Guild Wars 2

So I am getting into Fractals of the Mist and I am really enjoying it so far. However, I am only Scale 6…….. What I want to know is a guide to agony resist. I understand how it works…but I don’t understand which piece I should put agony resist on first. Clearly I don’t have ascended rings or and ascended back piece (I’m getting both from FotM). So which piece do I put it on first?

It doesn’t matter as long as you have the AR, but I’d say trinkets first, then armor, then weapons. The reason for this is your trinkets can’t break, your armor can break but is unlikely to be swapped, and your weapons can’t break but are very likely to be swapped. If nothing is broken, and everything is equipped, it doesn’t matter, and you can obviously still repair if your armor breaks.

Level Range → AR
0-9 → 0
10-19 → 10
20-29 → 25
30-39 → 40
40-49 → 55
50 → 70

Whatever you get first.
If you run your daily every day, you’ll have 10 pristine relics once you finish 10 for the first time, enough for an ascended ring of your choice. That’ll be five AR. From that point on, it depends on your RNG and when you have enough for an ascended backpiece.
If you have 30 laurels (or 20+250 Badges of Honor) get an ascended amulet, put a versatile simple infusion into that one. If you have guild commendations, use those for ascended accessories and put a versatile simple infusione into them.

If you had a nice weapon/armor chest drop, use that one etc.

The only things you can infuse are rings and backpieces, everything else can’t be infused as of now.

Also, just for remembering which level requires which amount of AR: Level 10 requires 10AR, then it goes up by 15AR every 10 levels.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agony

handy reference for numbers.

As the others have said, just don’t be a stupid, moronic, newb, casual idiot and put your AR on your weapon like I did.

“Equipped” don’t mean what I thought it meant :-(

Once you start doing fractal 11, take note of the boss moves that cause agnoy on hit. Learning how to deal with these WILL help you later on.

Sarahfull.4930:

Once you start doing fractal 11, take note of the boss moves that cause agnoy on hit. Learning how to deal with these WILL help you later on.

Agony starts at 10, but yeah. Also watch for new mechanics (there’s a small change at Old Tom for example)

I don’t understand which piece I should put agony resist on first.

Whatever you can, the infusions are only 75 tokens. Ideally you’ll have some ascended from somewhere else (laurels, guild missions or crafting) to get you going. If you do weekly guild missions it takes 4 weeks to get 2 ascended accessories. You can get an amulet for 20 laurels + badges in borderlands; the city laurel vendors need more laurels so it’s easier to just go farm badges in edge of the mists than wait for more daily laurels. Crafting ascended is kind of expensive, but can really make it to fill up on AR without being limited by daily/weekly gates.

To do up to level 10-19 you ideally need 10 AR. This basically means any two ascended pieces, or a two-handed weapon which has two slots (however note it won’t count if you weaponswap to a different weapon). If you saved your fractal relics, at 10 you should be able to buy a ring+infusion, combined with a laurel/guild/craft piece you should have 10AR now.

To do 20+ needs 25AR. By this point you should have two rings, accessories and amulet. If not, it’s a simple case of “get more ascended pieces”, but you can also cheat a little by getting Shard of Crystallized Mists essence from the 20+ trash and upgrading your rings to get agony slots.

Note that past 30 fractals get a lot harder to finish with randoms!

For 30+ (40AR), you should have an ascended backpiece from fractal relics ( http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prototype_Fractal_Capacitor_%28Ascended%29 ) and have upgraded both rings, giving you 40AR from your trinket/back slots alone (5 back, 5 amulet, 20 rings, 10 accessories). You may want to skip the back at this point and waste your fractal relics on 20 slot bags if you have ascended weapons, but you will want a back for 40+. There are other ways to get ascended backpieces, but they involve plenty of gold (or in the case of Mawdrey, plenty of materials that can be sold instead for gold)

For 40+ (55AR) It starts to cost serious gold. You can get to 55 with the aforementioned 40AR plus 10AR from your weapon slot and another 5AR from upgrading the backpiece to get another agony slot, or you can put +10 agony things in the rings instead. Either way, it’s going to cost you unless you get lucky with end boss loot.

50+ (70AR) Requires either making some ascended armor for 3 more slots or 10 agony upgrades in back and both rings. Without armor – 10 Weapon, 15 back, 30 Rings, 5 amulet, 10 accessories. The 40+ fractals often give armor chests at the end which you can use, however they are likely to have rubbish stats on them, but one or two bits wouldn’t hurt. If you use armor chests with bad stats then select the pieces with the lowest item stat weighting (shoulders, feet and hands)