Guild Wars 2

So, currently the only way to get Ascended armor is through drops, or a painstaking crafting exercise. Couldn’t there be alternative ways?

Maybe if you could “Upgrade” dungeon equipment to ascended by a simple Mystic Forge recipe:

Dungeon Armor Piece + Appropriate Gift of … + 250 Bloodstone Dust + 10-25 Dark Matter = Appropriately Statted Ascended Armorpiece

For example, to create Zojja’s Breastplate (Or maybe just the same skin but with ascended stats), you could for example go with Flame Legion Chestplate:

Flame Legion Chestplate + Gift of Baelfire + 250 Bloodstone Dust + 25 Dark Matter = Flame Legion Chestplate (Ascended)/Zojja’s Chestplate

Overall, this would also serve to work as a sink for all that Bloodstone Dust you accumulate through dungeons. Alternatively, you could use Empyreal Fragments as well.

Overview:
All recipes include Bloodstone Dust/Empyreal Fragments and Dark Matter.

AC Ascended Armor: Ascalonian Armorpiece + Gift of Ascalon
CM Ascended Armor: Noble Armorpiece + Gift of the Nobleman
TA Ascended Armor: Nightmare Armorpiece + Gift of Thorns
SE Ascended Armor: Dredge Armorpiece + Gift of the Forgeman
CoF Ascended Armor: Flame Legion Armorpiece + Gift of Baelfire
HoTW Ascended Armor: Kodan Armorpiece + Gift of the Sanctuary
CoE Ascended Armor: Inquest Armorpiece + Gift of Knowledge
Arah Ascended Armor: Arah Armorpiece + Gift of Zhaitan
WvW Ascended Armor: Invader’s Armorpiece + Gift of Battle

MidoriMarch.8067:

Nerf warriors best at everything

highest toughness
highest HP
having massive attack damage while extremely tanky + healing signet hp regen OP
having ridiculous mobility that outruns thief
having 20k+ hp and 2600+ toughness while wearing full berserk set having massive attack damage
+ more

I have all professions and warriors are far superior than any other classess while its extremely easy to play u can just facepalm everything in pve/pvp/wvw.

This is not the forum you are looking for. Move along.

I guess Twilight and Eternity.

dual daggers, because cool

As the Scarlet arc has gone by i’ve been enjoying it more and more. Anet is really starting to get good with the living story (Tower, Marionette, and Edge of the mists were all good imo). I still dislike the Scarlet storyline in general but I’ve been coming to like it more due to the higher amounts of storytelling. I just wish they had done that from the start.

That being said…If the “change the face of Tyria forever” is ONLY the destruction of Lion’s Arch, i’m going to be very disappointed as I would be expecting something much more.

Gabby.3205:

I want this.
I want to see the world changing, and I don’t care if the changes are made by Scarlet, Abaddon or Lord Faren.

I’d be down for Lord Faren changing the world. Unlike Scarlet, he’s well written, his character makes sense and he doesn’t break the lore. He’s annoying, sure, but that’s part of his charm.

I do! but i think the elder dragon will be Season 2 of the Living Story. Scarlet is only the beginning of the end.

Who still thinks a dragon is coming?

Way to big map for only 2 WP’s. After several wipes you’re just tired to waste time on runnin.

This is a huge joke. Almost like anet is trolling on purpose with this. WvW is the only reason i play this game and at this point looks like the reason im going to leave. This is garbage. Strategy? Its numbers all over again. Move away from this zerg kitten. You think putting a bunch of cliffs in this will make it “strategic” get real.

Buttercup.5871:

Recipes for stat combinations are not vanity items.

Yet ANet did not realise this after the whole ‘Sentinel’ stat set debacle.

It’s almost like they don’t care.

Buttercup.5871:

Recipes for stat combinations are not vanity items.

I was skeptical about this argument at first, but this is a solid point. I agree with this.

I bought old one because i liked. Why you updated in this new one ugly armor wich i DONT like and not let people who already bought old skin to keep it. I request refund too!

Josh Davis.6015:

English patch notes have been updated.

Josh what about the Wurm? Is the loot table still as appalling as before?

You mean an actual chance to get something via playing? Not a chance…must’ve been a typo.

Recently I pug teamed with a strange guy who asked for zerker only members, claiming (rightly) that this results in a superior dps, and then he played rifle all the time, almost never going melee. And when people offered to relog to defensive chars, he was in strong opposition.
Guessing from his other remarks like “if I’m in a group which is not zerkers only I die too often” he was instinctively looking for bodyguards or maybe scapegoats to prevent frequent dying he suffered in recent runs.

I believe that this guy is a victim of the everpresent demand for zerker only gear and max dps at survivability cost. He is unable to play zerker but forced into it, which result in his funny tactics – equipping a rifle and staying at a safe range all the time. And it works – for him at least. He has the low protection of zerker gear, and a low damage since he uses a rifle which works best as a support weapon, not the main damage source, but he can claim he is a proper full zerker.

The morale of the story:
we need a viable option for players with a ranged dps playstyle (buff rangers)
we need some useful defensive/support builds

Being defensive is a stigma for a good reason – defensive characters are safe themselves, but they do not contribute to the group enough. The solution might be to add some strong party wide damage buffs or something.

Guardian is the most balanced class among all classes.
Warrior is the most imbalanced class among all classes.

Guardians hardly ever get buffed, they remain mostly unchanged patch after patch.
Warriors only ever get buffed, they simply become more broken patch after patch.

There should be a means to unlock stats on any ascended item. I have a link to a similar idea in my signature.

I salvaged well in the thousands of exotics (ranging in between level 70-79). The rate seems to be 1:4 (or 25%). Meaning for every 4 exotics you salvage you get 1 Glob of Dark matter. Sometimes you get 1, sometimes 3, that’s just RNG. But I had well over 2 stacks of ecto for every 1 stack of glob of dark matter. I’ll agree that the droprate is a bit low, but you don’t need that many. I still have a few stacks in the bank and I wouldn’t know what to do with them.

I used Mystic Salvage Kits for all of them.

no more please, stop it with gear creep :X

Mate please do not tell me how many poor mobs, namely charr, died for my ascended pants…

10/10 would lol again