Guild Wars 2

Not in the foreseeable future. As Colin stated during an interview at PAX, they are comfortable with parties having 5 members. What they could do is add more UI support to squads.

on a side note, i would suggest you get a 650w or higher powersupply.

Khal Drogo.9631:

Vayne.8563:

DeWolfe.2174:

I can make the argument pretty simple. The economy has become the 800 pound Gorilla in the game. Because it appears the economy is affecting the developers judgement.

Obviously the “No grind” sales pitch was misleading. To say Ascended Gear was created because we obtained Exotics too quickly, means they always intended for us to be chasing a level of gear. Not spending the majority of our time experiencing content and story.

I don’t see how you can draw this conclusion. Making one thing too easy doesn’t mean that anything requires the majority of our time. In fact, Ascended gear, in and of itself, doesn’t require all that much time…it’s an encouragement to play different parts of the game.

Now that has negative and positive drawbacks, but it has very little to do with time. For example, after I get my crafting to 450, which doesn’t take much time itself, I can only craft for a few minutes a day.

Obviously to get some of the stuff I need, I do have to play the game. Dungeons, mini dungeons, jumping puzzles, world events…yes, these are things we’re encouraged to do. But I tend to do them casually. I’d basically do all of them at one point or another. The more you want that gear NOW, the faster you have to do that stuff, but make no mistake. Most people will end up eventually getting the mats just by playing.

You’re not spending more time getting this gear. You’re spending more time playing the game.

Some people, no doubt, don’t enjoy being forced to play the game to get the gear…but that’s a far cry from saying they want us to spend more time getting the gear than playing the game. Because the only way to get the gear is to play the game.

Not if you want to do your dailies, pvp or even wvw because they mostly dont overlap with getting mats for ascended weapons. For example WvW how many times will you be able to capture a tower in an hour in order to get the dragonite?

PvP HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Well at least my least favorite part of the game get royally screwed as well. No G, no karma, no ascended mats, nada. All the PvPers can live in the self contained Mists and not venture out into Tyria at all.

Stealth capping an unupgraded tower, maybe one or two in an hour, add to that some havoc capping of camps in between avoiding huge zergs.

And you need ascended in spvp for what again?

I used to salvage whites and blues, then sell greens, mainly because of the annoying confirmation window. now I salvage all 3 tiers. Mainly because I really don’t have much use for gold. I get enough gold doing world bosses(selling rares) and dungeons for me to get by.

For newer players, gold maybe harder to come by, in that situation, I would suggest selling the blue/greens first to get some money for pieces of his first exotic set.

again no to changing weapon types. it would pose too many problems.
like a said, combining different stat sets of the same tier.
for example, two Ascended Greatswords, one with berserker stats and the other with soldier stats. you combined them into one ascended greatsword that when right-clicked, would have the option to change stats between berserker stats or soldier stat.

a few benefits from these are
1. it would make legendaries all about the skins(as it should be)

2. get closer to legendary functionality with the stat swapping. without putting in too much effort or gold into it, with the only penalty being time gated.

Now, to get the same stat options as a Legendary you would have to create all possible stat combinations for an ascended weapon type. which would time gate it to a few months. Some would argue that one can just make a legendary and have all the stat options. Practicality speaking, one would only need around 2 or 3 stat sets for a particular weapon type, as builds also revolve around the weapon type. (As I main a guardian I’d rather have cleric stats on a mace or hammer than on a GS, for a GS i would prefer Berserker, valkyrie, soldier, and/or knights stat sets)

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

yes, piece of by legendary, but can change all change-able variables, not just the stats.
i’m talking about skins, infusions, weapon type, sigils.
but … is the game engine capable of such a feat?
we now know, legendaries can change the stats. why not push that further?

to keep it simple, maybe only ascended weapons can be made mutable, but they can accept skins and sigils of lower tier weapons.

but for weapon types and stats, must be ascended tier.

i edited my original post, i skimmed a little on yours and missed the part about swappable weapon types. I’ll repeat myself and say no to swappable weapon types. just stats would be fine. even legendaries don’t have that option.

no on the different weapons types, but I’d like the changeable stats.
an option to merge multiple stat set weapons of the same tier into one, and having the option of choosing a stat set based on the weapons merged? kinda like a piece by piece legendary?

but then it would defeat the purpose of the new swap on the fly option in legendaries and make legendaries all about the skin again, this could work.

That would depend on the look you are looking for, any particular preference?

I don’t think Volcanus would suit the mesmer’s GS skill animations. I’d say go with something with a symmetrical blade, like the AC GS, or VotM.

And where’s my farming?(literal planting) I want my omnomberry plants.

ilr.9675:

Overall, I’m not actually finding Ascended Mats to be a major grind.

With ONE BIG EXCPETION … Empyr Shards … I think they’re dropping at roughly half the rate they should really be dropping at. The worst part in WvW with them is you have to tag to enemy Guild Claiming NPC in camps to get any of them at all. There’s also several very difficult Jumping Puzzles that are only giving ~3 of them, or NONE AT ALL

Speaking of WvW: Dragonite Ore there is even worse for those guys:
wuv/wuv/5-Dragonite-from-keeps-30-from-Orr-Temples/first
I think Anet owes WvW’ers a big apology right now.

Because temples are on a timer, In WvW, you can rapidly hit a number of enemy camps/towers/keeps within the cooldown timer of a temple.

There is the squad chat, but it’s rarely used because of militia

I like the SAB focus skin, it might be blocky in some areas, but it has the blue particle effect I was looking for to complement my toon’s look.

iriyabran.6218:

The awkward silence with Cantha /cry

I hope it’s just not me, but he looks like he’s trying to hold back a grin.

in essence what you suggest has been done with the Urban Battleground Fractal

IndigoSundown.5419:

-snip-
Dungeons can be challenging as long as you don’t follow the meta. Pity ANet seems intent on not providing more of that.
-snip-
?

Have you heard about Tequatl Rising? Colin also implied that it would be the first of many world boss revamps.

someone posted around 4.2million luck

Deamhan.9538:

His take on party size was interesting to hear in light of some 80 person requirement that I’ve been hearing about.

Implementing a UI for squads could alleviate that issue.

You don’t need the optical drive unless you buy a lot of box games.

Daddicus.6128:

Stooperdale.3560:

If you’re talking about fractal rings they don’t come at a huge price. They’re easy to buy with pristine fractals and are uncommon fractal completion rewards. I’m guessing you’re not talking about infused rings. Lunaria and Solaria are the ascended rings with celestial stats and they have hardly changed. After the patch your combat abilities are unchanged and those two rings are more than compensated for by account wide magic find. I have plenty of ascended celestial jewelry and I’ll be keeping it all thank you.

The game mechanics have been changed to remove big magic find bonuses from armor for improved balance. Good. You still seem to want big magic find on armor and that isn’t going to happen. You seem to want bigger magic find than other players with the similar game history just because your old armor used to have magic find and that certainly isn’t going to happen either.

Let’s try a different tack. You earned laurels. So did I. Let’s assume at the same rate.

With your laurels you purchased some gear. I’ll assume it was without MF, given your expressed opinion here. I also bought some gear, the two rings, to be exact.

Your gear still works, although if you bought non-celestial MF gear you have to replace the stats with other, comparable stats. The 110 laurels have still purchased items that are just as useful as before. You have suffered no loss.

My MF was taken away without compensation of any kind, when compared to your items. The rings are now way below other equal-cost items in value, because they prevent some specialization (despite having more raw points). When I bought them, the MF compensated for their otherwise rather poor stats. I am holding two rings that I never would have purchased in their current condition.

From this point on, if we play the same amount, your gear will always be ahead of my gear by 110 laurels worth of stuff.

Like you, I also bought/crafted celestial gear. One of the reasons for that was MF, but it was not my main reason for getting celestial gear and I feel no sympathy for you if you feel ripped off when Anet removed MF from celestial gear.

cesmode.4257:

I did not see this. Thanks for posting. I can understand never promising things, especially to players like myself , but it doesnt make one any less uneasy.

Plus, since legendary armor and accessories appear to be coming…wouldnt that be a new tier? Did arenanet say if legendary armor will be better than ascended ? or same stats?

how would that be a new tier? legendary already exists in the game. and since legendaries have stat levels equal to ascended, the only noticeable difference would be the particle effect created by the trinket and the ability to switch stats

TooBz.3065:

Happyfool.8951:

and what’s done is done. be the bigger man and accept it, or move on.

You don’t like time gating ,fine. What do you propose they do for ascended armor? post it in the suggestions forum in an orderly manner, that’s the only thing you can do at this point.

Why? They didn’t implement anything from the pages and pages of suggestions about implementing Ascended weapons (in a thread they created for feedback). What makes you think they would listen to a suggestion about ascended armor. Must better to accept our helplessness.

i’ve been to the suggestion pages only a few times, because most of what I see is “Iwant this!!!” “I want that!” Make THIS!!!
There are very few have constructive suggestions. Hell, I’ve seen more organized suggestions in the professions forum.

tigirius.9014:

Sirendor.1394:

The joke is on those who will actually try to get those ascended. Not me in any case. I’m done with GW2, as many people, but I did try to give it an honest chance after seeing all my headstart friends leave.

A growing story that I don’t think is going away despite the people who still insist that 460k is a proper success for an mmo.

Logged into my server every place I went had a tiny handful of people, even the main towns were dead and this was during peak hours. Can’t imagine where these 460k are located.

All I logged in for was to test out the newest changes to my class and to the loot system. The loot system looks like it’s received a small polish which is a good start but it simply won’t be enough I don’t think to help people reach their goals with the way they’ve done the enormous number of items needed to make the ascended weapons or gear.

They have to add these items to nodes as well so that people can gather a small portion of them to help offset the months that it’s literally going to take some people to reach these levels, they’ve forgotten 250 was too much and has added the larger 500.

did you check Rata Sum? people are flocking the flavor of the half the month.
500 of a pretty much easily acquired material. try comparing those to 250 charged lodestones.

if there are more “mounts” to be introduced, it would be more like the flying broomstick.

a t s e.9614:

You dont need any lore for this . There is no lore for sex change or apprence chance..
They can implement it pretty easely i just dont know wheres the problem maybe its not a priority

To be honest it is not about the lore, it’s about the coding.
Sex change is mostly aesthetics, so it’s a lot easier to do. A race change, involves a lot more things like racials skills, cultural armors, and personal story, which coding wise, probably create more problems.

and what’s done is done. be the bigger man and accept it, or move on.

You don’t like time gating ,fine. What do you propose they do for ascended armor? post it in the suggestions forum in an orderly manner, that’s the only thing you can do at this point.

when we had MF gear, we kitten our stats for a chance at better loot, now we get the chance at better loot without gimping our selves. also, don’t kid yourself, you already got more than your money’s worth from your MF set. and it never really disappeared, the gear is still there, only we get the option to switch it to a different stat set.

I’m not sure if some of you have seen this, but he does make some sound reasoning to the Ascended question.

Also, CANTHA!

MikaHR.1978:

Chickenshoes.6250:

You could do most of the PvE content in this game naked.

I wouldn’t worry as much about it as you are if I were you.

And?

So when the some for of gear check content finally goes live it will be you and people like you telling others to kitten off and they had enough time to get ascended blah blah blah

I suggest Anet takes their own advice and give us Guild Wars 2 back and leave Grind Wars 2 to other games.

the only gear check will be in fractals

i’m getting ascended for my fractal toon. that’s my priority right now. after that, i’ll make some for my WvW toon.

shimmerless.4560:

Chickenshoes.6250:

shimmerless.4560:

I would again like to stress that even if the bump from Exotics to Ascended were small (it’s not), that isn’t a compelling defense. Power creep always starts off small, “incremental”, “not much better”, etc. That’s why it’s called creep.

Your kids will be the ones complaining about the next tier of powercreep because it won’t be anytime soon we get something higher than ascended.

Considering I’ve already heard rumors about purple-quality trinkets, I’d say your faith may be somewhat misplaced.

which would have the same stats as ascended trinkets(maybe the infused ones), that will have a particle effect and the option to change stats on the fly. yeah. ok.

Legendaries should be ACCOUNT BOUND ON ACQUIRE, and SOULBOUND ON EQUIP. end of story.

are you sure? did you double check your inventory? did you also check the easily overlooked underwater gear?

SeNoZinD.9874:

Nice eternity you got there (show off meanie)
If you don’t mind, whats the weapon in your second slot? I’m guessing immobulus but I might be wrong :S

it’s the princess wand skin from winter’s day

Shelledfade.6435:

Leohart.4610:

Starting to work on my legendary, managed to receive 2 Dusks within 50g and can easily sell one to get Dawn. Though, it sucks that Anet took away the badges from the achievement boxes, now I gotta work my butt off to reach 500 badges.

lol you got 2 dusks and only spent 50g?

I spent 200g and got nothing.

This is what’s wrong with this game right here. This is why I quit the game.

you knew it was a gamble but you took it anyway, no one to blame but yourself.

The system may be flawed, but it is still the system.

MikaHR.1978:

Happyfool.8951:

MikaHR.1978:

Happyfool.8951:

MikaHR.1978:

Savoy.6824:

@MikaHR youre right I did forget about the infusions. I would quit logging in now but I spent so much money in the gem store that it feels like such a waste to quit. But Im not going to keep doing this.

I feel for you. Unfortunately unless enough people quit nothing will change and Guild Wars 2 will proceede to Grind Wars 2 as planned.

Imagine, you want to play new character or a new build:

6 ascended trinkets
4-6 ascended weapons
6 ascended armor
4-6 ascended sigils
6 ascended runes
16-18 infusions of w/e tier at the time

Just 1 character 1 build

At this rate that puts even worst Korean grinders to shame lol

done. now aside from fractals, tell me which content i can’t do in exotics?

So you think they will add all those stats without any “adjustements to content”.

Yah, i see it now, going around one shotting everything is what they planned all along rofl

Wish that people would THINK before they POST. Ah, wishful thinking.

Have you seen the upcoming changes to Teq? It promotes teamwork and coordination. I am guessing that they going for that in the “difficulty” department, instead of just bumping up numbers. And in the off chance that they do bump up numbers. I imagine the experience would to be the same as wearing yellows in an exotic world. Bit of a challenge, but still doable.

They just have to drop agony in dungeons and….pufff….insta crap

And leveling areas….great thinking rofl. Can you name ANY game that adjusted leveling area to max gear…like…ever?

When lvl65 can wear ascended, maybe they will rofl

ok, you lost me there.

I posted this in another thread but the premise is the same:

Have you seen the upcoming changes to Teq? It promotes teamwork and coordination. I am guessing that they going for that in the “difficulty” department, instead of just bumping up numbers. And in the off chance that they do bump up numbers. I imagine the experience would to be the same as wearing rares in an exotic world. Bit of a challenge, but still doable.

MikaHR.1978:

Happyfool.8951:

MikaHR.1978:

Savoy.6824:

@MikaHR youre right I did forget about the infusions. I would quit logging in now but I spent so much money in the gem store that it feels like such a waste to quit. But Im not going to keep doing this.

I feel for you. Unfortunately unless enough people quit nothing will change and Guild Wars 2 will proceede to Grind Wars 2 as planned.

Imagine, you want to play new character or a new build:

6 ascended trinkets
4-6 ascended weapons
6 ascended armor
4-6 ascended sigils
6 ascended runes
16-18 infusions of w/e tier at the time

Just 1 character 1 build

At this rate that puts even worst Korean grinders to shame lol

done. now aside from fractals, tell me which content i can’t do in exotics?

So you think they will add all those stats without any “adjustements to content”.

Yah, i see it now, going around one shotting everything is what they planned all along rofl

Wish that people would THINK before they POST. Ah, wishful thinking.

Have you seen the upcoming changes to Teq? It promotes teamwork and coordination. I am guessing that they going for that in the “difficulty” department, instead of just bumping up numbers. And in the off chance that they do bump up numbers. I imagine the experience would to be the same as wearing rares in an exotic world. Bit of a challenge, but still doable.

MikaHR.1978:

Savoy.6824:

@MikaHR youre right I did forget about the infusions. I would quit logging in now but I spent so much money in the gem store that it feels like such a waste to quit. But Im not going to keep doing this.

I feel for you. Unfortunately unless enough people quit nothing will change and Guild Wars 2 will proceede to Grind Wars 2 as planned.

Imagine, you want to play new character or a new build:

6 ascended trinkets
4-6 ascended weapons
6 ascended armor
4-6 ascended sigils
6 ascended runes
16-18 infusions of w/e tier at the time

Just 1 character 1 build

At this rate that puts even worst Korean grinders to shame lol

done. now aside from fractals, tell me which content i can’t do in exotics?

i’m not interested in making a legendary, i’ll only consider making one if I get a prec drop from a mob.

as for ascended weapons, yeah i’m making a few, it will take a while but I want them for my fractal toon.

i havent used compact feature in a while, and if i do, i cringe as i have to move some things to the bottom bags again.

DaveyC.4398:

On the Merged Magic find Thread, someone from Anet said they would compensate people with MF. That has not happened, people with MF got the same as everyone else.

i believe the compensation was the ability to choose a new stat combination from your previous mf gear.

SiNoS.2147:

Nirvana.8659:

where do you see the new ascendent weapons skins?
Do you have any link?

I have multiple 400+ crafters. I’ve bought a few of the recipies that i will need. You can preview the gear from there. Other than that i have not found any links to such other than the greatswords.

dulfy has a gallery up
http://dulfy.net/2013/09/03/gw2-ascended-weapon-skins-gallery/

VitalSuit.1980:

Likewise 80% of female humans use hair #3
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Human_female_hair_styles.png

I use #7 on my mesmer with the bubblegum color

You are being short sighted about this issue. A few gold spent and probably earned back already. Players complained about MF gear, sacrificing stats for a small chance to get better loot. So they separate MF from gear, this is a win overall.

TehPwnerer.7215:

Are you serious? They’re so plain and ugly… For the (now) strongest weapons in the game they sure don’t look like it. They look like they’d be skins for level 10 or level 20 weapons.

he likes it, who are you to tell him otherwise?

what? they mf gear you have is still with you, which you can now switch to another stat set. and you have a boost of 20% mf for the new mechanic. i don’t really see this as a loss?

they want us to have something to work for. well, to have patience for.
what they don’t want is us to have bis gear on day 1 of its release. yep. working as intended.

Namu.5712:

ArchonWing.9480:

MikaHR.1978:

ArchonWing.9480:

So when they said 2 weeks did they assume either:

• You have infinite gold
• 24*14= 336 hours

As expected, complete trash.

2 weeks was earliest.

That of course includes either lot of gold or lot of grind.

In other words, it was a completely meaningless statement that tried to downplay it and they weren’t willing to give a realistic estimate mostly because I guess there not the ones that have to do it. I guess the joke’s on us.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

ArchonWing.9480:

So when they said 2 weeks did they assume either:

• You have infinite gold
• 24*14= 336 hours

As expected, complete trash.

There are already people with ascended weapons…

P2w ftw ! But yes my remark about infinite gold is hyperbole.

Okay this type of talk is dumb. People like myself that have been playing since launch… well 1k gold + is not anything special. Having the mats to craft these things is not anything special…

Hell I didn’t even play most of this summer… im sitting on 1643 gold. I could buy the mats off the broker right now and craft the weapon already.

Its not P2W at all.

and then you smack into the time gate, which is working as intended to prevent people from acquiring ascended weapons on day 1, aside from a lucky drop. yes, they do drop from mobs.

goldenwing.8473:

Google search on “GW2 what to do at 80” brought up a fair amount of responses.

Here is a sample one that is worth reading:

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1188171-So-what-IS-there-to-do-at-80-in-gw2

WvW, SPvP, Crafting, World Explore, Map Completion, Legendary, Explorables, Fractals, Guild Activities, etcetera.

If nothing there appeals, please fee free to move to a game that holds your hand.

scratch spvp out of that list, you can do it at level 1.