I mean, realistically, farming more gear to get more chances at the ascension someone want seems like what people will eventually be doing. This isn't much different from people going to farm more gear so they can get the perfect 4 substats on a legendary piece that then rolls speed 4 times. Or the perfect Crit Damage gloves with the perfect triple crit rate substat with accuracy, atk% and speed. Or really whatever a perfect piece is for someone's build.

I don't have a lot I've done with this yet, I have one pair of boots I've rolled so far to 3, and one pair of gloves I've test rolled. There is a little concern that every piece I roll could be trash if it doesn't roll correctly, but then I remind myself that isn't really true at all. The gear doesn't change at all except getting more stats. Technically every piece I roll gets better, just not always better in the ways that could be best for the piece.

What does change is that my top end arena builds will still need to be the best I can get them. That is gonna mean swapping some gear around as I awaken more things, so that my arena champs still have the best available combination of things on my account, which likely changes as some pieces get decently better while others don't really improve cause of whatever ascension stat I RNG'd into.

... what? Do you expect to never get any new items ever again?