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Everyone has different opinions. I agree that revisiting jumping puzzles is a bit tedious, but I’m willing to redo those. I just wish fractrals would cycle out so I can finally complete a monthly.
(I know low level fractrals are easy and fractrals are fun the 1st time through, but grinding it over and over again is the opposite of fun).
I agree with Haishao. GW2 is missing a sense of community.
Stealing an idea from Aion, I would love it if there were special dungeons with unique items/skins that can only be accessed if your server controls a specific fort in a WvWvW map. And the guild that contributes the most to taking that fort should have their GUILD TAG and EMBLEM displayed in the fort’s name/in the fort. This adds another reason for guilds and will motivate the entire server.
The map should also be infested with enemy NPC faction(s) that will try to retake the fort at regular known intervals; which enemy servers can exploit. >.>
Supposedly not. But I’ve heard that dulfy was banned because someone mailed her “tainted gold” (ie: gold that was brought from gold-sellers/botters).
I agree with the OP. FoTM would have been fun with just a cosmetic grind. Or a grind for items that can only be used in FoTM.
The max stats should have been left at exotics. Infusions should have been dungeon only (if it’s not already, I don’t know).
I think the people who want “vertical progression” actually want recognition for the time and effort they put in.
To appease that, the devs should have made leaderboards or titles based on people’s “fractral number”. The title could be something like “fractral runner <insert fractral number here>”. That, and them getting stronger and stronger via fractral-dungeon only infusions.
In LA today, I saw messages like “lf2m FoTM, full exotic or better”, and “lf1m FM, fractral level 3 min”.
So it does seem like some people are already being selective. =/
Though, now that I have had time to think about it… is it possible that the stats on the infusions only take effect when in the Fractals? In which case this is perfectly fine. Infusions wouldn’t affect PvE or PvP/WvW… you would only need better infusions to do Fractal OMFGHARDMODE
According to the pic, even if infusions were fractals only the base stats on ascended gear is already higher than a fully upgraded exotic equivilent.
I think I’m out. I like to play alts, and GW2 out of the box was quite friendly to this style of play with easy to reach max level and BiS items. Gear grind increases the gap between casual and hardcore players, but it also punishes alt players.
I think the only way this would turn out ok is if the Ascended gear can only be used in the Ascended dungeons. This would contain the gear treadmill and keep it out of WvW, open world PvP, and the non-Ascended dungeons.
Ascended gear only being used in ascended dungeons is a great idea. Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s the intent.
Ah well.
All transmutation stones used on items that players thought were top tier will be wasted, because they now need a new tier to have maxed armor and use more transmutation stones.
It’s doubtful that most players would feel those transmutation stones were wasted at the time in which they were consumed. Those transmutation stones cannot be recovered; so, why waste the effort thinking about them.
WvW uses pve gear so all sets of max level exotic gear will be trash and WvW players will have to farm new armor.
WvW players will simply be in the same boat that other pve players in that they have better chances than those with non-exotic sets to gain new armor.
I just noticed that the few people on here defending and calling concerns QQing have only posted in this thread… as if the account is new… and if you point that out the post is somehow deleted… hmmm…
Seems like your posts are still there.
I, personally, would not have wasted those transmutation stones on exotic armor if I knew ascended was coming. The only reason I got transmutation stones was because I wanted my characters’ final armor sets to have a certain look.
I would not have even brought transmutation stones if I believed the gear tiers would be shifting every few months.
They uh back tracked on their Manifesto and all the things they said for the past 5 years so what makes you think they won’t back track again? Whatever things they say now can be changed at a whim later on. They already did it once; so what’s to stop them from doing it again and again?
How did they go back on their manifesto? They are NOT adding a gear grind… they are adding a new tier nothing more…. whats more is that you can only get that new gear from that new dungeon…. Also what if the game had launched with Ascended Gear? would they still “be going against their manifesto” as you say? No they would not be… your only complaining because they are adding it post launch. So your argument is invalid.
No. They are going back on their manifesto. I have full exotics (other than the backpiece) on 3 of my characters. Now I have to grind to get full ascended.
And yes. I would be still be complaining if the game was launced with rares being the top tier and they added exotics. Why? Simply because they are forcing me to grind to keep up.
No one is forcing you to grind at all…. you get the new items from the new dungeon… which means doing the new content to get the new stuff. Holy crap lol do your research before complaining…
the point is NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO DO DUNGEONS. Some of us just want to WvW. And now we have to grind a PvE dungeon to remain competitive.
So by “having to grind to remain competitive” you mean that a tiny +2-5 stats per item is going to help?
That’s a 2-5 difference in the minor stat of the item. It is the major stat that I’m primarily concerned with. Like take berserker’s gear. The major stat is power, the minor stats are precision and crit damage. If the difference in the minor stat is 2-5, the difference in the major stat will be at least ~5-10. Taken across all 12 item slots, that’s what? at least a +60-120 stat difference? You can’t say that’s not significant; otherwise people will not be running orbs and runes.
They uh back tracked on their Manifesto and all the things they said for the past 5 years so what makes you think they won’t back track again? Whatever things they say now can be changed at a whim later on. They already did it once; so what’s to stop them from doing it again and again?
How did they go back on their manifesto? They are NOT adding a gear grind… they are adding a new tier nothing more…. whats more is that you can only get that new gear from that new dungeon…. Also what if the game had launched with Ascended Gear? would they still “be going against their manifesto” as you say? No they would not be… your only complaining because they are adding it post launch. So your argument is invalid.
No. They are going back on their manifesto. I have full exotics (other than the backpiece) on 3 of my characters. Now I have to grind to get full ascended.
And yes. I would be still be complaining if the game was launced with rares being the top tier and they added exotics. Why? Simply because they are forcing me to grind to keep up.
No one is forcing you to grind at all…. you get the new items from the new dungeon… which means doing the new content to get the new stuff. Holy crap lol do your research before complaining…
the point is NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO DO DUNGEONS. Some of us just want to WvW. And now we have to grind a PvE dungeon to remain competitive.
Even if they add other means of getting the gear, but they raise the tiers every 3-6 months. And I take a break from the game for a year. What then? I’ll be a few tiers behind? I have to grind to catch up? That’s my concern.
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They uh back tracked on their Manifesto and all the things they said for the past 5 years so what makes you think they won’t back track again? Whatever things they say now can be changed at a whim later on. They already did it once; so what’s to stop them from doing it again and again?
How did they go back on their manifesto? They are NOT adding a gear grind… they are adding a new tier nothing more…. whats more is that you can only get that new gear from that new dungeon…. Also what if the game had launched with Ascended Gear? would they still “be going against their manifesto” as you say? No they would not be… your only complaining because they are adding it post launch. So your argument is invalid.
No. They are going back on their manifesto. I have full exotics (other than the backpiece) on 3 of my characters. Now I have to grind to get full ascended.
And yes. I would be still be complaining if the game was launced with rares being the top tier and they added exotics. Why? Simply because they are forcing me to grind to keep up.
I have full exotic (other than the back piece) on 3 characters; transmuted with the look I want.
If ascended gear gets released with higher than fully upgraded exotic level stats (as inferred from the picture), I’ll feel like I wasted money (both in game currency and RL money for the transmutation stones).
The power and precision are the minor stats. The magic find, the major stat, being significantly larger is what concerns me.
Having ascended gear with higher stats than a fully upgraded exotic really bugs the heck out of me.
But I’m on board with ascended gear matching a fully upgraded exotic, while having an infusion slot that is dungeon specific.
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NAY for gear progression.
Yes for new content.
Also, to the community, I believe most of you should wait to see what happens before expressing your rage/intent to quit and/or other negative hyperbole.
The problem with this logic is that if players “wait and see” it will be too late because once players have their hands on and invest in the new armor set, the backlash would be that much worse if it was nerfed to the level it SHOULD be. This thread, while it may contain a lot of unnecessary i quit posts, it simply the community voicing loudly their opinions about a press release that was quite clear in its wording. The following is quoted from that press release. Clearly, people who bought into this game for its “No Gear Treadmill” mantra are going to be upset. We feel lied to. False advertisement is a problem and while people may have had a blast up until now, many will refuse to hop on the treadmill. Such is my American right. No more treadmills.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/11/12/guild-wars-2s-lost-shores-content-primer/
“The patch will introduce ascended items. Ascended armors are “slightly more powerful than exotics” and can, in some cases, hold slots for infusions. Infusions will allow you to increase your character’s power."
Signed.
I hope to see some more details that clear things up, till then i will hold on with my supportive monthly gem pruchase.
After ~7 years of Guild Wars it would be sad to say goodbye to arena.
/signed
Until I get more clarification, I too will be withholding gem purchases.
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