Guild Wars 2

I’m having a tough time trying to figure out how to craft gear with viper’s stat combination. I bought both the insigna and the inscription at auric basin. I found myself with a viper’s weapon recipe book in the inventory but I don’t know how I got it. I don’t have any book for viper’s armor, where do you drop/buy those?

Also, Black Diamonds. I’ve been farming verdant brink for quite some time, but I ended up with only one diamond from opening airship cargo. I’m still working my way truough nuhoch lore mastery to get nuhoch language and buy vials of chak acid to open crystalized supply crates, I hope the drop rate of diamonds for those aren’t as low as airship cargos.

You need to unlock the recipes for each individual piece of gear you want to make. I haven’t checked, but I assume it’s just random drop rates, possibly buyable from the TP.

You can buy the Viper recipes from the TP.

Their are drops in the exalted chests in Tarir

Lucky Shot.7650:

I’m having a tough time trying to figure out how to craft gear with viper’s stat combination. I bought both the insigna and the inscription at auric basin. I found myself with a viper’s weapon recipe book in the inventory but I don’t know how I got it. I don’t have any book for viper’s armor, where do you drop/buy those?

Also, Black Diamonds. I’ve been farming verdant brink for quite some time, but I ended up with only one diamond from opening airship cargo. I’m still working my way truough nuhoch lore mastery to get nuhoch language and buy vials of chak acid to open crystalized supply crates, I hope the drop rate of diamonds for those aren’t as low as airship cargos.

Here’s something that will really help you if you deal in Ascended gear. I looked at crafting some exotic Viper’s gear, but thanks to flax requirement via oil, it was 16g per piece (and theres 6 pieces of armor)…. I said no. If I’m going to invest 16g/piece for exotic gear, I’m going to do Ascended gear. But in crafting Ascended Viper’s stuff, I’d need the new Ascended insignia recipe and make Jeweled Damask Patch’s right?… no.

Right now Powerful Venom Sacs are frickin cheap, So I churned out a whole set of Ascended Forgemaster’s Rampager stat gear, made 6 exotic armor insignia’s with easily purchased black diamonds, and xmuted it all in the forge. This work-around process is vastly cheaper and easier to do than following the ‘official’ recipes.

I decided to make Ascended gear because I just simply wasn’t paying 16g/Exotic armor piece, which I find appalling for simple exotic crafted gear. I also had 70 elonian leather squares and 4 stacks of ecto’s I had saved up before HoT release…. so… there’s that.

If you want to make Exotic armor, I’d say pass, because the investment in making it just simply isn’t worth it. Right now because everything is new, guild halls are demanding flax like none other, we’re monetarily compelled to get our money’s worth by making ascended, or going with an ‘old’ stat.

TL;DR

• Craft Ascended Rampager’s armor using super cheap Powerful Venom Sac’s
• Xmute in the forge for 1g60s in Ecto’s, 10 shards, and new Exotic Armor Insignia
• Better value than paying 16g+ per Exotic armor item in Flax cost alone.
• Not guaranteed a Viper’s armor Insignia when salvaging your exotic crafted armor.

Right now the price of Elonian squares, and all that is inflated quite a bit because of demand. Look at GW2Efficiency.com for the real crafting cost of the Armor Insignias.

This is just what I did.

16g is chump change try 400 linseed oils for the guild hall, but Khazik is right, its how I crafted my Marauder’s.

Khazik.8052:

Lucky Shot.7650:

I’m having a tough time trying to figure out how to craft gear with viper’s stat combination. I bought both the insigna and the inscription at auric basin. I found myself with a viper’s weapon recipe book in the inventory but I don’t know how I got it. I don’t have any book for viper’s armor, where do you drop/buy those?

Also, Black Diamonds. I’ve been farming verdant brink for quite some time, but I ended up with only one diamond from opening airship cargo. I’m still working my way truough nuhoch lore mastery to get nuhoch language and buy vials of chak acid to open crystalized supply crates, I hope the drop rate of diamonds for those aren’t as low as airship cargos.

Here’s something that will really help you if you deal in Ascended gear. I looked at crafting some exotic Viper’s gear, but thanks to flax requirement via oil, it was 16g per piece (and theres 6 pieces of armor)…. I said no. If I’m going to invest 16g/piece for exotic gear, I’m going to do Ascended gear. But in crafting Ascended Viper’s stuff, I’d need the new Ascended insignia recipe and make Jeweled Damask Patch’s right?… no.

Right now Powerful Venom Sacs are frickin cheap, So I churned out a whole set of Ascended Forgemaster’s Rampager stat gear, made 6 exotic armor insignia’s with easily purchased black diamonds, and xmuted it all in the forge. This work-around process is vastly cheaper and easier to do than following the ‘official’ recipes.

I decided to make Ascended gear because I just simply wasn’t paying 16g/Exotic armor piece, which I find appalling for simple exotic crafted gear. I also had 70 elonian leather squares and 4 stacks of ecto’s I had saved up before HoT release…. so… there’s that.

If you want to make Exotic armor, I’d say pass, because the investment in making it just simply isn’t worth it. Right now because everything is new, guild halls are demanding flax like none other, we’re monetarily compelled to get our money’s worth by making ascended, or going with an ‘old’ stat.

TL;DR

• Craft Ascended Rampager’s armor using super cheap Powerful Venom Sac’s
• Xmute in the forge for 1g60s in Ecto’s, 10 shards, and new Exotic Armor Insignia
• Better value than paying 16g+ per Exotic armor item in Flax cost alone.
• Not guaranteed a Viper’s armor Insignia when salvaging your exotic crafted armor.

Right now the price of Elonian squares, and all that is inflated quite a bit because of demand. Look at GW2Efficiency.com for the real crafting cost of the Armor Insignias.

This is just what I did.

Come again say what?

I am having a hard time understanding what exactly you did there.

For a better and much clearer depiction:

1. Achieve tailor rank 500 (grandmaster).
2. Craft ascended “Rampager”-stats armor, since it is quite cheap (thanks powerful venom sacs).
3. “Xmute in the forge for 1g60s in Ectos, 10 shards and new exotic armor Insignia”. What?

Point three is where I got completely lost. Can you deepen that and explain it to me in a more detailed fashion? And what is the forge-recipe for “xmuting” things? How many ectos do I need? And why can I “xmute” ascended armor pieces with an exotic armor insignia..? EDIT: Oh and what exotic armor insignia are you referring to? The Viper’s, I guess?

A little help with that would be highly appreciated!

Best,
Extendia

You can change the stats of ascended weapons or armour in the forge using this recipe:
1. The armour or weapon to change
2. An exotic (not ascended) insignia or inscription of the stats you want to swap to
3. Ectoplasm (5 or 10, can’t quite remember exactly how much)
4. Anthology of heroes – bought from Miyani with spirit shards

So you do this using your ascended rampager’s armour piece and an exotic viper’s insignia and you get an ascended viper’s armour piece.

Wow, this is purely amazing.

I didn’t know that, thank you very much! Call me amazed!