Raids are basically the new dungeons for the expansiosn, you can buy stats selectable ascended gears with the Magnetite Shards Same as strikes, the cut to the chase style dungeon where you go in and beat up the boss The idea is to also make hot and pof stats selectable for dungeon exotics. That should pose no technical problem. New players would have an easy access to stats needed for different end game modes like raids and wvw. Not only new players, but also veterans who preferred to stay in one game mode for many years (like me) because they didnt want to spend all their gold on sets and sets of different ascended pieces not knowing where that leads to.If I can easily obtain all types of exotic armor stats I am more willing to try out all the different classes and roles tied to these stats. And if I come to the conclusion that one particular class shall be my main I can still grind ascended gear for that class. There is no downside to this. Also the fact that people did „not leave dungeons because of the lack of stat selection“ is no counterargument and actually misses the point.Stat selection could give players a NEW reason to come back to dungeons, both veterans and of course newbies. Yes, they could increase the gold reward back to where it was, but stat selection alone would already bring me back (and yes, I started playing the game in 2012 and was there when we grinded dungeons for our legendaries).
Raids are basically the new dungeons for the expansiosn, you can buy stats selectable ascended gears with the Magnetite Shards Same as strikes, the cut to the chase style dungeon where you go in and beat up the boss The idea is to also make hot and pof stats selectable for dungeon exotics. That should pose no technical problem. New players would have an easy access to stats needed for different end game modes like raids and wvw. Not only new players, but also veterans who preferred to stay in one game mode for many years (like me) because they didnt want to spend all their gold on sets and sets of different ascended pieces not knowing where that leads to.If I can easily obtain all types of exotic armor stats I am more willing to try out all the different classes and roles tied to these stats. And if I come to the conclusion that one particular class shall be my main I can still grind ascended gear for that class. There is no downside to this. Also the fact that people did „not leave dungeons because of the lack of stat selection“ is no counterargument and actually misses the point.Stat selection could give players a NEW reason to come back to dungeons, both veterans and of course newbies. Yes, they could increase the gold reward back to where it was, but stat selection alone would already bring me back (and yes, I started playing the game in 2012 and was there when we grinded dungeons for our legendaries).
