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They did tell us from the very beginning that there would be “pink” items. It’s just now that they’ve actually given them a name.
No they didnt. I don’t believe that one second. Link please.
Everything links to the new changes. I can’t find anything else. I could be mistaken but I could’ve sworn there was another color that just wasn’t used in the game.
There was purple, back in the BWEs. It was used for transmuted items. But now transmuted items simply have the color of the item that the stats came from.
Now more to the point.
Nothing before release indicated that there would be a tier of gear above exotic, everything indicated that max stats would be easy to reach (although it’d still be a bit harder than in GW1).
This game has always been advertised as a horizontal progression game, and that’s why I bought it. If for any reason anyone bought this game expecting or wanting vertical progression, well, too bad, this game was not made for you! You could have played any of those “every other MMO out there” and gotten what you wanted, but no, you had to come and ruin this game instead.
Although obviously not all blame can be put on the players. ArenaNet (or whoever made this decision, probably Nexon) could have simply ignored them.I think I’m just gonna quit playing MMOs now. Or maybe play GW1. I dunno, I’ll see.
thanks for the reply I like this post, my question however is do you actually think the horizontal game in GW2 is good and long lasting? comparable say to GW1 ? So instead of comparing it to have to go vertical. Ask yourself if you were in the grouping of people who play even say 20 hours a week does this game have holding power to keep them entertained horizontally?
Personally for me – not in the slightest. Again however that horizontal progression doesn’t mean they need to increase the stats of gear but they need to drastically change how things are especially for the more hardcore player or people who have been in exotics a few weeks after launch and have gotten all their keg brawl achievements/puzzle/kills etc etc because of boredom.
Maybe they saw nowhere else to go but up? I don’t know I’m just curious
The people that do not like Ascended Gear are not angry because they added new things to do, but because they added a new gear grind that makes the old one obsolete (because of the better stats), something that violates some of the design principles that GW1 and 2 where built on (hence why Legendaries have the same stats as exotics)
It’s as simple as that, we are not against new content or things to do we just don’t want vertical gear progression. If one does not likes horizontal progression and is bored with it then maybe it’s time to head to a different game, and there is nothing wrong with that, there is no monthly fee, you can play for a week go play something else until they release new content then come back, is how GW1 worked with its expansions and content updates.
After reading the official announcement, these are disappointing news for me.
So now exotics will become a sort of pseudo-limbo set of gear that is not as good as the real “endgame” though close, BUT since it lacks Agony defence it will be useless for the new dungeon and (according to the announcement) upcoming future dungeons….hmmm I wonder why one has to bother to get Exotics at all anymore then??
Though from the announcement it seems we are only getting jewelry with the new stat at the moment hopefully that is all we will ever get…or at the very least allow exotic armor to be upgraded with an infusion slot somehow to keep it relevant.
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