Returning player. sPvP and Ascended items?

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Posted by: Cenumis.7132

Cenumis.7132

Hey guys. I’m currently re-downloading GW2 for the long weekend down in Australia (Woohoo!)

I was reading up on some sPvP and noticed you are able to get Ascension items via sPvP? Is that true? And it is actually a viable way of ‘farming’ them. Something about ‘tracks’?

Ah.. so much has changed. Would love some info about it if anyone has the time. I really don’t want to PvE for them, that’s what kinda turned me off in the first place.

Cheers.

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Posted by: Shadow of Azrael.1205

Shadow of Azrael.1205

No, it’s not viable to farm it in spvp, since you get random ( and mostly useless) stats, the drop rate is decent but still too low to get full set of particular stats in a resonable timeframe. Though you do get dragonite and and empyreal fragments from tracks so you may skip some dungeon/world boss farming when you craft.

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Posted by: brannigan.9831

brannigan.9831

No, it’s not viable to farm it in spvp, since you get random ( and mostly useless) stats, the drop rate is decent but still too low to get full set of particular stats in a resonable timeframe. Though you do get dragonite and and empyreal fragments from tracks so you may skip some dungeon/world boss farming when you craft.

The drop rate is far from decent. I’ve gotten one ascended item since the april 15th patch and I play spvp about 10-20 hours a week.

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Posted by: zaced.7948

zaced.7948

it depends on your luck of course. however, since magic find has an effect on pvp chests it’s more probable to get something valuable out of them.
maybe i’m (casual r50ish, teamq player far away from any kind of leaderboard) just lucky, but after finishing several tracks i got 7 ascended armor and one weapon box.
so, no. it’s not that you can farm any kind of ascended gear there, but if you play regularly you’ll probably get your hands on some every now and then.

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Posted by: Darnis.4056

Darnis.4056

I open chests at 300% MF, I have not gotten a single Ascended armor since april 15th.
I got 3 rings though.. :/ too bad rings don’t have skins.

Will the Real Pink Puma Please stand up?

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Posted by: Darko.5873

Darko.5873

it depends on your luck of course. however, since magic find has an effect on pvp chests it’s more probable to get something valuable out of them.
maybe i’m (casual r50ish, teamq player far away from any kind of leaderboard) just lucky, but after finishing several tracks i got 7 ascended armor and one weapon box.
so, no. it’s not that you can farm any kind of ascended gear there, but if you play regularly you’ll probably get your hands on some every now and then.

Are you kidding me? It’s crap like this that makes people believe there is a lucky/unlucky account flag.

I’m r80, present on both leaderboards, finished 8 reward tracks, opened chests with 230-240% MF and all I got is two ascended rings.
That’s the thing I hate the most about this game, the RNG bullpoop. I can play a thousand more games and not get asc armor, while somebody else can run around hotjoin and get it…

all is vain

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Posted by: Charak.9761

Charak.9761

it’s the same as WvW rank chests

I’ve only gotten one from spvp since april 15

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Posted by: vincecontix.1264

vincecontix.1264

I have got 4 since April though I have played quite a lot. Also I have received several rings and you can also farm the ascended mats from spvp now.

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