Guild Wars 2

Can someone please explain the ways in which it is possible to get Agony resistance on your rings/amulets/whatever else, as well as explaining how much you are able to put on each item.

This is something I’m having real trouble understanding as it isn’t explained anywhere. I’ve looked at every page relating to agony resistance, ascended gear and infusions on the wiki and the only thing that I can gather is that to get an infusion with agony resistance you have to forge it in the Mystic Forge. But there’s no explanation of other ways it might be possible or how you get agony resistance on things other than infusions.

For something that is so important and is eventually going to be available as the highest tier for all gear in the game this is something that actually needs decent explaining. Ideally the system would actually be simple enough that it doesn’t need explaining. But since Anet is so intent on shoving every single aspect of the game into the Mystic Forge just to see what pops out, there are always going to be people like me who have no idea how things work because there is nowhere that explains it in all its intricacies.

(If you’re going to comment with “google it” or “check the wiki” then please don’t bother responding. I’ve checked the wiki and found it only marginally helpfully and all I really want is someone to nicely take a few minutes out of their time to map the system out for me)

The rings that drop in Fractals are either not infused or infused.

Not infused = +5 Agony resist IF you buy Agony upgrade for Fractal relics.

Infused= Starts with +5 Agony resists and you can add another +5 by buying the +5 agony for fractal relics.

I’m not sure about the back piece.

The max agony you can get on non infused item is 5 and infused is 10.

The Back Piece is the only piece that requires mystic forge to reach max resist. I’m not completely sure, but I think the max agony for back piece is 10.

backpieces come with 0 ar and have to be upgraded at the forge.
the ones, you buy with fractal relics even have to be upgraded to have ascended stats
and upgraded another time to get an infusion slot.
you can upgrade them a third time to get +5ar and one last time but only for the skin

Thanks so much
What about the ascended gear that can be purchased with Laurels. I heard that it can’t be put in the Mystic Forge, so does that mean you can only get +5 Agony Resistance on it by creating an AR infusion at the forge?

this only counts for the amulets, the rings are the same but come with 0ar and have to be upgraded.
if you do your daily in fractals on lvl 20 or above you have a chance to get an already infused one.

Crovax.7854:

this only counts for the amulets, the rings are the same but come with 0ar and have to be upgraded.
if you do your daily in fractals on lvl 20 or above you have a chance to get an already infused one.

Thanks for that clarification. So the rings purchased with Laurels can be upgraded to have +5AR, and then given an upgraded infusion for an additional +5AR.
But to get to fractal level 20 you already sort of have to have Agony Resistance don’t you xD?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_ascended_equipment
should answer your questions. just read it