Guild Wars 2

Essentially, the Illustrious Armor (I don’t think each variation costs differently, right?)

I read somewhere that it was around 472 gold to buy all the mats off of the Trading Post if one wanted it quick. Is that value correct? How much gold does it require?

It’s about right. You can check gw2spidy, they calculated the cost.

You can probably shed 10 gold per piece of armor if you craft the material yourself.

Yep, really expensive and totally not worth it. The difference between full exotic zerker and full ascended zerker is like 20 power, 1% crit chance and damage or somewhere around there. Too expensive even for convienience.

Light = 437G
Medium = 339G
Heavy = 366G

I have 2 sets each of heavy, medium and light Armour in ascended and I don’t think it cost me anywhere near those figures Ayrilana with all due respect – it all depends on how much mats you gather. I buy some and gather others. I also have about 15 – 20 weapons in ascended. I have Grand Artisan status as have been crafting for over 2 years.

My gripe is that ascended equipment is not treated like all other items up to exotic – you can’t sell them (only a few mats) , you can’t give them to your wife which she would like and she can’t give me all the mats I need to make her stuff but has to destroy them. Empyreal fragments still take time collect even with the drop rate in silver wastes. Drop rates of mats for other things seemed to have decreased in recent days.

Pricing on the TP bears no relationship to cost in most cases. There are some inconsistencies here and there.

Denis Strasse.3462:

I have 2 sets each of heavy, medium and light Armour in ascended and I don’t think it cost me anywhere near those figures Ayrilana with all due respect – it all depends on how much mats you gather. I buy some and gather others. I also have about 15 – 20 weapons in ascended. I have Grand Artisan status as have been crafting for over 2 years.

My gripe is that ascended equipment is not treated like all other items up to exotic – you can’t sell them (only a few mats) , you can’t give them to your wife which she would like and she can’t give me all the mats I need to make her stuff but has to destroy them. Empyreal fragments still take time collect even with the drop rate in silver wastes. Drop rates of mats for other things seemed to have decreased in recent days.

Pricing on the TP bears no relationship to cost in most cases. There are some inconsistencies here and there.

Gathering mats doesn’t make those mats “free” when computing for the total cost to craft something.

Izaya.2906:

Denis Strasse.3462:

I have 2 sets each of heavy, medium and light Armour in ascended and I don’t think it cost me anywhere near those figures Ayrilana with all due respect – it all depends on how much mats you gather. I buy some and gather others. I also have about 15 – 20 weapons in ascended. I have Grand Artisan status as have been crafting for over 2 years.

My gripe is that ascended equipment is not treated like all other items up to exotic – you can’t sell them (only a few mats) , you can’t give them to your wife which she would like and she can’t give me all the mats I need to make her stuff but has to destroy them. Empyreal fragments still take time collect even with the drop rate in silver wastes. Drop rates of mats for other things seemed to have decreased in recent days.

Pricing on the TP bears no relationship to cost in most cases. There are some inconsistencies here and there.

Gathering mats doesn’t make those mats “free” when computing for the total cost to craft something.

This. While I crafted my ascended armor pieces with cheap linen (42c a piece) I bought before the ascended armor patch, that doesn’t mean there’s no opportunity cost involved. Instead of crafting I could have gotten nice profit in gold.