go to the bank (any bank or crafting table will do), and click the wardrobe tab (the bottom one). in there you will find all skins the game offers. click Heavy down the side of the wardrobe, then type Illustrious into the search bar, it will show you the ascended armor skins. you can click on them to preview on your character.
70 ‘mains’ and waiting for more slots
| 61 Asura | 5 Charr | 2 Norn | 1 Human | 1 Sylvari |
Alright so https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Human_male_heavy_armor has all of the ascended heavy armor in the game… Wow. Didn’t know it was going to end up looking that bad. I have 0 motive to try and craft any of those. Guess I’ll take my leave.
The Illustrious is the ascended armor for any weight (the skins are different by weight, I just mean that if you type Illustrious into the wardrobe search you’ll get all the skins to view). Yes, it is rather .. florid. But you can use bits of it to good effect in mix and match, and of course you can transmute over it if you want the ascended stats and the account bound nature (so long as you don’t transmute it to cultural armor, which can then only be worn by alts of that race until transmuted again).
Heavy is the only ascended set I haven’t made yet, precisely because the skins don’t interest me, but I do have one armor box to open so whichever piece costs the most mats, I’ll get that one.
The reason to make it, beyond it being account bound rather than soul bound, is that you need it to hold Agony Resistance for higher level fractals. If you never intend to push deep into fractal tiers (or into raid groups that demand ascended), yeah, don’t spend the resources on the gear.
