Guild Wars 2

Just reach fotm lvl10, where AR starts to matter. However I dont have a single piece of ascended gear to get AR from. From what I know ascended gears start dropping from fotm 10+, but w/o AR I cant even do 10. How do I get my first AR?

you can technically do 10 without AR, you just will take more damage than previous levels (but not instant death amounts, and mostly avoidable), also you can get gear from laurels or craft a back piece with the mist crafting mat that can drop in fractals.

Dasorine.1964:

you can technically do 10 without AR, you just will take more damage than previous levels (but not instant death amounts, and mostly avoidable), also you can get gear from laurels or craft a back piece with the mist crafting mat that can drop in fractals.

Yea I know I can get from Laurels, but I wont get one until another 10 days. The back piece that can be crafted is too expensive for me.
Well its nice to know I can do 10 w/o AR.

Just for a bit more information, all bosses but jade maw can be avoided, at levels 10-19 agony will tick for 12% health every second for usually 3-4 seconds, so while you will take lots of damage if you don’t avoid it/fighting jade maw it wont be more than around half you life in general.

how can you get AR what are the different ways. what is the mist crafting mat? or whats a mat

Vial of condensed mist

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Symon%27s_History_of_Ascalon is an example of the recipe

I can easily do +20 Fractals without AR as well. You’ll most likely die twice at Jade Maw, but other than that, it’s fairly simple.