Guild Wars 2

irrumatio.4893:

BaconofPigs.1683:

No, it’s not the primary stat difference that makes the difference. It’s the weapons strength and base defense from the armor both are 10% flat from exotic that makes the difference. So someone is full ascended will have ~12% damage increase and +~12% survival rating than someone who doesn’t.

When people argue “ascended vs. exotic” it really comes down to the least accessible part of the wardrobe, the ascended armor. In that regard, the difference is so small that no content could be tuned around it (except with the Agony mechanic, which bypasses the stat difference to actively kill players who lack the infusion slots).

True, but then again the Devs aren’t very good at the game. So they’ll need full ascended to do it. Remember Arah lupi was supposed to be designed around full team of 5 clad in full exotic? Well there was a vid of someone killing it naked (with trinkets and weapons of course) and there was another vid of something killing it without using keyboard and just his mouse (in full armor of course)

laokoko.7403:

Dont’ even make sense, exotic and ascended stats difference is so minor.

If it require ascended. It’ll really require meta group composition.

No, it’s not the primary stat difference that makes the difference. It’s the weapons strength and base defense from the armor both are 10% flat from exotic that makes the difference. So someone is full ascended will have ~12% damage increase and +~12% survival rating than someone who doesn’t.

irrumatio.4893:

Brimstar.9036:

As if veterans haven’t had 3 years to get ascended armor with how easy it is and especially with the ability to change the stats on ascended now to what you need, no one should be crying over ascended having to be slotted AT LEAST for the last wing raid. She explains you don’t need full ascended for the first 2 wings, how is this even something to complain about? Rings, Trinkets, and Amulets are extremely simple to get in this game. There is no treadmill, its been this way for almost 2 1/2 years, stop complaining. If you’re new to the game, then there is some relevance to this otherwise, they couldn’t of made it any easier to get ascended gear, especially with the billion options to get trinkets now.

3 years, not a treadmill? How about the thousands of players who haven’t had “3 years” to get gear? Should we make sure they have to wait 2 months, 6 months, 1 year, or whatever arbitrary time value to grind out the gear needed to be able to play in your sandbox too?

Do you understand how long it takes for a fresh account to get full ascended, to even be considered worthy of an invite to attempt this content?

But hey, MMO fans can’t fathom a game without grind. If they could go back and re-design Super Mario Bros. to require you to stomp 1000 Goombas on 1-1 before having enough strength to jump on the axe to kill Bowser at each castle, they would.

First, there is no treadmill. Ascended gears have been and always have been and will ever be the top of the line gear in this game. Sure, they didn’t release ascended tier at the start because they wanted to wait for two months to see how the game headed. Ascended gear was already in the game in November 2012. As far as the life span of the game is concerned it has always been THE TOP tier gear.

When you use the term treadmill, you mean they will keep release new tier with every release which they hadn’t. Ascended armor and weapons were released later than trinkets but it has always been the case that ascended is the top. There is no treadmill.

Secondly, obtaining gear =/= grind. If you actually equate this. I don’t know what to say.

Third. I’ve only been playing the game for a little over 5 weeks and I already have full ascended trinkets (except backpiece) for the cost of 10g max. And 1 piece of ascended armor and an ascended weapon for FREE from free drop! By the time HoT comes out, I’ll probably in full ascended for the total cost of less than 20g for everything. You don’t need to be playing 3 years to get full ascended and it’s not a grind.

RBickersjr.2847:

I’m furious, I saved for quite some time to finally buy a precursor for my legendary. I have a spare guild to put money out of sight so I don’t blow it. Now I have to wait a whole week before I can get the rest! >:( I haven’t been this mad since they won’t let me trade all remaining gems for in game currency. I didn’t even remember them doing this or saying it in an update. If I’d known, I would’ve starting keeping more money on me. It makes me upset because I don’t want to see all of my money in my wallet. I’m going to cut it short right here, because all I got left is four letter words to say and I’d rather not get in trouble…

They did announce it. Did you miss it?

Gaile Gray.6029:

We are introducing a change to gold transfers as part of an effort to address fraud and account theft. Beginning on March 31, 2015, there will be a limit on how much gold a single player can receive through in-game mail and/or the Guild Vault each week. This limit, which is based on historical data, should not affect the normal transfer of gold between players. It is designed to prevent rapid and abusive transfers of gold that may be part of account takeovers, fraud, and RMT (gold selling).

Full details about the system:

1. Each account will have a limit on how much gold can be moved from its mail in-box and Guild Vault into its wallet each week.
2. If you receive more gold through in-game mail than you can accept in a week, the gold will remain attached to the mail in your in-box and can be retrieved up to the limit the following week or in subsequent weeks.
3. For the purposes of this limit, a week begins at 12:01 AM UTC each Sunday (5:01 PM PDT/4:01 PM PST Saturday).
4. Gold received from the Trading Post is not subject to this limit.
5. The maximum amount of gold that can be sent via a single in-game mail will be 500 gold.
6. The maximum total amount of gold that an individual player account can accept in a week will be 500 gold.
7. We will monitor this system and may make changes to the limits if we find that changes are necessary.

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