Craft ascended armor now or after HoT?
You can change the stats on ascended gear.
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since when can you change the stats on ascended gear? last time i looked it was only legendary gear you can change the stats of.
I would start getting the mats you know you will need now but wait till after the Xpack drops and you know whats what with the balance changers.
karma booster? What karma Booster.
It’s a mystic forge recipe. The ascended armor + exotic inscription for the stats you want + some other stuff.
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If you are going to put expensive runes inside your ascended armor I’d suggest you wait til the meta settles (this may take some time after HoT launch) since changing your stats on your ascended armor would destroy existing runes in them.
You can change the stats on ascended gear.
Unfortunately, this costs spirit shards that aren’t the easiest to mass farm.
You can change the stats on ascended gear.
Unfortunately, this costs spirit shards that aren’t the easiest to mass farm.
Most people have more spirit shards than they know what to do with.
Anet make Rev great again.
Make ascended zerker for now. Change stats later if need be. If not zerker then whatever suits your needs.
You can change the stats on ascended gear.
Unfortunately, this costs spirit shards that aren’t the easiest to mass farm.
Crafting the actual ascended armor takes spirit shards aswell. Unless you have all the materials already this will be limiting you already.
That being said, yes if spirit shards are of this big a concern, I’d get the materials together but hold of on actually crafting the ascended armor. But be aware, once HoT hits there won’t be some magically new “meta” falling out of the sky. Ideas and theorycrafting will be all over the place. This is not even considering any rebalancing that will take place.
So basically, either wait 2 months post HoT release, or expect to likely reroll stats on your ascended armor.
You can change the stats on ascended gear.
Unfortunately, this costs spirit shards that aren’t the easiest to mass farm.
Crafting the actual ascended armor takes spirit shards aswell. Unless you have all the materials already this will be limiting you already.
That being said, yes if spirit shards are of this big a concern, I’d get the materials together but hold of on actually crafting the ascended armor. But be aware, once HoT hits there won’t be some magically new “meta” falling out of the sky. Ideas and theorycrafting will be all over the place. This is not even considering any rebalancing that will take place.
So basically, either wait 2 months post HoT release, or expect to likely reroll stats on your ascended armor.
that’s why I’m going Celestial on my Rev.
good balance of stats, and allows me to tweak things as I go: not enough survivability? switch to a PVT piece. surviving fine? switch to a zerker piece.
need to use condition damage because of a certain red, lightningey prick? I’m going to be doing more damage than the guys in full zerker.
plus, being a Rev means that I can switch my role on the fly. sure I won’t be as good at it compared to someone who has gone fully into that role, but it’s better than only being zerker and nothing else.
(also I’m a sucker for having a slightly higher stat budget, mmmm yes, rub those marginally higher numbers all over my body <3)
to quote the full saying:
Jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than master of one.
That being said, yes if spirit shards are of this big a concern, I’d get the materials together but hold of on actually crafting the ascended armor.
Best advice here. Creating the materials is time-gated and gathering all the globs of dark matter can take time/money but you can assemble your armour and weapons very quickly once you decide what insignias/inscriptions you want.
That way you won’t have to expend further crafting materials changing stats.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_equipment#Stat_Changing
If you are not sure on what stats you want, I would wait till crafting the final pieces.
However you need to make sure you are doing your time gated daily crafting mats, and I would be farming lots of nodes that are used such as Iron etc. I been banking tons of deldrimor steel and spiritwood planks. the damask is the biggest pain. I farmed money then bought the silk.
If you’re uncertain I’d just suggest waiting. Unless you have a burning desire to run fractals, I’d just save them since rerolling stats will take money and spirit shards. No need to rush things.
I agree with crafting ascended zerker now and changing later as needed.
Wait and make legendary armor, you can change the stat to whatever you need at any time OOC on it.
Wait and make legendary armor, you can change the stat to whatever you need at any time OOC on it.
Since we have no idea what is involved in crafting legendary armor (and considering it will likely not be that much easier than legendary weapons and requires clearing of raid content). I have my doubts that this is an alternative to ascended armor.
Who knows, doesn’t mean he can’t prepare before and sell the materials if skiping ascended is an option.
Wait and make legendary armor, you can change the stat to whatever you need at any time OOC on it.
Worst. Advice. Ever.
You’ll have to Kill Wing Bosses to get a chance at rng drops for leg armor, and you’ll need ascended gear to get you there.
Seriously. Make Zerker ascended armor for now, don’t overthink it. change stats if you’ll even need to after the expansion comes out. Unless you’re a Condi Enggi, a tank or a Druid you’ll be wearing Zerker for raids.
Wait and make legendary armor, you can change the stat to whatever you need at any time OOC on it.
Worst. Advice. Ever.
You’ll have to Kill Wing Bosses to get a chance at rng drops for leg armor, and you’ll need ascended gear to get you there.
Seriously. Make Zerker ascended armor for now, don’t overthink it. change stats if you’ll even need to after the expansion comes out. Unless you’re a Condi Enggi, a tank or a Druid you’ll be wearing Zerker for raids.
There is no requirement for ascended gear at said bosses, what we’ve seen are beta-raids one cannot assume based on that, the necesisity for them, as far as all the current game content besides fractals have shown is that exotic gear is enough to do any PvE content.
As far as my advice goes, I feel like spending money now Is a waste, considering we don’t know if ascended is needed, what is needed for legendary armor, or what stats are going to be used, I don’t see any reason you should get it, besides with the new map rewards I can forsee prices changing.
Wait and make legendary armor, you can change the stat to whatever you need at any time OOC on it.
Worst. Advice. Ever.
You’ll have to Kill Wing Bosses to get a chance at rng drops for leg armor, and you’ll need ascended gear to get you there.
Seriously. Make Zerker ascended armor for now, don’t overthink it. change stats if you’ll even need to after the expansion comes out. Unless you’re a Condi Enggi, a tank or a Druid you’ll be wearing Zerker for raids.
There is no requirement for ascended gear at said bosses, what we’ve seen are beta-raids one cannot assume based on that, the necesisity for them, as far as all the current game content besides fractals have shown is that exotic gear is enough to do any PvE content.
As far as my advice goes, I feel like spending money now Is a waste, considering we don’t know if ascended is needed, what is needed for legendary armor, or what stats are going to be used, I don’t see any reason you should get it, besides with the new map rewards I can forsee prices changing.
The problem with your advice is that it’s one sided.
You on the one hand correctly estimate that ascended might not be needed and then give a suggestion based on that reasoning. You even mention the next (and currently last) gearing step in form of legendary armor.
What your suggestion does not account for though, is that ascended armor might be needed and that the suggested legendary might depend on having some or at least greatly benefit from having ascended armor. Not to mention the definate higher cost of legendary armor.
Thus your suggestion is incomplete. If someone wants to be on the safe side, he should gather the materials and not craft the armor yet. This provides the most flexibility as:
- craft the armor needed (thus minimizing changing of stats)
- allow to sell of the materials if ascended is truely not needed
- allow to decide if the journey to legendary is doable in a timely fashion, or if ascended as filler step is valid
That would be complete advice.