Not white knighting. What did you guys do before ascended weapons for high level fractals?
I’m just semi okay with time gating.
(Time gating here is the difference between nrg, and just playing your characters for a week) Time gate….. jesus.
What I did isn’t relevant. What general population did is. Go pug mid level fractal 48 and tell me how often they dodge perfectly agony. I’m sure that after anet unlocks high levels those bads will continue to climb up with difficulty levels
Did I mention time gate at all? No.
So we’re only talking about the highest level of fractals? Remove it from the rest of the game then. I was figuring in WvW and such. Only the people on high level fractals “needing” to craft this would solve a lot of things for me :P
I think they messed up on the name, I just like something to work towards in Pve/WvW.
Also this. If people could sell them, then everyone who could care less about ascended would just sell them on the spot, making the mats way too cheap and would help to usher in the next tier a bit too fast. (I’d assume they’re need a next tier if everything was sellable right off the bat)
Considering the next tier above ascended can be bought out right from the TP as the finished product.
Anet calls them legendaries.
Legendaries are still ascended status atm, just fyi :P Yeah, they’ll always be top tiered, but ascended is the top tier now.
Making these dye packs have guaranteed dyes in them would drastically decrease the amount bought by the playerbase, thus lowering the amount of gems bought from the gem store, ect.
But how many more people would be willing to purchase them?
Give it two weeks, trade gems for gold, then buy the one you want. Would probably be cheaper. Let the crazy gamblers do the work for you :P
I’m just sad that F&F probably ruined this investment before it even happened :P I can already see too many people thinking this will be the new dye to flip.
They’d be pretty worthless down the road (mat prices for them). But meh, who am I to judge :P I don’t even care about the stat boost, I just like the staff skin.
What do you consider a “set” of ascended weapons? 82 temple events is around 5 weapons (ore wise). I have no clue how many you get per dungeon run, plus I get a bit from just doing world bosses. I’m only bothering with one ascended weapon atm, and the only reason it’s taking so long is that I’m too lazy to get to 500 in a craft :P
Are you wanting 4 mh/of weapons, and like a few back up pieces 2 weeks into the update?
I will agree that E. Fragments are a bit slow, then again… everything is compared to those kitten Bloodstones :P
I do indeed need 5 weapons. Greatsword, Hammer and Staff for melee with Scepter/Focus for the secondary set.
You need all 5 of those to be ascended, right now?
Also this. If people could sell them, then everyone who could care less about ascended would just sell them on the spot, making the mats way too cheap and would help to usher in the next tier a bit too fast. (I’d assume they’re need a next tier if everything was sellable right off the bat)
Considering that they are a) Time Gated and 2) Take a metric ton of materials to make…
You can purchase the time gated parts off of the tp. The only “time gated” mats are the ones you’re wanting to be sellable.
Lump of Mithrillium & Glob of Elder Spirit Residue are time gated. You can purchase Deldrimor Steel Ingot & Spiritwood Plank off the market, negating the time gate. All that’s left is account bound mats.
Also this. If people could sell them, then everyone who could care less about ascended would just sell them on the spot, making the mats way too cheap and would help to usher in the next tier a bit too fast. (I’d assume they’re need a next tier if everything was sellable right off the bat)
What do you consider a “set” of ascended weapons? 82 temple events is around 5 weapons (ore wise). I have no clue how many you get per dungeon run, plus I get a bit from just doing world bosses. I’m only bothering with one ascended weapon atm, and the only reason it’s taking so long is that I’m too lazy to get to 500 in a craft :P
Are you wanting 4 mh/of weapons, and like a few back up pieces 2 weeks into the update?
I will agree that E. Fragments are a bit slow, then again… everything is compared to those kitten Bloodstones :P
Five. Semi gave up on my ranger and ele, and really don’t care about my warrior. MMO’s now a days seem a bit alt unfriendly. I miss CoH and my 50-ish max leveled characters :P
I just think people aren’t used to it yet. Hell, there’s barely any listings as is. I make sure to read the “requirements”, but the max I’ve seen per dungeon was 3 :P I’d say give it some time.
(Also, please leave a brief description at least. Not a fan of seeing TAP1 with 0 extra information)
I’d go with a well rounded (build/armor) Shout Guardian for solo pve. I may be biased though, since that’s what my main solo pve character is :P Usually use a mix of soldier/knight armor (maybe a couple valk trinkets or beryls in them) with soldier runes. Has a lot of condition cleansing/a block/invul and a ton of boons.
I happen to know the OP, and English is not his native language, and is to be far to civil to come back and reproach an uncivilized remark, that has zero to do with the current issue of this post!
I did say I was being totally off topic, and I did reply to his post with the rest of my reply before I mentioned it. I do apologize, it was mainly just a tip for them :P
We should run troll groups that do the rotation backwards so the champ farmers are left with nothing and they rage like mad.
It’s been a bit since I’ve seen rage from champ farmers, tbh. It’s usually just a bit of frustration with trying to get the circle going again. I’ll admit to getting frustrated when the circle is broke though, if I’m doing my daily :P (not in MC of course)
Why is there a problem with balance in wvw? Since everyone can run them I do not see that problem. It would need some fine tuning that’s for sure.
How many times do you not see warriors defending a keep against a large zerg standing there, not being able to do anything for instance.
(I’m a bit out of it, so please excuse this reply :P)
I’d hate to fight a Warrior with GS, Hammer & * (axe/shield or such). Or a Thief with S/P, D/D & SB. A mesmer with GS, Staff & S/F. It would just give so many options, and too many OP builds, that I think you couldn’t really balance around it.
I’d want a build swap (armor and traits) option a lot sooner than 3 weapon swaps.
Now that dungeons are not worth farming, I’m stuck with a huge zerg of 80s running from champ to champ in Queensdale. Lord forbid you kill a champ out of the order they are running in. Lots of “nice” comments in Map chat if you do.
Sorry, didn’t read the entire thread.. just fyi.
This was happening before the Champ lewt was changed :P The shift to loot bags has actually brought the map chat rage down (from my experience), strangely. Sadly this has funneled more players into QD or FQ (Frost has the most horrible MC out of all.), so of course you’ll see more a-hats.
From a WvW standpoint, I think it’d be a nightmare to deal with, balance wise. For PvE, I just think they need a switch build option at this point.
Going totally OT, but please don’t start a topic that could be explored in great detail with “Wat” when you mean What is, or What’s. (I came to this thread because I figured it would be a cool discussion, but “Wat” almost turned me away).
I’m waiting for new Legendaries to be honest. Of course that’s probably a long ways off. I don’t see a problem with buying precursors off the tp now, if you’re going for a specific legendary though. As Yaki said, we have no clue what building precursors will entail.
The original people who supported SAB and made sure of it’s success that ensured it was brought back so the new people enjoying on the second time round for the first time are welcome.
I supported SAB (on the forums and in game) but didn’t pick up the backpack. Of course that thing is so kitten ugly, I wouldn’t want one now. I’d be fine with new people having the chance at one still :P
The reasoning is perfectly valid so what’s the reasoning to why not?
*reasoning=Don’t need ascended…exotics are fine, don’t need exotics…rares are fine, don’t need rares….masterworks are fine, don’t need masterworks…fines are fine, don’t need fines…commons are fine, need commons to be able to use skills
If anyone of the statements are true then all are true, thus my reasoning.
That just seems like a lot of steps to argue one step :P Of course you don’t “need” these things. But if it’s so easy to get all of the other tiers, than one above it that requires more, isn’t a huge deal. (Still not agreeing with what’s coming).
In WvW, you kill champs only if/when you take a tower. Exotic weapons can’t be bought with just badges; you need gold as well. Where do you get that gold from? The amount of money you make in WvW is insignificant compared to PvE, which means TP prices are a much higher percentage of your wealth compared to a PvE player.
WvW is actually decent, if you follow the zerg :P But yeah, that’s more boring than invasions. It also doesn’t help when your server is in the wrong tier… shakes fists at TC. In a decent match up though, you tend to take down a few champs in each swoop. I’d never suggest only playing a portion of a game in an MMO and expect to be “rich”.
And really, you don’t need an Ascended Weapon. Yes, they’re better than exotics, but the whole idea is you don’t need Ascended stuff to play GW2. We kind of all knew there was going to be a bit of time related grind to Ascended items, kind of like there was for getting the Laurel ascended equipment as well.
You don’t need anything beyond whites. Same premise, but does it fly….nope.
I have one ascended trinket, on all of my characters. I just wanted the +gold infusion amulet on my guardian, for no good reason. I still have 200ish laurels. I really don’t think it affects my roaming WvW characters in the least bit. I’m not going to notice this at all. Bringing up whites is just trying way too hard.
Not agreeing/disagreeing with time gating, but don’t pull that and to try dispute something :P Exotics are still fine for everything sub high level fractals.
With the recent news on the incoming changes, was funny to see the supply drain to 600 and then to 6 in under an hour :P Anyone buy them up? I haven’t even checked the other runes that are getting changed, but I’m sure it’s too late for them.
Only grabbed about 20 myself, eh guess we’ll see if it was worth it on Tuesday.
Edit: Seems people are flipping them fast :P Not sure if this is an investment, or just a quick turn around.
I wouldn’t think you’re cool if you’re wearing a headpiece just because it cost 10k gold, or if you had to spend an intense 24 hours in a one man raid. Just saying.
I notice a huge difference with this community as compared to GW1, where for 6+ years I tended to have chat on most of the time. So this brings up the question, what is so different with the general community of GW2 vs. 1?
GW1 was a smaller, more niche game. GW2 had a huge amount of box sales off the bat. That’s the reason I usually tend to enjoy smaller games and servers though. You don’t gain the attention of people who log on just to troll for the sake of trolling.
To tell you the truth, I’ve never actually seen a rude commander :P In pve or wvw. Well aside from an old guildmate who basically bought the tag to troll, lol. Most are fine in WvW, and I follow the pve ones in the QD-zerg train. This is on most servers also.
5 gambits vs Subject 7 on a Mesmer is pretty “easy”. I just used dulfy’s build/guide and only took 3 tries. If you can’t manage 5, you can do 3 easily with a Mesmer, then use her guide for the blob one on a Warrior.
I do my usual circle around the arenas, trying to find one without anyone there. I wouldn’t just queue up in a farmer’s spot if there’s another open arena :P But if everyone has 2-3 people, and there’s one with just the one farmer…. it’s open game.
It’s not the farmers that get in the way of regular players. Farmers are efficient – finishing their run withing 20 seconds at the most. I don’t mind sharing an arena with two farmers. We all work together and get our rotations going nicely.
It’s people who don’t do enough damage and take forever to die that bother the farmers instead. Farmers are the good guys here.
I don’t think any group are the good guys :P But if someone declares that they own a specific arena, yeah… not going to happen.
If you are not a farmer, try to understand that there are 5 other arenas to play in and let the farmer do his thing in peace. If everything is full, then generally find an arena with people who aren’t trying to farm. This is what I did when going for Liadri achievements, and there was no problem with it. People who aren’t farming will tend to be more helpful with tips and such to beat bosses anyway. Farmers usually just like to do their thing in silence.
It’s usually the guys who are at the only arena without a line that are pretty rude though.
