Guild Wars 2

At the end of completing the main story line you receive a token to buy a Pact weapon.

Instead of a Pact weapon we should be able to trade our token for one precursor.

Why do people think precursors should be hard to get? People act like precursors are legendary weapons themselves, its ridiculous!

Precursors are just a small part of making a legendary, there is nothing unique about them, there models are not even unique.

When you complete the world map you get a item to help make your legendary, it should be the same for completing your story.

- Remove Agony.
- Remove all Fractal difficult levels.
- Make Ascended gear available through crafting and PVP.

I just fixed the game, your welcome.

These changes are nice, but they are just a band-aid fix for a larger problem.

The real problem is Agony and the many different Fractal levels, remove Agony and remove ALL Fractal difficulty levels.

Agony is incredibly flawed and has never worked in other games and dose not work in this game.

The multiple Fractal levels forcefully separates the entire player base, even with these new changes added it makes the different Fractal levels into a painful, disgusting GRIND, map chat will be spammed with people looking for a player who has access to a high Fractal level, players then forced to repeatably GRIND there way repeatably through the same dungeons with this higher Fractal level player just to be equal to him.

The entire dungeon is flawed but i doubt any serious action will be taken to fix it, after all they need to feed the WoW players some sort of “progression” to keep them happy.

I miss the communication we use to get with the developers back when the game was in alpha and beta testing, they really cared about what we thought and changes were made very very quickly. I remember playing the Beta weekends and seeing big changes made within the month between the last Beta weekend.

Now that the game has launched things have significantly declined rapidly, communication between players and developers feels very robotic, lots of very obvious copy paste responses. Lots of questions being ignored and problems going months with out a fix.

I would love it if we could return to a pre-launch style of communication where it felt like we were talking to fans of a great game and not just workers behind a desk.

The last Q and A done on reddit ignored almost all of the most signification questions that were gathered on these forums, questions that to this day go un-answered, im glad that another Q and A is being planned but if its anything like the last one i dont think its worth doing.

Dont make the same mistake other MMO’s have made, be honest with us, admit your mistakes, shout them from the rooftops, talk to us like you would talk to a friend face to face.

I think that perhaps the promise to release big patches every month has become to overwhelming for the developers, i would personally prefer to wait longer for patches if it meant better quality and more thought put into gameplay…. the last thing we need is another epic failure like the Karka patch.

I am disgusted that nothing has been done to address this very serious issue, charged loadstones are nearly 5 gold each on my server!! Meanwhile every single other loadstone is 1 gold or cheaper!!

Why has nothing been done to fix this?! It wont be long before they reach 10 gold each!

They need to make the farming locations in Orr always available.
PLUS add in two new farming areas one in Frostgorge Sound and the other in Southsun Cove.
PLUS increase the drop rate of them in FotM.

It is deeply disturbing that this has been left to go so extremely out of control, something must bee done to fix this now.

Clearly you dont play a guardian then, we have received nothing but nerfs since the launch of the game and we are now the most broken and by far the most poorly designed class ever.

Its really disgusting that we have an entire trait line completely broken and useless that no player ever uses and nothing has ever been done to fix it.

We are also the only class that has no viable range option.

I honestly dont even want to log on anymore because im so frustrated at how weak guardians are.

I am having the exact same problem as mentioned above, 3 files remaining and it stops telling me to check my internet connection and try again.

I have never had any problems with patches in the past. I have tried over 50 times now and its still stuck on 3 files.

Sky dye dose not work on Human Tier 3 Cultural Heavy Armour Set

Rhyaehar.9504:

Arnath.2319:

I hate gear treadmills, i hate gear progression, i dont care about numbers and stats on my gear.

This is a once off thing, the people crying in this thread are less than 5% of the Guild Wars 2 community.

Please learn to read: it is clearly stated in the blog post that it is NOT a one-time thing.

The Future of Items Progression: This is just the beginning. In November, we’re only adding the first level of Infusions and Ascended Rings and Back slots, so that leaves us a lot of room to build upon these levels of Item progression in future content.

Sigh… people are so stupid…

Re-read what he said, they will add more Ascended items but the stats wont increase, once you have your Ascended Rings and Back Slot from this patch you will never have to upgrade that armour piece ever again!

The only thing that will change is Infusions, they will slowly get stronger, and Infusions are purely a PVE thing! So when the new Infusions come out all you have to do is put it into the slot on your gear.

Then in a few months, years, exspansions from now they will introduce legendary gear that is purely cosmetic for people to aim form.

cafard.8953:

Arnath.2319:

cafard.8953:

Arnath.2319:

Not once has Arenanet suggested there would be another stat increase after this, in fact they have said numerous times it would not happen.

Fool me once…

If you want to wear your tin foil hat and make up conspiracy theroys and spend your time hating a company that has produced the best MMO in gaming history with the most amount of content delivered then any other game then go for it. But your behaviour is unhealthy and not welcome in this community.

Sadly my good friend, it is as welcome as yours, on virtue of paying for the game too. I’ll reserve the right to wear my tinfoil hat while you wear your blinders and ignore the unprecedented hundreds of pages in this thread that seem to indicate that the ‘community’ may surprisingly not be just you and your friends.

It’s not about spending time hating, it’s about being extremely disappointed in a policy u-turn which impacts me. It’s selfish and i’m big enough to acknowledge it. I’m happy for the cheerful crowd like you: you’ve got your progression, and another game among dozen where you can enjoy looking at your numbers increasing. For me, and maybe one or two others (i think i saw a couple posts along those lines between the 6000 cheerful posts), it’s back to square one, without a game offering the no-treadmill model. Jealous? Kitten right i am!

I hate gear treadmills, i hate gear progression, i dont care about numbers and stats on my gear.

This is a once off thing, the people crying in this thread are less than 5% of the Guild Wars 2 community.

Funset.7893:

Arnath.2319:

Freohr.7905:

Arnath.2319:

cafard.8953:

Arnath.2319:

Not once has Arenanet suggested there would be another stat increase after this, in fact they have said numerous times it would not happen.

Fool me once…

If you want to wear your tin foil hat and make up conspiracy theroys and spend your time hating a company that has produced the best MMO in gaming history with the most amount of content delivered then any other game then go for it. But your behaviour is unhealthy and not welcome in this community.

Have you been reading this thread you dolt? You can’t speak for the community when most of them on this forum denounce this change.

And these forums are less than 5% of the Guild Wars 2 community.

These changes are being added for a reason, they listened to player feedback, they looked at how fast people were getting Exotics and Legendarys and acted.

Acted how? They promised that this game will never be about gear progression. Farm for better look, I am fine with it, but farm for more powerful items? NO, thnks.
Acted, hehe, right, acted.

And they are still keeping there promise, there is no gear grind here or gear progressions or gear treadmill, that is just the elitists of this game thinking the worst and trying to troll and derail these threads.

Freohr.7905:

Arnath.2319:

cafard.8953:

Arnath.2319:

Not once has Arenanet suggested there would be another stat increase after this, in fact they have said numerous times it would not happen.

Fool me once…

If you want to wear your tin foil hat and make up conspiracy theroys and spend your time hating a company that has produced the best MMO in gaming history with the most amount of content delivered then any other game then go for it. But your behaviour is unhealthy and not welcome in this community.

Have you been reading this thread you dolt? You can’t speak for the community when most of them on this forum denounce this change.

And these forums are less than 5% of the Guild Wars 2 community.

These changes are being added for a reason, they listened to player feedback, they looked at how fast people were getting Exotics and Legendarys and acted.

cafard.8953:

Arnath.2319:

Not once has Arenanet suggested there would be another stat increase after this, in fact they have said numerous times it would not happen.

Fool me once…

If you want to wear your tin foil hat and make up conspiracy theroys and spend your time hating a company that has produced the best MMO in gaming history with the most amount of content delivered then any other game then go for it. But your behaviour is unhealthy and not welcome in this community.

Substance E.4852:

Arnath.2319:

Denying it is a gear treadmill is just plain moronic. Anet is going to have people chasing new gear every few months if they implement more infusion types. That is the definition of gear treadmill.

No, what is really moronic is the stupidity of all you fearmongering fools overreacting to something so insignificant.

*bold*This is not a gear treadmill!!bold

By definition and common sense and everything that is sain in this world this is NOT a gear treadmill!! To call it a gear treadmill is borderline insane, as it dose not even come close to resembling a gear treadmill!

This is a once off, if they had added a new tier between blue and green items no one would care, that is exactly what they have done here, add a new tier between Exotic and Legendary, something that will very important to do as this game is dying fast and loosing many players to boredom at level 80.

The disgusting overreaction from the hipster elitists of this game is deeply disturbing.

Keep up the good work Arenanet and dont let the bullys get you down!

So what you are saying is that when everyone is decked out in Pinks and dying of boredom as you say, they won’t add in another level to stave off player loss?

Ascended gear is delibretly gated, it may be many months or even years over many expansion pacts before we get a set of Ascended gear.

And once that time comes there will be Legendary gear to work towards, purely cosmetic Legendary gear.

rikuharada.3152:

Arnath.2319:

This is a once off, if they had added a new tier between blue and green items no one would care, that is exactly what they have done here, add a new tier between Exotic and Legendary, something that will very important to do as this game is dying fast and loosing many players to boredom at level 80.

The disgusting overreaction from the hipster elitists of this game is deeply disturbing.

Keep up the good work Arenanet and dont let the bullys get you down!

Legendary are suppose to be for cosmetic look, they have the same stats as exotic item in term of power since launch day, there was absolutely no gap between them in term of power.

Exotic power was suppose to be the end gap in term of power. If the new tier “ascended” is only for look, people wouldn’t complain, but this case, it also up the “power” scale.

And now Ascended gear will be the same stats as Legendary and will continue to farm for cosmetics from this patch forward.

Not once has Arenanet suggested there would be another stat increase after this, in fact they have said numerous times it would not happen.

Denying it is a gear treadmill is just plain moronic. Anet is going to have people chasing new gear every few months if they implement more infusion types. That is the definition of gear treadmill.

No, what is really sad is the stupidity of all you fools overreacting to something so insignificant.

This is not a gear treadmill!!

By definition and common sense and everything that is sain in this world this is NOT a gear treadmill!! To call it a gear treadmill is stupid and dose not make sense, as it dose not even come close to resembling a gear treadmill!

This is a once off, if they had added a new tier between blue and green items no one would care, that is exactly what they have done here, add a new tier between Exotic and Legendary, something that was very important to do as this game is dying fast and loosing many players to boredom at level 80.

The disgusting overreaction from the hipster elitists of this game is deeply disturbing.

Keep up the good work Arenanet and dont let the bullys get you down!

Can you fearmongerors please stop using the term “gear treadmill”, adding Ascended gear is in no way the beginning off a gear treadmill. By logic and definition this is NOT a gear treadmill!

The fearmongering and the lies in this thread are deeply disturbing, there is NO evidence suggesting that they will introduce a gear treadmill, NONE! They have said multiple times that they hate gear treadmills!

If your going to post in this thread stop using words like “gear treadmill” and “slap in the face” and “betrayed”, as those words only make you look like a fool.

The amount of rage in this thread is the most childish i have ever seen in the history of my gaming life. Some of you need to stop and take a god hard look at how your acting.

Adding Ascended gear is a perfectly logically step. I congratulate Arenanet in listening to the large majority of there players asking for new things to do at 80.

I hope Arenanet that you wont cave to the bully tactics of the people in this thread, keep up the great work!

I’m sorry if I personally offended you, but if you go back and read my post I actually claimed that this new set of gear is to offset the journey between Exotic and Legendary. I see absolutely no evidence that they will continue to add higher tiers of gear after this. The blog post was quite clear, the “legendary wall” as they put it, discouraged a large % of the player base from playing the game. There was this HUGE jump in progression from the amount of work to get an exotic to the amount of work to get a legendary.

They are attempting to fix this problem by the introduction of Ascended gear which they will slowly add to the game. I have seen no reference, no hint of and no evidence for this prevailing theory that they are going to be adding a new tier of gear every 2 months from this point on. It seems from what evidence that we do have that this is a 1 time thing.

To put it in terms of your analogy, the sidewalk was too short for people, they made it longer. No treadmill just a longer sidewalk.

I love you, i started to loose hope in the Guild Wars community but what you just said nailed it.

People are overreacting and fearmongering when there is NO EVIDENCE to back up there wild claims.

Crater.1625:

Arnath.2319:

The only thing that comes close to a “gear treadmill” is the Infussions.

Once you have your Ascended armor then thats it! No more upgrading the armor after that, i think the reason they added the Ascended armor was because it was easyier than reworking every single Exoctic armor in the game.

PVE needs a major boost and Ascended armor and more importnatly Infussions is the sollution to this.

I suggest they introduce Ascended armor for PVP as well but that version wont have a Infussion upgrade slot it will just have a normal upgrade slot.

PVE needs life, and Infussions are the life saver.

How long until people have all of the available Ascended pieces that they want, and enough Infusions banked to fill out their whole set?

What’s going to “breathe life” into the game after that?

Firstly. Calm done, take a deep breath.

Secondly, they made it very clear that this Ascended gear AND the Infussions will be released very slowly, it will be delibretly gated for many months even years before we get the max Infussions sloted into our gear. When that time comes we can worry about it then.

For all we know we may not get a full set of Ascended armor and the highest Infussions until 3+ years from now after multiple exspansions.

The only thing that comes close to a “gear treadmill” is the Infussions.

Once you have your Ascended armor then thats it! No more upgrading the armor after that, i think the reason they added the Ascended armor was because it was easyier than reworking every single Exoctic armor in the game.

PVE needs a major boost and Ascended armor and more importnatly Infussions is the sollution to this.

I suggest they introduce Ascended armor for PVP as well but that version wont have a Infussion upgrade slot it will just have a normal upgrade slot.

PVE needs life, and Infussions are the life saver.

That blog post would have been written hours if not days before this information was released and before people started complaining, dont get mad at that blog, wait for a new update with more information and then we can have a constructive conversation.

Right now people are just getting upset over nothing.

Miragee.3604:

Arnath.2319:

This Guild Wars 2 community makes me sick. Look at how you are all acting! Your behaving like pathetic spoilt children.

They have NOT broken any promises introducing Ascended gear, this is not a “gear treadmill” and it is not even a grind!

They are introducing TWO new items with this patch, a ring and a backpiece, the majority of you complainers will easily get those items within hours of the dungeon opening and you can all go back to your simple boring lifes until they introduce two more Ascended items a few months from now.

Its TWO items, only two, there is no grind there, stop pretending there is.

Ascended items are here to create the illusion of charector progression, it is gated on purpose so the very large amount of players who do enjoy a more stat increases progression with there hero will be encouraged to keep playing for a longer period of time.

Also, this is where the stat increase ends, if you payed attention to the blog you would noticed that this increase is a once off, yes they did say they would add more Ascended items but there stats what get any bigger than that.

I honestly hope all you complainers stop, take a deep breath, and think for a second instead of raging on the forums.

These changes are now inevitable, it is only TWO items to start with, that wont kill anyone, this wont be the end of the game. Life will continue i promise.

It’s not a grind now, but it will be in the future. Look at the blogpost. This is just the beginning.

“This is just the beginning. In November, we’re only adding the first level of Infusions and Ascended Rings and Back slots, so that leaves us a lot of room to build upon these levels of Item progression in future content. "

“As we release more new end game content in the future, you’ll see more Infusions and Ascended item types being added to the game. Eventually, you’ll be able to kit yourself out with a full set of Ascended gear and high end Infusions to help give you the edge in end game content.”

They completly crushed their old item philosophy. It’s the beginning, the start of a treat mill and they start the hard way of making GW2 a random MMO waste.

Yeah… so you should really re-read what you quote before you post it next time because you just made yourself look stupid and provided evidence to support me.

Korrigan.4837:

Arnath.2319:

This is a once off thing to keep a overwhelming majority of players happy.

Overwhelming majority? I suggest you read this thread again, for a reality check…

These forums are what, like 1% of the Guild Wars 2 community. People who have to complain do so very loudly, while those who are happy rarely say a thing.

Also, i highly suspect that once Arenanet explains the system to you uneducated fools the majority of people complaining now will grow to like it too.

Pixelninja.6971:

Gear Treadmill = GAME OVER

No more Money from me.

It is a good thing then that Ascended items are in no way shape or form and in anyway even remotely close to a “gear treamill”.

Its also a good thing that Arenanet hates “gear treadmills” as much as we do and has not and will not introduce such a system.

Swoo.5079:

Arnath.2319:

This Guild Wars 2 community makes me sick. Look at how you are all acting! Your behaving like pathetic spoilt children.

They have NOT broken any promises introducing Ascended gear, this is not a “gear treadmill” and it is not even a grind!

They are introducing TWO new items with this patch, a ring and a backpiece, the majority of you complainers will easily get those items within hours of the dungeon opening and you can all go back to your simple boring lifes until they introduce two more Ascended items a few months from now.

Its TWO items, only two, there is no grind there, stop pretending there is.

Ascended items are here to create the illusion of charector progression, it is gated on purpose so the very large amount of players who do enjoy a more stat increases progression with there hero will be encouraged to keep playing for a longer period of time.

Also, this is where the stat increase ends, if you payed attention to the blog you would noticed that this increase is a once off, yes they did say they would add more Ascended items but there stats what get any bigger than that.

I honestly hope all you complainers stop, take a deep breath, and think for a second instead of raging on the forums.

These changes are now inevitable, it is only TWO items to start with, that wont kill anyone, this wont be the end of the game. Life will continue i promise.

Did you miss the part where they said they will continue to expand it and eventually you will able to have a full kit of Ascended items?

And of course the same folks that had full exotics a few days after the game went live will have them in a few days (unless they make them achievable only to a minority, which is probably worse).

No i did not miss that part but clearly you missed that part where i mentioned that in my post!

Yes they will add more Ascended gear, i said that allready, but the stats wont increase, this is NOT a gear treadmill, this is not like WoW, this is not the end of the world.

This is a once off thing to keep a overwhelming majority of players happy.

This Guild Wars 2 community makes me sick. Look at how you are all acting! Your behaving like pathetic spoilt children.

They have NOT broken any promises introducing Ascended gear, this is not a “gear treadmill” and it is not even a grind!

They are introducing TWO new items with this patch, a ring and a backpiece, the majority of you complainers will easily get those items within hours of the dungeon opening and you can all go back to your [Edit] lifes until they introduce two more Ascended items a few months from now.

Its TWO items, only two, there is no grind there, stop pretending there is.

Ascended items are here to create the illusion of charector progression, it is gated on purpose so the very large amount of players who do enjoy a more stat increases progression with there hero will be encouraged to keep playing for a longer period of time.

Also, this is where the stat increase ends, if you payed attention to the blog you would noticed that this increase is a once off, yes they did say they would add more Ascended items but there stats what get any bigger than that.

I honestly hope all you complainers stop, take a deep breath, and think for a second instead of raging on the forums.

These changes are now inevitable, it is only TWO items to start with, that wont kill anyone, this wont be the end of the game. Life will continue i promise.

Here is a question to all you complainers, how would you fix the game?

You dont like Ascended gear? Well give suggestions on how to keep this game alive, because as it is right now Guild Wars 2 is dying.

One point everyone is skipping in that blog post was that we the players have gone through content extremely quickly, far more quicker than Arenanet had planned.

Thousands among thousands of people are complaining this game has nothing to do at level 80, people are getting bored, people are leaving.

If you dont want Ascended items so badly STOP complaining about them and start thinking of other ways to fix this game and satisfy the needs of a very large and diverse player base.

Shoros.3172:

Arnath.2319:

If Ascended items were added at the launch of Guild Wars 2 no one would be complaining, NO ONE, they would just see this as another thing to work towards just like a legendary.

This game is dying very fast and Arenanet has responded with Ascended items that will slowly be released over many months, this will keep people playing, this will bring in new players, this will keep the game alive!

Well, ANet promised that Exotic gear will stay “the best” gear. That you only shift around your stats, not your “overall” power. They have now officially broken their promise.

And you are wrong: this won’t keep the game alive, this will kill it.

Ok, they may have “promised” Exotic gear would be the best, but did you read the blog post? They did not intisapate people getting Exotic gear so fast, they did not exspect people to be working on legendarys for many more months from now.

Things change, that is life, if Exotic gear and Legendarys went according to Arenanets plans then i bet Ascended gear would not be added now.

We have gone through content far to quickly and Ascended gear is here to fix that.

In no way shape or form is this even remotely a “gear treadmill” or “gear grind”. Grow up all of you.

This game is dying, the overwhelmingly complaints of lack of end game is killing it, something had to be done.

I bet you anything we will never see another stat increase, at least not until a major exspansion.

This is a once off thing that they had to implement because Exoctics and legendays did not go according to there plans.

Start using your brains people.

The amount of complaining on these forums is disgusting, i thought the Guild Wars 2 community was better than this, but now i see this games community is by far the worst i have ever seen in my life. Grow up all of you.

This is in no way shape or form a “gear treadmill”, use your heads people, this game is three months old and its already dying because there is nothing to do at level 80, Arenanet have received thousands of complaints about this and now there doing something about it.

If Ascended items were added at the launch of Guild Wars 2 no one would be complaining, NO ONE, they would just see this as another thing to work towards just like a legendary.

This game is dying very fast and Arenanet has responded with Ascended items that will slowly be released over many months, this will keep people playing, this will bring in new players, this will keep the game alive!

So please grow up and think about these changes logically.

I hate that 99% of the game i am forced to wear magic find, Arenanet wants us to play as we like and gear as we like yet if you want to make money in this game or make a legendary before 2015 you have to use magic find.

I have been farming charged loadstones for a week now and not a single one has droped, when i tolled people i wasn’t using magic find i got abused by other players for being “stupid”.

Meanwhile those with magic find get one charged loadstone an hour, sometimes more sometimes less.

Every guide that explains how to make money in this game uses magic find.

Every world event, every pug dungeon run there are always people wearing magic find.

I hate magic find so much.

Implementing Magic Find has to be the worst decision Arenanet has ever made, i dont understand why this stat was put in the game and why it continues to stay, let me explain…

I only finished my personal story recently and have been spending my time crafting the exotic draconic gear from armoursmithing for my guardian. I finally have a good set of gear, im using the stats i like, and spent most of my money getting the materials to craft it, i was happy….

…sadly tho this gear that i have spent so much time requiring is almost completely useless, why? Because it has no magic find…

Im just starting to work towards my legendary, and magic find is required if you want to make money in this game or get the mats you need from mobs.

Now, the only time i get to use my orginal gear is in WvW or in Dungeons, but even then you can easily get away with wearing magic find in a dungeon…

Magic find is being forced upon us, it encourages players to gear badly, be selfish, and play at the worst.

Magic Find is destroying this game and it needs to be removed from all gear.