Guild Wars 2

This is just dissapointing.

1.- Introduction of an inbetween was unnecesary, first of all, legendaries are the same as exotics, so actually these ascended are more powerfull than legendaries.

2.- Legendaries are no hard to get, they are not a “long term goal” they are just booring to get, cause you have to grind the hell out to get one, and be favored by RNG gods to be “legendary” so again, a flawled desing in this category, the legendaries, has become a game-level event. Legendaries do have nothing legendary on them, they should be called gridingdaries or RNGdaries, but you do NOTHING legendary to get them.

3.- This is the first step on power creep, and this isn`t even be doing by lack of content, is being doing just for the flawled desing of lengendary items adquisitions and the “wall” that actually, no one cares. And after this the Snowball effect begins, now the ball is going downhill and will not stop.

4.- So you are now aiming to “hardcore” too? well, adding farming isn`t something hardcore, you are aiming now to a deadbrain playerbase of zombies that think grind is fun and rewarding while is not. Harder and deeper combat mechanics would be hardcore, a whole hardcore level dificulty will be hardcore, new and harder bosses that requiere actual tactics and not just zerg autoattack spam would be hardcore, you miss the whole point here, by lightyears.

5.- The color of the ascended category is terrible, please change that.

You have betrayed most your playerbase and your true fans, you have betrayed yourselves and your manifesto. For what, grindkittens of other games? This is terrible ArenaNet, and you should feel shame.

I will give a glance at this new equipment and see how hard to get it is, if it takes me more than a day to get a piece of it, i leave the game, there is a whole fkn world of grinding games out there which are really more cool than this. You have killed the only one thing that make GW2 stand out from the rest.

This Ascended/Infusion crap IS the gear treadmill, however much you pretend it isn’t.

I have no idea why you want to turn this game into WoW. I don’t really care, because I won’t be playing it.

Panda Shepard.1248:

lordkrall.7241:

I love how people always over-react to things before we have ANY kind of information.

For all we know the “slightly better stats” means an increase of 5 points. Guess what?
Those 5 points won’t make the player immortal.

And for all we know this set is specific for the dungeon, meaning we can ONLY use it in the dungeons.

Stop whining until we actually know what is going on.

You can’t stop them. They just like to complain about things before they even know what they’re complaining about. They’re not gonna get the devs to change this update. Best to wait and stop them from doing it again when we know more info.

Older and wiser than you, kiddo. We know exactly what we’re talking about. This isn’t a new idea. It’s an old idea that bored millions of players out of WoW and that angered thousands out of LOTRO. Pretending that history and industry context don’t matter is just naive. On the SWTOR boards, we got the same sort of fanboys tossing out the same “wait and see if classically bad ideas will somehow magically work this time,” the same pop psychology put-downs of critics to insulate their brains from unpleasant realities, until they realized they were standing in an empty game talking to themselves.

Omega.1473:

No, this isn’t because of the core audience not paying up. This is because P.O.S no-lifers spent 1000 hours in the game since launch and are now complaining because they’ve done everything in the game faster than any development team can hope to keep up with. Now those whiny MMO addicts have twisted the one game that didn’t pander to them.

This pretty much sums up the change right here.

This was the one game that got rid of the bottomless pit of casual player inferiority and it was great for 3 whole months. As a casual player, I could actually participate in dungeons, gear up to max, make an impact in WvWvW and feel like I actually was having fun and completing things.

But what now? All this says to me is that ANet doesn’t care about those people as much as they care about the people they NEVER marketed to in the beginning. They found a niche that so many casual players had called out for for so long and they did it well. Why ruin it?

Like QisforQadim said above : The core audience will not forget this. We obviously don’t matter to Anet and we should treat them as such.

I played in the betas. I wanted this game so badly, I couldn’t even imagine how it must have felt to be a GW1 player and waited years for it. And now this.

I used to watch the manifesto video every week during beta. I would just sit there and say ‘thank you’ to Arenanet, even though they couldn’t hear me. It would bring me to tears to think of being given a game that finally…finally!…broke the mold.

At cap level everyone would be equal. Equal. WvW equal. PvE equal. Dungeons equal. Everyone. Gear was for looks, not stats.

I am stunned. For those folks that want gear progression…that say it’s only for the dungeon, so it’s ok (even though it’s also gated now)…
Will you take off that gear outside the dungeon?
Will you not wear it in WvW?
Oh, and all the folks with legendary that will get bumped up now…will you not bring that to WvW?

Gear progression affects the whole game. I am not in a guild (except my own) so far, but in other games, there was always pressure from the guild to “go on the raid” so you can “get better gear”. I am over it. I am sick of it. I am so sad this is happening. I’m sure watching the manifesto right now would bring me to tears again…but not for the same reason.