Merchant that will exchange Ascended mats
no way, anet wants people to go do things so this wouldnt help at all. if you want more dragonite then go do the new tower and farm for keys
I doubt they will have a merchant for this and personally I prefer it if they didn’t. They made it a point to have each type of mat obtainable through different things so that you will have to do different things to get the gear.
Dragonite isn’t that hard to obtain either imo. Just use a timer site for world bosses and farm those. You can loot the chests once per character a day so I suggest running them and switching between alts when you hit a repeat boss.