Guild Wars 2

What’s the cheapest ascended quality backpiece at the moment?

Is the Light of Dwayna?
or Tempered Spinal Blades?
or something else?

Tempered Spinal Blades for sure, specially if you have the leatherwork gift of blade recipe.

Light of Dwayna is probably the most expensive one. 50 Icy Runestones and 15 Bolt of Damask are crazy expensive alone.

The rest are in the middle of those, I like the look of the quiver ones.

With Tempered spinal Blades a ascended backpiece still cost you a lot of gold.

Cheapest there is is the fractal capacitor. (not infused)
1350 fract tokens a exotic backpiece
500 fract tokens the gift for it.
24 Phil. stones at mystic forge
and 1 vial of mist essence (drop in fract)
Cost? only time and some skill points

Is there a place I can find the cost breakdown of each?

HanSoo.9036:

Is there a place I can find the cost breakdown of each?

Light of Dwayna :
http://www.gw2spidy.com/recipe/7899

You can maybe find the others there also, however i’m too lazy at the moment to search for their exact names :P

Opacus.4390:

With Tempered spinal Blades a ascended backpiece still cost you a lot of gold.

Cheapest there is is the fractal capacitor. (not infused)
1350 fract tokens a exotic backpiece
500 fract tokens the gift for it.
24 Phil. stones at mystic forge
and 1 vial of mist essence (drop in fract)
Cost? only time and some skill points

Wut? and time what is? time is money so you need to count how long it will take to farm capacitator and how long it will take farm gold.
If you’re enjoying fotm or want to farm ascended items by the way then fotm back is the best.

I crafted a Quiver of a Thousand Arrows a while back. It cost me about 100 gold ( its about 120 now).
Best part is you can chose what set of stats you want it to be.
In my case it was for my ele and i chose celestial.

@ Psychol,

Question of the OP was cheapest, so yes taking this in mind I presume he hasn’t lot of gold to spend. Then this is an option to get 1 is very cheap.

If money is no option, then why bother? Buy all. It’s where the fun lays of what you do with the time you have for this game.

It’s ‘cheaper’ to farm money in the same amount of time, then use that to buy, than to farm tokens and use that to buy, if the OP does dungeons quickly/is good at gaming the TP, but is slow at fractals. If you don’t do opportunity-cost calculations, you cannot determine what is the cheapest. Psychol is correct.

The failure of players to factor in time-cost was the reason I could level-99 every skill in RuneScape within 14 months, while 4 years later my guild mates from back then STILL haven’t matched my level back then after I already quit. By using a method with 5x the xp/hr rate (but a cost of 100k gold/hr), it’s actually ‘cheaper’ than to use the slower one, given another skill raised me 6.8M gold/hr which covered the costs of raising all other skills at max speeds plus enough to buy the most expensive armor sets afterward.

The problem here is that we are unable to calculate this for the OP because we do not know the OP’s fractal dungeon completion speed. For very fast fractallers the backpiece can be the cheapest option (provided the stat combination is available anyway); otherwise, the cheapest option may well be the mystic-forge recipe types for certain stat combinations.