Guild Wars 2

Can the Lava Skull Backpack, when purchased from the vendor in Ember Bay, be equipped as purchased, stats selected, and worn? Or is it a merely a mat that has to be run thru the Mystic Forge infusing method before it can be equipped?

I’ll never get the mat(s) from the Fractals, so don’t want to by a backpack mat, but would gladly do with a Ascended backpack that doesn’t have an infusion slot.

Yes, you can use it straight away.

It comes with a single infusion slot by default… you only need the fractal mats if you want to infuse it to add a 2nd slot.

onevstheworld.2419:

Yes, you can use it straight away.

It comes with a single infusion slot by default… you only need the fractal mats if you want to infuse it to add a 2nd slot.

There isn’t even a reason to infuse anymore for most backpacks besides Mawdrey since there is a relatively small difference between the cost of infusing a backpack and getting higher agony infusions.

Thank you both for the answers, which encourage me to push my mob into Ember Bay and upgrade their backpacks.

In truth there is very little reason to upgrade to an ascended backpack, since it’s only slightly over 3% of a hero’s stat package, and upgrading is about 10% of the next lower level, so overall a .3% upgrade. I doubt I’ll notice.

Still, it’s only gathering stuff, so can’t be ignored in slow times.

The main benefits of these backpacks is that they are one of the few ways to obtain certain stats.