Guild Wars 2

Would I be ok with the amulets just requiring laurels, or are the ones also requiring ectos a whole lot better? I’m mainly looking at this as ectos are worth a lot of money, and I’m not sure sinking that much into one amulet is worth it.

The ascended equipment which requires ecto + laurels to purchase are accessories (earrings) not amulets and fill a different ‘trinket’ slot. My advice would be to use your laurels to buy an amulet (this is the only way to get an ascended amulet in game at the moment) and then if you belong to a guild which does mission content use your guild commendations to buy your accessories (12 commendations + 5g per accessory).

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_amulets#Amulets

Aren’t the ones that require ectos for the accessory/earring slot? Unless they have jut added new things there.

Thanks, everyone! That is something I hadn’t noticed. Issue solved!

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The earring are meant to be acquired via guild missions, they’re worth 5g and 12 guild commendations on the trader (you can get up to 6 commendations per week account bound if your guild unlocks and does all 6 mission types) plus they have a chance to randomly drop off the chest you get at the end of the mission. I remember reading a post shortly after they were introducing basically saying that the laurel earrings are an alternative, but the main way to get them was through guild missions, and that the laurel cost was intentnionally high.

BTW, if your not in a guild, or your guild doesn’t do missions, ask around. I’ve had guilds give me a temporary invite so I can get a reward off their guild missions after asking nicely if it was ok if I participated, they really don’t lose anything for doing it, but depends really on their recruitment policy (for full disclosure, the guild I’m on doesn’t do this because it’s a multi gaming guild and the policy says that all recruitment, even if it’s temporary, is done trough the website and while it’s rather large and active, very few people have the ability to invite, but if your guild happens to be around when we’re doing the mission and can unlock it, we usually stay around to help).