Getting LvL 80 Trinkets
If you plan on doing multiple characters then I suggest unlocked whichever episodes from LS3 that you do not have. You can trade those map currencies in for ascended trinkets which allow you to choose the stat prefix.
the problem is i have not played much WvW and am only part of a small guild, 4 of us frequently come on and are lvl 80, so thats slightly difficult.
There is no need for big WvW guild. Normally all servers run public zerg with commander tag in WvW which anyone can join. Or if you want to scout, you can upgrade towers, repair cannons, check if anything gets tagged and call for help if needed.
Both ways are available for anyone, you do not need top-notch build or gear for these.
Just got ascended ring from chest today after playing few hours, had to salvage it as I got pile of those already. You can also get ascended armor and weapon chests, but these are more rare.
I understand that berserker is meta. But I -strongly- suggest against using a full set. The damage is nice, but your damage means nothing if you are down/dead. This is why I typically prefer taking Marauder’s (-10% DPS ,+6k HP, close to perfect crit chance: So… instead of 13.7 hp if you are a thief, you get 20K.) over berserker’s on high damage builds. It’s slightly less damage, but it gives you room for error. Mix it with something that can give you survivability, or swap to a completely different set.
The easiest way to get an Ascended Trinket or Accessory is to join a large guild (or a few) and run their weekly guild missions with them. You need 12 accomidations to purchase an ascended amulet which will give you the ability to use an enrichment slot. This is pretty dang useful as it allows you to place an upgrade into it that gives you a 20% xp boost from kills, 20% Magic Find Boost, 20% gold from monsters, or 15% karma, You can only buy these from a laurel vendor unfortunately.
Next up is Ascended Gear. This crap is an ABSOLUTE PAIN to get going. But once you do it starts to snowball pretty hard and gets easier if you know the methods. There’s a few ways you can get ascended gear without crafting, and that is from WvW, PvP, Achievements, or Luck. Obviously RNG is going to be against you, and the Achievements are pretty dang long or costly to get you that equipment.
With crafting, there’s a few methods. You have to straight up power level a discipline… which will take somewhere between 39-50 gold to do to get to level 400, and then an ADDITIONAL 39-45 gold just to get to level 500.
Once you hit this, you can choose to craft your gear, which will be pretty dang expensive or will take a while thanks to senseless time gates. Or you can craft tokens which will certainly be cheaper, but depending on how often you do your fractal dailies and how you are able to get gold or materials… this too could take a bit.
Once you got your rings, an amulet, a backpack, a weapon (if two handed), or two weapons with +9 infusions… you’ll be in the Expert level territory of Fractals. And the daily chests there will have a pretty dang good chance of dropping ascended crafting materials that are actually HARD to craft. Not that bloodstone ore or dragonite ore crap which is insanely easy to get. But Deldrimore steel, Elonian Panels, and Spiritwood planks.
These items can obviously go into making more gear. Or into making legendaries.
You can also get Ascended equipment from raids… but this can be a catch 22 in it’s own rights. A LOT of raiding groups want you to be in some expensive meta full ascended armor to do these things. But you get ascended armor for doing raids. Most of these players do not understand that the DPS requirement for GW2 raids are very low as long as everyone understands and plays to the boss’s mechanics. You’re able to get away with an entire raid group in exotics with plenty of time to spare.
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You won’t get downed/dead in berserkers if you learn to mitigate/avoid damage. It’s all about proper placement and learning which attacks thatvyou want to avoid and which to receive damage from.
In the long run, berserkers is the better choice as you’ll learn these things and improve while using it. Using other armor will just act as a crutch and you’ll end up relying too much on the extra health and/or toughness.
You won’t get downed/dead in berserkers if you learn to mitigate/avoid damage. It’s all about proper placement and learning which attacks thatvyou want to avoid and which to receive damage from.
In the long run, berserkers is the better choice as you’ll learn these things and improve while using it. Using other armor will just act as a crutch and you’ll end up relying too much on the extra health and/or toughness.
Valid argument, but so is “You don’t always get that chance.” Whether it being from just getting purely unlucky and getting surrounded by a mess of AOE areas that you have to run through. Or needing to face tank something due to complications forcing you to take the most direct route and do the objective with a fraction of a second left or end with a Raid wipe. Or a random lag spike. And just like berserkers you can learn to mitigate the damage as well.
It can be just as beneficial to sacrifice some amount of damage to gain more throughput.
(edited by Leo Schrodingers Cat.2497)
You won’t get downed/dead in berserkers if you learn to mitigate/avoid damage. It’s all about proper placement and learning which attacks thatvyou want to avoid and which to receive damage from.
In the long run, berserkers is the better choice as you’ll learn these things and improve while using it. Using other armor will just act as a crutch and you’ll end up relying too much on the extra health and/or toughness.
Valid argument, but so is “You don’t always get that chance.” Whether it being from just getting purely unlucky and getting surrounded by a mess of AOE areas that you have to run through. Or needing to face tank something due to complications forcing you to take the most direct route and do the objective with a fraction of a second left or end with a Raid wipe. Or a random lag spike. And just like berserkers you can learn to mitigate the damage as well.
It can be just as beneficial to sacrifice some amount of damage to gain more throughput.
True. There’s always the chance that the extra bit of health could prevent you from getting downed. From my experience, if I get downed, it was going to happen regardless as to what my current HP or toughness was at the time.
Sorry for the late reply.
I own all of Living World Season 3 so how effective is grinding for these currencies at getting Ascended trinkets? I only ask as my guild is too small to really do any of the guild missions and i font think you can join multiple guilds, though i font actually know. As for Ascended armour i was hoping to get some from completing fractals eventual, i already have lvl 400 armour smith so could get it to 500 and craft it though.
I want to try and get at least one legendary weapon at some point and as i always use a great sword i was planning to try for Dawn but i think that’s a long way off currently and i don’t really know where to start.
Thank you for all the replies!
Depending on the number of characters that you have, you can probably get a set every few days. It’s been awhile, and there’s a number of variables, but that’s what I was averaging.
I was able to get a full set of new trinkets in a day, when i decided to kit out my thief with a set of commanders stat gear.
That was from doing bitterfrost on 5 or 6 characters, doing draconis mons on 2, doing 3 or 4 in bloodstone fen and ember bay and 2 or 3 in lake doric. Each of those was a full run of all the node spawns.