Guild Wars 2

I quit about 2 months after launch. Had a full set of exotics which was the best then.

Just wondering what i would need to catch up.

Exotics are still the top for armor. Accessories have ascended quality stuff, but at the moment you don’t need them for most content. For now. >_>

You’re about 98% as effective as someone with full ascended stuff would be.

Alright thanks.

Side note there are new types of exotic out so you have more to play with the new gods trinkets are easy to get with krama and are the oddball combos. I love crit dmg/P/T sadly its dam near imposable to get armor that like this (very random drop in fractal).

Murderin.8269:

I quit about 2 months after launch. Had a full set of exotics which was the best then.

Just wondering what i would need to catch up.

Ascended amulets cost 30 laurels (you get one laurel per completed Daily, and 10 per one completed Monthly achievement). Ascended rings cost 35 laurels, drop randomly from daily chest in Fractals at levels 10+, and may be bought with 10 pristine relics (you get one pristine relic in daily chests in fractals at levels 10+. There is one daily chest per tier: so one for levels 10-18, one for levels 20-28, then 30-38 etc)
Ascended earrings can be bought with 40 laurels and 50 ecto each from laurel vendor. Alternatively, can be bought for 12 commendations from the guild vendor. You get 2 commendations for participating in a guild mission. It’s currently unsure what is a weekly cap for those – 2 commendations weekly, 2 per each mission type weekly, or 2 per mission type weekly except for Trek, for some reason (that last is most likely at the moment, and would get you 8 commendations weekly cap).
Due to cost of unlocking guild missions, and (to a lesser degree) number requirements in doing them, practically only big guilds can do them. For all others there’s the laurel vendor.
Ascended backpack is a Mystic Forge recipe. It requires Vial of coagulated mist essence (a level 1-9 fractal rare drop), philosopher’s stones or crystals, and either 250 tier 6 mats + 50 ecto, or fractal capacitor (1350 fractal relics) + gift of ascension (500 fractal relics).

All of the above can take you from 20 days to over 3 months (and more) to acquire, depending on your playing style.

Assuming some guilds have speeded up their research it could be possible in theory to have all 6 trinket slots with ascended gear already or altleast by the end of next week.So you can do the math how much better x 6 upgrade is to your char(s).

Astralporing.1957:

Murderin.8269:

I quit about 2 months after launch. Had a full set of exotics which was the best then.

Just wondering what i would need to catch up.

Ascended amulets cost 30 laurels (you get one laurel per completed Daily, and 10 per one completed Monthly achievement). Ascended rings cost 35 laurels, drop randomly from daily chest in Fractals at levels 10+, and may be bought with 10 pristine relics (you get one pristine relic in daily chests in fractals at levels 10+. There is one daily chest per tier: so one for levels 10-18, one for levels 20-28, then 30-38 etc)
Ascended earrings can be bought with 40 laurels and 50 ecto each from laurel vendor. Alternatively, can be bought for 12 commendations from the guild vendor. You get 2 commendations for participating in a guild mission. It’s currently unsure what is a weekly cap for those – 2 commendations weekly, 2 per each mission type weekly, or 2 per mission type weekly except for Trek, for some reason (that last is most likely at the moment, and would get you 8 commendations weekly cap).
Due to cost of unlocking guild missions, and (to a lesser degree) number requirements in doing them, practically only big guilds can do them. For all others there’s the laurel vendor.
Ascended backpack is a Mystic Forge recipe. It requires Vial of coagulated mist essence (a level 1-9 fractal rare drop), philosopher’s stones or crystals, and either 250 tier 6 mats + 50 ecto, or fractal capacitor (1350 fractal relics) + gift of ascension (500 fractal relics).

All of the above can take you from 20 days to over 3 months (and more) to acquire, depending on your playing style.

Thanks for the detailed answer.

Do you get laurels from regular dailies/monthlies or can i do the pvp ones too.

Murderin.8269:

Do you get laurels from regular dailies/monthlies or can i do the pvp ones too.

The pvp ones don’t give you laurels.