Guild Wars 2

I’ll try to make this short. I’ll spare you when I left and came back. Important part I’m playing. But what to do while I took down zhaitan and I’m continuing my story on my 3 80’s.

Q: my choice is to continue crafting to 500 for asended gear or go for the legendary. ( If crafting which one)

I have a ranger. Elementalist. Warrior. All crafting to 400 but tailor. Sitting on 150 gold

My answer is quite different as you expected

- First you can’t do anything above with 150g, ascended will give you 15% stats boost in total and the purpose mainly for high lv fractal outside of that i prefer exotics with 4 stats on it like Viper, Marauder etc. For legendary…not even close btw they just nerfed dungeons to the ground so you’ll be fine with full exotic running in HoT.

- Second be for you go further i strongly suggest visit Ranger, Ele, War forum and learn more because some of them are not worth playing after HoT, for me personaly i play condition ranger atm and it amazing in HoT contents

- Final Raid is coming but we don’t know what or how it’s gonna be so just relax for a bit and wait maybe there are some good news.

Ultimately, your decision should be based on whether or not you plan to participate in high level fractals. If so, I would highly recommend going for trinkets first and slotting Agony Resistance accordingly. The advantage there being trinkets can be used by all 3 of your toons vs armor/weapons may only be usable by 1-2 toons depending on what you make. Trinkets alone will let you take your toons all the way to about scale 50-ish and is easily doable with your budget. If you want to pursue making Ascended equipment you can cheat and craft the cheapest prefix/stats of the item and then use the Mystic Forge for to transmute the item to the prefix you want.

As far as the boost in stats from upgrading to ascended equipment, you’re looking from a fraction of a percent to about 12.5% if you make use of every single infusion (which is extremely costly and doesn’t make THAT much of a difference. If you’re curious on the math, some one made a spreadsheet detailing out where to get the most bang for your buck.

I personally do not recommend Legendaries as they are extremely expensive and do not have a mechanical advantage worth the amount of resources invested into the item (not all your toons will be able to wield it either). Mechanically, Legendaries are glorified Ascended weapons that can change stats. Aesthetically speaking, some of the most beautiful weapons in the game.

Finally, depending on how long ago it’s been since you’ve taken a break I would recommend playing through your classes for a bit to figure out what’s changed about them. We’ve had a huge traitling overhaul earlier in the year, and the new Elite Specs/trait lines add some new mechanics to your base classes. This may help you narrow down what class(es) you want to focus on gearing up for.

If you’d like, feel free to PM me if you have any questions regarding to your classes and how they fit in fractals/PvE overall. I would add those details to this thread, but it would definitely derail your original question.