Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been mass collecting laurels mostly because i don’t know what to do with them. I’m not a big fan of ascended gear, since all content is balanced around exotic gear, so the 5% dps increase is neglible for me. I also have all the stuff that I could want from the laurel vendor atm.

Should I hold on to them and wait and see if anything new is introduced in HoT?

I don’t think there will be because each zone is said to have their own currency, kind of like silverwastes and bandit crests.

Should I just convert them to T6 mats and make gold off them?

If nothing else, the T6 mats are a great use of laurels.

If you don’t want to buy heavy crafting bags and sell the mats for gold, then wait so see what is added to the vender later.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

If nothing else, the T6 mats are a great use of laurels.

Profit.

If you don’t like anything, just buy the t6 mats and sell/store them. That’s what I do when I am not trying to get any ascended recipes/anything else. If anything new is added for laurels, I doubt it will be worth 100 or more, so you can get it quickly with just daily login, so it won’t be too bad if you just buy a load of t6 now.

505 laurels for me as well. I will probably t6 convert them someday if needed be.

make more alts

You could lose some in other ring sets or trinket sets,,

ascended armor for other classes then main only…

But I’m at 90 atm with 17 alts 5 have ascended armor 15 have weapons abd 15 have trinkets

Do what I do, and just save em all

I did the T6 mat thing when I needed to finish off some crafting.
Extra profit from the exotic zerker weapons I made.
I also picked up a trinket for my mesmer and stuck some more magic find on it.
I’m back to hoarding them for now.

ID say save them for now. IF you need gold go the T6 mat option but looking forward to HOTS you might be able to get some extra goodies from laurels.

Should you do a precursor hunt when HoT arrives, you may be glad to have saved the laurels for much wanted T6 mats.

There is also the possibility of new items with HoT that will use laruels. I would hang onto them until at least then.

They’re best used for their original intended purpose of ascended amulets (at the moment), in my opinion. I agree that ascended armor isn’t worth the cost, but the amulets are essentially free with laurels.

20 laurels per amulet + 250 badges of honor saves you gold from having to buy/craft exotic amulets, which are account bound. Ascended amulets can be swapped around to various characters when builds change every 6 months from Anet screwing with skills and traits. And they have the added benefit of unique trinkets which can boost magic find, karma, exp, etc. at the cost of more laurels.

You get three T6 materials per heavy bag, and there’s a chance of them all being Powerful Venoms. T6 is easily farmable if you know where to get them, especially if you have a decent amount of magic find.

Gold is an infinitely replenished resource. Laurels are a time gated material, once spent you have to wait days or weeks to get more, with no possibility of facilitation.

Even if you still feel you don’t need the ascended amulets + their bonus infusions, save the laurels in case something unique does come around. You’ll thank yourself for not having blown them all on a little bit of gold when currency can be obtained in so many different ways.

Personally, I used to just buy new character slots with gold when I could and build another character. I always had a use for another ascended amulet.