Guild Wars 2

I was curious how can an open world pve player get ascended stuff? I mean bulk amounts before hot comes out.

I do not do fractals ever, or wvw. I make sure to do tequila once a day but have only gotten one ascended item over months. I do other world bosses as well, and I also do SQ a lot farming all the events for killing the champs and what not. Is there some way in open world pve to get ascended gear without crafting? Trying to get somewhat ready for hot and salvaging them all

First of all, if you want them in bulk, you’re either going to need extreme luck or gold… or you’re going to need to do fractals. Fractal runners, starting in the teens, will end up with plenty of rings.

Another note that might be handy for you: if you have living story season 2, you can get nomads and sinister trinkets from there, and then farm silverwastes to buy more. I didn’t think about that until after I wrote the rest of this, but that’s probably your best bet, assuming you can salvage them like the others, which I would expect.
EDIT: It will still be expensive, at 10g and 1k bandit crests. But if you’re adamant about not doing fractals, it’s probably between this and how many laurels you’re willing to spend.

Other than getting really lucky with drops (or fractal daily rewards at higher tiers), you cannot get armor or weapons without crafting. That is doable without entering fractals too. (Triple Trouble can also drop ascended items, but it’s rare as well. I have yet to get one from that. Haven’t gotten a Teq’s Hoard yet, but he did drop an armor chest for me once.)

As for the other items – fractals only make it easy to get rings (other than the weapon/armor chests you have a chance for in dailies at higher levels). Those you can also get by spending 35 laurels.

The earrings would be the easiest, if you do guild missions. 5 gold and 12 commendations (2 weeks worth of missions – personal rewards reset on Saturday) will get you one. Otherwise, 40 laurels and 50 ectos.

Amulets are the cheapest with this – 30 laurels.

In all cases, you can cut the price down by 10 laurels if you add 250 badges of honour from WvW – and though you may scoff at that, Edge of the Mists can get you those extremely quickly, with little (likely) fighting other players, if at all.

Farm SW (not just chest trains, everything including events). If you farm it regularly and know when to tag the defense events (not letting any of the forts go down meanwhile) you can earn upto 15-20g per hour. Farming 4-5 hours daily can get you upto 100g a day.

Chest train helps a lot not only with the champion bags but also with the lower tier cloth scraps that you get to craft Bolt of Damask which is required for all ascended armor crafting. In addition to that you get obsidian shards random from the lost bandit chests (range between 3-10).