Guild Wars 2

I’ve finally started getting ascended gear on my level 80s. It’s taken me time, and a whole lot of gold. Now, I’m looking at infusions.

It seems awfully expensive for only a +5 stat increase. Am I missing something? Are infusions worth their high cost?

No, no they are not.

You can make +10 Infusions from the Mystic Forge if I remember right which also give some extra Agony Resistance. I think only then are they really worth bothering with. Sure you could get a bit more magic find for one of them as well.

If you have to ask, you can’t afford stat-increasing infusions.

If you had 10,000,000,000 gold, then sure, you might as well get that tiny fractional benefit — you’d have plenty to spend on other stuff. Similarly, I know dungeon speed runners, dungeon soloists, and WvW players (mostly roamers) who want to squeeze out every last bit of efficiency they can.

However, for 99% of the community, the cost outweighs the benefits.

I put +15% karma on an amulet I share among my chars. As to the +5, it’s additive so +20 for the amulets and weapons and +10 of a defensive stat. If you have ascended armor, that’s an additional +30 stat points. It’s not a huge amount, no, but it’s not nothing either.

If you have extra laurels/honor/etc and don’t need anymore ascended rings/trinkets then sure, otherwise its not something to really worry about unless you plan on doing higher level fractals.

As someone who’s made A LOT of ascended gear + weps with infusions (Mighty, Malign, the toughness and also vitality ones) I really don’t think it’s worth it… Unless you’re one of those full on min max types and wish to test the absolute “best” gear out.

I even went and made Versatile (for the first time ever) Malign infusions…. I’m still debating whether or not I regret that because I basically could’ve just bought a Legendary with the ridiculous amount it costs to make Versatile ones.

The ones you can buy with 75 fractal relics from the golem vendor are good enough. Just buy food if you really want the stat boost. This is what arenanet should clear up on their next update for the fractals. I was under the impression I had to buy these overpriced infusions to be able to play fractals above level 10. Those things are more of an extravagance, rather than a necessity. But if you really have the gold, why not? I mean, if you have 8,000 gold, surely you can buy that ~65 gold per infusion FOR A kittenING +5 POWER INCREASE kittenING BULLkitten!

only if you’re going for high scale fractals.

I’ve found the basic ones sold from the laurel merchant to be more than enough.

I would say ‘yeah sure totally go for it’, but from the latest news regarding fractal updates it seems we’ll be getting newer infusions with higher stats that the current expensive +5 variety. So I’d personally wait and see, safe my mats.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

I’ve found the basic ones sold from the laurel merchant to be more than enough.

Pretty much this, or if you’re doing high-end fractals, the +5 AR (agony resist) ones from BUY-4373 in the fractal lobby are pretty cheap. I’m doing level 50 fractals, and most of my AR comes from these beauties, til I can get something better.

CureForLiving.5360:

I would say ‘yeah sure totally go for it’, but from the latest news regarding fractal updates it seems we’ll be getting newer infusions with higher stats that the current expensive +5 variety. So I’d personally wait and see, safe my mats.

Very much this.

Ultimately, it also depends on your build.

A full set of infusions on armor, weapons, and accessories, nets the possibility of +70 total points to a stat/stats. For power, It’s roughly the equivalent to walking around with a permanent two stacks of might, or in the case of other stats, almost 4% crit chance, 700 HP 6.67% crit damage, etc. It’s a minor bonus, but it can be impactful.

Better than hoarding gold for no reason.

Depends if you have anything better to spend gold on.

I’ve been taken all the way down to two remaining points of health in several fights. Were those infusions worth it? You better believe that they were.

Elias.3204:

I’ve finally started getting ascended gear on my level 80s. It’s taken me time, and a whole lot of gold. Now, I’m looking at infusions.

It seems awfully expensive for only a +5 stat increase. Am I missing something? Are infusions worth their high cost?

depends what you do and how much you want to optimize. personally, i have a couple full sets of ascended across my toons with all WvW and all agony resistance respectively for each of their purpose. i like it and definitely notice the difference. its slight, but noticable.

thing you need to keep in mind, is that when you put an infusion into a piece, you basically can never change stats on it anymore cause infusions get destroyed and they may not be worth destroying. or use/buy the upgrade removers, which i do not think is worth it. only thing in game i use those for is sigils of generosity.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

I’ve found the basic ones sold from the laurel merchant to be more than enough.

Those also cost 5 laurels each, which translates roughly to 5 gold. If you have money to burn, then as I posted above, sure, spend your laurels on these — you might as well get the minor stat boost. For me, however, I’d rather spend on other things — +5 power isn’t going to matter much, since I don’t do speed runs or solo a lot of dungeons.

I do use WvW infusions as the reduced damage from Lords is substantial. Precision can be worth it to round up to a whole number. Say if you were at 49.2%, I’d put in some precision to hit 50%. Now if there was infusions for things like Boon Duration, Magic Find, Condi Duration, etc, those would be so worth it to me. Hot swappable Infusions would be a killer addition to the game. The gear grind / gold sink of equipment really took away from customizing.

I suppose for high level fractals the agony resistance might make real difference. For me, since I never liked/played fractals much I put on the WvW ones.
Not for the +stat which is basically useless, but rather for the bonus against guards/lords. It makes noticeable difference for example when soloing camp.
But that’s exactly it – it’s enough of a difference to notice – if you equip like 5 of them.

Those infusions only go on infused rings and backpack anyway.

Otherwise buy the +5 from frac menu.