How FTP can get ascended armor

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Posted by: nekretaal.6485

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Free to play chests don’t get daily chests with laurels, which does limit their ability to buy many laurel-priced crafting recipes for ascended components.

Last year, Halloween Daily rewards included laurels, and so if you are a FTP account without much ability to get laurels make sure that you get them!

The game has balanced its difficulty around exotic gear, so there is no need to go for ascended gear, but payers probably want to get this gear anyways even if the bonus is small.

There are two methods to get ascended gear without any laurels.

(1) Ascended Gear Boxes: Ascended armor drops! Good sources for gaining dropped Ascended armor are Tequatl, Fractal daily chests, and WvW rank up boxes.

(2) Craft Ascended Armor and transmute to stats that you want

Most armor sets, including sets with the stats that you want are locked behind recipes bought for laurels. What you will do is craft ascended armor with stats you might not want, and transmute it to armor with stats that you do want.

The ascended armor you can make without laurels is
(1) Sinister Armor
(2) Zealot armor
(3) Nomads Armor

Zealot’s armor recipes are overpriced and limited supply these days so buy Sinister Armor Recipes for each armor piece are recommended. Nomads recipes aren’t too bad either.

You will also need to buy the exotic and ascended sinister insignia from the vendor in the Silverwastes (Sinister Recipes) or Dry Top (Nomads Recipes). The Silverwastes is a great loot area, so that’s your best bet. You will need a few hundred bandit crests if you go the Silverwastes route, but that isn’t very grindy to get.

You will also need sheet of Charged Ambrite (Sinister) or Sheet of Ambrite (Nomads). (or watchwork sprokets for Zealots) Buy what you need of these ASAP, because they are cheap now but overdue to spike in price due to limited availability. (many forum threads on this issue in the last few months).


Now that you have the Recipes and specific materials to make Sinister/Nomads/Zealots Armor, go through the normal process of crafting the sinister armor, including leveling up your crafting profession up to 500. If you are making Sinister armor (recommended), then you probably acquired most of the ascended materials you’ll need in the Silverwastes.

The silk/leather/mithril that you will need is time gated and can be crafted only once a day. Get Crafting up to 500 and start crafting these wgen you can. You can also buy the output on the trading post.

Once your armor is crafted you will go to the mystic Forge and transmute the armor to the stats you want. The recipe is:

(1). Ascended Armor Piece
(2) Exotic Insignia with the stats you want
(3). 5 Globs of Ectoplasms
(4) Anthology of Heroes (vendor item bought next to the mystic forge).

So that’s how you get ascended armor without laurels (this method works for weapons too). The best thing about this method is that it is actually cheaper than crafting some of the Ascended armor that you want the regular way!

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

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A very useful post, thank you. Now that we have the ability to convert stats on ascended equipment this is a viable way to craft armor/weapons and save on laurels.

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Posted by: BrotherBelial.3094

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You forgot to say PvP chests OP. I’ve had them from track reward chests as well as rank up chests.

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Posted by: Wanze.8410

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Good post for new players, who wish to get asc gear.

Technically, it would be cheaper to craft asc nomad (ventari) than sinister (verata) but only by about 40s per inscription/insignia.

Will be interesting to see, if demand from ftp players will be enough to bring some movement into the markets for sheets of (charged) ambrite or quartz/watchwork sprockets.

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Posted by: Valento.9852

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You forgot to say PvP chests OP. I’ve had them from track reward chests as well as rank up chests.

My friends got two ascended boxes in a row these last 2 days (both armor)!! I envy much, my luck is pretty bad.

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Posted by: Stitch.1794

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You forgot to say PvP chests OP. I’ve had them from track reward chests as well as rank up chests.

That’s a good shout – I always save mine to open when the Call of the Mists buff is up for the extra magic find and have had a few ascended chests drop as a result.

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Posted by: I See No Tomorrow.7302

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F2P players can also get Laurels from Achievement Reward chests unless I’m mistaken.

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Posted by: BrotherBelial.3094

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You forgot to say PvP chests OP. I’ve had them from track reward chests as well as rank up chests.

That’s a good shout – I always save mine to open when the Call of the Mists buff is up for the extra magic find and have had a few ascended chests drop as a result.

Yeah I’ve had 3 armor 4 rings and 4 weapons in about 3 months of playing PvP. I’ve always considered my luck as pretty kitten lol.

And to give an idea of how much time over saying a few months, I’ve done close to 48 rank levels.(I had 11 when I started my PvP playing push)

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

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I’ve gotten 3 weapon chests and 1 armor chest from PvP also. It’s not bad. I’m waiting for after the expansion to select and restat them.

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Posted by: Dawdler.8521

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Good post for new players, who wish to get asc gear.

Except new players probably dont even know what exotic gear is.

I honestly dont see why any f2p should go through the time, effort and gold required to make ascended – full b2p rarely do it. I know I dont and I have 2 legendaries, lol. Ascended doesnt help to accomplish anything in the game, the 5% or so stat difference is completely negligable. Their already crippled gold income is best used for other things. Well, unless they really really really want the skin I suppose.

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

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Good post for new players, who wish to get asc gear.

Except new players probably dont even know what exotic gear is.

I honestly dont see why any f2p should go through the time, effort and gold required to make ascended – full b2p rarely do it. I know I dont and I have 2 legendaries, lol. Ascended doesnt help to accomplish anything in the game, the 5% or so stat difference is completely negligable. Their already crippled gold income is best used for other things. Well, unless they really really really want the skin I suppose.

It’s good information for the not so new people also who would like a cheaper way to craft ascended, both in gold and laurels. I was unaware that this was a possibility before he pointed this out.

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Posted by: Mightybird.6034

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I think the fastest way for a new player to get a full set of ascended would be to farm fractals 41+ as boxes have a decent chance of dropping then change stats at forge.

As to the guy above saying f2p wouldnt know or care – back when I played a lot of f2p MMOs in my younger days when I was trying a game I researched the top tier of gear and made sure I could get it in principle (as a f2p) otherwise I don’t play the game. So I think you are completely wrong.

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Posted by: Rozbuska.5263

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This guide should be on wiki

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Posted by: Entrea Sumatae.7830

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One thing to keep in mind is that high-level Fractals (where the chances of getting ascended drops are better) require a hefty investment in getting high agony infusions if you don’t already have ascended weapons or armor to put simple infusions on.

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Posted by: BrotherBelial.3094

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One thing to keep in mind is that high-level Fractals (where the chances of getting ascended drops are better) require a hefty investment in getting high agony infusions if you don’t already have ascended weapons or armor to put simple infusions on.

And they cost laurels.

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Posted by: Entrea Sumatae.7830

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One thing to keep in mind is that high-level Fractals (where the chances of getting ascended drops are better) require a hefty investment in getting high agony infusions if you don’t already have ascended weapons or armor to put simple infusions on.

And they cost laurels.

Well, if you want to go COMPLETELY laurel-less, you can forgo the ascended amulet, get accessories from commendations, craft one of many ascended infused backpieces, and infuse rings from doing lower fractals as you climb your reward level. Putting a Simple Versatile Infusion (purchased with fractal relics) will give you 25 AR, enough to run fractals up to scale 29. Into the three agony infusion slots available (backpiece and each ring) you can put three +5 infusions (a sum cost of ~8 gold) to run 30’s, three +10’s (nearly 250 gold) to run 40’s, or three +15 AR infusions (at a total cost of nearly four THOUSAND gold) to be able to run a scale 50. Fractals are a great (albeit unreliable) way to get ascended gear, but it’s prohibitively expensive to try and run high-level fractals before you’ve already acquired some ascended armor and/or weapons to put additional AR on.