Guild Wars 2

Thanks, yes i have contributed to that too. Interestingly many posts there too on the Ascended scam.

1 Ascended gear – exposed devs as cynical deceivers
2 Tying Ascended gear to crafting and making it character bound and un tradeable which means for BIS gear you HAVE to craft. WHY
3 Creation of massive grind – for Ascended gear
4 Enabling Ascended gear to be used in Wvw – disable this and who cares if you have ascended in PvE. In PvP of any kind it is counter the GW principles.
5 Most importantly – abandonment of GW principles of one time purchase for level playing field fun. Greed took over at A Net office – the entire ethos is now – how can we get people to buy gems with real money. Hence you have armour sets for sale that you have to repeatedly transmute. Exotic gear now made obsolete. Need i go on………..

Well many players are having the same reaction as me. ie – a loss of interest in the game, no desire to play alts, depression at being sold out to the grind. I have now suspended levelling of my guard and since I am not a crafter I won’t be able to access ascended gear apart from trinkets anyway – so i’m locked out. Don’t mention drops please lol.
This ascended gear feels like a real cynical ploy cleverly dropped in on a community of – lets be honest – we are game addicts – who they know they can exploit some more. They want your cash for gems, for transmutation stones, for all that goes with the need to acquire BIS gear. Think on that.

It is quite simple. I played GW1 and it was a brilliant game, why – well principally because it was about skill. You levelled to 20 with as many characters you wanted. You went to the armour crafter with the materials that you could easliy get at l20 – he made your level 20 armour. Then you went out and played. Alliance battles were such fun because all had the same stats, a level playing field and it was all about the builds and player skill. THAT is what marked GW1 out. Remember the pro GVG matches – awesome.

The developers sold this game as innovative with GW1 values akittens heart, different to the other MMO’s on the market and led me to believe that there would be a level playing field with skill and builds again being what it was all about. In other words fun.

I am afraid that they LIED to me and the whole community. This really angers me that they so callously misrepresented the game and their intentions. Personally i have sunk a lot of money and time into levelling multiple characters to 80 with exotic gear and weapons because i like to try all the builds and love wvw.
Now the goalposts move and i sadly won’t even have access to top tier weapons on the TP even. I must craft which is not for me.
I played LOTRO after GW1 and got sick of the constant moving of the goalposts – i could never keep up and always felt like my character was worse than others. i stopped playing to come here with high hopes that this was a no grind game. High hopes that GW1 values would give me the same years of enjoyment. Since the news about ascended weapons and armour it is clear that the original values have been corrupted and the game is now just another MMO. They will say that the differences are minimal in stats etc but that is not the point. It is the psychological effect of seeing your hard earned character stats and gear instantly dropped from top tier (legendaries were irrelevant stat wise) to 2nd rate (however long this takes). Also like others i now realise that Alts are clearly no longer possible which completely destroys a big part of my enjoyment of this game. VARIETY has been killed off. It is just not realistic to gear multiple characters now. Now i am stressed about the game – why – because i know i will always have that carrot in front of my nose. I left LOTRO because i didn’t want that carrot any more. I have overnight lost interest in all my alts and in the game. Developers – you will not get any more of my money. You deceived us all and made a good but bog standard MMO with in build grind. You ultimately have failed to have sufficient courage to see your grand experiment through. It would have been successful without gear progression. Traits, builds, new skills, new content, accessible challenging and fun pvp (like alliance battles) would have kept me and others interested. I know many people who are just downright bored and disillusioned with this game now. I’m sorry but so am i !

I just don’t like being misled , lied to and to see a great game sold down the river of grind.
Over and out.