Guild Wars 2

Because of the new achievement chests, I’ve found myself with a lot of badges of honor that, since I don’t do much WvW, I don’t have much use for. I noticed that you can buy ascended gear for a lower laurel price by subbing some badges of honor, however I also noticed that the WvW laurel merchant sells WvW specific infusions. This leads me to wonder, is the ascended gear purchased from laurel vendors in any way restricted to WvW? And if I buy the gear from the WvW vendor and apply a regular infusion from the Lion’s Arch vendor, will it function exactly the same as if I had bought both pieces from the Lion’s Arch vendor?

The ascended items are exactly the same. The only difference between the merchants is they sell different infusions. All the other items behave the same way.

Different vendors sell the same items, all the same. But just be careful, since they are “unique” you cant equip 2 of the exact same ones. For example, you cannot equip 2 “Ettin Band” style rings. But there is one called “Red Ring” (or somethign similar) Has the same stats as the Ettin Band ring, but it has a different infusion slot, on has a defensive the other an offensive, you can equip both of those, since they are differnt.