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@Seera.5916 said:

@FrigginPaco.4178 said:However, my stance that legendaries should be powerful is solely based on the fact that there's no reason to get them outside of what was stated: they offer no benefit other than QoL, and to me, that's not special. Yes, I do play multiple builds on multiple characters. What's legendary about them? Legendary aesthetics? OK, it's a good start, but it hasn't been enough.

You do realize that ANet intended for legendary gear to only have QoL/cosmetic benefits and not be more powerful than the next lower tier, right? So your suggestion and the OP's goes against ANets intentions for legendary gear.

They wanted the items you had to grind for ages to get be something optional. So that players didn't have to spend months grinding in order to get top gear to join in with the end game content.

Yes, I necessarily realize that they're contrary to their core philosophy - I'm specifically saying that clinging to the same philosophy for as long as they have may have had unintended consequences. The gear ceiling in GW2 is easy to hit. Even if you just play PvE and all of its faceroll content you can get them with ease. If you play the other game modes in addition, then it's 2-3 fold easier since you can use all of those mode-specific currencies to acquire ascended.

I have 18 characters, each with a full set of ascended and 2-3 of them have an extra set sitting in their inventory. Some have legendary weapons. But none have legendary armor. I stopped at 57ish legendary insights and am always on the fence about whether or not I want to continue on them since all my ascended is just as good. Mystic forge stat swapping is barely an inconvenience if I want to do a different build. At this point I'd only want them for their cosmetics, but the more I think about it I lose more and more interest in them.

What's the point? Why get legendary beyond its appearance or QoL? There is none.

This proposal would make those items required as it would make them meta.

And that's a problem why exactly? Because of this?

The day your or the OP's suggestion is put in is the day I uninstall and never play again. I do not want to have to grind to get legendary gear for all of my characters. I doubt I'm the only one who would.

I barely tolerate the very very very very little WvW that I have to do to get the legendary weapons. But I do it slowly via the dailies and on days that I feel like it because I don't need the legendary for anything. I can shelve working on my legendary to gear a character out in Ascended if I felt like it. And not be hurt.

If people are worried about bullying and absurd gear checks, I don't see that as being relevant here. If anything, people post trophies from raid bosses as "kill proof" to show them they've done the bosses before. As I mentioned, raids can be done in gear as common as blues if you're worried that community standards will fall, that's on the community for deciding to go a certain way.

Let me level with you. I'm just a player sitting at the edge of every release because that's about all I can do. Between new content in PvE and whatever farming I do I'm just in WvW or PvP. But I play everything. Every game mode, and let me just say there's not a whole lot to work on, so I welcome a goal. I welcome something to chase after. Most of the things I see right now don't move me in any capacity. So I'm just here waiting for new things to do, new content, new
anything
really. I don't see much in the way of longterms goals that mean anything and that's my problem here - in addition with the game simply being too easy.
  1. I don't raid. I don't have the attention span to really learn a rotation. I should mention that I main an Elementalist. I'm just fine with not getting legendary armor due to this as I believe that raids should have some reward that is appropriately better given their difficulty compared to other content in the game. I also didn't bring up raids at all, so not sure why you're making it a point to mention to me that they can be done in blues like I missed it the first time.

My point for bringing up raids in the specific way that I did was solely to showcase how completely trivial the gear tiering in this game is in the first place. I understand you don't raid, but I also haven't set foot there in about a 6 months. It's less about the content of raids and more about how frustratingly unimpactful gear is anyway. And a change like OP's change would be exciting. I understand it would necessarily raise a bar, but it's something I'd be interested in.

  1. I have no problems getting into groups when I choose to do so. I stay out of the ones that look like they are looking for the pros or are trying to speedrun. And ask if it's not clear. And I start my own if I can't find one and don't want to wait for someone to start one. I think people PUGing have every right to have requirements for who joins them. Even if they are ridiculous and super specific. I don't think there is a huge bullying problem with PUG's.

Precisely. Guild Wars 2 is typically free from those same elitist nonsense and I don't understand someone's argument that it would change just because of the OP's idea.

  1. I have come to realize that in most games that don't have a definite "win" point that I need a long term goal to work on while I play what I want or directly to get it. This goal needs to not be something that's part of the meta as I like to run meta as it increases the pool of groups I can join. I like that I can decide that I want to work towards gearing up a new character in ascended without feeling like I'm hurting the character I'm getting the legendary gear for.

And I'm glad that you've found something that works for you! I just don't think the idea here forces anyone to do something.

  1. I do get that you need a goal that's not just a small carrot, but it would turn me off of the game if there were no long term small carrot goals like what legendary gear currently is.

I simply don't understand why the carrot would necessarily disappear in this scenario. If anything it's just an... improved carrot? It's the same one you were going for before, but just better.

I do hope you find a goal that works for you, but hope that you also realize that for many of us that this is the only game out there where the long term goals are cosmetic and QoL based and not with it being fully gearing out our characters in max tier gear.

And I just hope to point out that for a significant amount of people, my mentality around this and the other points I brought up are of significant concern. Cosmetics will simply come to me over the course of my, or anyone else's, playtime. To me, I'm in it for the cosmetic, the efficacy, the everything. There is no need to distinguish between them to me.

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@FrigginPaco.4178 said:What's the point? Why get legendary beyond its appearance or QoL? There is none.

This proposal would make those items required as it would make them meta.

And that's a problem why exactly? Because of this?

It sounds to me like you want this game to be something it's not nor was it ever advertised as such. There are plenty of other MMOs that have gear treadmills, including WoW classic which was just released.

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@FrigginPaco.4178 said:What's the point? Why get legendary beyond its appearance or QoL? There is none.

This proposal would make those items required as it would make them meta.

And that's a problem why exactly? Because of this?

It sounds to me like you want this game to be something it's not nor was it ever advertised as such. There are plenty of other MMOs that have gear treadmills, including WoW classic which was just released.

For a time I did briefly try others, but ultimately, no other MMO has the combat mechanics that GW2 offers. It's what I enjoy most about this game aside from the expanding universe and story. And before you or anyone else goes any further on this point, I have no interest in any other MMO that currently exists. For a long time I was happy with the GW2 status quo and I'm just tired of not having any real reason to pursue a goal(s) for so long. I'm basically just waiting for this Saga to roll out and hopefully hear news of an expack sometime in 2021.

And lastly, why do my desires have to take any more of a backseat than the people saying no? I'm very invested into where GW2 goes in the future, but I feel like it has room to grow in certain dimensions and other people probably feel it can grow in other ways.

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@FrigginPaco.4178 said:However, my stance that legendaries should be powerful is solely based on the fact that there's no reason to get them outside of what was stated: they offer no benefit other than QoL, and to me, that's not special. Yes, I do play multiple builds on multiple characters. What's legendary about them? Legendary aesthetics? OK, it's a good start, but it hasn't been enough.

You do realize that ANet intended for legendary gear to only have QoL/cosmetic benefits and not be more powerful than the next lower tier, right? So your suggestion and the OP's goes against ANets intentions for legendary gear.

They wanted the items you had to grind for ages to get be something optional. So that players didn't have to spend months grinding in order to get top gear to join in with the end game content.

Yes, I necessarily realize that they're contrary to their core philosophy - I'm specifically saying that clinging to the same philosophy for as long as they have may have had unintended consequences. The gear ceiling in GW2 is easy to hit. Even if you just play PvE and all of its faceroll content you can get them with ease. If you play the other game modes in addition, then it's 2-3 fold easier since you can use all of those mode-specific currencies to acquire ascended.

I have 18 characters, each with a full set of ascended and 2-3 of them have an extra set sitting in their inventory. Some have legendary weapons. But none have legendary armor. I stopped at 57ish legendary insights and am always on the fence about whether or not I want to continue on them since all my ascended is just as good. Mystic forge stat swapping is barely an inconvenience if I want to do a different build. At this point I'd only want them for their cosmetics, but the more I think about it I lose more and more interest in them.

What's the point? Why get legendary beyond its appearance or QoL? There is none.

This proposal would make those items required as it would make them meta.

And that's a problem why exactly? Because of this?

The day your or the OP's suggestion is put in is the day I uninstall and never play again. I do not want to have to grind to get legendary gear for all of my characters. I doubt I'm the only one who would.

I barely tolerate the very very very very little WvW that I have to do to get the legendary weapons. But I do it slowly via the dailies and on days that I feel like it because I don't need the legendary for anything. I can shelve working on my legendary to gear a character out in Ascended if I felt like it. And not be hurt.

If people are worried about bullying and absurd gear checks, I don't see that as being relevant here. If anything, people post trophies from raid bosses as "kill proof" to show them they've done the bosses before. As I mentioned, raids can be done in gear as common as blues if you're worried that community standards will fall, that's on the community for deciding to go a certain way.

Let me level with you. I'm just a player sitting at the edge of every release because that's about all I can do. Between new content in PvE and whatever farming I do I'm just in WvW or PvP. But I play everything. Every game mode, and let me just say there's not a whole lot to work on, so I welcome a goal. I welcome something to chase after. Most of the things I see right now don't move me in any capacity. So I'm just here waiting for new things to do, new content, new
anything
really. I don't see much in the way of longterms goals that mean anything and that's my problem here - in addition with the game simply being too easy.
  1. I don't raid. I don't have the attention span to really learn a rotation. I should mention that I main an Elementalist. I'm just fine with not getting legendary armor due to this as I believe that raids should have some reward that is appropriately better given their difficulty compared to other content in the game. I also didn't bring up raids at all, so not sure why you're making it a point to mention to me that they can be done in blues like I missed it the first time.

My point for bringing up raids in the specific way that I did was solely to showcase how completely trivial the gear tiering in this game is in the first place. I understand you don't raid, but I also haven't set foot there in about a 6 months. It's less about the content of raids and more about how frustratingly unimpactful gear is anyway. And a change like OP's change would be exciting. I understand it would necessarily raise a bar, but it's something I'd be interested in.
  1. I have no problems getting into groups when I choose to do so. I stay out of the ones that look like they are looking for the pros or are trying to speedrun. And ask if it's not clear. And I start my own if I can't find one and don't want to wait for someone to start one. I think people PUGing have every right to have requirements for who joins them. Even if they are ridiculous and super specific. I don't think there is a huge bullying problem with PUG's.

Precisely. Guild Wars 2 is typically free from those same elitist nonsense and I don't understand someone's argument that it would change just because of the OP's idea.
  1. I have come to realize that in most games that don't have a definite "win" point that I need a long term goal to work on while I play what I want or directly to get it. This goal needs to not be something that's part of the meta as I like to run meta as it increases the pool of groups I can join. I like that I can decide that I want to work towards gearing up a new character in ascended without feeling like I'm hurting the character I'm getting the legendary gear for.

And I'm glad that you've found something that works for you! I just don't think the idea here forces anyone to do something.
  1. I do get that you need a goal that's not just a small carrot, but it would turn me off of the game if there were no long term small carrot goals like what legendary gear currently is.

I simply don't understand why the carrot would necessarily disappear in this scenario. If anything it's just an... improved carrot? It's the same one you were going for before, but just
better
.

I do hope you find a goal that works for you, but hope that you also realize that for many of us that this is the only game out there where the long term goals are cosmetic and QoL based and not with it being fully gearing out our characters in max tier gear.

And I just hope to point out that for a significant amount of people, my mentality around this and the other points I brought up are of significant concern. Cosmetics will simply come to me over the course of my, or anyone else's, playtime. To me, I'm in it for the cosmetic, the efficacy, the everything. There is no need to distinguish between them to me.

I don't want my long term goal to be gear that is the best in the game stat wise. Making the carrot the best gear in the game stat wise just turns me off. I don't want it to take months if not years to fully gear out a single character in the best gear stat wise. I may one day decide that I do want to put forth the time and effort into learning rotations to try raids. I get that they can be in blues, but that's not something someone learning should try. Someone still mastering the content should play in the best stat gear until it's easy and then go down to the next lowest tier and so forth. I don't want to be years away from being able to do that including time playing the content that I would need to do in order to get that way. Especially if they started designing the game overall around that being top tier.

I say months/years because I do not buy my legendary gear or any precursors and I'm casual. I buy my way past the steps that require WvW and PvP that can be bought - Memories of Battle, Shards of Glory (the PvP equivalent to Memories of Battle if that's not their name). To get the Gift of Battle I do now have to go in and do WvW and I do the PvE dailies - Big Spender, Capture a Shrine, etc that have the lowest chances of me finding anyone - so I don't tend to do Vet slayer. And I did actually map complete in WvW a couple of times back when that was required to get Gift of Exploration. I have made 1 legendary weapon. I've been playing since launch. I'm working on my second currently.

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Legendary weapon awakening.No numbers differentiation from Ascended.No additional materials or gold needed.A unique combat encounter per weapon,of advanced difficulty,that the player has to overcome while using the Legendary weapon and that weapon only.No weapon swap available during that fight.Unlocks a unique per Legendary weapon ability that ties to the theme/lore.The ability has a long cooldown,at least 240 sec.Available in PvE and WvW.Locked in sPvP.Unlocks an additional sigil slot.Can't attach any of the existing sigils.Create a new set of sigils that can occupy only this slot.No flat damage/duration/stat modifiers.Only utility type of effects with caution to add flavour but not extra cheese.

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@Seera.5916 said:

@FrigginPaco.4178 said:However, my stance that legendaries should be powerful is solely based on the fact that there's no reason to get them outside of what was stated: they offer no benefit other than QoL, and to me, that's not special. Yes, I do play multiple builds on multiple characters. What's legendary about them? Legendary aesthetics? OK, it's a good start, but it hasn't been enough.

You do realize that ANet intended for legendary gear to only have QoL/cosmetic benefits and not be more powerful than the next lower tier, right? So your suggestion and the OP's goes against ANets intentions for legendary gear.

They wanted the items you had to grind for ages to get be something optional. So that players didn't have to spend months grinding in order to get top gear to join in with the end game content.

Yes, I necessarily realize that they're contrary to their core philosophy - I'm specifically saying that clinging to the same philosophy for as long as they have may have had unintended consequences. The gear ceiling in GW2 is easy to hit. Even if you just play PvE and all of its faceroll content you can get them with ease. If you play the other game modes in addition, then it's 2-3 fold easier since you can use all of those mode-specific currencies to acquire ascended.

I have 18 characters, each with a full set of ascended and 2-3 of them have an extra set sitting in their inventory. Some have legendary weapons. But none have legendary armor. I stopped at 57ish legendary insights and am always on the fence about whether or not I want to continue on them since all my ascended is just as good. Mystic forge stat swapping is barely an inconvenience if I want to do a different build. At this point I'd only want them for their cosmetics, but the more I think about it I lose more and more interest in them.

What's the point? Why get legendary beyond its appearance or QoL? There is none.

This proposal would make those items required as it would make them meta.

And that's a problem why exactly? Because of this?

The day your or the OP's suggestion is put in is the day I uninstall and never play again. I do not want to have to grind to get legendary gear for all of my characters. I doubt I'm the only one who would.

I barely tolerate the very very very very little WvW that I have to do to get the legendary weapons. But I do it slowly via the dailies and on days that I feel like it because I don't need the legendary for anything. I can shelve working on my legendary to gear a character out in Ascended if I felt like it. And not be hurt.

If people are worried about bullying and absurd gear checks, I don't see that as being relevant here. If anything, people post trophies from raid bosses as "kill proof" to show them they've done the bosses before. As I mentioned, raids can be done in gear as common as blues if you're worried that community standards will fall, that's on the community for deciding to go a certain way.

Let me level with you. I'm just a player sitting at the edge of every release because that's about all I can do. Between new content in PvE and whatever farming I do I'm just in WvW or PvP. But I play everything. Every game mode, and let me just say there's not a whole lot to work on, so I welcome a goal. I welcome something to chase after. Most of the things I see right now don't move me in any capacity. So I'm just here waiting for new things to do, new content, new
anything
really. I don't see much in the way of longterms goals that mean anything and that's my problem here - in addition with the game simply being too easy.
  1. I don't raid. I don't have the attention span to really learn a rotation. I should mention that I main an Elementalist. I'm just fine with not getting legendary armor due to this as I believe that raids should have some reward that is appropriately better given their difficulty compared to other content in the game. I also didn't bring up raids at all, so not sure why you're making it a point to mention to me that they can be done in blues like I missed it the first time.

My point for bringing up raids in the specific way that I did was solely to showcase how completely trivial the gear tiering in this game is in the first place. I understand you don't raid, but I also haven't set foot there in about a 6 months. It's less about the content of raids and more about how frustratingly unimpactful gear is anyway. And a change like OP's change would be exciting. I understand it would necessarily raise a bar, but it's something I'd be interested in.
  1. I have no problems getting into groups when I choose to do so. I stay out of the ones that look like they are looking for the pros or are trying to speedrun. And ask if it's not clear. And I start my own if I can't find one and don't want to wait for someone to start one. I think people PUGing have every right to have requirements for who joins them. Even if they are ridiculous and super specific. I don't think there is a huge bullying problem with PUG's.

Precisely. Guild Wars 2 is typically free from those same elitist nonsense and I don't understand someone's argument that it would change just because of the OP's idea.
  1. I have come to realize that in most games that don't have a definite "win" point that I need a long term goal to work on while I play what I want or directly to get it. This goal needs to not be something that's part of the meta as I like to run meta as it increases the pool of groups I can join. I like that I can decide that I want to work towards gearing up a new character in ascended without feeling like I'm hurting the character I'm getting the legendary gear for.

And I'm glad that you've found something that works for you! I just don't think the idea here forces anyone to do something.
  1. I do get that you need a goal that's not just a small carrot, but it would turn me off of the game if there were no long term small carrot goals like what legendary gear currently is.

I simply don't understand why the carrot would necessarily disappear in this scenario. If anything it's just an... improved carrot? It's the same one you were going for before, but just
better
.

I do hope you find a goal that works for you, but hope that you also realize that for many of us that this is the only game out there where the long term goals are cosmetic and QoL based and not with it being fully gearing out our characters in max tier gear.

And I just hope to point out that for a significant amount of people, my mentality around this and the other points I brought up are of significant concern. Cosmetics will simply come to me over the course of my, or anyone else's, playtime. To me, I'm in it for the cosmetic, the efficacy, the everything. There is no need to distinguish between them to me.

I don't want my long term goal to be gear that is the best in the game stat wise. Making the carrot the best gear in the game stat wise just turns me off. I don't want it to take months if not years to fully gear out a single character in the best gear stat wise. I may one day decide that I do want to put forth the time and effort into learning rotations to try raids. I get that they can be in blues, but that's not something someone learning should try. Someone still mastering the content should play in the best stat gear until it's easy and then go down to the next lowest tier and so forth. I don't want to be years away from being able to do that including time playing the content that I would need to do in order to get that way. Especially if they started designing the game overall around that being top tier.

I say months/years because I do not buy my legendary gear or any precursors and I'm casual. I buy my way past the steps that require WvW and PvP that can be bought - Memories of Battle, Shards of Glory (the PvP equivalent to Memories of Battle if that's not their name). To get the Gift of Battle I do now have to go in and do WvW and I do the PvE dailies - Big Spender, Capture a Shrine, etc that have the lowest chances of me finding anyone - so I don't tend to do Vet slayer. And I did actually map complete in WvW a couple of times back when that was required to get Gift of Exploration. I have made 1 legendary weapon. I've been playing since launch. I'm working on my second currently.

So, if the recommendation for newer players to raids is ascended/exotic quality gear, there's very much a place for gear as it pads your chances to win the encounter, this much we agree on. If it has this kind of effect, one can assume that OP's idea would help even further.

Just so I know, can you define "casual" in the way you see it? I've been around since launch as well and if it helps at all, I've got somewhere in the vicinity of 5.6 k hours played. However, I would hazard a guess that as another longtime player you know a great deal of the mechanics in the game and probably don't struggle with combat to the capacity I described in a previous post.

Do you go into WvW by yourself though? It's often much easier to get the other dailies with even 1 more person. I'd rather not digress much on this point, but I'm just curious.

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@FrigginPaco.4178 said:What's the point? Why get legendary beyond its appearance or QoL? There is none.

This proposal would make those items required as it would make them meta.

And that's a problem why exactly? Because of this?

It sounds to me like you want this game to be something it's not nor was it ever advertised as such. There are plenty of other MMOs that have gear treadmills, including WoW classic which was just released.

For a time I did briefly try others, but ultimately, no other MMO has the combat mechanics that GW2 offers. It's what I enjoy most about this game aside from the expanding universe and story. And before you or anyone else goes any further on this point, I have no interest in any other MMO that currently exists. For a long time I was happy with the GW2 status quo and I'm just tired of not having any real reason to pursue a goal(s) for so long. I'm basically just waiting for this Saga to roll out and hopefully hear news of an expack sometime in 2021.

And lastly, why do my desires have to take any more of a backseat than the people saying no? I'm very invested into where GW2 goes in the future, but I feel like it has room to grow in certain dimensions and other people probably feel it can grow in other ways.

If you are very invested into GW2 then you would understand that adding more gear grind would hurt GW2's future. The Ascended gear backlash was bad enough. Imagine the backlash if they did this. It would absolutely destroy what's left of WvW.

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@FrigginPaco.4178 said:What's the point? Why get legendary beyond its appearance or QoL? There is none.

This proposal would make those items required as it would make them meta.

And that's a problem why exactly? Because of this?

It sounds to me like you want this game to be something it's not nor was it ever advertised as such. There are plenty of other MMOs that have gear treadmills, including WoW classic which was just released.

For a time I did briefly try others, but ultimately, no other MMO has the combat mechanics that GW2 offers. It's what I enjoy most about this game aside from the expanding universe and story. And before you or anyone else goes any further on this point, I have no interest in any other MMO that currently exists. For a long time I was happy with the GW2 status quo and I'm just tired of not having any real reason to pursue a goal(s) for so long. I'm basically just waiting for this Saga to roll out and hopefully hear news of an expack sometime in 2021.

And lastly, why do my desires have to take any more of a backseat than the people saying no? I'm very invested into where GW2 goes in the future, but I feel like it has room to grow in certain dimensions and other people probably feel it can grow in other ways.

If you are very invested into GW2 then you would understand that adding more gear grind would hurt GW2's future. The Ascended gear backlash was bad enough. Imagine the backlash if they did this. It would absolutely destroy what's left of WvW.

To me, the keyword here is "was"... I remember it, and yet it seems more like a "nontraversy" to me the further away we get from it. Also it's important to reiterate that the OP's values and effects are all hypothetical and overly strong. I'd rather not go down balancing things in a hypothetical such as this, but I admire the concept nonetheless. On that note, WvW would necessarily have its own.

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@FrigginPaco.4178 said:However, my stance that legendaries should be powerful is solely based on the fact that there's no reason to get them outside of what was stated: they offer no benefit other than QoL, and to me, that's not special. Yes, I do play multiple builds on multiple characters. What's legendary about them? Legendary aesthetics? OK, it's a good start, but it hasn't been enough.

You do realize that ANet intended for legendary gear to only have QoL/cosmetic benefits and not be more powerful than the next lower tier, right? So your suggestion and the OP's goes against ANets intentions for legendary gear.

They wanted the items you had to grind for ages to get be something optional. So that players didn't have to spend months grinding in order to get top gear to join in with the end game content.

Yes, I necessarily realize that they're contrary to their core philosophy - I'm specifically saying that clinging to the same philosophy for as long as they have may have had unintended consequences. The gear ceiling in GW2 is easy to hit. Even if you just play PvE and all of its faceroll content you can get them with ease. If you play the other game modes in addition, then it's 2-3 fold easier since you can use all of those mode-specific currencies to acquire ascended.

I have 18 characters, each with a full set of ascended and 2-3 of them have an extra set sitting in their inventory. Some have legendary weapons. But none have legendary armor. I stopped at 57ish legendary insights and am always on the fence about whether or not I want to continue on them since all my ascended is just as good. Mystic forge stat swapping is barely an inconvenience if I want to do a different build. At this point I'd only want them for their cosmetics, but the more I think about it I lose more and more interest in them.

What's the point? Why get legendary beyond its appearance or QoL? There is none.

This proposal would make those items required as it would make them meta.

And that's a problem why exactly? Because of this?

The day your or the OP's suggestion is put in is the day I uninstall and never play again. I do not want to have to grind to get legendary gear for all of my characters. I doubt I'm the only one who would.

I barely tolerate the very very very very little WvW that I have to do to get the legendary weapons. But I do it slowly via the dailies and on days that I feel like it because I don't need the legendary for anything. I can shelve working on my legendary to gear a character out in Ascended if I felt like it. And not be hurt.

If people are worried about bullying and absurd gear checks, I don't see that as being relevant here. If anything, people post trophies from raid bosses as "kill proof" to show them they've done the bosses before. As I mentioned, raids can be done in gear as common as blues if you're worried that community standards will fall, that's on the community for deciding to go a certain way.

Let me level with you. I'm just a player sitting at the edge of every release because that's about all I can do. Between new content in PvE and whatever farming I do I'm just in WvW or PvP. But I play everything. Every game mode, and let me just say there's not a whole lot to work on, so I welcome a goal. I welcome something to chase after. Most of the things I see right now don't move me in any capacity. So I'm just here waiting for new things to do, new content, new
anything
really. I don't see much in the way of longterms goals that mean anything and that's my problem here - in addition with the game simply being too easy.
  1. I don't raid. I don't have the attention span to really learn a rotation. I should mention that I main an Elementalist. I'm just fine with not getting legendary armor due to this as I believe that raids should have some reward that is appropriately better given their difficulty compared to other content in the game. I also didn't bring up raids at all, so not sure why you're making it a point to mention to me that they can be done in blues like I missed it the first time.

My point for bringing up raids in the specific way that I did was solely to showcase how completely trivial the gear tiering in this game is in the first place. I understand you don't raid, but I also haven't set foot there in about a 6 months. It's less about the content of raids and more about how frustratingly unimpactful gear is anyway. And a change like OP's change would be exciting. I understand it would necessarily raise a bar, but it's something I'd be interested in.
  1. I have no problems getting into groups when I choose to do so. I stay out of the ones that look like they are looking for the pros or are trying to speedrun. And ask if it's not clear. And I start my own if I can't find one and don't want to wait for someone to start one. I think people PUGing have every right to have requirements for who joins them. Even if they are ridiculous and super specific. I don't think there is a huge bullying problem with PUG's.

Precisely. Guild Wars 2 is typically free from those same elitist nonsense and I don't understand someone's argument that it would change just because of the OP's idea.
  1. I have come to realize that in most games that don't have a definite "win" point that I need a long term goal to work on while I play what I want or directly to get it. This goal needs to not be something that's part of the meta as I like to run meta as it increases the pool of groups I can join. I like that I can decide that I want to work towards gearing up a new character in ascended without feeling like I'm hurting the character I'm getting the legendary gear for.

And I'm glad that you've found something that works for you! I just don't think the idea here forces anyone to do something.
  1. I do get that you need a goal that's not just a small carrot, but it would turn me off of the game if there were no long term small carrot goals like what legendary gear currently is.

I simply don't understand why the carrot would necessarily disappear in this scenario. If anything it's just an... improved carrot? It's the same one you were going for before, but just
better
.

I do hope you find a goal that works for you, but hope that you also realize that for many of us that this is the only game out there where the long term goals are cosmetic and QoL based and not with it being fully gearing out our characters in max tier gear.

And I just hope to point out that for a significant amount of people, my mentality around this and the other points I brought up are of significant concern. Cosmetics will simply come to me over the course of my, or anyone else's, playtime. To me, I'm in it for the cosmetic, the efficacy, the everything. There is no need to distinguish between them to me.

I don't want my long term goal to be gear that is the best in the game stat wise. Making the carrot the best gear in the game stat wise just turns me off. I don't want it to take months if not years to fully gear out a single character in the best gear stat wise. I may one day decide that I do want to put forth the time and effort into learning rotations to try raids. I get that they can be in blues, but that's not something someone learning should try. Someone still mastering the content should play in the best stat gear until it's easy and then go down to the next lowest tier and so forth. I don't want to be years away from being able to do that including time playing the content that I would need to do in order to get that way. Especially if they started designing the game overall around that being top tier.

I say months/years because I do not buy my legendary gear or any precursors and I'm casual. I buy my way past the steps that require WvW and PvP that can be bought - Memories of Battle, Shards of Glory (the PvP equivalent to Memories of Battle if that's not their name). To get the Gift of Battle I do now have to go in and do WvW and I do the PvE dailies - Big Spender, Capture a Shrine, etc that have the lowest chances of me finding anyone - so I don't tend to do Vet slayer. And I did actually map complete in WvW a couple of times back when that was required to get Gift of Exploration. I have made 1 legendary weapon. I've been playing since launch. I'm working on my second currently.

So, if the recommendation for newer players to raids is ascended/exotic quality gear, there's very much a place for gear as it pads your chances to win the encounter, this much we agree on. If it has this kind of effect, one can assume that OP's idea would help even further.

Just so I know, can you define "casual" in the way you see it? I've been around since launch as well and if it helps at all, I've got somewhere in the vicinity of 5.6 k hours played. However, I would hazard a guess that as another longtime player you know a great deal of the mechanics in the game and probably don't struggle with combat to the capacity I described in a previous post.

Do you go into WvW by yourself though? It's often much easier to get the other dailies with even 1 more person. I'd rather not digress much on this point, but I'm just curious.

Casual as in I only have 1,647 hours played over the last 7 years. I'll play for several hours a day for a few days/weeks. Then go months without playing the game at all except maybe to log in to unlock the living story chapter or collect my daily login reward. I know of the mechanics. I don't necessarily know how to execute it. Like I know breaking break bars would have made Eater of Souls so much easier. Couldn't do it the one time I did it back before they nerfed him, so had to kill him the long way as I couldn't prevent his attacks. Haven't played that mission since. Sad they nerfed him, though. I won't get as huge of a rush if I one day manage to beat him easily because part of me will be like "it's just because they nerfed him, not because you got better".

I mostly run around core Tyria doing map completion or running characters through the personal story, starting with the core game story. Unfortunately, the open world and core game story doesn't do much if anything to teach mechanics. And by the time a new player has reached HoT content, bad habits have been set. It's why HoT faced such a backlash because suddenly you had to use game mechanics in open world. They do need to do a better job of teaching mechanics. It would let them increase the difficulty without facing the same backlash. Which would likely help at least to some degree with the lack of goals if the difficulty was allowed to increase enough over the course of the missions to where it was actually difficult for you but not impossible.

I go into WvW alone. My friends that I joined in with GW2 have left for other games and had switched servers mostly anyway. Very introverted and shy so it makes it hard to do things which require actually playing with someone and just alongside them. And it's not so much the difficulty as it is the anxiety that keeps me from playing. Which I do realize is a bit of a catch 22. If I learned how to play, I wouldn't be so anxious which would increase my fun in the game mode. I did have to some extent play the mode when the game first launched for map completion and I did find the mode more interesting than I had originally anticipated. Just not fun enough to get over the anxiety of the mode.

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@FrigginPaco.4178 said:I simply don't understand why the carrot would necessarily disappear in this scenario.It would no longer be a carrot. It would become a stick.

@FrigginPaco.4178 said:So, if the recommendation for newer players to raids is ascended/exotic quality gear, there's very much a place for gear as it pads your chances to win the encounter, this much we agree on. If it has this kind of effect, one can assume that OP's idea would help even further.You can bet that if Legendaries offered an increase in power, the gear level raids would be balanced around would also increase. So, your recommendations would become "legendary weapons and rest ascended" or even "legendary weapons and trinkets, ascended armor". That would, by the way, drastically reduce raiding population.

@FrigginPaco.4178 said:To me, the keyword here is "was"... I remember it, and yet it seems more like a "nontraversy" to me the further away we get from it.The only reason why that calmed down was because ascended were not all that hard to get, and Anet kept introducing new sources for them. With how costly Legendary gear is, it would not calm down. Not until Legendaries would also become as easy to obtain.

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@FrigginPaco.4178 said:I simply don't understand why the carrot would necessarily disappear in this scenario.It would no longer be a carrot. It would become a
stick
.

I see this as a difference in points of view and expectations.

@FrigginPaco.4178 said:So, if the recommendation for newer players to raids is ascended/exotic quality gear, there's very much a place for gear as it pads your chances to win the encounter, this much we agree on. If it has this kind of effect, one can assume that OP's idea would help even further.You can bet that if Legendaries offered an increase in power, the gear level raids would be balanced around would also increase. So, your recommendations would become "legendary weapons and rest ascended" or even "legendary weapons and trinkets, ascended armor". That would, by the way, drastically reduce raiding population.

Without knowing the actual values that would take place if OP's suggestions ever were implemented it's hard to say how much would be balanced. But, sure, with how strong they are in their post, you could see them being preferred. However, I just go back to my previous example where success in raids is mostly about knowledge of what to avoid and knowledge of how to execute your rotations and adapt to sudden changes. That would still be the bar for which people need to pass, equipment is just a longer vaulting pole you can use to more easily clear it.

@FrigginPaco.4178 said:To me, the keyword here is "was"... I remember it, and yet it seems more like a "nontraversy" to me the further away we get from it.The only reason why that calmed down was because ascended were not all that hard to get, and Anet kept introducing new sources for them. With how costly Legendary gear is, it would
not
calm down. Not until Legendaries would also become as easy to obtain.

Fair point on the wide distribution of ascended equipment over time and the subsequent observation on time/cost for legendaries.

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@FrigginPaco.4178 said:However, my stance that legendaries should be powerful is solely based on the fact that there's no reason to get them outside of what was stated: they offer no benefit other than QoL, and to me, that's not special. Yes, I do play multiple builds on multiple characters. What's legendary about them? Legendary aesthetics? OK, it's a good start, but it hasn't been enough.

You do realize that ANet intended for legendary gear to only have QoL/cosmetic benefits and not be more powerful than the next lower tier, right? So your suggestion and the OP's goes against ANets intentions for legendary gear.

They wanted the items you had to grind for ages to get be something optional. So that players didn't have to spend months grinding in order to get top gear to join in with the end game content.

Yes, I necessarily realize that they're contrary to their core philosophy - I'm specifically saying that clinging to the same philosophy for as long as they have may have had unintended consequences. The gear ceiling in GW2 is easy to hit. Even if you just play PvE and all of its faceroll content you can get them with ease. If you play the other game modes in addition, then it's 2-3 fold easier since you can use all of those mode-specific currencies to acquire ascended.

I have 18 characters, each with a full set of ascended and 2-3 of them have an extra set sitting in their inventory. Some have legendary weapons. But none have legendary armor. I stopped at 57ish legendary insights and am always on the fence about whether or not I want to continue on them since all my ascended is just as good. Mystic forge stat swapping is barely an inconvenience if I want to do a different build. At this point I'd only want them for their cosmetics, but the more I think about it I lose more and more interest in them.

What's the point? Why get legendary beyond its appearance or QoL? There is none.

This proposal would make those items required as it would make them meta.

And that's a problem why exactly? Because of this?

The day your or the OP's suggestion is put in is the day I uninstall and never play again. I do not want to have to grind to get legendary gear for all of my characters. I doubt I'm the only one who would.

I barely tolerate the very very very very little WvW that I have to do to get the legendary weapons. But I do it slowly via the dailies and on days that I feel like it because I don't need the legendary for anything. I can shelve working on my legendary to gear a character out in Ascended if I felt like it. And not be hurt.

If people are worried about bullying and absurd gear checks, I don't see that as being relevant here. If anything, people post trophies from raid bosses as "kill proof" to show them they've done the bosses before. As I mentioned, raids can be done in gear as common as blues if you're worried that community standards will fall, that's on the community for deciding to go a certain way.

Let me level with you. I'm just a player sitting at the edge of every release because that's about all I can do. Between new content in PvE and whatever farming I do I'm just in WvW or PvP. But I play everything. Every game mode, and let me just say there's not a whole lot to work on, so I welcome a goal. I welcome something to chase after. Most of the things I see right now don't move me in any capacity. So I'm just here waiting for new things to do, new content, new
anything
really. I don't see much in the way of longterms goals that mean anything and that's my problem here - in addition with the game simply being too easy.
  1. I don't raid. I don't have the attention span to really learn a rotation. I should mention that I main an Elementalist. I'm just fine with not getting legendary armor due to this as I believe that raids should have some reward that is appropriately better given their difficulty compared to other content in the game. I also didn't bring up raids at all, so not sure why you're making it a point to mention to me that they can be done in blues like I missed it the first time.

My point for bringing up raids in the specific way that I did was solely to showcase how completely trivial the gear tiering in this game is in the first place. I understand you don't raid, but I also haven't set foot there in about a 6 months. It's less about the content of raids and more about how frustratingly unimpactful gear is anyway. And a change like OP's change would be exciting. I understand it would necessarily raise a bar, but it's something I'd be interested in.
  1. I have no problems getting into groups when I choose to do so. I stay out of the ones that look like they are looking for the pros or are trying to speedrun. And ask if it's not clear. And I start my own if I can't find one and don't want to wait for someone to start one. I think people PUGing have every right to have requirements for who joins them. Even if they are ridiculous and super specific. I don't think there is a huge bullying problem with PUG's.

Precisely. Guild Wars 2 is typically free from those same elitist nonsense and I don't understand someone's argument that it would change just because of the OP's idea.
  1. I have come to realize that in most games that don't have a definite "win" point that I need a long term goal to work on while I play what I want or directly to get it. This goal needs to not be something that's part of the meta as I like to run meta as it increases the pool of groups I can join. I like that I can decide that I want to work towards gearing up a new character in ascended without feeling like I'm hurting the character I'm getting the legendary gear for.

And I'm glad that you've found something that works for you! I just don't think the idea here forces anyone to do something.
  1. I do get that you need a goal that's not just a small carrot, but it would turn me off of the game if there were no long term small carrot goals like what legendary gear currently is.

I simply don't understand why the carrot would necessarily disappear in this scenario. If anything it's just an... improved carrot? It's the same one you were going for before, but just
better
.

I do hope you find a goal that works for you, but hope that you also realize that for many of us that this is the only game out there where the long term goals are cosmetic and QoL based and not with it being fully gearing out our characters in max tier gear.

And I just hope to point out that for a significant amount of people, my mentality around this and the other points I brought up are of significant concern. Cosmetics will simply come to me over the course of my, or anyone else's, playtime. To me, I'm in it for the cosmetic, the efficacy, the everything. There is no need to distinguish between them to me.

I don't want my long term goal to be gear that is the best in the game stat wise. Making the carrot the best gear in the game stat wise just turns me off. I don't want it to take months if not years to fully gear out a single character in the best gear stat wise. I may one day decide that I do want to put forth the time and effort into learning rotations to try raids. I get that they can be in blues, but that's not something someone learning should try. Someone still mastering the content should play in the best stat gear until it's easy and then go down to the next lowest tier and so forth. I don't want to be years away from being able to do that including time playing the content that I would need to do in order to get that way. Especially if they started designing the game overall around that being top tier.

I say months/years because I do not buy my legendary gear or any precursors and I'm casual. I buy my way past the steps that require WvW and PvP that can be bought - Memories of Battle, Shards of Glory (the PvP equivalent to Memories of Battle if that's not their name). To get the Gift of Battle I do now have to go in and do WvW and I do the PvE dailies - Big Spender, Capture a Shrine, etc that have the lowest chances of me finding anyone - so I don't tend to do Vet slayer. And I did actually map complete in WvW a couple of times back when that was required to get Gift of Exploration. I have made 1 legendary weapon. I've been playing since launch. I'm working on my second currently.

So, if the recommendation for newer players to raids is ascended/exotic quality gear, there's very much a place for gear as it pads your chances to win the encounter, this much we agree on. If it has this kind of effect, one can assume that OP's idea would help even further.

Just so I know, can you define "casual" in the way you see it? I've been around since launch as well and if it helps at all, I've got somewhere in the vicinity of 5.6 k hours played. However, I would hazard a guess that as another longtime player you know a great deal of the mechanics in the game and probably don't struggle with combat to the capacity I described in a previous post.

Do you go into WvW by yourself though? It's often much easier to get the other dailies with even 1 more person. I'd rather not digress much on this point, but I'm just curious.

Casual as in I only have 1,647 hours played over the last 7 years. I'll play for several hours a day for a few days/weeks. Then go months without playing the game at all except maybe to log in to unlock the living story chapter or collect my daily login reward. I know of the mechanics. I don't necessarily know how to execute it. Like I know breaking break bars would have made Eater of Souls so much easier. Couldn't do it the one time I did it back before they nerfed him, so had to kill him the long way as I couldn't prevent his attacks. Haven't played that mission since. Sad they nerfed him, though. I won't get as huge of a rush if I one day manage to beat him easily because part of me will be like "it's just because they nerfed him, not because you got better".

I mostly run around core Tyria doing map completion or running characters through the personal story, starting with the core game story. Unfortunately, the open world and core game story doesn't do much if anything to teach mechanics. And by the time a new player has reached HoT content, bad habits have been set. It's why HoT faced such a backlash because suddenly you had to use game mechanics in open world. They do need to do a better job of teaching mechanics. It would let them increase the difficulty without facing the same backlash. Which would likely help at least to some degree with the lack of goals if the difficulty was allowed to increase enough over the course of the missions to where it was actually difficult for you but not impossible.

Yes, sadly the game really doesn't do a good job of explaining things itself. I didn't really think of the "bad habit" portion of things, but I'm typically a very curious type of person and do a lot of research on my hobbies. I do understand that my experience isn't the same as others, but I just point back to my "The game needs to be first to explain itself to players, then the players take the reins," mentality. In which case, GW2 clearly has failed to do so.

Yeah, sorry! I wasn't expecting the difference in hours to have that big of a disparity! And I really hope I don't come across as insulting your, or anyone else's intelligence here! I'm just interesting in how you go about your goals with so few hours to attend to them. The example of Eater of Souls was a big deal when it came out, I wasn't ready for it to chunk you so badly if you didn't break its bar, but then I adjusted to it before the nerf. I even went in with a friend of mine to try to help and got turned into a useless spirit! They really wanted the responsibility to be on the player on that one, but they seemed to overestimate the average on that one.

I go into WvW alone. My friends that I joined in with GW2 have left for other games and had switched servers mostly anyway. Very introverted and shy so it makes it hard to do things which require actually playing with someone and just alongside them. And it's not so much the difficulty as it is the anxiety that keeps me from playing. Which I do realize is a bit of a catch 22. If I learned how to play, I wouldn't be so anxious which would increase my fun in the game mode. I did have to some extent play the mode when the game first launched for map completion and I did find the mode more interesting than I had originally anticipated. Just not fun enough to get over the anxiety of the mode.

I get that people don't enjoy being forced into content they don't want to do, particularly PvP or WvW where interplayer conflict can have additional effects. My process was going through PvE as the majority of my playtime until I couldn't get much more out of it, then WvW and sPvP became my endgame, just like how it happened in GW1. To me, the most difficult content in this game involves conflicts with other players because you really have to be sharp and know what to look for, how to exploit a moment's misstep, how to recover from your own missteps, and secure the kill.

As for WvW I wish it was less of an oppressive experience for you and many others like you, though I won't try to make any attempts to apologize for the game mode; that's up to Anet's way to showcase it. Still, I managed to help some guildies of mine at least tolerate it while we're together. I know they won't do it themselves, but they've even grown to enjoy it as long as it's in a group setting. I know this doesn't resolve your anxiety over the mode, but I hope it can show a different aspect of it than the "solo" experience. I'll say that for most of the content in the game it doesn't matter much if I do it alone or in a group, though WvW is made infinitely more enjoyable and/or tolerable when more people are helping. I know that seems like common sense, but I'm just sharing.

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So the majority of dissenting opinions AGAINST this have been regards to power creep in pve content such as fractals and raids.Would there be any possibility of finding this acceptable if these changes were made JUST to open world, as to avoid the problems associated with gear elitism outlined? People should be able to enjoy the fruits of their (very hard earned) labor beyond just cosmetics and a stat switch IMO, and as FrigginPaco pointed out, there's no reason why they can't alter existing content in settings where it doesn't realistically affect other platers, given how low the gear ceiling in this game is.

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@Kharrus.6015 said:So the majority of dissenting opinions AGAINST this have been regards to power creep in pve content such as fractals and raids.Would there be any possibility of finding this acceptable if these changes were made JUST to open world, as to avoid the problems associated with gear elitism outlined? People should be able to enjoy the fruits of their (very hard earned) labor beyond just cosmetics and a stat switch IMO, and as FrigginPaco pointed out, there's no reason why they can't alter existing content in settings where it doesn't realistically affect other platers, given how low the gear ceiling in this game is.

You dont need it in open world most mobs die if you sneeze their way.

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@FrigginPaco.4178 said:What's the point? Why get legendary beyond its appearance or QoL? There is none.

This proposal would make those items required as it would make them meta.

And that's a problem why exactly? Because of this?

It sounds to me like you want this game to be something it's not nor was it ever advertised as such. There are plenty of other MMOs that have gear treadmills, including WoW classic which was just released.

For a time I did briefly try others, but ultimately, no other MMO has the combat mechanics that GW2 offers. It's what I enjoy most about this game aside from the expanding universe and story. And before you or anyone else goes any further on this point, I have no interest in any other MMO that currently exists. For a long time I was happy with the GW2 status quo and I'm just tired of not having any real reason to pursue a goal(s) for so long. I'm basically just waiting for this Saga to roll out and hopefully hear news of an expack sometime in 2021.

And lastly, why do my desires have to take any more of a backseat than the people saying no? I'm very invested into where GW2 goes in the future, but I feel like it has room to grow in certain dimensions and other people probably feel it can grow in other ways.

If you are very invested into GW2 then you would understand that adding more gear grind would hurt GW2's future. The Ascended gear backlash was bad enough. Imagine the backlash if they did this. It would absolutely destroy what's left of WvW.

I specifically mentioned in the post that the stat effects listed would be barred from pvp and wvw. I'm also certainly open to extending that to raids and fractals given people's concerns, but honestly I'm seeing that as a complete non-issue.

So your group is led by someone refusing to admit people because they don't have the BEST possible gear to min/max the encounter? Great! That means they're an elitist whose only concern is the gold per hour they and their friends can make, and you should avoid them like the plague. The bar for being able to complete group content centers around organization and rotation, not hyper-optimizing gear, even if that completes if faster. People play this game because it's gorgeous and fun; it draws you in and wraps its technicolored wonder around you, immersing you in the kind of personalized high-fantasy world people only get to end up writing about.

To me, and my experience gaming, Guild Wars 2 is unique because of how personal everything is in the game. You BECOME one of the lead characters, and are involved in the world's development intimately, even agonizingly in the case of Aurene. Everything from the dye system to the detail put into the writing in this game is deeply, unequivocally individual to the player. It's incredibly endearing because of this, and how easy it is to connect to the characters in-game just furthers this connection. So the culmination of everything the game should BE as personally-tailored as it is, SHOULD be legendary gear. I thought I made this clear in the original post, but I guess I needed to expand on the backround for it.

So with that said, what exactly is the problem for increasing the power level of legendary gear given the amount of blood sweat and tears that goes into making them, if it doesn't affect group content in any meaningful way? And if it does, some very good points have been made about how stagnant game balance would benefit from it, as well find new ways to balance around them. Because in the end, what many people who focus on PVE end up grinding all that gold and time for IS end-game gear, which are the legendaries. They SHOULD be a focus for how game content is balanced, and more powerful for it.

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@FrigginPaco.4178 said:What's the point? Why get legendary beyond its appearance or QoL? There is none.

This proposal would make those items required as it would make them meta.

And that's a problem why exactly? Because of this?

It sounds to me like you want this game to be something it's not nor was it ever advertised as such. There are plenty of other MMOs that have gear treadmills, including WoW classic which was just released.

For a time I did briefly try others, but ultimately, no other MMO has the combat mechanics that GW2 offers. It's what I enjoy most about this game aside from the expanding universe and story. And before you or anyone else goes any further on this point, I have no interest in any other MMO that currently exists. For a long time I was happy with the GW2 status quo and I'm just tired of not having any real reason to pursue a goal(s) for so long. I'm basically just waiting for this Saga to roll out and hopefully hear news of an expack sometime in 2021.

And lastly, why do my desires have to take any more of a backseat than the people saying no? I'm very invested into where GW2 goes in the future, but I feel like it has room to grow in certain dimensions and other people probably feel it can grow in other ways.

If you are very invested into GW2 then you would understand that adding more gear grind would hurt GW2's future. The Ascended gear backlash was bad enough. Imagine the backlash if they did this. It would absolutely destroy what's left of WvW.

I specifically mentioned in the post that the stat effects listed would be barred from pvp and wvw. I'm also certainly open to extending that to raids and fractals given people's concerns, but honestly I'm seeing that as a complete non-issue.

So your group is led by someone refusing to admit people because they don't have the BEST possible gear to min/max the encounter? Great! That means they're an elitist whose only concern is the gold per hour they and their friends can make, and you should avoid them like the plague. The bar for being able to complete group content centers around organization and rotation, not hyper-optimizing gear, even if that completes if faster. People play this game because it's gorgeous and fun; it draws you in and wraps its technicolored wonder around you, immersing you in the kind of personalized high-fantasy world people only get to end up writing about.

To me, and my experience gaming, Guild Wars 2 is unique because of how personal everything is in the game. You BECOME one of the lead characters, and are involved in the world's development intimately, even agonizingly in the case of Aurene. Everything from the dye system to the detail put into the writing in this game is deeply, unequivocally individual to the player. It's incredibly endearing because of this, and how easy it is to connect to the characters in-game just furthers this connection. So the culmination of everything the game should BE as personally-tailored as it is, SHOULD be legendary gear. I thought I made this clear in the original post, but I guess I needed to expand on the backround for it.

So with that said, what exactly is the problem for increasing the power level of legendary gear given the amount of blood sweat and tears that goes into making them, if it doesn't affect group content in any meaningful way?

What is the point of doing so if it doesn't affect group content in any meaningful way? Why would something that is effectively irrelevant to how you play the game be worthwhile doing? You're simply raising the bar for the sake of raising it.

Legendary equipment offers ultimate convenience, the freedom of swapping stats wherever you are and unique skins and animations, that is enough.

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@Pifil.5193 said:What is the point of doing so if it doesn't affect group content in any meaningful way? Why would something that is effectively irrelevant to how you play the game be worthwhile doing? You're simply raising the bar for the sake of raising it.

Legendary equipment offers ultimate convenience, the freedom of swapping stats wherever you are and unique skins and animations, that is enough.

As I said, barring effects from certain instanced content is one example of content balance that can be used. We see that particularly in sPvP, since it's taken years for the team to figure out just how horrifyingly overpowered certain stat combos can be in close combat, and the effect that has on class balancing (which is why they release class balance changes as split between pvp and open world).

If I'm reading your post correctly, you're asking what the point of introducing this if it doesn't affect group content in any meaningful way? So far any opinion against this has been BECAUSE it would affect content in a meaningful way, which is why I'm listing easy methods to implement this. That said, some good points have been made about how the backlash against this might be coming from how small and restricted the power curve for gear in this game is. Maybe increasing it in a way that's rewarding and fun like this might be healthy.

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@Kharrus.6015 said:So the majority of dissenting opinions AGAINST this have been regards to power creep in pve content such as fractals and raids.Would there be
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possibility of finding this acceptable if these changes were made JUST to open world, as to avoid the problems associated with gear elitism outlined? People should be able to enjoy the fruits of their (very hard earned) labor beyond just cosmetics and a stat switch IMO, and as FrigginPaco pointed out, there's no reason why they can't alter existing content in settings where it doesn't realistically affect other platers, given how low the gear ceiling in this game is.

You dont need it in open world most mobs die if you sneeze their way.

You don't NEED anything beyond masterwork or rare gear in open world to clear mobs, but most of what people work towards especially for gear is about wanting something, not needing it.

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The game has long been too easy and it struggles with a reason to merit even ascended quality items. " Whoa whoa! Why would you allow for more power creep if it's already so easy?!" This ignores the possibility for Anet to buff enemies by making them:

  1. Hit harder/faster - take advantage of the increased armor values for ascended & the OP's proposed legendary armor adjustments
  2. Be more difficult to damage (not simply armor or health increases) - increase the value of ascended & legendary weapons2a. Have to be struck by certain conditions/effects/positional to exploit their vulnerabilities - Ex: Giant beetles can only be hit from the front, it makes them unique to deal with. People actually have to be put in front of its charge animation and dodge/block when they notice it or be launched. It demands you pay attention.
  3. Introduce damage types like existed in GW1 beyond simply direct physical damage - this has so many more implications and I wish they never shied away from it in the first place.
  4. Have unique mechanics - Probably my most desired change. More mobs need to have different attack patterns, methods of engagement/disengaging, and more frequent use of their alleged "powers". Why do spiders only poison on their big charge poison spray and not also with every other bite? Why do bears and other animals with fangs and claws not inflict bleeding with every other strike? Jacarandas, annoying as they are, at least have multiple ways to interact with the player that provokes interrupts or dodging out of the AoE of their lightning. Even the Canids in Elona are a nice change of for damage and escapability.

I understand there would necessarily be issues in PvP and WvW scenarios for balance reasons, but that's gonna have to be shelved for me.

This x1000. A solid example for where this is applied in the core game is how Destroyers are immune to Burning and Hylek are immune to Poison. I was hoping at some point they would have had each of the dragon minions have an immunity to conditions related to their attributes, but weak to others be a thing but that hasn't been addressed due to the unwillingness to alter content in the sub-lvl 80 game areas.

They at least have been consistent about updating dragon minion content in the living world; Branded provide a decent challenge, and it's one of the reasons I'm excited to see where they take the Icebrood in the upcoming Saga.

As for the #4 suggestion, this is a direction they've been moving in and iterated on a lot since the introduction of HoT. This REALLY encourages group cooperation and play, since npcs like the Chak are well-designed for being hilariously unforgiving in their mechanics. There's a kind of bug they have where you have to bar-break it to do damage and kill it, so some more skill or even condi-specific methods of overcoming NPCs to make them challenging is a good direction to go for balance. Take when they first introduced the Silverwastes; Npcs like the Mordrem Teragriffs and Thrashers were terrors to fight, especially as elites or champions due to the damage scaling working with their new, and unheard of, abilities. Things like the corrosive lines dealt by the teragriffs or the grasping thorns from the thrashers would rip player groups to shreds because they didn't have any prior concept of it. This game is REALLY good at releasing new, challenging PVE content, so the backlash to power creep is especially confusing to me given how strong the evidence is in the direction of them going towards that way with new content, and class rebalances compensating for it already.

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leg·end·ar·y1.of, described in, or based on legends.

leg·end1.a traditional STORY sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.

If we look at Excalibur a true Legendary, we know the story behind why/and what makes it such..

I have always said there is nothing "Legendary" about these weapons, EPIC would have been a more fitting description.

To be even more accurate for what they are Collectionary's or Grindary's is most fitting...

I agree, there needs to be something more that makes them unique other than their look. I am not saying they should be much more powerful, but that's what you'd think anyhow, but I understand why they are not.Some of the ideas you had for each "legendary" bonus affect are quite interesting, but it's a little to late for that now..

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@FrigginPaco.4178 said:What's the point? Why get legendary beyond its appearance or QoL? There is none.

This proposal would make those items required as it would make them meta.

And that's a problem why exactly? Because of this?

It sounds to me like you want this game to be something it's not nor was it ever advertised as such. There are plenty of other MMOs that have gear treadmills, including WoW classic which was just released.

For a time I did briefly try others, but ultimately, no other MMO has the combat mechanics that GW2 offers. It's what I enjoy most about this game aside from the expanding universe and story. And before you or anyone else goes any further on this point, I have no interest in any other MMO that currently exists. For a long time I was happy with the GW2 status quo and I'm just tired of not having any real reason to pursue a goal(s) for so long. I'm basically just waiting for this Saga to roll out and hopefully hear news of an expack sometime in 2021.

And lastly, why do my desires have to take any more of a backseat than the people saying no? I'm very invested into where GW2 goes in the future, but I feel like it has room to grow in certain dimensions and other people probably feel it can grow in other ways.

If you are very invested into GW2 then you would understand that adding more gear grind would hurt GW2's future. The Ascended gear backlash was bad enough. Imagine the backlash if they did this. It would absolutely destroy what's left of WvW.

I specifically mentioned in the post that the stat effects listed would be barred from pvp and wvw. I'm also certainly open to extending that to raids and fractals given people's concerns, but honestly I'm seeing that as a complete non-issue.

So your group is led by someone refusing to admit people because they don't have the BEST possible gear to min/max the encounter? Great! That means they're an elitist whose only concern is the gold per hour they and their friends can make, and you should avoid them like the plague. The bar for being able to complete group content centers around organization and rotation, not hyper-optimizing gear, even if that completes if faster. People play this game because it's gorgeous and fun; it draws you in and wraps its technicolored wonder around you, immersing you in the kind of personalized high-fantasy world people only get to end up writing about.

To me, and my experience gaming, Guild Wars 2 is unique because of how personal everything is in the game. You BECOME one of the lead characters, and are involved in the world's development intimately, even agonizingly in the case of Aurene. Everything from the dye system to the detail put into the writing in this game is deeply, unequivocally individual to the player. It's incredibly endearing because of this, and how easy it is to connect to the characters in-game just furthers this connection. So the culmination of everything the game should BE as personally-tailored as it is, SHOULD be legendary gear. I thought I made this clear in the original post, but I guess I needed to expand on the backround for it.

So with that said, what exactly is the problem for increasing the power level of legendary gear given the amount of blood sweat and tears that goes into making them, if it doesn't affect group content in any meaningful way?

What is the point of doing so if it doesn't affect group content in any meaningful way? Why would something that is effectively irrelevant to how you play the game be worthwhile doing? You're simply raising the bar for the sake of raising it.

Legendary equipment offers ultimate convenience, the freedom of swapping stats wherever you are and unique skins and animations, that is enough.

Gotta have that gear treadmill so people can see bigger numbers otherwise there is no "progression"

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@Kharrus.6015 said:So the majority of dissenting opinions AGAINST this have been regards to power creep in pve content such as fractals and raids.Would there be
any
possibility of finding this acceptable if these changes were made JUST to open world, as to avoid the problems associated with gear elitism outlined? People should be able to enjoy the fruits of their (very hard earned) labor beyond just cosmetics and a stat switch IMO, and as FrigginPaco pointed out, there's no reason why they can't alter existing content in settings where it doesn't realistically affect other platers, given how low the gear ceiling in this game is.

You dont need it in open world most mobs die if you sneeze their way.

You don't NEED anything beyond masterwork or rare gear in open world to clear mobs, but most of what people work towards especially for gear is about wanting something, not needing it.

Then there is no need to change if people want legendary gear they will work for it becouse they want it.

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@Kharrus.6015 said:So the majority of dissenting opinions AGAINST this have been regards to power creep in pve content such as fractals and raids.Would there be
any
possibility of finding this acceptable if these changes were made JUST to open world, as to avoid the problems associated with gear elitism outlined? People should be able to enjoy the fruits of their (very hard earned) labor beyond just cosmetics and a stat switch IMO, and as FrigginPaco pointed out, there's no reason why they can't alter existing content in settings where it doesn't realistically affect other platers, given how low the gear ceiling in this game is.

You dont need it in open world most mobs die if you sneeze their way.

You don't NEED anything beyond masterwork or rare gear in open world to clear mobs, but most of what people work towards especially for gear is about wanting something, not needing it.

Then there is no need to change if people want legendary gear they will work for it becouse they want it.

Yep, the things I worked for when I got my legendaries were the skins more than anything else (and the excellent journey in the car of Chuka and Champawat) I don't care that the stats are the same as Ascended, in fact I prefer that.

I like shooting tigers out of my bow or watching foes crumble into a burning gap when I kill them with Incinerator that's enough for me.

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A no from me as well. I still consider Ascended gear with a +5% benefit over Exotics to be a mistake.

This game was designed from the very start to have no gear progression, once you hit 80 and grab exotics you're good to go, just waste some gold to change stats and runes every now and then for new metas or new content etc. And a lot of players really love that part, and would hate to see any sort of "BiS" system be implemented.

Just to point out, at launch, all Legendary weapons where exotic quality in soldier stats. So they actually did less damage than your average berserker exo. So there is a preceedent for the opposite.

Also, removing this from PvP and WvW is one thing, removing them from Fractals ad Raids, what is left? Open World and Dungeons ? The most trivially easy content in the game at this point. Honestly what would be the point? Things just die in open world, at that point it would hardly matter if it was +10% damage or +100% damage or -50% damage, things just die in open world. At that I just don't see the point of this.

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@"NYG.2568" said:leg·end·ar·y1.of, described in, or based on legends.

leg·end1.a traditional STORY sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.

If we look at Excalibur a true Legendary, we know the story behind why/and what makes it such..

I have always said there is nothing "Legendary" about these weapons, EPIC would have been a more fitting description.

To be even more accurate for what they are Collectionary's or Grindary's is most fitting...

I agree, there needs to be something more that makes them unique other than their look. I am not saying they should be much more powerful, but that's what you'd think anyhow, but I understand why they are not.Some of the ideas you had for each "legendary" bonus affect are quite interesting, but it's a little to late for that now..

Ok, so Mjolnir is just a short hammer in a few stories by this logic? Nothing else to it?

Even your boy Trahearn had a legendary from Irish mythology Caladbolg – Two-handed sword of Fergus mac Róich in Irish legend; said to make a circle like an arc of rainbow when swung, and to have the power to cleave the tops from the hills.

Another that made it into GW2 was Sharur - the enchanted talking mace of Ninurta, Sumerian god

What about in-game options like Magdaer? You know, the sword that caused the entire Foefire, raising an entire nation as ghosts a la Return of the King? Ah, I guess it's not a legendary weapon, so it doesn't count...

<_<

We can do this all day, but at the end it's just a point-of-view battle here to find an example that suits our purposes. Also, Excalibur (and Mjolnir) may be a legendary, but they don't exist in GW2 (Edit: Mjornir exists as an exotic weapon I had forgotten about that). Even further, very few of the legendaries have any in-game lore associated with them (and the HoT elite specs for that matter). I believe only Nevermore, Astralaria, and Chuk n' Champ have associated lore in their collections; both in the UI and in the places/things you need to do. But barring those, no one explained why the gen 1 legendary greatwords are cosmic windows to the universe.

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