Guild Wars 2

Greetings. There have been a lot of changes since I played GW2 last, about 2 years ago or so. I have an 80 Ele and 80 Engineer with 400 weaponsmith and 400 whatever the cloth armorsmithing was.

1) I see the cap on crafting is 500 now and not 400? What’s the best way to raise this up?
2) What should I be working on as a newly returning player to be competitive again in WvW? Besides the obvious build changes, I am sure my spec is outdated.
3) What are the Ascended recipes I saw for weapons?
4) I stopped playing right around when they added all of the ascended stuff, don’t really remember how it worked and how to get it all. Is this something I should work on?

Thanks in advance.

-Nekky

You need 500 to craft Ascended , you also need to collect and refine dragonite, empyreal and bloodstone to make vison crystals. The process is time consuming and expensive, but Ascended is account bound and transferable between characters . It is also the highest tier you can get in game (alongside Legendary, same stats). The recipes can be purchase using laurels.

I use this guide to level up crafting

http://gw2crafts.net/

That’s a good place to start, thanks. I’ll read up on it.

Nekky.1895:

Greetings. There have been a lot of changes since I played GW2 last, about 2 years ago or so. I have an 80 Ele and 80 Engineer with 400 weaponsmith and 400 whatever the cloth armorsmithing was.

1) I see the cap on crafting is 500 now and not 400? What’s the best way to raise this up?
2) What should I be working on as a newly returning player to be competitive again in WvW? Besides the obvious build changes, I am sure my spec is outdated.
3) What are the Ascended recipes I saw for weapons?
4) I stopped playing right around when they added all of the ascended stuff, don’t really remember how it worked and how to get it all. Is this something I should work on?

Thanks in advance.

-Nekky

500 is Ascended and only available for armor and weapon crafts, not cooking and Jewelry still. I don’t know the “meta” way to do it, I just crafted some level 400 elite recipes, it leveled to 500 pretty quick.

Don’t know about WvW, don’t be a glass cannon is the only advice I’ve ever gleaned.

Ascended is the top tier of gear. It’s not necessary for any section of the game short of high level Fractals, because it allows you to add infusions which can be used to increase Agony Resistance, Agony only existing in mid to high level Fractals. It’s something to the effect of 5% stronger than Elite in stats. It’s also account bound rather than soulbound on equip.

You can get Ascended Jewelry with Laurels, or by doing Fractals, or WvW (I think), or doing Guild content. Ascended gear can be crafted or you can be lucky and get a gear drop from Tequatl or Tripple Trouble, the two bits of end gamish content that have been added/upgraded since then. If you mess up and make the wrong stats, or just get the wrong stats, you can convert the stats in the Mystic Forge.

1) Mainly by crafting exotic and ascended material refinement to a lesser extend. Look at gw2crafts.net like Linfang said.
2) Not much. Make sure your build is up to date, exotic is more than enough and then practice. Ascended can give you a very small advantage, but it won’t help you win a fight against a better player.
3) Not sure what do you mean. They are simply recipe to craft ascended weapons
4) You should work on ascended trinket. They are usually easy to get and give a good boost to your stats. Ascended weapon are also good, but you can either craft it or drop it in Teq, Fractal, etc. Ascended armor you can get from crafting or drop in fractal, but even if they boost a little your stats, they ain’t that more powerful than exotic armor. It should be a medium to long term goal.