Guild Wars 2

Don’t be afraid! Read on and be happy! No more worries about losing any AR or infusions after the update!

Currently all Ascended items have what one would call a basic infusion slot. Basic infusion slots can be either Offensive (O) or Defensive (D) or Utility (U) which only occurs on Necklaces currently, and can be slotted with the following:

Basic Infusion ( +5 AR )
Offensive Infusion ( +5 Power / +5 AR )
Defensive Infusion ( +5 Vit / +5 AR )
Versatile Infusion (work like Defensive/Offensive Infusions, but may be placed in either the Offensive, or Defensive infusion slots, regardless of slot type)
Utility Infusion (Magic Find/Gold Find/Karma Boost)

Currently Infused Rings/Back Pieces look like this in game:

Main Stat
Secondary Stat
Secondary Stat
+5 AR <—- original +5 AR from being (Infused)
(Defensive Slot – or – Offensive Slot)

After the changes to Fractals all (Infused) rings and back pieces which looked like the above will now look like this:

Main Stat
Secondary Stat
Secondary Stat
(Agony Resist infusion slot / +5-10 AR) <—- New Slot Replacing +5 AR on (Infused) ring
(Defensive Slot – or – Offensive Slot)

Q) Will I lose any of my infusions currently on any of my Ascended items after the patch?

A) No, all infusion (defensive, offensive, or basic +5AR infusions) will remain after the patch goes live.

Q) Will I still have the same AR as I had before the patch? I had 55 AR before.

A) Yes, you will have the exact same 55 AR after the patch goes live.

Q) What is actually changing then, I’m confused… this is confusing.

A) Instead of a simple +5 AR on (Infused) Rings or Back Pieces, your +5 AR will be replaced with a brand new slot that can accept anywhere from new +1AR infusions, to more advanced and crafted +10AR infusions.

Q) So I can actually have more AR than before, but I lose nothing after the patch hits?

A) Yes, exactly, nothing bad happens. Only good things.

Q) So new (Infused) rings will have 2 slots on them like current 2 handed Ascended weapons?

A) Exactly.

Q) To be clear, you are telling me if I had a 5AR/5 Power infusion on my ring before the patch, it will still be there after the patch goes live?

A) Yes, now you understand.

Q) Also, my current +5AR infusion on my (Infused) ring will become a slot with a +5AR infusion already in it waiting for me?!

A) Yep. It’ll be waiting for you once you log on, along with all of your current AR completely undisrupted. Except now, you can upgrade that silly +5AR slot to a +6AR slot all the way up to a +10AR slot and higher!

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Do you know anything about infusing rings and backpacks after the patch ?

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Do you know anything about infusing rings and backpacks after the patch ?

As far as I currently know. The infusion process will remain the same.

But instead of gaining a +5 AR built into (Infused) rings. You will instead be gaining an (Agony Resist slot) will functions differently than current infused slots. You will only be able to socket AR into them, and not Defensive/Offensive/Versatile/Utility infusions.

This should be helpful, but it should be noted that 10 on the new infusions is not the cap. All they’ve said is that the cap is very very high, it is certainly higher than10. Not that it matters since a +11 will take long enough that people will have already figured it out by then.

Also you didn’t mention omni infusions, which are really the same as versatile infusions, no idea why they have different names, but might want to add that.

Thanks for the clarification.

I actually hope that we can slot Agony Resist infusions into the standard infusion slots. Otherwise, as someone who doesn’t plan on doing any Fractals past 30 (or maybe even 20), I won’t have any use for the AR infusions that drop.

So basically it’s still a ripoff to infuse back pieces before the patch?

Not really. If you infused before the patch, you get a free +5 AR infusion in the new slot. If you infuse after (and it seems the cost remains the same), you get a blank slot.

Yeah I left the cap at +10 AR in my post, because I have no idea how high it will eventually go, and no cap has been released. So leaving the example as +10 AR felt like it would show people that the slot is better than the original +5 AR cap we got for being (Infused) before.