Fastest way to get full celestial asc armor?
run t4 fractals, teq and wurm, or just about any boss that has a chance to drop ascended armor chests and make the Celestial Orichalcum Imbued Inscription and fuse with via mystic forge and you’ll save lots of money. might take a while to get it but it’s better than wasting your money and crafting it.
Short story: craft your own and farm as many quartz crystals as you can to accelerate the process of acquiring charged quartz.
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Here are the methods:
- Crafting: instant gratification, unless you lack charged quartz.
- Fractal or PvP crafting recipes. Full set requires 88 fractal journal pages, which takes a month (minimum) to collect.
- Random drops, as XBuff suggests. But that’s not fast. Doing three T4 fracts/day gets you about one ascended armor piece/week (random slot), so at least 6 weeks typically, but it’s easy to be unluck and have it take far longer (plus: chest pieces rarely drop) and you still need charged quartz.
- Raids. You need 1200 magnetite, which is 24 successful encounters (or ~5-10x more failures). A couple of weeks minimum for experienced raiders.
- WvW armor: longer still
- PvP armor: takes a couple of seasons, so also longer than crafting.
The fastest method is crafting your own. You can buy everything you need right now on the TP, except charged crystals. If you don’t have enough, you can reduce the amount of wait time by purchasing and opening Wintersday Gifts. (see below)
The total cost for light armor is approximately 505 gold
You can save 80 gold by crafting your own damask and elonian, which takes about 32 days.
You need 30 charged quartz, which takes 30 days, so fine if you’re already crafting damask/elonian. To accelerate the process, you have the following options:
- Farm ordinary quartz; charged is a rare drop. My guess is that you can expect 1 charged for every 10 nodes; I think there are about that many in a dry top instance.
- From Wintersday Gifts, the drop rate is about 0.23%. Thus, you’d get one every couple of stacks of Gifts, i.e. you’d need over 50 stacks of Gifts… and you guessed, that’s a lot… over 900 gold.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Craft the cheapest possible set of Ascended Armor (likely Shamman or Rabid but not sure) or collect random pieces by farming any content that drops Ascended Armor boxes, then stat change it in the Mystic Forge to Celestial:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_crafting#Ascended_armor
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_armor#Acquisition_methods
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_armor#Prefix_change
For the Mystic Forge stat change you’ll one of these for each piece of armor:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Celestial_Orichalcum_Imbued_Inscription
I think The price was OK but there is no way to skip that Time Part :/ so just start making one, it doesent feel expensive coz it takes pretty long to craft
There is no value in stat swapping to celestial, unless you already know the recipes for something else (and not for celestial). Either way, you use the same amount of charged quartz.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”