Guild Wars 2

the best way to get ascended gear is ranked spvp O_o"

Lots of paths to the same goal, I actually like that.

I do think the title to this post is weird though, maybe make it something that has to do with the topic

Depends on how you define “best”. I personally suck at PvP so crafting was the “best” way for me.

Behellagh.1468:

Depends on how you define “best”. I personally suck at PvP so crafting was the “best” way for me.

even if u suck at pvp you will get your ascended set faster through playing pvp and save your gold for asc weapons or something else

It kinda sucks you can fail your way to your 5 pieces per season. But on the other hand, it takes far far more games to acquire if you don’t care about losing your way to it. That’s the double edged sword to Anets ploy of getting more people into ranked games, also the reason there’s a cap on shards. You have to factor in the season plus the time until the next to truly calculate time to get your full ascended set from PvP alone.
I don’t personally see a lot of games thrown, but I don’t play it half as much as I used to due to multiple factors ingame and irl. I just play to keep my rating where it is and decay off because I think I belong there (Gold t3).
I’m glad the other rewards were untied from rating now, but no one should be encouraged to play ranked for any other reason but to improve and win.