Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone, I have written an ascended armor crafting guide with detailed breakdown of the various mats for those who are looking to craft their ascended armor piece and have not done so already. The guide is fairly massive and there could be some mistakes so feel free to point them out if you see them.

Guides

• Ascended armor crafting guide
• New Ascended backpiece crafting guide

Ascended Armor stats

As requested, here is a breakdown of the Ascended armor stats and also a comparison with current exotic armor. You will gain roughly 5% stat increase by switching from exotic to the ascended armor version. On some pieces this 5% increase simply translate to 1-2 stat increase.

• Ascended armor stats

Material breakdown

There is another breakdown posted on the forums by Natsu if you want to check it out. It is more concise that what i have.

Tailor

Mat cost for a full set

http://i.imgur.com/xpvV18T.jpg

Bolt of Damask is time gated (only 1 produced per day) but you can speed it up by buying them from the TP. They are priced at 16 gold each atm but prices will drop fairly soon. If you don’t buy any from the TP you are looking at crafting for 36 days for your full set.

36 * 16g = 576 gold if you want it immediately. This doesn’t factor in the cost for Elonian Leather Square (which is also time gated but much cheaper) and assumes you have 15 Dragonite Ingot/Empyreal Star/Bloodstone Brick already as these cannot be brought.

If you don’t have alot of the mats handy you could be looking at spending close to 600 gold for a full set if you want it immediately.

Armorsmith

Here is the mat cost for the full set

http://i.imgur.com/RTE1R8g.jpg

You only need 25 Bolt of Damask, which means you can finish the set in 25 days without buying them from the TP. You also need 16 Deldrimor Steel Ingot, which are priced at 4.5 gold on the TP currently.
25 × 16 + 4.5 × 16 = 472 gold just for buying all the time gated mats.

Leatherwork

Mat cost for the full set

http://i.imgur.com/Xrjl4AE.jpg

Only 23 Bolt of Damask is needed. Elonian Leathers are selling for 1.6 g at the moment so they are almost nothing by comparison. You can finish this set fastest at 23 days if you don’t buy Bolts of Damask from the TP.

23 × 16 + 1.6 × 18 = ~400 gold for buying all the time gated mats. It should come no suprise that medium Ascended armor is the fastest and cheapest out of the three though.

If you spotted an error with the breakdown or if there is something unclear please let me know!

Thank you very much, as I progress on the light ascended set I was quite annoyed by how many subgroups lot of the items were in.
Your guides help us once again <3

Yes, super helpful and simple to understand thanks.

Added a page outlining the stats for all the Ascended armor sets

dulfy.1493:

Tailor

Armorsmith

Leatherwork

Thanks for all you do, Dulfy!
Question or let me get this straight:

Tailoring is for light ascended armor, Armorsmith is for heavy ascended armor, Leatherwork for medium ascended armor?

Rigel.3092:

dulfy.1493:

Tailor
Armorsmith
Leatherwork

Thanks for all you do, Dulfy!
Question or let me get this straight:

Tailoring is for light ascended armor, Armorsmith is for heavy ascended armor, Leatherwork for medium ascended armor?

That is correct, and just to also point out, that the above costs are just for the materials for the armor and do not also factor in the costs of crafting to 500 if you haven’t yet.

I totally thought I would have enough silk scraps *lol

But yes, thanks Dulfy for your great site.

43 stacks of silk scraps for a set of armor is completely reasonable.
/sarcasm

Looks like Tailor and Leatherwork are missing Thermocatalytic Reagent!!!!

Sola.7250:

Looks like Tailor and Leatherwork are missing Thermocatalytic Reagent!!!!

They don’t show up for tailor/leatherwork in the first column because that assumes you are working with refined mats which does not involve Themorcatalytic reagent (uses spool of gossamer thread instead). Only armorsmith uses Thermocatalytic reagent for its casing etc.

Thank you dulfy.

Anyway, I was able to finish my entire ascended light armor set the day it was released. Unfortunately, it seems there’s a bug in transmuting from exotic to ascended if you have the flamekissed skin on your exotic as it will prevent you from transmuting entirely. Just a precaution for those who have the skin and would like to transfer the skin, since I was probably one of the first to craft the set, I thought it was intended that we’d have to use transmutation splitters first to even keep the runes which doesn’t seem to be the case for others..

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Finished-my-Ascended-Armor-Set-Light/first#post3359002