Guild Wars 2

The title basically says it all, i’m a fan of crafting and all i just dislike the crafting system in this game, it’s just not for me, that simple, anyway i’m wondering if there are other ways to get the ascended armor seeing as how i really don’t want to craft, i know i probably don’t need it but it would just be nice to get my hands on some any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

trading post for some mats? eventually you’ll have to craft it all yourself though.

SickSoul.4789:

The title basically says it all, i’m a fan of crafting and all i just dislike the crafting system in this game, it’s just not for me, that simple, anyway i’m wondering if there are other ways to get the ascended armor seeing as how i really don’t want to craft, i know i probably don’t need it but it would just be nice to get my hands on some any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

They drop as well, but good luck getting a useful stat combination with the extremely low drop rate.

oh yeah weapon boxes

Ok, how hard is it to get the mats for the gear, is it expensive? does it take a lot of time if you just gather all of the components?

Yes, and yes….

SickSoul.4789:

Ok, how hard is it to get the mats for the gear, is it expensive? does it take a lot of time if you just gather all of the components?

For a full set of ascended armor, you’ll need 30 obsidian shards, 30 globs of dark matter, and 1500 (500/piece) each of bloodstone dust, dragonite and empyrium…that’s just to start. You’ll need piles of lower level mats and ecto and T6 mats and ton of Thermocatalytic Reagent. First thing is first, it’ll costs about 200g to get armorsmith from 400-500 and it’s a heavy grind too, I’m told. All ascended mats are account bound, so while you can buy certain ones from in game vendors others you can’t, so it’s grind farm, grind farm, etc, etc. Bloodstone is the easiest to get and is usually dropped by champs. Dragonite primarily comes from world boss chests and empy from other achievement chests, such as jumping puzzles.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Armorsmith/Grandmaster_recipes

AND, ascended armor is ugly, so count on transmutation crystals too.

Thank you all for the info, looks like i might just be sticking with exotics for the time being :-/, do they have any real impact? I’ve heard yes and I’ve heard no, if no, why the grind? ya know

also if no, why were they even added?

SickSoul.4789:

also if no, why were they even added?

Yes, they’re a tier above exotic in stats and they’ve upgraded legendary weapons to match ascended weapon stats. So base stats on say exotic draconic coat are 101,72,72. Base stats on ascended chest piece are 106,76,76. So just about 5% gain. Defense also increases from 363 to 381 on a chestpiece.

Added for future expansion of levels in FotM beyond 50 probably which would require more AR. But the difference in stats from exotic to ascended is about 5%ish (Based on other peoples calculations)

http://dulfy.net/2013/12/12/gw2-ascended-armor-stats/
list of exotic stats next to ascended stats

http://dulfy.net/2013/12/12/gw2-ascended-armor-crafting-guide/
crafting guide for ascended gear

Personally, I’ll stick to exotic _until they make ascended easier to get…like they did with trinkets.

ooooh i see, i didn’t know they upgraded the legendaries, makes a little more sense now, but still sounds like they’re pretty ridiculous to get

SickSoul.4789:

ooooh i see, i didn’t know they upgraded the legendaries, makes a little more sense now, but still sounds like they’re pretty ridiculous to get

They don’t require as much as a legendary weapon, but legendary weapons let you change your base stats. That said, ascended requires much more specific grinding where legendary weapons you have the option of grinding for mats or grinding for gold to buy mats. So, I’m not sure which is better. In any case, I’m in no hurry and will wait to see if they become easier to get in the coming months. I know a lot of people who are doing them, but I suspect the adoption won’t be as high as ANet would like, so they’ll make them easier to get eventually. In the meantime, I’ll continue to save for a legendary. Was going for Bifrost, but with recent nerfs to make necro even less effective in PvE, I’m not so sure anymore.

Gibson.4036:

Conclusion Since the whole point of Ascended was to solve the “problem” that exotics were moderately easy to achieve, I doubt they will ever be made easily achievable. I hope, however, that is not the case, as I would love to come back and make Tyria my home once again.

Then I won’t get them and will pretend they don’t exist. The sheer cost in time and gold isn’t justified by the gain. 5% isn’t a game breaking gain and when I’m only going to transmute them to look like exotics anyway, there’s even less of a point. I don’t play a game to grind mindlessly for hours on end. I haven’t been rushing toward a legendary and with playing well over a year (With a break in there) I’m still quite a long way away. I do enjoy the champ train occasionally when I don’t have time to do much else, but don’t sit there and do it for more than 30 minutes at most. A little more lately perhaps with me trying to level my guard, but I’ve been trying to use exploration and personal story to move that along as quickly as possible.