Guild Wars 2

im realy a newb and realy confused if I should think in crafting so do crafting asscended wepon/armor worth the time and the gold? atm I think only backpice/rings/acces/amulet is worth. Ive looked the armors and wepons and they only give like 5-6 stats more compared to the exotics. And not thinking in dooing more fractals in the future since dredge is very annoying and anti-fun for me, once ive got the rings and backpice for my characters im done with it. I saw that there is www infusions wich but are those infusions so important to be decent in www? anyway thanx.

If you are not going to do Fractals then exotic equipment is sufficient. In monetary terms it is hard to justify precursors given their slight improvement. Having said that, I craft ascended gear because it gives me something to work towards that isn’t the utter grind of a legendary.

EDIT: for WvW the infusions are only really useful if you enjoy soloing camps.

Statistical upgrades are objectively worth it when gold is plentiful in the game with nothing but cosmetics to spend it on.

Answer: No. The boost is minimal and barely noticeable from what I’ve read. Unless you’re going to run high-level Fractals or run a lot of WvW, there’s no need to go for ascended.

Armor? Not really. Weapon on the other hand offers a flat 5% increase to direct damage, which makes it valuable to everyone except condi damage builds.

Flissy.4093:

Statistical upgrades are objectively worth it when gold is plentiful in the game with nothing but cosmetics to spend it on.

Pretty much this ^^

Once you hit level 80 and play a while, you get to a point where there isn’t much to spend gold on except ascended stuff. It’s just a further progression to work toward as an end game activity.

Ascended armor/weapons are mainly for veteran players. As newbie, you only need to craft exotic. Farm ascended accessories through guild missions, laurels, fractals. After you get everything you want, you may consider crafting ascended just to have some achievable goal. (Legendaries are currently quite not achievable for normal players )

Astralporing.1957:

Armor? Not really. Weapon on the other hand offers a flat 5% increase to direct damage, which makes it valuable to everyone except condi damage builds.

^This

However as a newbie you are still fine with exotics, and ascended weapon is more a goal for the future when you don’t know what else to do with your gold and have enough mats

I believe someone somewhere worked out that a full suit of berserker ascended armour, for example, had a stat boost above exotic equivalent to an extra ruby orb. Which is to say, really minimal. I got myself a few pieces of ascended armour only because I play fractals a lot and having your agony resistance on your armour and trinkets frees up your weapon choices. That’s really about it

Azrael.4960:

I believe someone somewhere worked out that a full suit of berserker ascended armour, for example, had a stat boost above exotic equivalent to an extra ruby orb. Which is to say, really minimal.

Yeah, it would maybe just compensate for some of the points i loose because i prefer traveller runes instead of Ruby-Orbs .. and that already shows that i really don’t care that much about some minimal stats more or less