Guild Wars 2

Hi, I haven’t started season 2 yet (hurray for depression/stress and schoolwork! ), but I’m going to start working on that soon, seeing as HoT will be coming later this year. I was reading the wiki, and I saw that it says you can get some ascended trinkets for completing all the achievements in certain chapters.

I was wondering how easy/difficult is it to get those ascended trinkets (via achievements), vs getting stat-equivalent ones the normal way (fractals, laurels, etc.). Should I try to get the ascended trinkets from season 2, or just get them the normal way instead?

Or are they really not worth getting in the first place?

The season 2 ones are specific – ie can only be obtained from the achievements and have specific stats (I believe they are Sinister combo?).

They are pretty tough to get as intended, although that depends on your skill and also whether you can find people to team up with (which makes it easier for some achievements).

If you want a non-specific stat combo of ascended trinkets, I’d say the laurel vendor or fractals will be easier. Obviously if you want Sinister stats, then going the achievement route is your way forward.

Would the difficulty of completing all the LW season 2 chapter achievements be on par with the aetherpath achievements? Are they easier or harder than those ones?

I’m going to say on par, but ive not really given either set my fullest attention to be honest. Someone who has done both will give a more objective opinion

And you need them if you want the armour skins

I’d say it’s easier since you do not need as much coordination with teammates, but some achievements are easier when done with friends. Also, some challenge are quite hard (especially the last boss (centaur) at the end of the episode 7). but overall, it took me half a day to get all achievements of episode 5 to 8. Add a full day to do the story mode to unlock the achievements. You are in for a treat. Note that 2 trinkets can be bought at Silverwastes Merchant for 1000 Bandit Crests and 10 G.

If you are looking for trinkets, I’d say go the Laurel way for the various stats combo. It’s easy, just time-gated (because laurels are given from the log-in daily).