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Posted by: Elexa.3478

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Can anyone please tell me (in a way of “ascended creation for dummies” kinda way) how to make ascended armor? I’ll ignore the weapon for a moment, I don’t want to make it too hard for my brain. :P First, of course, which set is the best for elementalist currently? Where should I go to get it? What to buy? Please, If you could spare some time to write something about it, it would be greatly appreciated. I spend many hours looking, but I guess I’m too dumb to figure out. I don’t know what’s hapenning to me, honestly. Anyways, this topic will probably die in a day, but worth a try, I guess. Sorry for my English.

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Posted by: rabidsmiles.5926

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Weapon is far more important stat wise. It boosts the numbers higher than a full set of ascended armor will. So if I were you I’d go make those weapons!

What set wise…still trying for figure that out myself. Celestial is mostly for the pvp crowd…some like to piece meal together some pieces of zerk and soldiers and some like to go all out just DPS and full zerk. Full zerk is usually for the PvE crowd, while the mix is for WvW (I think, I am not much of a pvp or heavy into WvW so not 100% sure on those builds…probably wrong and someone will correct me). So it all depends on your playstyle.

Making the set is like any other, you craft it. It takes ascended materials that will come up on the list of things you can make when you have tailoring up to 500. You will need various materials depending on the set you want to make. The Wiki is really helpful for this part.

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Posted by: oxtred.7658

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Hello, first I’d advice to start with weapons. Ascended armor gain is minimal ( about 5% for all 6 pieces). To craft ascended armor you have to level the crafting profession you need, that would be tailor in your case. You can’t buy ascended armor, you have to craft it following buyable recipes. Tailor and light ascended armor are the more expensive gear, so be ready to stock on a lot of silk, t7 materials ( dragonites, emp fragments, bloodstone dust). Assuming you’re gearing for pve, berserker is the best stat distribution for dungeons and fractals. Hope this helped you, If you have any other question I’ll answer them.

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Posted by: MotherKitten.6795

MotherKitten.6795

Start saving all your silk scraps right now because you will need a mountain of those. Light armor is the most expensive because it needs the most silk scraps.

You need to know what your play style is to know what gear you want. Try different gear using exotic gear to see how it feels. I tried condition gear, pvt gear and zerker before I decided to go for celestial. IMO its whats best for eles but prolly 60% of posters say otherwise. Anyway test builds out first. If you can’t make up your mind get celestial since its the most versatile.

After you decide what gear to get you have to get your crafting skill up high enough to make the parts for it. You can start making the parts for ascended before you hit 500 in your crafting. You need 500 to make the ascended gear though. You need 30 damask bolts and can only make one a day. It costs more to buy them then make them. So start making one a day when you get high enough and you have 30 days to get your crafting up to 500. Get up to 500 by making berzerker exotic gear, it sells well and you get back all the money you put into the materials to make it. You can’t buy Charged Crystals and you need 25 if IIRC and can only make one a day. So since it takes 25 days minimum to make ascended armor you might as well make your own damask bolts and make it 30 days and save 30-60 gold.

So start making your charged crystals once a day right now that is cheap. Then get your crafting up high enough to make damask bolts and get the last way up to 500 making and selling berserker exotic gear.

Its a lot of work which is why you need to be sure about what kind you want first.

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Posted by: Purple Miku.7032

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Going to assume that you are making ascended for the purpose of PvE. If not, oh well.

You’re going to deeply regret not making your ascended set berserker if you plan to use it in PvE.

Just warning you in advance… ascended costs hundreds of gold to make and is the absolute highest tier you can get. Wasting all of that money on a suboptimal set would just be depressing.

I strongly advise strength runes because while scholar is the top-end rune for DPS in groups, it’s to be expected that while pugging / learning you’re probably going to struggle to maintain scholar bonus. Scholar is roughly 7% superior DPS to strength runes assuming 100% uptime on the 10% damage modifier, so strength runes are all-around ideal in most cases unless you’re with a very well-organised group.

Either way even if you’re pugging with really bad people, you’ll still not want to use anything in PvE besides berserker.

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Posted by: Elexa.3478

Elexa.3478

I’m sorry that I didn’t mention it, but yes… I’m interested mostly in PVE. I don’t do WvW, and not even thinking about PvP. And thank you all for great suggestions. I, for once, didn’t know that I need tailor to make ascended for ele, I thought I need armorcrafting. xD So, let’s say, if I want berserker (Purple Miku kinda assured me that’s the right choice by saying …“that I’ll deeply regret otherwise” :P), I’m asuming this is it? http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zojja%27s_armor …or?

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Posted by: Thaddeus.4891

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Ya that’s the one.

Full zerker is kitten ele, but that’s the optimal gear. So you are better to go full zerker anyway and if you need some more tanky pieces take them in your trinkets instead since they are WAY more cheap, so not a big deal to change them up over time as you get better.

Experiment with exotic gear, try out meta build in Dekeyz sticky in top of the Ele forum. During this time accumulate crafting material, go after you acended crafting material (Bloodlust stone, Empyreal Fragment and Dragonite Ore) you will need 1500 of each of them, and level up your tailor to 500 (Use gw2crafts.net for a nice guide).

Once you are ready you will need 1 ascended insignia, 2 specific crafting component (like Strap and Padding for the Helm) and either a Lesser Vision Crystal or a Vision Crystal.

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

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Going to assume that you are making ascended for the purpose of PvE. If not, oh well.

You’re going to deeply regret not making your ascended set berserker if you plan to use it in PvE.

Just warning you in advance… ascended costs hundreds of gold to make and is the absolute highest tier you can get. Wasting all of that money on a suboptimal set would just be depressing.

I strongly advise strength runes because while scholar is the top-end rune for DPS in groups, it’s to be expected that while pugging / learning you’re probably going to struggle to maintain scholar bonus. Scholar is roughly 7% (from 10% – 5%?) superior DPS to strength runes assuming 100% 50-70% uptime on the 10% damage modifier, so strength runes are all-around ideal in most cases unless you’re with a very well-organised group.

Either way even if you’re pugging with really bad people, you’ll still not want to use anything in PvE besides berserker.

I concur. Not only it’s tough to maintain the Scholar bonus for longer than 50% the duration of the fight, it’s also more beneficial for you to have longer might duration in PUG. From my experience, average pug does not know how to blast your fire field for might and even fewer actively asks for fire field. Imagine the long drawn-out fight (fractals, Arah) where you have to juggle with the boss, might duration is important and often underrated.

Assumption made: imperfect might stacking rotation.

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Posted by: Thaddeus.4891

Thaddeus.4891

I concur in part. If he like to play S/D, S/F or D/F, then ya Rune of Strenght is the best choice, but its so costly. About 70-80 gold for a complete set.

But if he play Staff, rune of strength is not that good. In that case Scholar would be better. Flame Legion also do a good job and its really cheap. Rune of the Ranger is also a good choice if you always keep a mini with you.

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

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Agree. Also consider Rune of Ranger bonus is lost in zergs.

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Posted by: rabidsmiles.5926

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Full zerker is kitten ele, but that’s the optimal gear. So you are better to go full zerker anyway and if you need some more tanky pieces take them in your trinkets instead since they are WAY more cheap, so not a big deal to change them up over time as you get better.

What trinkets do you recommend to play with that aren’t berserkers? I have full berserkers…but was looking to get some tanky ones as back up for the harder fractals. Solider’s maybe?

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Posted by: oxtred.7658

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Keep berserker and play d/f.

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Posted by: Thaddeus.4891

Thaddeus.4891

Full zerker is kitten ele, but that’s the optimal gear. So you are better to go full zerker anyway and if you need some more tanky pieces take them in your trinkets instead since they are WAY more cheap, so not a big deal to change them up over time as you get better.

What trinkets do you recommend to play with that aren’t berserkers? I have full berserkers…but was looking to get some tanky ones as back up for the harder fractals. Solider’s maybe?

Putting some more soldier trinket won’t help you much. Elementalist are squishy by nature and unless you go full tanky gear you will still lose a big chunk of live everytime you’ll get hit. Like Oxtred said, D/F will give you those pratical survival skill you need. Most ppl prefer to play D/F in fractal over S/F. If you still prefer using a bit of tanky trinket then soldier could do the job, there is real good answer there.

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