Guild Wars 2

Comparing the amount of time gated materials for crafting normal light ascended armor:

• 36 silk weaving thread
• 24 thick elonian cord

Time gated materials needed for sPVP ascended armor for 20 grandmaster tailor’s marks. This equals one set of ascended armor:

• 20 lump of mithrillium
• 40 silk weaving thread
• 20 thick elonian cord

Why would anyone craft this now?

If you like the skin that much, you should be able to farm the skins in less than 40 days doing the glorious title track.

If you want the Ardent skins you can just buy them, they’re in a seperate tab.

It’s almost as if they didn’t think things through before implementing them :/

Faux Play.6104:

Why would anyone craft this now?

No one will. For sure I’ll not waste the PvP gold in PvP ascended gear. Man, season 5 was a fun ride.

Entenkommando.5208:

It’s almost as if they didn’t think things through before implementing them :/

For Berserkers stats, you get about 70g discount buying from this vendor compared to crafting it outright.
/shrug

To me the quantity of time gated materials is a bigger deal than gold. There already is a time gate in that it takes more than a season to create a set of the armor. Even for the beseeker’s example, who would wait 1 plus seasons just save 70 gold? If it is going to be this expensive, it should at least have a new skin.

When I bought the ascended skins in season 5, I bought a set that I haven’t unlocked with the glorious track. It did not unlock the skin, so you would sill need to do the glorious track to unlock it for transmutations unless the recent update changed something.

Haleydawn.3764:

If you want the Ardent skins you can just buy them, they’re in a seperate tab.

Faux Play.6104:

To me the quantity of time gated materials is a bigger deal than gold. There already is a time gate in that it takes more than a season to create a set of the armor. Even for the beseeker’s example, who would wait 1 plus seasons just save 70 gold? If it is going to be this expensive, it should at least have a new skin.

There is no longer a cap on Ascended shards of glory, you can earn as many as you care to aslong as it’s in the league season. It’s ‘that expensive’ because of the armor quality, not the skin.

“Reduced the number of Ascended Shards of Glory obtained through league chests, but added Ascended Shards of Glory to the repeatable Byzantium reward chest.
Ascended PvP armor and weapons now require special currency that you craft along with Ascended Shards of Glory and gold.
The recipes are available from the ascended vendors for league tickets.
These recipes require fewer materials than normal ascended crafting, so they are a small discount from just crafting the armor and weapons outright.”

The Glorious armor reward track awards different armor skins to what the Ascended Ardent Glorious armor bought for shards are. The Ardent Glorious armor can be purchased as Ascended quality, or as just Exotic skins (which was your main complaint)

So is it the cost of obtaining Ascended gear (needed to be brought in-line with the main acquisition of it, crafting) or the farmability of the Ardent Glorious skins (there’s no limit on Ascended Shards during season, the sets can be bought as Exotic quaility skins, should be very quick tbh)?

Technically there’s 3 PvP armor skins, which are all similar but more/less vibrant. Glorious (reward track), Ardent Glorious (Asc Shards of Glory) and Glorious Hero’s (PvP related tournaments).