Guild Wars 2

Hey Guys,

New to GW2/WvW and I have been reading over some builds and I am a bit confused by this as most of the builds call for adding all infusions. An Exquisite Jewel adds 25/15/15 stats vs the Infusion adding 5/-1 Dmg to the NPC’s.

Being new I assume there is good reason for this but I cant figure it out…..some one throw me bone?

Appreciated

Two totally different things. Jewels are a customization for exotic gear, infusions are a small bonus stat on ascended gear.

BTW don’t spend too much effort on exotic jewelry, ascended is very easy to get. In fact I’d recommend you entirely avoid exotic jewelry.

Edit: What I wrote barely makes sense to me. If you have an exotic ring and add a jewel to it, you’ll have slightly less stats than an ascended ring. You can also add a slight bonus stat to an ascended ring called a WvW infusion.

Oooooohh….. so you can’t add Jewels to ascended equipment!

Thx

The upgrade component is already included on ascended items. The stats are just combined together in the display and the upgrade part is unchangeable.

The ascended trinkets used to have 2 sets of stats in their pop-up description to represent the item and jewel stats separately. At some point, Anet just combined the 2 numbers to make the UI neater.