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Well you first explain how the stats don’t matter at all and then you say they are the only reason to ever to craft ascended items. This contradicts itself.
If the stats are irrelevant now, there is already no reason to craft ascended gear according to your statement.
However I see a lot of players using it.
It appears to me like the stats are indeed very significant, so much, that they justify the massive grind required to get them.
“If the stats are irrelevant now, there is already no reason to craft ascended gear according to your statement.”
This^ There are many threads explaining just how meaningless ascended is. One reddit poster even did the math and showed that wearing ascended while in lower level zones nerfs you because of scaling.
There really is not reason to make the armor unless you’re like me and just have nothing else to work towards.
Wow, thar reddit poster and you are so clueless. Example : full exotic is 1000 power. You get downscaled, u now have 50% of it, thats 500.
Full ascended is 1100 power, now same downscaling 50% thats 550. How on earth did you get more nerfed by having stronger gearYou’re assuming that down-scaling is a flat percentage reduction. What if it isn’t? It’s easy enough for someone to test, and in the posts I’ve seen discussing the issue, the poster claims to have looked at the actual numbers — the regular L80 numbers and the down-scaled (green) numbers while in a lower level.
Another way to do it (and this is for discussion only, I’m not saying it works this way) would be with a hard cap on stats. That is, your power will be no higher than the power attainable by an on-level character in Tier X gear.
So, where did you get the information that down-scaling is a flat percentage reduction?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_level_adjustment
The information on the wiki page is inconclusive. The first note suggests that stats are reduced multiplicatively. However, the intro section states, "For example, in PvE, a character with an actual level of 50 in a level 10 area will have their attributes reduced to an “effective level” equal to a level 11 character (maximum level for the area +1)." This suggests max stat caps, though those with mad math skills may be able to display an equation that could accomplish the same thing via multiplication.
That might be true, but the same downscale ‘rule’ would apply for both characters, one in full exo and the other full ascended. Worst case is that they are the same if it gets hard capped to a certain amount. In no scenario would wearing stronger gear make you weaker than a dude with gear thats worse than yours
Well you first explain how the stats don’t matter at all and then you say they are the only reason to ever to craft ascended items. This contradicts itself.
If the stats are irrelevant now, there is already no reason to craft ascended gear according to your statement.
However I see a lot of players using it.
It appears to me like the stats are indeed very significant, so much, that they justify the massive grind required to get them.
“If the stats are irrelevant now, there is already no reason to craft ascended gear according to your statement.”
This^ There are many threads explaining just how meaningless ascended is. One reddit poster even did the math and showed that wearing ascended while in lower level zones nerfs you because of scaling.
There really is not reason to make the armor unless you’re like me and just have nothing else to work towards.
Wow, thar reddit poster and you are so clueless. Example : full exotic is 1000 power. You get downscaled, u now have 50% of it, thats 500.
Full ascended is 1100 power, now same downscaling 50% thats 550. How on earth did you get more nerfed by having stronger gear
Since you had to say : I am not a troll, I assumed you are. Then I read what you wrote. Yep, troll confirmed