Grindwarning, Ascended mats....
It tends to get grindy when you go to grind for those mats. I crafted an ascended staff last week and the grind part was gathering the soft and hard wood for it(I’m not into buying stuff from tb, prefer getting it myself…moving on..).
How did I get my dragonite ores? I stumbles across a few karkas and jourmags, occasionally checked the gw2stuff site to see if any event was up(cause I didn’t feel like anything else) and got 2 shatterer in pre or progress, camped Tequatl 2 times(want the achievements).
How did I get the fragments? Did 2 AC runs(not a big fan of dungeons in GW2 and a bit rusty so ashamed to go in a bit), took the frostgorge troll chest few times(while gathering, after train passes), did some JPs(cause I like them)…actually most of my fragments come from JPs, picked up random chests I bumped into while running around.
Voilà. Ascended staff, 0 grind fatigue.
side-note I just came to gw2 from another game. I was aiming for a BiS item there as well. Took me roughly the same amount of time to get. Guess what I was doing? I was soloing the first 3 mobs in a dungeon(3-4min to kill, 5 min cd from start to reenter so 1-2min waiting outside). Over. And over. And over. Not because I wanted to or because I chose that options from the many. It was the only option I had that provided a reliable way to get the items I needed. The only existing other option was kind of like killing all 3 dragons every day and waiting for The Legend to drop. end side-note
So, don’t tell me how ascended farm has no variety. Granted, going into a farming frenzy, stalking bosses on multiple chars and spamming the most profitable dungeons is faster. But it’s not the only option. Maybe I could get behind dragonite ore in more ways(though the world bosses are pretty varying as well), but not on champ train. C’mon, that’s just…silly. On another hand, it forces people to do different things instead of sticking to the one with the highest profit. Can you imagine if the same activity gave you all the mats you needed? Now that would be grindy.