for any misspelling.

Hello, i’ve just calculated the loss of critical damage due to the ferocity update.
I’m runing a full ascended berzerker gear on my thief, i was at 113% critical damage so , with adding base crit dmg : 263%. With the update, i am now at 221%.
We have been told that this update will lower berzerker’s damage by at maximum 10% whereas the 42% loss represents 14% of my total damage.
Why are you reducing this so much? Are you trying to make the game harder by lowering characters dps? We will just spend more time in dungeon and world boss farming, it won’t be harder.. It will just be more boring.
Don’t you think that adding real end-game content with true difficulty and rewards would keep us from leaving instead?
I believe this game has a great potential, but if you keep making it more and more casual (2 achievements for monthly?? why don’t you make several levels with better rewards each time?) and ignore old-time players you will loose what is becoming, thanks to the gemstore, a cash machine.

Please excuse my english but I don’t feel like foreign forums are being listened.

Same thing here on Vizunah Square.

Quite annoying, i can log in but client crashes every time i tried to enter a map with any of my chars.
Things were fine before patch of 3.18.2014

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