Guild Wars 2

Hi I am a returning player with no expansion. I am going to buy it if i run out of content. But the ascended items are too much of a temptation. Just wondering if the expansion helps in acquiring ascended weapon/armor. Thanks.

I had ascended armor before expansion, so maybe I’m not the best at answering this. However, there are tons of places to pick up gear imo. High level fractal seems to drop a piece of armor every other week. Elite specializations collections reward an ascended version of their new weapons. A few of the collections reward ascended armor/back pieces. New bloodstone fen rewards stat selectable back piece, ring, and amulet. Then there’s also raids if you’re up for that.

It’s actually not surprising to see people with multiple sets. I’ve got 3 full sets on my active characters and like 3xboots/gloves/pants boxes on a character I use as a bank. I surprises me that some people still consider ascended not worthwhile. The cost of crafting them has even gone down since they were introduced.

KickzNGigglez.4958:

Elite specializations collections reward an ascended version of their new weapons.

Requires HoT

KickzNGigglez.4958:

New bloodstone fen rewards stat selectable back piece, ring, and amulet.

Requires HoT (or is it LS3)

Edit: Just thought I would make it clear.

Exclamatory.8351:

KickzNGigglez.4958:

Elite specializations collections reward an ascended version of their new weapons.

Requires HoT

KickzNGigglez.4958:

New bloodstone fen rewards stat selectable back piece, ring, and amulet.

Requires HoT (or is it LS3)

Edit: Just thought I would make it clear.

balls.2678:

Just wondering if the expansion helps in acquiring ascended weapon/armor. Thanks.

Exclamatory.8351:

KickzNGigglez.4958:

Elite specializations collections reward an ascended version of their new weapons.

Requires HoT

KickzNGigglez.4958:

New bloodstone fen rewards stat selectable back piece, ring, and amulet.

Requires HoT (or is it LS3)

Edit: Just thought I would make it clear.

Captain Obvious, the question was related to acquiring ascended gear in HoT.

To the OP, ascended trinkets are easy enough to get as listed above but also with the ‘old way’ of Laurels, Badges+Ectos, Guild Commendations.
With Fractal mastery you should see a box or two of ascended armor pieces each month for doing the daily Fractals. They also added accessory drops to the fractal tables for the higher scales and getting Fractal relics for the ascended back item is now easy peasy.

With the release of LS3 you can also farm a back item, rings, and accessories in Bloodstone Fen.

balls.2678:

Hi I am a returning player with no expansion. I am going to buy it if i run out of content. But the ascended items are too much of a temptation. Just wondering if the expansion helps in acquiring ascended weapon/armor. Thanks.

I don’t think so.

The mats for ascended armor (metals) come easily from SW and lower. The other ascended complete mats require a lot of -liquid- gold. It’s just the nature of things. If you can find a gold generating source (like iron/platinum-farming), you can buy the other ingredients for ascended armor.