Guild Wars 2

This account is ~3weeks old, I’m in full exotic gear minus rings+trinkets(and ammy)

I see a bunch of stuff available from laurels like t6 crafting materials, home instance nodes, and ascended gear.

As a new player which would be most beneficial if i’m not planning to craft an entire ascended set yet?

I’ve done a few low level fractals. I i make any ascended gear, it will be the weapon first most likely.

Should i just buy ascended accessories?

Is there items i can buy worth good gold resell value?

Thanks for any info

The ascended amulet can only be purchased for laurels, so at least get that. If you run Fractals you can get ascended rings for free. If you do guild missions you can get ascended accessories for guild commendations…which is the cheapest way to get them.

you can play it safe and get t6 mats and just sell them. ascended rings will drop during fractals, rest of the ascended trinkets can be bought with commendations.

As long as you don’t have many of them: use the laurels only for items that cannot be obtained by other means. Don’t waste them for items that can be obtained in the trading post. Gold can be obtained by almost every action in the game, but laurels are account bound and restricted to about 2 each day.

For example, some ascended stuff including ascended crafting recipes cannot be obtained by other means. You may decide that you don’t need ascended stuff now, but you may change your decision later. Don’t waste stuff you may regret later.

Your amulet from the WvW vendors (saves you laurels at the cost of much easier to obtain and less valuable badges of honor).

After that it’s pretty much hold onto them for stuffs, like ascended recipes need them, maybe you really want the cat tonic or chauncey? all else fails you can dump them for t6 materials, but honestly I’d hold onto at least a few dozen at a time just in case as they take a while to get back if you decide to make some ascended or something.

Do guild missions for your accessories, fractals for your rings.

edgarallanpwn.8739:

This account is ~3weeks old, I’m in full exotic gear minus rings+trinkets(and ammy)

Save them for an amulet, and then save for talismans (if you can’t get a guild to do guild missions with) and then save them for ascended armor recipes.

Don’t listen to people who tell you to convert to t6 mats. Laurels are time gated, gold is not, so let them stack up until you’re absolutely sure you’ve bought everything you want with them.

Don’t spend them yet. Wait until you are 80 and they can be used to obtain Ascended trinkets. You also need some Guild commendations (or you can do Fractals) and WvW badges (250 of them get you Laurel discount via WvW NPC merchant).

Yes, you can use them to obtain some quick gold or T6 mats, but don’t go crazy and keep in mind the prices for the Ascended trinkets an how many characters you plan to outfit with them.

If you don’t need to spend them right away, I would hold on to them for a bit longer. The expansion might suddenly require you to use laurels for new in-game stuff, then you’d be kicking yourself, since there’s very few ways to get laurels atm. ;-)

smhtjoa.7159:

If you don’t need to spend them right away, I would hold on to them for a bit longer. The expansion might suddenly require you to use laurels for new in-game stuff, then you’d be kicking yourself, since there’s very few ways to get laurels atm. ;-)

Actually, there is only ONE (main) way….log in every day. You can earn either 35 or 55 per 28 day cycle.

You are correct that the time gated nature of obtaining them would make the above scenario (needing more than you have) frustrating.

People are telling you to buy ascended amulets but if you’re new you don’t really need them that bad and you’ll get more laurels later.

Either saving them up or going for the T6 materials so you can sell them for gold would be best. When you are just starting the game having some gold to get what you need is much more useful than having ascended accessories.

Just hoard ‘em for a while. Chances are the stat difference between exotic and ascended isn’t going to make an ounce of difference to you. Down the road once you’ve got a good idea of what you want to do with your character(s) then start worrying how to spend ’em.