Guild Wars 2

What are best way to earn ascended gears without crafting (waste of time for me yet wanted to get geared before HoT comes)

RNG and achievements. Someone probably has some links.

The best way is to not do anything else but craft if you value your time at all.

Yes but how long does it take to get from 1-500 crafting ?

Not long if you follow a guide and purchase the mats off tp.

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What are best way to earn ascended gears without crafting (waste of time for me yet wanted to get geared before HoT comes)

Luminescent Armor collection gives you a choice of 1 Ascended Armor piece
Ambrite Weapon collection gives you another choice of 1 Ascended Armor piece

Running level 40+ Fractals (with a 40+ personal level) has high chances at Ascended gear drops

PVP chests and WvW chests have chances of Ascended boxes, so if you haven’t done WvW for some time you might have loads of extra chests remaining, go get them.

All depends. Craft boosters and lots of gold it won’t take long at all depending on which profession you take. I found artificer to be the most difficult one to raise to 500 and tailor would be the most expensive due to the silk shortage. There are some decent crafting guides available so look them up, do the math and good luck. I did not have that much gold when I leveled all my crafters to 500 so it took me longer as I had to grind out the mats.