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Wupwup ascended gear
I heard that it costs about 168g on average to craft a full set of Ascended light armor. You save a little in that Quartz is a lot cheaper to acquire than T6 mats, but you’re looking at a minimum of 30 days to craft it due to the time-gating on the Charged Quartz.
It cost way more than 168g to craft ascended light armor. Are you forgetting the bolts of damask?
168g? If only. Let’s do the math:
Assuming you spent all your materials on getting your tailor to 500 and start off by zero now, the bolts of damask, of which you need 36, will be 540 gold (calculated 15g/ea for the needed mats after checking gw2spidy). Add some more for the T6 mats, recipes etc. and you have spent 600 gold in no time. So depending on the mats you still got stored it will cost you something between a few dozen up to a few hundred gold.
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I might be mixing that figure up with the cost for an Ascended weapon or perhaps a medium/heavy set of Ascended armor. I saw it on a thread in the Crafting forum months ago.
The cost of the armor is mostly not in the insignia. It is the cloth. Damask is expensive. The recipe for the insignia is under 7 silver as I write this and the exotic part recipies are not needed.
If I were to make a Wupwup armor set, the Charged Quartz would be least of my worries. What really slows me down in armor crafting is the silk. 300 scraps of silk a day does not happen for me.
I have completed one heavy and one light set of Ascended armor and am working on the medium now. This also explains why I am constantly broke.
I just finished Zojja’s light armor, and tallying it up the cost could be around 640g (unless I miscalculated which is entirely possible since i’m half asleep atm) if you buy all the materials to make it. I got most of the materials i needed from dungeons so it didn’t seem as expensive to me while making it. Damask makes any light armor set extremely expensive; this is the second ascended light armor set I’ve made and it is definitely worth making regardless of the cost imo.
Good luck with your endeavors!
Golden shackles are still golden.
As a general rule, it’s safe to assume that each piece of ascended armor averages around 125g-140g. That makes a full set, on average, about 800g to make including the cost of the recipe for each piece.
This assumes you buy 100% of the mats that you can actually get on the TP (which doesn’t include things like empyreal frags, obsidian, bloodstone and dragonite).
Maguuma – [VEIN] – [CTB]
(edited by Mike Hawk.4835)
Wupwup Breeches 119g http://www.gw2spidy.com/recipe/8232
Wupwup Doublet 122g http://www.gw2spidy.com/recipe/8352
Wupwup Footwear 81g http://www.gw2spidy.com/recipe/8280
Wupwup Epaulets 79g http://www.gw2spidy.com/recipe/8304
Wupwup Wristguards 79g http://www.gw2spidy.com/recipe/8256
Wupwup Masque 79g http://www.gw2spidy.com/recipe/8328
Today’s cost is 560g total. This is assuming you purchased everything at a premium price and did not put in bids or gather any items for yourself.
Wow. Is everyone buying the materials immediately off the TP rather than placing buy orders? Are people buying off the TP rather than crafting the time-gated materials? The last I checked, it was 520 gold for light armor.
At least half of the cost for ascended armor IS in the insignia. This is due to them requiring 3 damask bolts each. For medium and heavy armor, that cost percentage is greater as they use less cloth than light armor.
If you’re going to state that such and such costs such and such amount, please be specific in how you arrived at that. There’s a difference between buy and sell prices just as there’s a large difference between crafting a component and buying it. I can make 2G profit off crafting damask bolts after TP fees if I plan out when I make my purchases of ingredients and when I sell it.
Wow. Is everyone buying the materials immediately off the TP rather than placing buy orders? Are people buying off the TP rather than crafting the time-gated materials? The last I checked, it was 520 gold for light armor.
At least half of the cost for ascended armor IS in the insignia. This is due to them requiring 3 damask bolts each. For medium and heavy armor, that cost percentage is greater as they use less cloth than light armor.
If you’re going to state that such and such costs such and such amount, please be specific in how you arrived at that. There’s a difference between buy and sell prices just as there’s a large difference between crafting a component and buying it. I can make 2G profit off crafting damask bolts after TP fees if I plan out when I make my purchases of ingredients and when I sell it.
With all due respect, did you even read the OP?
We are talking about light armor.
Wow. Is everyone buying the materials immediately off the TP rather than placing buy orders? Are people buying off the TP rather than crafting the time-gated materials? The last I checked, it was 520 gold for light armor.
At least half of the cost for ascended armor IS in the insignia. This is due to them requiring 3 damask bolts each. For medium and heavy armor, that cost percentage is greater as they use less cloth than light armor.
If you’re going to state that such and such costs such and such amount, please be specific in how you arrived at that. There’s a difference between buy and sell prices just as there’s a large difference between crafting a component and buying it. I can make 2G profit off crafting damask bolts after TP fees if I plan out when I make my purchases of ingredients and when I sell it.
With all due respect, did you even read the OP?
We are talking about light armor.
Or the part where ‘everyone’ referred to “starting with no mats” and “buying now at premium prices”…..
Wow. Is everyone buying the materials immediately off the TP rather than placing buy orders? Are people buying off the TP rather than crafting the time-gated materials? The last I checked, it was 520 gold for light armor.
At least half of the cost for ascended armor IS in the insignia. This is due to them requiring 3 damask bolts each. For medium and heavy armor, that cost percentage is greater as they use less cloth than light armor.
If you’re going to state that such and such costs such and such amount, please be specific in how you arrived at that. There’s a difference between buy and sell prices just as there’s a large difference between crafting a component and buying it. I can make 2G profit off crafting damask bolts after TP fees if I plan out when I make my purchases of ingredients and when I sell it.
With all due respect, did you even read the OP?
We are talking about light armor.
Did you even read my post?
Wow. Is everyone buying the materials immediately off the TP rather than placing buy orders? Are people buying off the TP rather than crafting the time-gated materials? The last I checked, it was 520 gold for light armor.
At least half of the cost for ascended armor IS in the insignia. This is due to them requiring 3 damask bolts each. For medium and heavy armor, that cost percentage is greater as they use less cloth than light armor.
If you’re going to state that such and such costs such and such amount, please be specific in how you arrived at that. There’s a difference between buy and sell prices just as there’s a large difference between crafting a component and buying it. I can make 2G profit off crafting damask bolts after TP fees if I plan out when I make my purchases of ingredients and when I sell it.
With all due respect, did you even read the OP?
We are talking about light armor.
Did you even read my post?
his only 7% of, I would say your 2g profit which should really be 1.15 gold per damask is far more off than him. I dont’ know why people keep arguing about such minor difference.
Wow. Is everyone buying the materials immediately off the TP rather than placing buy orders? Are people buying off the TP rather than crafting the time-gated materials? The last I checked, it was 520 gold for light armor.
At least half of the cost for ascended armor IS in the insignia. This is due to them requiring 3 damask bolts each. For medium and heavy armor, that cost percentage is greater as they use less cloth than light armor.
If you’re going to state that such and such costs such and such amount, please be specific in how you arrived at that. There’s a difference between buy and sell prices just as there’s a large difference between crafting a component and buying it. I can make 2G profit off crafting damask bolts after TP fees if I plan out when I make my purchases of ingredients and when I sell it.
With all due respect, did you even read the OP?
We are talking about light armor.
Did you even read my post?
his only 7% of, I would say your 2g profit which should really be 1.15 gold per damask is far more off than him. I dont’ know why people keep arguing about such minor difference.
Not really. It’s all about when you place your buy orders and when you sell the bolts.
I may as well clarify my post as it seems to have confused people for some reason. It appears pretty clear but whatever. I did read the OP and my post was about light armor and its components. My post was not directed at the OP but at the others posting costs ranging from 168 gold to 800 gold without any explanation on how they reached that amount. Also, the most above mine with the links of each piece was posted as I was writing up my post.
My first paragraph was a comment about how random everyone’s numbers were and unspecific as to how they reached them. There’s a difference between whether you buy all of the ingredients on buy orders versus sell orders and also whether you craft the tine-gated materials yourself.
The second paragraph was in response to the post that insignias do not mostly make up the cost of the armor but it’s the cloth. I pointed out that roughly half the cost is from the insignias due to each requiring 3 bolts which is half of what you need for light armor. I then added a side comment that this percentage would be larger for the other armor types as they require less cloth and their materials are substantially cheaper.
The third paragraph was in response to the user who calculated cost based on the sell order price of damask bolts. I responded that the cost is substantially better if you craft it yourself. I brought up the profit one could make to highlight the large gap between the cost to make and what it sells for.
The second part of the third paragraph was me asking for people to include their assumptions as to how they reached their total. Did they go off sell order prices? Did they go down to the individual ingredients (e.g. Silk scraps) or the higher level ones (damask bolts). All of these have an impact in what the total cost would look like and should be mentioned so the OP has accurate information.
Wow. Is everyone buying the materials immediately off the TP rather than placing buy orders? Are people buying off the TP rather than crafting the time-gated materials? The last I checked, it was 520 gold for light armor.
At least half of the cost for ascended armor IS in the insignia. This is due to them requiring 3 damask bolts each. For medium and heavy armor, that cost percentage is greater as they use less cloth than light armor.
If you’re going to state that such and such costs such and such amount, please be specific in how you arrived at that. There’s a difference between buy and sell prices just as there’s a large difference between crafting a component and buying it. I can make 2G profit off crafting damask bolts after TP fees if I plan out when I make my purchases of ingredients and when I sell it.
With all due respect, did you even read the OP?
We are talking about light armor.
Did you even read my post?
his only 7% of, I would say your 2g profit which should really be 1.15 gold per damask is far more off than him. I dont’ know why people keep arguing about such minor difference.
Not really. It’s all about when you place your buy orders and when you sell the bolts.
honestly it is getting annoying.
I’m not sure how to publish google sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f5so3iMA1QWsbYESd3jD_69wsmsqPIMXNe72hSuoBWE/pubhtml
basically that is current price. ya if you sell gossamer at 18 gold, be patient with that you can get 2 gold.
and your price is of by 20 gold too. Im’ not sure why argue about things like this.
at current price using buy order it is 539 gold. if you really good at buy order you can probably push it to 520 gold.
Wow. Is everyone buying the materials immediately off the TP rather than placing buy orders? Are people buying off the TP rather than crafting the time-gated materials? The last I checked, it was 520 gold for light armor.
At least half of the cost for ascended armor IS in the insignia. This is due to them requiring 3 damask bolts each. For medium and heavy armor, that cost percentage is greater as they use less cloth than light armor.
If you’re going to state that such and such costs such and such amount, please be specific in how you arrived at that. There’s a difference between buy and sell prices just as there’s a large difference between crafting a component and buying it. I can make 2G profit off crafting damask bolts after TP fees if I plan out when I make my purchases of ingredients and when I sell it.
With all due respect, did you even read the OP?
We are talking about light armor.
Did you even read my post?
his only 7% of, I would say your 2g profit which should really be 1.15 gold per damask is far more off than him. I dont’ know why people keep arguing about such minor difference.
Not really. It’s all about when you place your buy orders and when you sell the bolts.
honestly it is getting annoying.
I’m not sure how to publish google sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f5so3iMA1QWsbYESd3jD_69wsmsqPIMXNe72hSuoBWE/pubhtml
basically that is current price. ya if you sell gossamer at 18 gold, be patient with that you can get 2 gold.
and your price is of by 20 gold too. Im’ not sure why argue about things like this.
at current price using buy order it is 539 gold. if you really good at buy order you can probably push it to 520 gold.
Prices fluctuate throughout the day and throughout the week. This is what i meant when it depends on when you place your buy order and when you sell the damask cloth. It wasn’t by accident that I included that.
Wow. Is everyone buying the materials immediately off the TP rather than placing buy orders? Are people buying off the TP rather than crafting the time-gated materials? The last I checked, it was 520 gold for light armor.
At least half of the cost for ascended armor IS in the insignia. This is due to them requiring 3 damask bolts each. For medium and heavy armor, that cost percentage is greater as they use less cloth than light armor.
If you’re going to state that such and such costs such and such amount, please be specific in how you arrived at that. There’s a difference between buy and sell prices just as there’s a large difference between crafting a component and buying it. I can make 2G profit off crafting damask bolts after TP fees if I plan out when I make my purchases of ingredients and when I sell it.
With all due respect, did you even read the OP?
We are talking about light armor.
Did you even read my post?
his only 7% of, I would say your 2g profit which should really be 1.15 gold per damask is far more off than him. I dont’ know why people keep arguing about such minor difference.
Not really. It’s all about when you place your buy orders and when you sell the bolts.
honestly it is getting annoying.
I’m not sure how to publish google sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f5so3iMA1QWsbYESd3jD_69wsmsqPIMXNe72hSuoBWE/pubhtml
basically that is current price. ya if you sell gossamer at 18 gold, be patient with that you can get 2 gold.
and your price is of by 20 gold too. Im’ not sure why argue about things like this.
at current price using buy order it is 539 gold. if you really good at buy order you can probably push it to 520 gold.
Prices fluctuate throughout the day and throughout the week. This is what i meant when it depends on when you place your buy order and when you sell the damask cloth. It wasn’t by accident that I included that.
It’s ok. Not everyone is a TP Guru or patient person like you.
That’s why Thanatos and me got our Zojja’s armor for around 640 gold.
It’s ok. Not everyone is a TP Guru or patient person like you.
That’s why Thanatos and me got our Zojja’s armor for around 640 gold.
That’s great that you both were able to obtain your ascended armor! All that I ask is show how you reached that total. You don’t necessarily have to do a breakdown like a spreadsheet but list the assumptions used.
You don’t need to be very patient or a TP guru to get the components at low cost. You can analyze the trends or you can simply see what the average low price is for everything and buy them whenever you’re online. You have 36 days so there’s no absolute rush. I believe that I often bought a weeks worth of ingredients when I went for my light armor.
well he probably have to wait since he wants’ wupwup. You can just buy the damask of the TP if you don’t want to wait 36 days.
well he probably have to wait since he wants’ wupwup. You can just buy the damask of the TP if you don’t want to wait 36 days.
True. He could do that. It’s just when relaying it to him as the total cost for light armor, it should be mentioned that it’s not the cheapest as crafting it would be cheaper. If there’s a 2G difference between the buy order price of damask bolts and their cost to make, that can quickly add up. For the entire set, that would be an additional 72G. If there was a 3G difference then it would be 108G. Or it can be 36G if there was only a 1G difference.