Guild Wars 2

can you change race with the kit?

Mackdose.6504:

Bluebird.1890:

This is not becoming World of Warcraft. It is becoming a nice niche in between World of Warcraft, and GW1, where vertical progression exists for those who want to experience it, and can be safely ignored by those of us who just want to play around in all portions of the game.

This. A thousand times.

This is the MMO I wanted, the fantasy game I wanted, I co-op game I wanted, the PvP game I wanted, the siege warfare I wanted.

I like knowing that there’s another 1% increase in character power just around the corner for me to achieve if i want it and if i don’t, then the 1% increase won’t keep me from participating in all of the content available.

that’s the problem, why should PvP / WvW players suffer the 1% stats difference just because they dont want to do any dungeons?

nice, wonder if the rumored “welfare legendaries” to be had (not from farming and grinding) will be added. Everyone gets a legendary this Xmas, awesome!

Debsylvania.7396:

rchu.8945:

why are ascended gears tie to PvE contents only?

According to Chris Whiteside’s response to this question during yesterday’s Reddit MMA, they regret having introduced ascended gear to only one facet of the game. He said this was “a mistake” and that they will be adding access to this gear to other venues ASAP.

didnt they also sold us that GW2 will have not a gear grind during the initial release the game, I guess he must be speaking the truth. Oh wait…

Rin.1046:

Here are the things that I enjoyed reading about the most:

- The gating caused by FotM was not intentional and they will be looking at ways to ressolve this.
– Grinding overall will be looked at and efforts will be made to reduce, if not eliminate it. Anet wants you to have fun while attaining your gear, whatever part of the game you enjoy playing, and will be finding ways to achieve this. They made a few mistakes in the November content patch, but they are working on fixing this.
– Ascended gear will be the last tier they add for the foreseeable future.
– Ascended gear, and I assume infusions as well, will be attainable from many areas of the game, not just FotM.
– Ascended and Legendary gear will have the same stats.
– Vertical progression will mainly be in the form of higher grade infusions (If I understood this correctly, someone may want to clarify this).
– Stat increases on armour and weapons will most likely only occur when the level cap is raised, which is to be expected IMO.

All of these things have made me a happy Tyrian.

why should ascended gear have same stats as legendary? That’s just comical. Just because the slot upgrade might seems minimal, but it still tread mill.

Avatar.1923:

its a treadmill, clear and simple, but a “mild” one.

ie; the stats difference isnt big.

obviously, if you play for one year and some guy start playing next year, the difference in term of stats at this point will be quite big.
but maybe theyll find a way of giving out the “second best” always cheap so that most people can get second best.

basically, play the game if you enjoy the content and the gameplay.
the grind is huge for not much, so just go with the flow and eventually youll get your shinnies.

see, that’s the problem once we as a community accepted these type of implementation, Anet will just keep following it with more and more of them. In the end, someone that begin playing game compare to someone that play it for few years, the gear difference will be huge. If Anet will keep giving out “welfare” upgrades in between new type of upgrades, it pretty much just made the whole thing a huge time sink, which is something they promised they wouldn’t do in the first place?

why are ascended gears tie to PvE contents only?

how can anyone trust them once they introduced ascended gears and slot upgrade progression? People get fooled by it’s just a slot item, but those upgrades going into the slot could potentially have so much stats on them that it will make a difference in both PvE and PvP that everyone must get (aka grind) them.

“Because, like Guild Wars before it, GW2 doesn’t fall into the traps of traditional MMORPGs. It doesn’t suck your life away and force you onto a grinding treadmill; it doesn’t make you spend hours preparing to have fun rather than just having fun;”

“Fun impacts loot collection. The rarest items in the game are not more powerful than other items, so you don’t need them to be the best. The rarest items have unique looks to help your character feel that sense of accomplishment, but it’s not required to play the game. We don’t need to make mandatory gear treadmills, we make all of it optional, so those who find it fun to chase this prestigious gear can do so, but those who don’t are just as powerful and get to have fun too.”

“Here’s what we believe: If someone wants to play for a thousand hours to get an item that is so rare that other players can’t realistically acquire it, that rare item should be differentiated by its visual appearance and rarity alone, not by being more powerful than everything else in the game. Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games — we leave the grind to other MMOs.”

Our Time is Now – Trailer

So Anet,

explain to me how any of the above is actually true now?

another “welfare” legendary request? That’s original…

easy fix on the rise in prices on T6 mats, just get the complainers and whiners to do more of what they did with precursor, soon Anet will change the requirement for even less materials. Better yet, create more easy to get welfare legendaries, now GW2 can turn into WoW

Haldunius.7864:

As long as it’s available by karma/badges I’m ok with gear progression in WvW. Just don’t make it available in dungeons only. And always keep it out of PvP.

it would be sad if Anet makes the WvW ascended gears to be steps behind PvE ascended gears. Just because they are all “Ascended” dont mean they will have same type of stats.