Guild Wars 2

It seems people still don’t know about this recipe.

Prototype Fractal Capacitor + Gift of Ascension + 40 Crystals or 240 Philosopher’s Stone + Vial of Condensed Mist Essence

This crafts an Ascended Version of the back piece. Cheers.

Aka 1850 Fractal Relics, 24 Skill Points, and a RNG FOTM Item.
Considering you earn 355 Relics from Fractal Lvl 1-10 and 400 Relics from Lvl 11-20 you have quite a ways until you earn the 1850 needed. That’s 15 hrs roughly if you are doing all of this with a top of the line group to get 40ish % of the Relics you need. Looking at the rate of increase from Fractal Lvl 20-28 you’ll be grinding FOTM for 30+ hours to get this version of the Back piece. During this time in all fairness you’ll earn enough gold to just make the other version. Sad… Very sad.

Well in all fairness, a 30 or so hour grind for a piece that shouldn’t* need replacing isn’t too bad. Plus the fact that you’d also get to keep the money you make from the fractal.

And really, the only people even going for this gear are those willing to grind fractals (And are prolly good at it by this point).

Don’t forget you also have the daily that gives 0-40 Relics per day per tier. The grind itself can take only about a week and a half or so if you pace yourself (or 3 days if you are really hardcore.)

*: Assuming ANet doesn’t introduce another tier.

replicant.3620:

Considering you earn 355 Relics from Fractal Lvl 1-10 and 400 Relics from Lvl 11-20 you have quite a ways until you earn the 1850 needed. That’s 15 hrs roughly if you are doing all of this with a top of the line group to get 40ish % of the Relics you need. Looking at the rate of increase from Fractal Lvl 20-28 you’ll be grinding FOTM for 30+ hours to get this version of the Back piece. During this time in all fairness you’ll earn enough gold to just make the other version. Sad… Very sad.

That’s why instead of powerleveling their fractal level, people should consider speed running the lower difficulty levels. Its a grind either way you slice it so, so why not go the more efficient route?

Ahem* Don’t you mean a grind with RNG elements added?

TsukasaHiiragi.9730:

Ahem* Don’t you mean a grind with RNG elements added?

In all fairness, the actually chance of not getting any Vials after getting the required Relics is low.

It’s high enough that a few percentage of the population will have this happen to them, but a much larger majority wont which, from a maximization standpoint, is acceptable.

If the vials had a smaller drop rate where a large majority of the population wont even get 1 vial, then there’s a problem with the drop rate.

And from what it seems on the forums (The lack of people complaining that vials never drop), the drop rate seems acceptable.

And if you don’t like RNG, well, MMORPGs prolly aren’t up your alley as RNG is an integral part of them.

I think the problem with this recipe is the stats. You don’t get the very same stats as with the other recipes. What’s worse, there isn’t even one with certain stat combinations, like Cleric (Pow/Tou/Heal), which I use, and I feel no incentive to grind gear that does not even have the stats for my trait setup and playstyle.