Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if I understand this, the wiki seems to show that ALL infusions provide +5 Agony Resistance. If this is the case, why does the “Versatile Simple Infusion” only provide +5 Agony Resistance, it provides no other benefit.

So, my question is, why would anyone purchase the “Versatile Simple Infusion”, if according to the wiki they all provide +5 Agony Resistance, but the others provide additional buffs as well?

Thanks for any help on this.

Because all other infusion(defense/offense) require 250 karka shells/passion fruits, 100 t6 mats and 5 skill points.

Also, when you infused the ring, any infusion on the ring will be remove, hence before one upgrade their ring to the infused version, it is better to just put a simple Infusion.

Not all infusions give the +5AR. The only ones that don’t give +5AR are the magic find, gold find, karma, and exp infusions.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infusion

The reason people get the Versatile Simple Infusion is because its extremely easy to get in comparison to the other infusions that give stats and AR.

I’m not 100% sure about this but,

Back when they introduced agony resistance in November, rings had both offensive and defensive slots. So you could only put defensive infusions in defensive slots, and offensive infusions in offensive slots. But eventually they realized that this was cumbersome and just opened up rings to be outfitted with whatever

The versatile infusion could be put in either one at that time. Of course, versatile is obsolete now since anything can be used.

Yeni.3507:

Because all other infusion(defense/offense) require 250 karka shells/passion fruits and 100 t6 mats and few skill points.

Also, when you infused the ring, any infusion on the ring will be remove, hence before one upgrade their ring to the infused version, it is better to just put a simple Infusion.

Ah, perfect explanation, thank you. I thought the infusions sold by the Laurel vendor were the ones that contained the Agony Resistance, but it wasn’t showing up in the description of the item. Now I understand perfectly, thank you so much!