soldier's insignia
you cant craft a soldiers insignia at all. The actual insignia comes from salvaging exotics with soldiers stats. You can get the insignias themselves for a bit over 2g a piece, you can run dungeons and use tokens to get soldiers gear and salvage it. But salvaging is counter productive for yourpurpose because that is what you are looking for. The easiest way in my opinion to get a set would be to follow the zerg in eotm and buy soldiers armor with badges of honor and gold. Then you can move on to borderlands/eternal battlegrounds
A note on salvaging for insignias, you will not get them from salvaging crafted armor.
So, lesson here would be buy dungeon/WvW sets and transmute them to fit your desired look?
I don’t raid, I barely fractal, and I suck beyond words at PvP and WvW.
But I try, and that’s what counts.
So, lesson here would be buy dungeon/WvW sets and transmute them to fit your desired look?
Dungeon gear is preferable because compared to wvw/karma armor, they are salvageable, after you dont need them anymore.
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You can also buy the items from the TP directly (the new filter allows you to search by stats). 90% of the time, the cost of crafting is close to the same as the cost of buying the item directly, especially if you make a custom buy offer — if the prices aren’t close, people will coming in to profit from the difference and drive the prices closer together.
Be warned: you cannot salvage wvw armor bought with badges of honor. That means you cannot salvage your runes if you decide to change them. The best option is buying dungeon armor or buying from the trading post.
in general, the insignias that can’t be crafted can be salvaged from non-crafted exotic armor with those stats. So you need to salvage a exotic soldier’s armor that wasn’t crafted (crafted have the name “emblazoned”, “exalted”, or “draconic”).
now, this is where soldier’s is a bit unique. go search on the TP: “soldier”, exotic, remove the profession filter.
there are no exotic soldier’s armors on the TP that aren’t crafted.
so where do the insignia come from? there are 2 sources: there are account-bound exotic armors that drop in fractals, some of them have soldier’s stats. But most come from dungeon armors. AC, SE, and HotW sell armor with soldier’s stats.
or you could just buy soldier’s insignia from the TP.
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As the others have said, you have two main options here.
1. If you just want the gear for WvW and intend on using it long-term, you can just buy lvl 80 Soldier’s stat gear from the Armor Master. Soldier’s is one of the stats they offer. This will cost you some gold and Badges of Honor.
WARNING: There is no way to salvage gear that has been bought with Badges of Honor. This means you need to be careful when placing runes into the armor set, because you won’t be able to get them back (unless you use the very, VERY expensive Upgrade Extractor).
2. Buy the insignia off the TP, or salvage it yourself by salvaging Exotic dungeon gear. (Ascalon Catacombs and Sorrow’s Embrace both offer Soldier’s gear as an option.) Salvaging is not guaranteed, however, so if you want the insignia faster, buying it is the quicker option.
So what I get from this, is if I really want -serious- WvW gear, buy the soldier’s insignias from the TP, then use it to make the Ahamid’s insignia, then use those to craft gear?
So what I get from this, is if I really want -serious- WvW gear, buy the soldier’s insignias from the TP, then use it to make the Ahamid’s insignia, then use those to craft gear?
bingo. that would be the easiest way to get soldier’s ascended armor.
well, or you could just buy Ahamid’s Insignia (wouldn’t need to salvage exotics for GodM). I can tell you from experience that there is not much premium on the ascended insignias (there is a premium on the inscriptions).
another option is to randomly get ascended armor chests. personally, I crafted ascended armor a while ago, and now when I get an ascended chest, it just sits in my bank because I don’t need it – would of saved a lot of gold to use those instead of craft them.
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