Guild Wars 2

Balsa.3951:

It’s a zone and if u don’t want mounts just don’t go in there. Some like mounts they can go there chilling playing doin screenshots. Some hate mounts just don’t go there.

I don’t like craptoss so my solution is I don’t join that activity.

Having a single zone with mounts is rather useless. The main reason for mounts would be to use them across the world, not sit with them in a single zone. That said, I’d like to know what valid counterargument there is to having mounts in this game. Excuse my ignorance in this regard, but all I’ve ever seen said is “there are waypoints, so we don’t need mounts” and “this game doesn’t have mounts, so deal with it”, neither of which are strong arguments. Either way, the final decision of this game’s development will be decided by the creators, not us, so I’ll let it be what it is, but my stance will countinue to be in support of mounts for this game.

First, I’d like to state that I like the idea of Ascended Gear and the new dungeon as well. I enjoyed progressing from Masterwork to Rare to Exotic Gear at a reasonable pace (not very slow like other MMOs but not too quickly). And soon I’ll be progressing to full Ascended Gear as it starts to come out and I am fine with it taking some time to get as that is what will keep me and others still playing this game, some sort of progression (although I would prefer that no more higher gear tiers be added after this point, only new gear with the same stats). What I’m not okay with though is….

1. The only way to currently get Ascended Gear is through the Fractals dungeon. This restricts that game right there. Forcing people to play this dungeon just to get the gear that they want. Rare and exotic worked well as you could get it from crafting, loot, trading post, coin, WvW, and Karma. It gave people options and allowed everyone to play how they wanted to. I believe everyone would be fine with this gear if it was obtainable in the same number of ways that exotics are. That way people will achieve it just from playing how they wish, instead of being restricted to this one dungeon or dungeons in general if this continues into the future. Now, it is still early and all the Ascended Gear isn’t even out, so I have hope that it won’t take the road of dungeon only gear.

2. Fractals of the Mists is great, but it has too many difficulty tiers which completely ruins it. It divides people so much it is starting to get very bad in-game. It’s becoming hard to find a group for lower levels as everyone has been grinding away to get to higher tiers and there is no reason to play lower tiers. I’m a player who plays all content in moderation, so I can’t keep up with this and now I’m stuck at level 3 in this dungeon unable to find a group. I would say either let us play all difficulties without having to do the previous one, but greatly up the difficulty, or please restrict it to only about 5 difficulty tiers so it doesn’t take forever to catch up (or any other way that works). Just don’t keep the current way as it restricts and divides us players way too much.

Adding this dungeon and new gear tier to the game wasn’t necessary bad, but how it was added is bad. With the Ascended gear coming only from this dungeon and the dungeon having so many difficulty tiers with lower tiers being mostly useless, the game is becoming restricted to many players and will soon become unbalanced if Ascended Gear continues to only come from dungeons. Please take this into consideration AN, and to anyone who reads feel free to add in your thoughts as well.

Yes, I know there is a Thread already about the Ascended Gear and people are all going to scream out their concerns and hopes there, but I just want those people who say that Ascended Gear will ruin the game and they are so disappointed about it to understand something about the gear (new and old) and my voice will never be heard in that thread.

When you first turned level 80, I’m pretty sure you didn’t have any exotics and few or no rares too. Dungeons were a little harder to do with the lower tiered gear, but still doable. Nobody was excluding you from dungeons just because of your gear. Or any other content because of your gear. Nor was good gear required to do anything in the game. Over time there was/is a mix of players, lower level, max level, low tiered gear, and exotic gear. But still, nobody was excluded from anything nor were you forced to get better gear for something. WvW was a little harder without your Exotic gear, but it didn’t make a huge difference.

Point is, gear always made a slight difference, but it didn’t decide anything. So with the introduction of Ascended Gear, it’s not going to be any different then how it was before. Now there is just going to be something else to work towards, which is good for the survival of the game. There is not going to be any new or different grind that wasn’t already present. There is not going to be a gear treadmill and nobody is going to be forced to get this gear to be able to participate in something or be effective in combat. So please calm down people, and for one, you haven’t even seen this update and how the new gear will play out. If it truly turns out to your disliking, then by all means, do as you wish about it.