Guild Wars 2

All the guides I’ve seen so far costing around 188g (on gw2crafts.net) take you from 400 – 500. But don’t we only need to get to 450 to start refining ascended materials? I’ll get to 500 by refining t7 materials in the course of the game.

In the meantime, is there any cheap and effective guide to quickly get to 450 instead? And how much will it cost?

Still don’t understand why Anet chose to add another useless 50 levels instead of just making it 400-450 in the first place.

Ascended refinement caps you at 475. So just look at them guides to see how many things you need to discover after you subtract what they show for 450-475.

what I did was refine orichalcum ore to ingots, ancient wood to planks, and with my leatherworker hardened leather too. this takes you to 425.
then just discover 6-7 different level 400 receipes, that will put you at the 450 needed for ascended material refinement

From what I checked – buy ori ore, refine it, sell ingots.

Ascended refinment gives almost nothing on 470 and is gray on 475