Question about ascended gear.
you buy the mats (eg deldrimor ingot) to craft it yourself is what they mean
You have to craft it. The mats to craft it are the cost people are referring to. There is also a time sink relating to it because some matts you can only craft once per day. Those can also be sold on the TP to get around the time gate. Just look it up on the wiki to get a better idea. Bolt of damask is one of the matts you craft and is time gated.
Also the value of mats has shifted a bit… Dunno for the costs now , but light stayed relatively the same and medium and heavy became a bit more expensive I heard…
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Hi, so I’ve been thinking about going for ascended gear, been looking up some ways to get 6 pieces. (chest helm shoulder etc.) People say it costs about 50g to get one piece, I have no issue paying that but my question is how do you buy the gear? The only thing that requires to make them is mats that you cant buy, so how are people paying 50g to get a piece? I’m asking this because i’d much rather pay gold then spend a few months gathering materials. Thanks guys!
Except it’s not 50g, not even the double, a bit more than the triple for each pieces, it really was 50g for Heavy armors 2 years ago…
If you’re looking to craft ascended armor, the Wiki page is a good place to start. You can get ascended armor as ultra-rare drops from certain content (some bosses, high-level fractals, etc.) but generally you’ll have to craft it yourself. Crafting requires you to level one of the armor disciplines (Tailor, Leatherworker, Armorsmith) to 500.
The wiki page has a full list of materials you’ll need. You can’t buy Vision Crystal or the ingredients for it (Spirit Shards, Dragonite Ore, Bloodstone Dust, Empyreal Fragements, Obsidian Shards), and you’ll need to salvage exotics to obtain Globs of Dark Matter.
The main hurdle for most people, however coming up with enough Bolts of Damask, Elonian Leather Squares, and maybe Deldrimor Steel Ingots. You can buy or craft these, and while crafting will save you a lot of gold, you’re limited gated crafting one each per day. (That’s one Damask, one Elonian Leather, and one Deldrimor Steel. Since you need 36 Damask/36 Leather for Light/Medium armor, it can take 36 days. Heavy armor only requires 25 Damask, so it can be done in 25 days.)
Hope that helps! I’m not sure what the gold costs are, since Heart of Thorns really rocked the boat there, but hopefully that’s enough to get you started.
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If you’re looking to craft ascended armor, the Wiki page is a good place to start. You can get ascended armor as ultra-rare drops from certain content (some bosses, high-level fractals, etc.) but generally you’ll have to craft it yourself. Crafting requires you to level one of the armor disciplines (Tailor, Leatherworker, Armorsmith) to 500.
The wiki page has a full list of materials you’ll need. You can’t buy Vision Crystal or the ingredients for it (Spirit Shards, Dragonite Ore, Bloodstone Dust, Empyreal Fragements, Obsidian Shards), and you’ll need to salvage exotics to obtain Globs of Dark Matter.
The main hurdle for most people, however coming up with enough Bolts of Damask, Elonian Leather Squares, and maybe Deldrimor Steel Ingots. You can buy or craft these, and while crafting will save you a lot of gold, you’re limited gated crafting one each per day. (That’s one Damask, one Elonian Leather, and one Deldrimor Steel. Since you need 36 Damask/36 Leather for Light/Medium armor, it can take 36 days. Heavy armor only requires 25 Damask, so it can be done in 25 days.)
Hope that helps! I’m not sure what the gold costs are, since Heart of Thorns really rocked the boat there, but hopefully that’s enough to get you started.
The gold cost is over 1k atm for light armors, less than 1k for medium and heavy (people go for heavy mainly because of Revenant).
its not 50g its much much more expensive than that considering you have to:
1) Get your specific armor crafting profession up to 500
2) Get the recipies for all 6 armor parts + the insignia for your prefered stat
3) Craft 1 ascended material needed to craft insignias and armor parts of each type that your specific armor type needs ONCE per day cause it is time gated(Deldrimor steel, elonian leather or damask silk)
4) If you wish to buy the ascended materials up front so you dont have to wait for weeks of crafting them, you will have to pay up some serious cash.
For a comparison, you will have to spend about 8 gold i think per day to craft a single Bolt of damask. Or you can buy it for 16g on the tp (not 100% sure on the prices but the ratio is there somewhere i think)