I’m up to level 4 difficulty and still haven’t seen everything and the fractals themselves have randomness born into them.
I doubt it’s infinite, so there has to be a top number.
You can make gold pretty easy in this game if you know what you are doing. You can average anywhere from 5-10 gold an hour on just dungeon speed runs depending on drops.
119 gold takes longer to farm up compared to dungeon sets, but cultural armor is supposed to be some of the rarest armor in game.
I understand that zerging bosses is frowned upon.
But with the sudden death stuff intertwined…..cmon man. If someone dies in cliffside or the asura jumping one, a team member has to back track the entire thing to rez them.
He isn’t showing up on my server.
We have 100 people waiting in the house for him.
Is he supposed to always be there or does he have a path?
Also, whats up with the barrels and stuff on the west side of LA?
They can’t be opened or anything.
I am confused where to go and what to do now that the event has passed.
Lost Shores isn’t open from what I can tell.
The donation vendor is no where to be seen.
Zormos or whatever his name is says you can get answers about the karka in Kessex Hills or Caledon Forest (Do we go exploring for answers?)
What about all the highlighted NPCs other than Myami? Do they serve any purpose any more?
The jump from exotic gear to legendary gear in terms of time and effort are ridiculous.
There needs to be something between exotic and legendary to keep players interested.
Hence, we got ascended.
They purposefully made it huge because they want to make sure they have open ends on their stories.
Take for example WoW…..WoW’s world is all but fleshed out. And WoW is boring because of it.
I’m looking forward to a new zone to explore.
Zhaitan was probably one of the weaker dragons.
Errbody knows Primordius is the grand pooba of dragons.
D3 was a money grab, pure and simple.
It was pushed out the door by Activision, not Blizzard.
Their patching process is no different than GW1.
They make small changes when they can as to not put things off for a huge patch later on.
It would be nice to read the patch notes before this content update goes live.
Half the posts concerning legendaries is that other than the skin, the grind to get them is downright brutal and useless.
Legendaries should be better than you can outright buy on the TP for 1 gold, but should be inline with top end gear drops.
I think ascended fills that gap quite nicely. You still have to work for the gear and it will take effort, but that effort is paid off.
people dont read lol, the gear will only be needed “in the new dungeon”
And it affects the rest of the game. Thus it becomes needed in all aspects of the game.
Other dungeons don’t use the new agony mechanic
which is what ascended gear mitigatesso no. its not needed for all aspects of the game
They have more stats then exotics AND infusion.
They will boost your character AND help in the new dungeon.
They will be a must have for everything AND a must have for the new dungeon for mitigations.
You don’t even need exotics for current dungeons.
So you’re wrong.
Capturable skills like in GW1.
It can be done.
The tale will be told in the differences between sigils and infusions.
If infusions give no stats just defenses, ascended gear and exotic gear are equal in stats.
I mean, we needed gear lockers already for PvE.
But a whole new quality of gear plus inevitably legendary armor, there is not enough bank/bag space to hold it all.
I’d actually like patch notes because I am looking to level something else and I’m torn between engineer, ranger and necro….so I’d like to know how this patch is going to effect leveling.
The introduction of these asc gears is a signal that more tiers/more powerful gears will come.
So, no.
Legendary armor was already around the corner.
If they released legendary armor instead of ascended armor, would you complain about a quality that already existed?
GvG isn’t the reason for the original’s name.
Guild Wars was an event prior to the first game.
Spend a week getting exotic gear. Good.
Spend a week getting the new ascended pieces. Bad
That about sums it up.
There is no solution because ascended gear isn’t a problem.
Why do you think they are rolling out ascended gear by piecemeal and starting with the most marginal of items first?
It’s to see how the community reacts and to show arenanet how lightly they need to tread.
There is a bigger jump in power levels from a newly minted level 80 and an 80 in full exotics than there is from full exotic to 2 pieces of ascended gear…..
Yet no one right now checks gear scores.
It’s all conjecture and exaggeration that is fueling these complaints.
Because a)it’s easy to get a full set of exotics, and b)more importantly, this creates the gear treadmill we all were promised we wouldn’t see in this game. We were told this game at it’s core was different from other MMO’s.
It will probably be just as easy to get the new ascended gear assuming you spend a lot of time in the new dungeon.
Again, conjecture and exaggeration.
It’s created for the hardcore/elite crowd, as per Anet’s own words. Why would it be an easy, quick path? It’s designed to keep those types of players busy and give them something to make them feel like they’re progressing. If they can earn it in a day, they’ll earn it in an hour and leave this game yet again.
The highest level of difficulty is designed for hardcore players.
The content can be seen with or without ascended gear.
Thats not the point…
the point is that before once u hit full exotic u were done with he gear grind. Now you have to grind again because ure exotic is not the best anymore. Once you are full ascended they will probably release a new tier and it starts all over again.
Cosmetic were optional which means you didnt have to grind them out… ascended is mandatory…
It is the point.
The most critical argument of ascended gear is the impact on WvW…..
But these critics seem to overlook the most obvious.
There is a bigger jump in power levels from a newly minted level 80 and an 80 in full exotics than there is from full exotic to 2 pieces of ascended gear…..
Yet no one right now checks gear scores.
It’s all conjecture and exaggeration that is fueling these complaints.
Because a)it’s easy to get a full set of exotics, and b)more importantly, this creates the gear treadmill we all were promised we wouldn’t see in this game. We were told this game at it’s core was different from other MMO’s.
It will probably be just as easy to get the new ascended gear assuming you spend a lot of time in the new dungeon.
Again, conjecture and exaggeration.
Which situation is a bigger jump in power levels?
A newly dinged level 80 compared to an 80 in full exotics
or
A full exotic level 80 to someone wearing 2 pieces of ascended gear + exotics
There is a bigger jump in power levels from a newly minted level 80 and an 80 in full exotics than there is from full exotic to 2 pieces of ascended gear…..
Yet no one right now checks gear scores.
It’s all conjecture and exaggeration that is fueling these complaints.
And for the rest of us unfortunate souls who have to put up with elitism from anyone with ascended gear?
It’s all forcing. We’re either forced to get the new gear or forced to not participate in content.
Great kitten job Anet.
Ascended gear is for the top most difficulty.
You’ll be able to do all content but the highest level difficulty. And by the time you get to the highest difficulty, you will already have in your possession some ascended gear that allows you to survive said difficulty.
So could you stop whining about it?
I would, if it didnt affect the rest of the game, which any higher stats do, in case you didnt notice.
Higher stats immediately affect WvWvW and dungeons, if you don’t have the higher gear, you won’t be able to participate in either, preventing all players from enjoying all content.
New dungeon with increased difficulty as it progresses: thats fine.
New zone to do level80 stuff in, great
these two things don’t affect the rest of the game.
Increased stats affect all aspects of the game.
5 extra power and precision isn’t going to make or break any dungeon group. And if does, maybe you’re in the wrong group.
So because of the Agony part of it makes it all ok, I don’t think so. There effectively making exotics worthless by going against there own design promises and philosophy with a vertical gear grind like every other MMO…
If they start with this crap now it will never end, in a few years, legendary will be no longer the highest stats in the game, they will bring out something else to “extend end game content”….
Agony is dungeon specific.
Could you be any more melodramatic?
The fact there adding a new condition that will lock some players out of high end content until they have infused upgrades….that just makes it even worse.
So you just want to skip content?
I see where you’re coming from….
You just want the rewards, you don’t want to do the work to get the rewards.
Nice twisting words and making stuff up mr fanboi / troll. Your posts are not even decent feedback or adding to the debate there too obvious my friend. Try harder.
You said it yourself.
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lock some players out of high end content
Agony is for the higher level of fractals of the mists. In order to do this higher difficulty, you’ll at least need to spend some time doing the lower difficulty levels.
But you don’t want to do lower level fractals…..you just want to skip to the highest level of difficulty upon release.
Or you’re just exaggerating a bit too much.
nobody is forcing you to get the new gear, heck we dont even know very much about it. i highly doubt the game is gonna force you to grind for hours and hours for an extra 10 precision lol.
you are wrong.
1: if they give people what they are wanting beyond the dungeon only gear and keep that as the only ascended gear sets available (IE not craftable), specifically if they give people gearcheck and dps meters then yes people will start demanding fully geared people to run anything.
2: yes people will require you to do that for hours just to join their groups. We’ve seen it time and time again in other mmo’s or have people forgotten history entirely?
3: they haven’t addressed open world DR/MF issues so that people can actually farm mats yet but they added this right away didn’t they. Not to mention it’s completely the opposite of the type of game they advertised.
Anet No Thank You.
You can keep the dungeons as the only means of progression thing.
Ascended gear as of the patch is only relevant to Fractals of the Mists.
It will affect 0% of the rest of the game.
So much bellyache for so early in the morning.
So because of the Agony part of it makes it all ok, I don’t think so. There effectively making exotics worthless by going against there own design promises and philosophy with a vertical gear grind like every other MMO…
If they start with this crap now it will never end, in a few years, legendary will be no longer the highest stats in the game, they will bring out something else to “extend end game content”….
Agony is dungeon specific.
Could you be any more melodramatic?
The fact there adding a new condition that will lock some players out of high end content until they have infused upgrades….that just makes it even worse.
So you just want to skip content?
I see where you’re coming from….
You just want the rewards, you don’t want to do the work to get the rewards.
And for the rest of us unfortunate souls who have to put up with elitism from anyone with ascended gear?
It’s all forcing. We’re either forced to get the new gear or forced to not participate in content.
Great kitten job Anet.
Ascended gear is for the top most difficulty.
You’ll be able to do all content but the highest level difficulty. And by the time you get to the highest difficulty, you will already have in your possession some ascended gear that allows you to survive said difficulty.
So could you stop whining about it?
So because of the Agony part of it makes it all ok, I don’t think so. There effectively making exotics worthless by going against there own design promises and philosophy with a vertical gear grind like every other MMO…
If they start with this crap now it will never end, in a few years, legendary will be no longer the highest stats in the game, they will bring out something else to “extend end game content”….
Agony is dungeon specific.
Could you be any more melodramatic?
I like new content.
Plus I like content that is semi-gated so it doesn’t turnout to be what dungeon exploration modes turned out to be where everyone insists you skip the cinematics for speed clears.
How about make rares or masterwork not soulbound while we are at it?
They said agony is built into the ascended items without infusions.
Legendaries might have the agony coefficient as well.
Vertical progression that is going to take about a year to accomplish….
THE HORROR!
GW1 is not a good model to use.
At level cap if you could afford it you were given the crappiest armor set, it just had the same numbers as the top end armor.
But by nightfall, you ended up grinding gear, but for your heroes instead.
GW1 players must have been furious when Arenanet made other armors other than Obsidian.
No because Gw1 armors all had the same power and stats….
Arenanet has said legendary is always going to be best in slot.
So if they released legendary armor tomorrow, which is a quality that already exists, your entire argument is null and void.
I think you missed the entire point….
Your point is based on the premise that exotic quality, not legendary quality, is end all be all item level.
It has no basis in fact. You’re just crying to cry.
If you don;t want a gear treadmill, get legendary quality because legendary will always be best in slot even if arenanet adds a new quality level.
I don’t care what their “reasoning” was, and I don’t care what your definition of my “loyalty” is.
I was advertised a product based on a few set development parameters, which were clearly and repeatedly expressed to anyone who would listen.
I pre-purchased, participated in the betas, defended the game from detractors, convinced friends to abandon their endless gear grinds, and even got my children and wife involved in the game. Yes, I currently own 4 accounts all with extra slots and many gem store purchases.
I have spent hundreds of dollars, and will gladly spend thousands every year, far more than I ever have in subscription based games.
But they just implemented a game changer… a deal breaker… a violation of their OWN stated design philosophy.
The last question in my mind is – will Ascended be the final tier, and this was just a one time correction to a miscalculation… or is Ascended the first of many more to come?
I absolutely will be deciding what to do with my time, and my large disposable income (which I will be spending on games and other entertainment regardless) based on the answer to that question, and that question alone.
I can forgive a mistake that needed to be corrected… I can not waste time with a company who will chase Blizzard Entertainment around until they fail, because you will NEVER beat Blizzard when it comes to “end-game content”. You just won’t.
Legendary is the final tier and legendary quality has been out since alpha.
If legendary armor were out at release, people would be crying that it’s too hard to get and exotics aren’t good enough.
There is just no winning with some people.
If Arenanet released legendary armor tomorrow, players would complain ascended gear isn’t strong enough.
You know there are expectations.
I didn’t blow my karma in certain items because I knew there were certain other items I wanted.
i didn’t spend gold on exotic level 74 weapons because I shot for level 80 exotics.
A core of expectations about GW2 is that gear wont become obsolete with a patch, it was that grind would be cosmetic.
The cosmetic portion of the equation doesn’t change.
Transmutation stones still exist.
:)
If Arenanet released legendary armor tomorrow, players would complain ascended gear isn’t strong enough.
GW1 players must have been furious when Arenanet made other armors other than Obsidian.
No because Gw1 armors all had the same power and stats….
Arenanet has said legendary is always going to be best in slot.
So if they released legendary armor tomorrow, which is a quality that already exists, your entire argument is null and void.
brb, game releases with legendary quality but complain about exotic quality not being the best.
GW1 players must have been furious when Arenanet made other armors other than Obsidian.
The sky was falling then too.