Guild Wars 2

I’m not fond of any of the ascended armor looks, which is why when I finally do get there, I will be sure to have at least 6 transmutation charges.
Problem Solved.

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

So wait.. you want Ascended weapons, which already have the same LEVEL of stats as legendary to be able to swap stats around just like a legendary?

Essentially you want a Weapon with Legendary stats and capabilities for like one tenth the cost…

ummm no…. that’s a horrible idea…

Well, to be fair, that’s exactly what legendaries were before ascended weapons came out. Extremely expensive weapons with the same stats and capabilities as exotics.

Disagree.

Being non level 80 is boring.

Kohlteth.3715:

How about a compromise, able to trade with our friends ?

But you can already mail things to friends. I do it all the time.

Dont blow your money on ascended gear.

• ascended gear should never have been added to the game. it is the epitome of Anet betraying their promise to not have a gear grind or a pay2win system.
• fortunately, its only marginally better than exotic gear. a full set (which is prohibitively expensive) is about a 10% stat improvement.
• If you ever plan on changing the type of stats you wear on your gear, ascended is not a practical investment. Maybe today your ranger is traps and has a good critical hit chance, but next month you decide to play with signets instead and no longer want to have 30 points in skirmishing. When you do that, you would probably want to get some gear with precision to make up for the loss of precsion when you took points out of the skirmishing tree. If you invested 700g making ascended armor/weapons of one type, now that armor isnt useful because you want to try a different spec. If you were only wearing exotics, the cost for changing into new gear (and the loss of not using the old gear) is MUCH lower.
• WvW is incredible. Its not done nearly as well in GW2 as it has been done in other games (like DAoC), but it still is by far the best mode GW2 has to offer. Check it out sometime. Capture a keep with your son, die together getting run over by enemy players, save each other from thieves!
• Through daily rewards (Laurels) and WvW tokens, you can get ascended jewelry from vendors in the WvW starting areas. This is nice because its much cheaper than crafting it, and also because you can transfer the jewelry to whatever character that would benefit from it if you decide those stats no longer work for the original character’s build. While you can “thoeretically” transfer ascended armor and weapons around, the odds that your other characters would make use of your ranger’s weapons or armor are very low (as only your engineer could share the leather and only the guardian attempt to use of a few ranger weapons like sword or torch)
• The game is meant to be played at the exotic level. If your other 80’s are in less than full exotics, they are not as strong as what a level 80 is expected to be.

short story:

• get full exotics for every toon you play regularly
• experiment with wvw
• if you want ascended stuff, start with jewelry first as it is the most transferable and far cheaper to acquire

Yes

Plot twist: he used a glitch/exploit to get that, now you’re the one getting banned.

1 ascended ring = 10 ecto and 10 dark matter on salvage please!

As good feedback should always go both ways, is there any question you would like to ask the player base?

Edit: If so, please create a separate topic for it

After the patch drops there are going to be a lot of threads all over the place about where to find this and that. I think the ambition of this system deserves its own place. There are certain to be a lot of players who will make the ‘collections’ game their GW2 life’s work.

saalle.4623:

Useless feature

For you.

I’m beyond ecstatic.

This post is valuable and benefits the community greatly.

But not enough to keep me playing.

I’ve been playing since release. 2 years now. I’ve been an avid supporter of this game since forever. Spent more money than I care to think about. And while living story has temporarily changed or modified some of the zones we’ve been staring at for the past 2 years, and added a whopping one (southsun), I need something fresh and new.

Dry Top was neat – but it was and still is being released so slowly that I’m already burnt out on going to that zone. WvW hasn’t changed except for one new map that’s a giant yawn fest. And PvP hasn’t changed, save rewards. Same maps. For 2 years. (except the one everyone hates)

An MMO needs more substantial change, more frequently. This is the only MMO I’ve ever heard of that hasn’t released a major expansion in it’s first 2 years. With seemingly zero plans to do so in the near future.

Time for a break. This is my feedback.

You guys move more slowly than Blizzard does.

gobax.6185:

Just bought 300keys cause of sale and havent got one ;c

Well, that explains why the exchange rate spiked. XD

because gold ingots cant change your hairstyle

So i was wondering, why collecting 5 legendaries give the same amount of AP and NO title compared to having twice the same legendary? That seems to make no sense to me

For gamers definitely not. For Anet and NCsoft most likely yes.
LS is very low cost development that keeps the game just alive enough to make profit from the cash shop.

For those of us who do not want to or simply dont have the time to do hours and hours of LS. Some of the new recipes look very interesting to try with different builds.

Civilis.2547:

Heavy armors would salvage for metal or cloth
Medium armors would salvage for leather or cloth
Light armors would salvage for cloth or leather
Bows would salvage for wood or leather
Other weapons would salvage for metal or wood

This.
It costs cloth to make it, I should be able to salvage cloth from it.

there are some sigil types that can’t be crafted, their high tp price tends to reflect that

Morsus.5106:

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

Hi everyone,

The article about profession system only presented the idea behind this system and we generally don’t give precise details about these systems unless these details are needed to understand the idea. In this case we can’t share details but we want to reassure players that they’re not going to see changes in loot so visible that some components are going to “rain” or they’ll stop seeing loot variety. It’s more complex than that.

The adjustments to the loot system are fairly subtle and the goals are that, after a certain time, your characters will effectively have more components you can use. So it may take some time for you to see a difference, or not, but it’s not going to feel like a very visible change each time you loot a mob. We want players, in particular new ones or those creating alts, to more often be able to use the items they loot directly or get something that is relevant to their profession. It does not mean that you’ll get less varied loot overall. We’ll keep monitoring the changes to kitten its affects.

Thanks for your early feedback!

Does this mean that it will affect level 80s?
EDIT: I hate to derail your post, but I’d really like an answer on this. The initial blog was very vague, and I’d like some clarification. Thanks for responding to our feedback

seems so…

so basically the game right now has a ridiculous amount of metal and leather over cloth.. they are making it so 5 out of 8 classes will see less cloth and more leather and metal… good job!

Or you could roll a new toon using the race and class you want and level it to 80 in a week or two…

Scandi.5693:

Dayra.7405:

Scandi.5693:

They won’t get mega paid, if anything the price of cloth will drop to be inline with leather and mithril (as cloth users will get their own cloth now and not have to buy). Look at the disparity in costs with crafting cloth ascended versus leather or plate, its silly high. I hope this change will balance it.

This argumentation ignores the current ascended recipes:

• Crafting Light Armor need mostly clothes and a bit leather.
• Crafting Medium Armor needs mostly clothes and a bit leather.
• Crafting Heavy Armor needs mostly clothes and a bit steel.

Everyone needs mostly clothes to build his armor, but only cloth-weares get it.

Yes but it is the quantities that matter, the non clothies need far less cloth. I have crafted all 3 types of ascended and the difference in cost is huge.

“very little” meaning 7,500 silk scraps, 1000 linen scraps, 1000 wool scraps, and 500 cotton scraps.

You have a very odd definition of “very little”

I get about 100 silk a day, playing 3 hours a day. that is 75 days of playing just for the silk under current conditions. Imagine if you can’t get silk drops… it could take you a full year to get enough silk.

Today’s blog post was great. In the wake of many users complaining about the lack of new max level content, ANet responded by adding features only useful to non-max-level characters, continuing in their trend of completely missing the point.

I’m losing faith every day, and I’m not looking forward to tomorrow.. “A Fresh Start”
Could that possibly be anything good?

I want to keep playing, and I definitely will until I get my full ascended set. Here’s hoping ANet can prove me wrong about them before I do.