ascendend gear
“Ascended and infusion rewards will be available in both PvE and WvW over time, and be made available through all sorts of content around the world including existing content. "
that is a quote taken from a post made by Martin Kerstein, Head of Global Community
however that was 3 months ago so not sure what is happening anymore.
full post can be seen here.
Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.
One of the devs actually stated that there are currently 2 ways in PvE to get ascended gear: Laurels and Fractals/Grinding. So they are currently looking for a way to introduce an alternative to the Fractals RNG and grinding way for getting ascended gear for WvW to make the chances for ascended gear the same for PvE and WvW.
When it comes to the laurel vendor way, there are nearly the same conditions as for PvE:
You can do all of the dailies in WvW, even faster than in PvE due to the fact that nearly everything in WvW is an event.
When it comes to the monthly, you have to do 5 dungeon runs. That would be about 50 minutes of PvE content, when having bad speed run groups. But the devs stated that they are looking into a solution for the monthly too so it can be done in WvW.
5 dungeons in 50 minutes? really ?which dungeon would that be?
CoF p1 5 times. And u can do it even faster.
“Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.”
5 dungeons in 50 minutes? really ?which dungeon would that be?
Diehard WvW players dont do dungeons because they dont like PvE. What makes you think they can form groups for ultra-speed runs? In gear and builds designed for WvW/PvP and without the same level of experience and familiarity.
Laurels are a PvE mechanic, that mostly can also be done in WvW. But are easier and faster in PvE.
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CoF p1 5 times. And u can do it even faster.
Exactly, I intentionally chose to write a higher amount of minutes, taking into consideration a low skill level when it comes to dungeons and builds and equip not being dungeon oriented.
@Terrahero I spend the majority (~90%) of my online time in WvW. Still 5 runs of CoF didn’t kill me, even though I had no idea what I’m doing (actually screwed up a bit in the first run in the ritual room) and the group was no “ultra-speed” group. Otherwise they wouldn’t have taken me with them. And my build is far away from an PvE build btw.
Still it didn’t take longer than 50 minutes and as a nice side effect I earned 11 gold due to exotic drops…
If this is too much effort for you to get 10 laurels and you prefer to wait until ANet gives you a solution what could thake some time… 50min vs. another month…Well…
I was just trying to help by pointing out that it is not that big a problem to get the ascended gear and by giving you ideas on how to get it…