Guild Wars 2

I am just wondering where should I start to get a complete ascend gear set. Also how much gold will it cost?

Thanks in advance.

Plan for about 500 gold for the full armor set. Weapons run about 50 gold I think.

Also factor in some extra gold to get your various crafting disciplines up to 500.

Start with weapons as those are the biggest bang for the buck. Armors after you get all the weapons you plan to use and got gold laying around as armors are only about a 5% boost overall.

First you’ll have to get your crafting for either or both weaponsmith or armorsmith to 500 (depending on which you want to craft first) if you get the inscriptions for zerker and knights armor/weapons the items you craft will sell on the TP rather quickly and at least you’ll be making back some of the gold your spending leveling the craft(s). As always discovery will level you up faster than just cranking out the same sword or coat over and over even though it might have a higher selling price than other items you craft.

I just started crafting my armor, 3 pcs so far and it’s cost me about 200g and that includes the runes I plan to use, lots of the mats are expensive to buy like ectos, scales, dusts, oby shards, so don’t get in a hurry, I’ve burnt through about 600k of karma buying lost orr boxes to get oby shards which has a reasonable rate of return but not as good as it use to be IMHO.

So much of the material you’ll need is time gated (make one every 24hrs) so it takes awhile to gather the materials unless you have gold to burn, and can afford to buy them off the TP…not recommended.

Best advice I can give you is once your at 500 on weaponsmith craft your weapon (s) they do have the best return on your investment, when you go to the armor just take your time it takes awhile to craft a full set of armor, and don’t forget you’ll need laurels for the infusions if you WvW.