Guild Wars 2

Holion.5604:

If you spent more than 3 months making it, then your doing something wrong.

I spent a year crafting one and it felt very right when i finished it.

Zaxares.5419:

Of course, if you’re like me and you have 660 Laurels and nothing else to spend them on, why not trade a few in for Heavy Crafting Bags now and again?

660 Laurels – this is insanity…

About the Precursor – you dont have to buy it from the TP. Just fold your hands and pray to our Lord Colin Johanson so the Mystic Toilet may answer to your plea.

http://seemslegit.dk/precursors/

Then its porbably below 0.06% because i bought around 3000 and NO RECIPE MAAAN.

Totally a fan of Zaw’s ranger – thumbs up!

Here my mesmer:

If you want something like the elemental shaman, i’d recommend Engineer since the turrets resemble your totems. Yet the shaman flavor is completely different.

If you like fire and earth magic, I’d recommend you the elementalist.

If WvW and fighting against multiple enemies is your priority, Id recommend a Mesmer since you can stealth and choose your fights using portal and other utilities. When you fight groups of 3+, the average intelligence of the group decreases exponentially and the clones get equally better.

I’ve seen very strong Rangers but most of them lack a sustainable defense. So if you are willing to put a lot of effort into your build, id recommend you Ranger as well.

Don’t do that. I bought thousands of the regular coffers last year – not a single recipe. But that wasn’t what I was going for anyway. Just don’t buy them for the recipe.

maha.7902:

seems like the kind of fight you’d want

I actually did that Golem once. There is a World Boss East of Maelstrom that you can solo too. Fun times. Takes a while. Little lonely maybe ^^

Thank you for your posts and actually you’re right, its not the Zerker meta thats bugging me. I’m gonna try this from another angle. I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of the game. All the glitching, the stacking and the skipping replaces something I’d like to experience. A real fight where I use the space and the battlefield that is given to my group, positioning, placing combo fields and finishers, seeing different classes cooperate within a dungeon. Thieves and Engineers and Mesmers and that Mace Dual wield warrior.

But I don’t see that a lot. Mostly my group tries to imitate those 5% of really skilled PvE players. What follow is the PUG trying some kind of a speed run without really knowing what that would mean. The result is neither fun nor effective. Seeing the kick window pop up every now and then doesn’t help either

Yea probably this is a whine thread, so lets hope we get more Battles like Molten Berserker and Firestorm and the glitches are being fixed and I’ll stop whining around.

/thread imo.

If that is so, if all the builds have their place in the game, then why does everyone and their mother have a farm zerk warrior? Why is it so easy to just apply the same lame stacking strategy to 80% of the dungeon content ? and im not only talking even talking of speed clears. Because its easy? Because it is superior to all other ways to do the content? Or just because people are used to it?

GS Warrior is basically a very selfish build, non-supportive build that helps your team by dealing as much damage as possible.

Am I selfish when I bring a Mesmer GS to a Dungeon just because its not viable when I stand in melee range in a corner?

You won’t tell me, you think PvE was intended to be this way.

maha.7902:

Things will never equally be useful. Let’s say ANet decided to give every weapon the same amount of damage (so pewpewing with a rifle is on par to whacking a boss with a greatsword), people will just take whatever set has the most utility. A warrior would sit on longbow because it has an on-demand fire field and blast finisher, thieves will camp shortbow for spammable blast finisher. So you end up now with people still not liking certain weapon sets despite them all dealing identical damage.

I don’t see how what you want would solve anything, you would still have weapon favouritism, and your can’t homogenise builds (traits) because then we literally might as well just remove them since they all function at the same capacity anyway.

The weapon with the superior utility deals a little less damage. Not so much less that people deem it useless, but so much that it outweighs the better utility. Imagine short bow getting +1 damage, good enough to use? If no, repeat process until you’re not sure anymore. And there we are.

Of course we have weapon favoritism, but not because one is strictly better. But rather because you… and this is going to seem insane… because you like it. The space of viability is so narrow at the moment, that entire classes are excluded.

maha.7902:

Doesn’t that kind of kill the point of “optimisation” if everything is the same?

First off, it is impossible to make everything exactly as viable. So no, communism is not coming for you. Second, even if things are equally useful, the functionality is still different, and your preferences rely on taste rather than math capability. So optimization happens horizontally.

Thumbs up! Good post.
I saw a lot of good use of skills when I wen with a guild group. Back in the days when I first did Arah with my guildies and TS I learned a lot. Higher level Fractals have gorgeous boss fights with a lot of positioning. I totally see how skill choice have evolved over time to match the challenge. How better tactics establish themselves.

But thats not, whats happening right here. Generic stack and burst is used literally everywhere: Whenever theres a pull theres always that one guy standing in a corner “all stack here”. And the next 2 Minutes my screen is a clipping flashing mess of graphic effects. Done, next corner.

I don’t want there to be the next broken build, I would like to see builds to be elevated to around the same level so nobody has an actual reason to be annoyed about the thief using short bow only. It should be in everyones interest that more builds become viable in PvE since it increases the overall effectivity in PUGs and people don’t stick with the same FOO strategy wherever they can.

How to get bloodstone dust:

- do dungeons
- kill champions
- do WvW
- kill trash mobs
- cap a supply camp
- follow your Zerg for 5 minutes
- obsidian sanctum
- roaming
- kill squirrels
- dodge roll
- use /y chat
- jump
- breathe
- try selling it
- scrap bloodstone dust
- try to log off
- go down in madness

DonQuack.9025:

Oh well at-least you trolled. Hopefully they will suffer an emotional breakdown and finally stop pugging.

Totally. OR they start caring about positioning, adapt to different situations and start trying to keep themselves alive.

DonQuack.9025:

A question In those five minutes did you actually think you could win or were you just trolling the downed players by dancing around until death?

Mostly me and the ele boxed it down to below 50%. But yea, couldve been trolling as well since the three dead players kept demanding us to “die already”.

Wow
I wasn’t aware of how much love people show for the dodge rolling against the wall and the “everyone stand in the corner and press 3”. I don’t want to tell anyone how to play. I wish that we are able to make an actual creative choice instead calculating the right answer.

If people run zerker, thats perfectly fine with me but they shouldn’t do it because they copied a PvE warrior from the internet so they can picture themselves as the “Play 2 Winners” and the “Crème de la PvE” and have attitudes against Bearbow Rangers.

We have all of these choices but people repeatedly try to reduce this variety to yet another means of determine the “elite” of players. Yet another group of players creating a hierarchy just to position themselves on top of it. I don’t have anything against zerkers, but I utterly despise this mindset. And I want the bad builds to be buffed just to see the wonder and surprises of a fantasy game return.

A few days ago I went CoE with a PUG. Two of them were zerk warriors, actually nice people dishing out a multiple of my damage. Then for some reason, the ele of our group went afk in the wrong instant and we decided to fight the risen abomination. Since this fight relies quiet a bit on evasion and positioning and doesn’t allow for much stacking, the two warriors along with the guardian were completely overwhelmed, dying in the first Minute of the battle. Me and the ele died too after another 5 Minutes of fighting. This happened 3 times in a row until we finally beat it.

I’m afraid a lot of the dungeon farmers have unlearned 2 play because of the “expected” way a dungeon has to be run. A lot of the anger about things starting to change comes from the fear of GW2 returning to the old state where dungeons were actually hard and an AC great sword was an accomplishment. And quiet a few players couldn’t cope with that. I guess these are those players who enter Eternal Battlegrounds with a shiny Sunrise but don’t get a single hit on me after their corner tactic failed. I don’t finish these people, I just stand there and stare in disbelief until I turn around and leave.

zaw.6741:

yay my twin ;d

Absolutely gorgeous Sylvari, zaw

Ranael.6423:

you should balance it with a buff for people losing damage for survivability.

Thats what Im already trying to do here. The Idea is, that at the moment there is an imbalance and this is trying to make defensive builds more viable.

The other way would be to add actual undodgeable attacks or bosses who’s attack patterns are a lot more aggressive so your defensive stats are just as valuable as your offensive ones

Id prefer a mechanic that turns your defense into an advantage then your offensive into a disadvantage but right now we have exactly that – timed bosses that do exactly that – rend your defense useless and promotes dps races.

As a mesmer most of my gameplay relies on positioning, dodging and timing my utilities. Im using exotic celestial gear since it gives me a little bulk as well as making both my direct dps and my conditions relevant.

Unfortunately in most dungeons the most viable tactic is zerker stacking which is boring and a little too easy. Especially popularity of the zerker-only farm run is getting out of hand and the damage you are getting from a boss can be completely migrated if you use your two dodges right.

So here is a solution that does both, reward a more defensive playstile as well as improving the challenge for people doing speed runs:

The idea is to add a buff that lasts 1 minute and boosts the movement speed, attack rate and damage by 25% and is triggered whenever a boss loses another 10% of his health. the total base Movement Speed of each boss is set down to 80% of its current total, so it gets back to 100% whenever he has one stack of the buff.

However, if it takes less then a Minute for the team to cut 10% of the boss’ health, the buff starts to stack up increasing the overall challenge forcing the group to put more effort into support and evasion.

Im well aware, that the threshold and the timers are not optimal for every boss and that they may vary.

What do you think about the idea? And what are your own? Am I a noob? And do you like the current state?

How about a Two handed Shield or Shield dual wield?

Warrior: Pistol for a defensive ranged variant
Guardian: Longbow for projectiles that actually move
Ranger: Rifle because class needs damage weapon
Thief: Mace for a non-instagibb build
Engineer: Sword for more mobility
Mesmer: Hammer because nothings shatters like a Hammer
Necromancer: Torch because doom fire nerd
Elementalist: Longbow because no Ranged PvP option
General: Whips or Lances for Mid-range Melee

Ok, I give in^^

Name: Meavon
Server: Drakkar Lake (EU)
Playstyle: Shifting, right now it’s 60% WvW (1-5 player group) 30% PvE 10% sPvP
Role: Tester
Playtime: 19pm – 1am GMT

thank you! Of course. Unblockable also nullifies reflects. So next time i’ll check whether that signet is up.

I like the Idea of having a damage triggered enrage when you do to much damage in a short time. We already have 100% lose conditions when you take too long, why not adding some pressure on the team when the damage/s reaches a certain peak? They would have to give more attention to the support and would still be faster at killing the boss. We just don’t have to restrict this mechanic to zerker teams but all teams.

Is there a warrior trait or a signet in game that counters reflects? Or is killshot immune to reflects? Because I repeatedly get downed by zerker warrior projectiles while mirror is up. Can somebody explain? Thank you.

Meluna.1764:

Several good friends of mine have always tried to convert me to WvW but I admit it has been never my cup of tea. For their sake, explain to me why WvW should be more fun or at least equal to PvE. My friends are counting on you and your abilities in smartiness. =)
There are some concerns I have especially for WvW.

1. I hate PvP. For some reason WvW has always been shoved in with PvE, why? Because there are a few random mobs sprinkeled around? The PvP part is the entire point? I am a great fan of co-op, but the PvP part still the biggest part that puts me off. I never played a PvP match in GW2, would rather saw my arm off.
2. It’s mostly about zerging. If I want mindless running in a horde, I’ll go on the champ train in Frostgorge. Has better loot. Small groups have barely any impact. Single players are just easy killcount.
3. It feels like I have no impact at all. Ran around in a small group (3-5) turning camps. Once we leave, camp immediately turns back. Feels like effort not well spent.
4. I feel unwanted. Server space is limited. As someone who is not an uber-pwns-m45ter I usually feel like I’m just stealing someones place who could have more of an impact than I do.

So please alleviate my issues and enlighten me to join the WvW path of the game.
Waiting for some good arguments =)

Info: current WvW status: lvl 15 n00b, but I have two commanders very intend on teaching me once I finally stumble back into the WvW server because I took a wrong turn in Lions Arch =p

1. Lvl 15? Bro, PvP is something you learn to like over time as you become more experienced. And in WvW you won’t just learn PvP, you’ll learn unfair PvP. You will learn to pick your fights, outnumbered fighting and chasing fleeing or upscaled players. And if you want to be safe for a while, a big zerg protects you very well as long as you stay close.

2. Yes, it is a lot of Zerging, but its not as mindless as PvE. There are always quiet a few ways to support the zerg depending on your class, chose your role wisely. The battlefield behaves a lot more chaotic and unpredictable than a PvE area.

3. If the camp turned back five minutes later, it wasn’t because a timer ran out like when a mob respawns. It was because a player saw the loss of the outpost and reacted to it, went there fought the whole camp and took it back. You could have stayed there and defended it.

4. You are wanted. On most times on my server, there are no queues or a maximum of 2 to 3 people. the zerg gets stronger with every single player. And if there are actually people trying to mob you out, you can still join the Edge of the mists.

A “Gift Box” Item
- Creates a chest similar to the “Box-o-fun”
- Carries the name [Creator Name]‘s Gift Box
- Up to 30 People can click the chest before it vanishes again
- The creator can’t click it himself
- The chest contains Black Lion boosts-, Runes, Sigils and Weapons
- very small chance to get ascended equipment (just to promote the gift box)
- small chance to get better Black Lion stuff – Makeover Kit, random finisher
- 50gems/piece 400/10pieces – and you get them for completing an area

Jana von Ritterstein.6371:

Very nice diagram, thank you Miroe for that. And is that true there will be a new race available?

New races and classes are probably on the way but I have no idea what they will be like.

Class:

Choose Dark, Light or Fancy
and Magic, Reflexes or Strength

Dark/Magic: Necromancer
Dark/Reflexes: Thief
Dark/Strength: Warrior

Light/Magic: Elementalist
Light/Reflexes: Ranger
Light/Strength: Guardian

Fancy/Magic: Mesmer
Fancy/Reflexes: Engineer
Fancy/Strength: Wait for expansion… Samurai is coming

Race:

Choose Technology, Nature or Civilization
and Conflict or Peace

Technology/Conflict: Charr
Technology/Peace: Asura

Nature/Conflict: Norn
Nature/Peace: Sylvari

Civilization/Conflict: Humans
Civilization/Peace: Wait for expansion… Tengu are coming

EDIT:
to choose between the keywords try find out what array of words resonate most with you:

Dark: Kill, Serious, Fear, Dirt, Survival, Revenge, Danger
Light: Honor, Victory, Synergy, Balance, Save, Justice, Life
Fancy: Innovative, Environment, Trick, Adapt, Dazzle, Stand out, off-beat

Magic: hidden Strength, Books, Wisdom, Willpower, Telekinesis, Special, Enchanted
Reflexes: Quick, Cunning, Surprise, Smart, Intuition, Preparation, Tactical attacks
Strength: Intimidation, Knock out, Onslaught, Brave, Frontline, Power, Parry

Technology: Invention, Equipment, Gears, Machine, Explosions, Solution, Activation
Nature: Wanderer, Instinct, Wilderness, Camping, Growth, Traces, Foliage
Civilization: Manners, Tradition, Public, Culture, Legacy, Order, Safety

Peace: Similarity, Community, Empathy, Compromise, Morale, Calm, Understanding
Conflict: Difference, Ambition, Pride, Rank, Superiority, Practicality, Dignity

Eroiqua.5891:

Just wanted to say this is an excellent idea!

Thank you

nearlight.3064:

Miroe.2054:

Focus : There really need to do something good with that one. Not only does the current Focus legendary is really not legendary, but there is VERY limited good option for a focus. There is a lot of theme that need to be explore here. Focus is a popular weapon for Guardian, Elementalist and Necromancer, but there is still very few good option. This weapons really need more love, they can’t mess up the future Focus legendary.

Never said that :P

GrimsSybrog.6271:

There needs to me a manly bow. The 2 we have now are just girly/flamboyant kitten hell. Something that doesn’t have a fire detail though.. I’m sick and tired of weapons that have a fire effect. It seems like Anet just grabs a weapon and adds fire to it and calls it a new weapon or charges gems for it. Think outside the box.

Seeing the pattern makes a prognosis easier. A lot of players like fire weapons because its the perfect mix of imaginability and magic. Remember the time everyone and their mother had a CoF Armor and refused to transmute it? Id rather have some variety.

We’re playing Guild Wars, so I’ll go with “Guild Warrior”.

I play my mesmer because I like winning by trolling people and watching them attacking the wrong clone is better than landing a 10k crit. And because of the endless versatility and utility.

Ill try to guess, what kind of legendaries might be coming regarding the ones that are already there.

Greatsword
After The Twilight/Sunrise/Eternity trio we will probably get something less clean, more dirty, maybe tied to an element. I guess it will be a single, less flashy legendary this time but nonetheless an iconic one since Greatswords are something a lot of players use. A non-symmetric more scimitar like weapon that will probably be tied with fire since that would easily fit a lot of the armor in GW2. Something, magitechy, light-saber like with a cool sound effect is imaginable.

Staff
The other two handed weapon besides the GS that can be used by 4 classes. Probably the next double legendary. Having two opposites that combine into one.
I could come up with following opposites: ice&fire, Tech&Nature, Life&Death, Wisdom&Impuls, different opposing emotions. Since I think that the legendary GS will have a fire theme and a “tech staff” would probably not be very liked amongst the caster classes, Ill go and guess there will be a tree-like life-staff and a vicious death-staff combining into one that symbolizes the circle of life and death.

One handed sword
Turning bolt into the opposite, Ill go with a broad, black diamond-sword, maybe with fear inducing name leaving a red trail behind screaming whenever it is swung. Connections to cantha anyone? We could have a catana.

One-handed Axe
Something huge, light themed, double edged. golden trail, maybe connections to the dwarves.

Mace
Water-themed mace fits its defensive theme – “The great Dooboo” – a Quaggan theme would be nice.

Shield
Grand, wooden Norn shield with a totem-theme, Maybe an animal head that moves or growls at times.

Hammer
Something stupidly fabulous, with only 2 classes having access, this weapon will probably fit its sPvP-troll theme. How about “The Tooth fairy” a huge shooting star, that sprays glitter wherever it hits.

Rifle
Yet another weapon that will probably be completely deformed. Something less elegant as the predator, more barrels, more colors. How about a wooden Canthan Firework cannon?

Short Bow
This thing will make everything right that was wrong about the dreamer: Magitech with aiming barrels and multiple light going on and off, and a voice similar to the Salvage-o-matic every time you kill an opponent.

Long Bow
the “Eclipse” a bow right from mad king thorns lair, borrowed from the realm of torment, this weapon whispers and its arrows take the form of black ravens.

Pistol
Light revolver – “the punisher” sending out rays of judgement. producing a little light-explosion with every shot fired.

Dagger
“horizon” blue, cosmic dagger, crescent shaped that leaves a trail of tiny stars behind of which some are connected with thin lines.

Focus
“Celestial compass” from gw1 upgraded to the GW2 quality, the geometric forms change shape and color depending of the spell that is cast.

Warhorn
“The gathering” something festive. The Warnhorns appearance changes over the year according to the season fitting Chinese new year, Dragon Bash, Halloween and Christmas.

Torch
“Muse” A flickering brush that paints the colors into the air. (colors are slowly shifting)

Spear
A lightning spear that sends out a ray at the front and rear end.

Trident
A staff with a black hole at the end, that creates an eternal vortex

Speargun
Meh.. Ill go with something techy and compact that launches plasma arrows.

Thats one for every weapon type. Now lets see your ideas and guesses.

When Wildstar starts running, NCsoft will have enough resources to fund the next great project. Lets hope its a new, hyped and promoted content package. Thats the way it works, thats the way GW2 came to be, so lets cross our fingers.

3. Mirror – Since the buff I have fallen in love with this neat heal skill. It can be used as a fourth offensive utility and it is a great gap closer between dodge rolls and the prestige. Theres nothing more satisfying then a rangers face who used rapid fire right before your decoy just to see all those arrows come out of the nothing right back at his face.

2. Decoy – This scene: Edge of the Mists – A Guardian runs towards me dangerously close to an edge. Decoy, Blink right beside him, the clone attacks removing the Aegis, Diversion, Illusionary wave, loot bag. And thanks to the decoy he will never know, what happened.

1. Portal – Since nobody uses the portal devices, this is one of the defining abilities of the mesmer making him an absolute WvW beast and combined with blurred frenzy or distortion grants a 90% save escape at zerg diving. The ability to easy-mode JPs and support your entire guild finally earns this ability the top spot in my list.

buy GW1 and make yourself a char that is both, Mesmer AND Warrior —> Problem solved

Set a hit count threshold from when on a kill can rally you. Whole zergs rallying because of one upscaled thief dying takes me out of the immersion every time. Aside from the annoyance.

Kerryee.4857:

I’ve seen in-game speculation about how the Sylvari kinda came from nowhere and could have been intended as dragon minions, had they not found Ventari’s Tablet. Finding out today that Mordremoth is in Magus Falls, as well as the alternate Sylvari tree that spawned Malyk, and I’m wondering how many more Scarlets were going to be seeing soon.

Königs nightmare yet back again. Just lean back and watch the discussion unfold for the fifth time. There are several threads in the Lore section that are almost identical.

Liadri IS supposed to be beaten by everyone. The entire Queens Gauntlet teaches players how to use their class effectively and how to adapt and compensate in difficult situations. The more player beat Liadry, the bigger the success of the event.

Id just like to see the timer removed or react to the damage done. As a full exo celestial Mesmer with 1.5k hours experience, I consider myself in the lower 50% of the damage meter. Its not possible for me to beat her below 30% even in a perfect try before the timer hit zero. I had to switch to zerker gear to beat her last year.

The elitist can still solo Lupicus and upload their sepia video with speedcore onto youtube.

You can join whatever guild you want without being on their server. Guild Members join the same map when being near each other. You can join any guild you want and you can meet members of any guild.

If you are new to Guild Wars 2 you should really try out all the different game modes – you don’t have to stay in PvE all the way up to 80. Play a while in WvW or sPvP. The sPvP offers a wonderful way to find out, which class suits you best if you don’t like the necromancer.

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

But anyway, would your reaction had been the same meeting a guy with the Gladiator or pit-fighter armor?

I guess no.. never thought about it actually. I guess its because I rarely see Conans, Kratos’es and Drogos.

But hey, in fantasy and especially in GW2 90% of the characters are idealized stereotypes which is perfectly ok. Its just kind of interesting how many players still try to max the amount of naked skin on their character the way they try to max Power of Precision. This leads to a lot of characters looking very similar. So in this regard I am very much for more diverse skimpy armors.

I swear, everytime I see a T3 cult equipped female human thief with the flower hairstyle unstealthing and Attacking me I hear a 12-year old teenager yelling “BOOBS!!” in my head.
I think id just like to see more players taking their female characters more seriously. It doesn’t have to be right out RPing. Just trying to cultivate the “cool” instead of the “cute” when playing one. (Im looking at you, Rox-Big-Lashes)

[@Mods: This contains sarcasm, please no more infringement point because of sarcasm]

When a woman wants to kick your kitten, she won’t wear lingerie, she will wear some huge, intimidating armor and smack you with a Greatsword. On some level im a huge fan of RPing and when walk tyria im always imagining how these are real places and real people. It always makes me smile when I see a female character wearing skimpy armor cause I imagine how she would explain her armor choice. It would sound like something along the lines of:

[sarcasm stars here]
- Yea, I just wore this for years, people know me like this
- It makes me more mobile and agile, you know? I just don’t get hit
- Err, all of this practical armor is just too heavy for my fragile body, I just can’t wear it…
- Invisible magical force field all the way!!
- It fits my naturally blue hair color! Eww! Shooes!
- I want something to remind me of the ordeals of Arah.. yes, its a Plate Bikini
- Im “Emma Enignma” don’t event start asking me stuff..
- Are you RPing? Lol nubz!

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Are these just skins? I was really hoping for the Mistforged versions to actually be Ascended stat weapons

Yes, thought that too. this would’ve been perfect. An event that happens only like twice per year and rewards you with ascended weapons. But obviously its just about the skins. I guess this makes the skins a little more epic.

Infamous Darkness.3284:

Miroe.2054:

Echowald confirmed!! :P

sorry no, Echovald forest is in Cantha which is far south (not sure if you were being sarcastic)

Oh, sorry…

CANTHA CONFIRMED!!!

killahmayne.9518:

Honestly if you want to beat a warrior the easier but boring way go PU condition.

WHY!! Why are you doing this! The plague must not spread!

Don’t have to be PU Mesmer to escape. Just place a Portal in time and you can escape from any situation. (As long as it doesn’t take you too long) I regularly place a portal, dive into an enemy zerg and after a few seconds use the “take root”/Portal combo to escape before they burst me down.

If you do that, you might want to place your portal in the water (any depth) since portals become almost invisible that way and you won’t get any Asura zerker thiefs waiting on the other side.

LordByron.8369:

Miroe.2054:

LordByron.8369:

Or play fractals and get an ascended celestial set for free .-.

Never heard of this I have.
Tell me you have to.

Be with you may the force.

In fractals you drop different armor boxes.
Piece and primary stat is specicfied.

For example you get a Healer box of ascended pants, or malicious box of ascended gloves.

From the first you can get any type of pants (heavy/light/mid) with Healing as stat.
From the second you can have any type of gloves with condition damage stat in them.

Guess wich stats are present in every chest?
Wupwup..aka celestial ascended.

Got almost 2 sets already (chances are slightly more than 10% at higher levels).

That works only for armors though.

Thank you! I heard of something called Healer box of ascended pants and hoped that it worked that way. How are the drop chances? Could be relevant for the OP too.

Echowald confirmed!! :P

Because NPC don’t trust you to have put it together correctly – so if you don’t use it yourself, thats just a sign for bad manufacturing

Because your other chars don’t wanna eat what you main has touched. Have you ever seen a character wash their hands after leaving the black citadel?