Guild Wars 1 Most Expensive Gear in Game UPDATED

Guild Wars 1 Most Expensive Gear in Game

Last updated July 2020, No Quarter update

Introduction

This guide is an overview of the best ways to acquire gear for level eighty PvE and WvW content.

It'southward assumed that you lot already accept a fully leveled character and know what PvE or WvW build you're aiming for. If you don't know what build to aim for, here are some useful resources:

• Open Earth
• Fractal
• Raid
• WvW

Equipment can exist caused from many unlike sources in this game. Feel free to mix and lucifer gearing methods in a way that works for yous.

Exotic or Ascended?

In Guild Wars 2 there is no gear treadmill. The just ii equipment tiers for endgame gear are Exotic and Ascended.

• Exotic gear is the second best tier. It'due south relatively cheap and like shooting fish in a barrel to obtain, as a total fix of Berserker'southward exotic gear merely costs ~35 aureate on the Trading Post (~10 gold if you lot don't count trinkets). It's also good enough for everything other than high-level fractals.

• Ascended gear is the all-time tier. It's significantly more expensive than exotic gear, equally a full prepare is timegated and costs 200-400 gold to arts and crafts. However, it just offers a 12.5% impairment increase over exotic gear. You don't need to get ascended gear unless you want to run loftier-level fractals (in which case you need the infusion slots). However, information technology's a practiced long-term goal, especially if y'all plan to play WvW or practise raids.
  • Ascended gear tin be upgraded with agony infusions, which provide the agony resistance needed to survive high-level fractals. Alternatively, they can be upgraded with stat infusions, which provide a marginal amount of stats. Agony stat infusions provide the best of both worlds only are extremely expensive and nearly players don't carp with them.

Ascended trinkets (backpieces, amulets, accessories, rings) are relatively easy to go, so y'all tin consider skipping exotic and going direct to ascended for these. They too offer the greatest increase in stats by far, making them the about efficient place to get-go.

When upgrading from exotic gear, you should upgrade your weapon first, followed by your trinkets, as most of your stats are in these items.

Tabular array of Stats and Prefixes

For the vast majority of equipment, stat combinations are only attainable if they are role of the cadre set, or you ain the expansion they are associated with. Stat selectable equipment will permit you lot to choose from any of the combinations you have access to, with a few exceptions (such as specialization collections).

• Core/Release stats were included at release. These stats are mostly the easiest to larn.
• Cadre/Extended stats were added during Living World Seasons 1 and ii.
• Cadre/Hybrid stats are similar to Core/Extended stats merely only available on sure ascended trinkets.
• Heart of Thorns stats were added during Heart of Thorns and Living World Season 3. Other than Marauder and Crusader, these stats require the Heart of Thorns expansion.
• Path of Burn down stats were added during Path of Fire and Living World Flavour 4. These stats require the Path of Fire expansion.
  • Diviner's gear is a weird edge instance. This stat combination was retroactively added in Path of Fire to both Heart of Thorns and Path of Burn gear, so information technology requires either Eye of Thorns or Path of Fire.

Icon	Exotic prefix	Ascended prefix	Release	Stats	Jewel
	Apothecary'due south	Ebonmane'southward/Veldrunner'south	Core/Extended	Healing Power++, Condition Harm+, Toughness+	Passiflora
	Assassin'south	Soros'south/Saphir's	Core/Release	Precision++, Ability+, Ferocity+	Opal
	Berserker's	Zojja'south	Core/Release	Ability++, Precision+, Ferocity+	Ruby
	Berserker's and Valkyrie	-	Core/Hybrid	Power++, Ferocity++, Precision+, Vitality+	-
25px	Bringer's	Giftbringer'southward	Cadre/Extended	Expertise++, Precision+, Vitality+	-
	Captain's	-	Cadre/Release	Precision++, Power+, Toughness+	Emerald
	Carrion	Occam'southward	Core/Release	Status Damage++, Power+, Vitality+	Chrysocola
	Cavalier's	Angchu	Core/Release	Toughness++, Power+, Ferocity+	-
	Celestial	Wupwup	Core/Extended	Power+, Precision+, Toughness+, Vitality+, Condition Damage+, Ferocity+, Healing Power+	Charged Quartz
	Cleric'southward	Theodosu's/Tateos's	Core/Release	Healing Power++, Power+, Toughness+	Sapphire
	Commander's	Tizlak'southward	Heart of Thorns	Power++, Precision++, Toughness+, Concentration+	Maguuma Burl
	Crusader'south	Ossa's	Middle of Thorns	Power++, Toughness++, Ferocity+, Healing Ability+	Agate
	Dire	Mathilde'due south/Morbach'south	Core/Release	Condition Harm++, Toughness+, Vitality+	-
25px	Dire and Rabid	-	Core/Hybrid	Status Damage++, Toughness++, Precision+, Vitality+	-
	Augur's	Steelstar'due south	Centre of Thorns OR Path of Burn down	Ability++, Concentration++, Precision+, Ferocity+	-
	Giver's	Tixx's	Cadre/Extended	Toughness++, Healing Power+, Concentration+	Snowflake
	Grieving	The Twins'	Path of Burn down	Power++, Condition Damage++, Precision+, Ferocity+	Mournstone
	Harrier's	Zehtuka's	Path of Fire	Power++, Healing Power+, Concentration+	Brandspark
	Knight's	Beigarth'south	Core/Release	Toughness++, Power+, Precision+	-
	Magi's	Hronk's	Core/Release	Healing Power++, Precision+, Vitality+	-
	Marauder'south	Svaard'due south	Eye of Thorns	Power++, Precision++, Vitality+, Ferocity+	Ebony
	Marshal's	Nadijeh'southward	Path of Fire	Ability++, Healing Power++, Precision+, Condition Harm+	Sunset
	Minstrel's	Maklain's	Heart of Thorns	Toughness++, Healing Power++, Vitality+, Concentration+	Freshwater Pearl
	Nomad'south	Ventari's	Core/Extended	Toughness++, Vitality+, Healing Power+	-
	Plaguedoctor'due south	Nerashi'southward	Path of Fire	Status Impairment++, Vitality++, Concentration+, Healing Ability+	-
	Rabid	Grizzlemouth'due south/Ferratus'due south	Core/Release	Condition Damage++, Precision+, Toughness+	-
25px	Rabid and Apothecary's	-	Core/Hybrid	Condition Impairment++, Toughness++, Precision+, Healing Power+	-
	Rampager's	Coalforge'south/Forgemaster'south	Core/Release	Precision++, Power+, Status Harm+	Coral
	Sentinel's	Tonn's/Wei Qi's	Core/Extended	Vitality++, Power+, Toughness+	Azurite
	Seraph	Thackeray'southward	Eye of Thorns	Precision++, Status Damage++, Concentration+, Healing Power+	-
25px	Settler's	Leftpaw'southward	Core/Extended	Toughness++, Condition Damage+, Healing Power+	-
	Shaman's	Zintl	Cadre/Release	Vitality++, Condition Impairment+, Healing Power+	-
	Sinister	Verata's	Cadre/Extended	Condition Damage++, Power+, Precision+	Charged Ambrite
	Soldier'south	Chorben'southward/Ahamid's	Core/Release	Power++, Toughness+, Vitality+	-
	Trailblazer's	Pahua's	Center of Thorns	Condition Impairment++, Toughness++, Vitality+, Expertise+	Maguuma Lily
	Valkyrie	Stonecleaver'southward/Gobrech'southward	Core/Release	Power++, Vitality+, Ferocity+	Beryl
	Vigilant	Laranthir's	Heart of Thorns	Power++, Toughness++, Concentration+, Expertise+	Flax Blossom
	Viper's	Yassith'southward	Heart of Thorns	Power++, Condition Damage++, Precision+, Expertise+	Black Diamond
	Wanderer'southward	Ruka'due south	Heart of Thorns	Power++, Vitality++, Toughness+, Concentration+	Moonstone
	Zealot's	Keeper'due south	Cadre/Extended	Power++, Precision+, Healing Ability+	Watchwork

Exotic Equipment

Trading Mail

For Core/Release stats, the simplest and fastest way to go exotic equipment is to buy it off the Trading Postal service.

Don't search directly for the prefix, as that will only show you crafted gear. Instead, use the filters to find the cheapest level lxxx exotic gear with the stats you need.

This volition set you back 10-35 golden. If you don't count trinkets information technology volition cost less than ten gold.

PvP/WvW

If yous play PvP or WvW, reward tracks are the best manner to obtain exotic armor and weapons with Cadre/Extended, Heart of Thorns, or Path of Fire stats.

These provide stat-selectable armor pieces:

• Crystal Desert Advantage Rails
• Glorious Reward Runway (PvP merely)
• Legacy Armor Reward Track
• Triumphant Armor Reward Rails and Triumphant Hero's Armor (WvW just)

These provide stat-selectable weapons:

• Mistforged Hero's weapons (WvW only)
• Obsidian Weapon Box (doesn't provide underwater weapons)

You can also get certain Cadre/Release stats very easily through the dungeon reward tracks, which provide iii weapons and one piece of armor:

• Ascalonian Catacombs Dungeon Runway (Soldier'southward, Magi's, or Rampager's)
• Caudecus's Manor Dungeon Rail (Rabid, Rampager's, or Shaman's)
• Twilight Arbor Dungeon Track (Magi'southward, Rabid, or Rampager's)
• Sorrow's Embrace Dungeon Track (Feces, Knight's, or Soldier's)
• Citadel of Flame Dungeon Track (Berserker's, Carrion, or Rampager'south)
• Award of the Waves Dungeon Track (Magi's, Rabid, or Soldier'southward)
• Crucible of Eternity Dungeon Runway (Berserker's, Dire, or Rampager's)
• The Ruined City of Arah Dungeon Track (Berserker'south, Knight's, or Rabid)

If yous take whatsoever of the Living World Season 3-5 episodes, you can go stat-selectable gear from their corresponding reward tracks. See "Living Globe Achievements" below for the gear you tin get (identical to the gear the advantage track provides).

Story/Achievement Rewards

Some story steps and achievements provide exotic gear every bit a reward. This is the best method of getting exotic gear for new players, but is limited by the achievements available.

Story Rewards

Some story steps provide you with free exotic equipment:

Personal Story

• Victory or Death: Provides a Berserker'southward, Knight's, or Rabid caput.

Centre of Thorns

• The Jungle Provides: Provides a Berserker's, Carrion, Cleric's, Dire, Rampager's, or Shaman's head.
• Bitter Harvest: Provides a slice of Trailblazer's, Viper's, or Wanderer'due south armor.
• Hearts and Minds: Provides a piece of Wanderer's armor.

Living World Season iii

• Confessor'southward Cease: Provides a stat-selectable Cadre/Release, Core/Extended, or Centre of Thorns head.

Path of Fire

• Blazing a Trail: Provides a Align's backpiece.

Elite Specialization Gear

You receive some gear for training an elite specialization. Annotation that the armor pieces are not salvageable, so you might not desire to put expensive runes in them.

Heart of Thorns

• Berserker: Lookout's, Sinister, or Vigilant torch and caput
• Chronomancer: Berserker's, Minstrel's, or Soldier's shield and shoulders
• Daredevil: Celestial, Marauder's, or Minstrel's staff and head
• Dragonhunter: Berserker'south, Commander's, or Rampager'due south longbow and hands
• Druid: Cleric'south, Minstrel's, or Nomad'south staff and shoulders
• Herald: Celestial, Crusader'due south, or Trailblazer's shield and shoulders
• Reaper: Berserker's, Knight's, or Trailblazer's greatsword and caput
• Scrapper: Berserker'south, Knight'southward, or Wanderer's hammer and caput
• Tempest: Assassin's, Celestial, or Minstrel'southward warhorn and shoulders

Path of Fire

• Deadeye: Assassin'due south, Berserker's, or Valkyrie rifle and shoulders
• Firebrand: Marshal'due south, Trailblazer'due south, or Viper'southward axe and head
• Holosmith: Berserker's, Marauder's, or Align's sword and shoulders
• Mirage: Carrion, Dire, or Rabid axe and head
• Renegade: Celestial, Grieving, or Viper'southward shortbow and head
• Scourge: Apothecary's, Carrion, or Viper'southward torch and shoulders
• Soulbeast: Marauder's, Marshal's, or Viper'due south dagger and hands
• Spellbreaker: Assassin'south, Knight'due south, or Valkyrie dagger and shoulders
• Weaver: Celestial, Grieving, or Viper's sword and hands

Mistward Collections

Y'all receive a set of exotic Berserker'southward, Knight'due south, or Rabid heavy armor for unlocking all Revenant specializations and completing the Mistward collections.

Center of Thorns Pact Backpieces

For playing through the Heart of Thorns story and completing the Amanuensis'due south Pack, Crusader's Pack, or Scholar'due south Pack collection, you lot go a backpiece with sure Core/Release or Core/Extended stats.

Living World Achievements

Since Heart of Thorns, nearly Living World episodes have had at least one achievement that provides stat-selectable exotic armor:

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• Out of the Shadows: head
• Rising Flames: shoulders + a head from Maintain Aurene's Shield
• A Crack in the Ice: hands
• The Head of the Snake: head
• Flashpoint: shoulders
• One Path Ends: feet

Living World Season four

• Daybreak: head
• A Bug in the System: shoulders + 2 backpieces from Repairing/Rebooting IG-6417
• Long Live the Lich: chest
• All or Nil: legs
• War Eternal: boots

Icebrood Saga

• Whisper in the Dark: caput
• No Quarter: multiple head and backpieces

Crafting

Crafting is an expensive but reliable way to get exotic equipment. You'll need the advisable level 400 crafting profession and the recipe for the items y'all want to craft. You'll as well demand the correct materials, either acquired through farming or the Trading Mail service.

Crafting can get complicated for Core/Extended, Center of Thorns, and Path of Burn stats, as the appropriate recipes are often locked behind map-specific currencies, and the materials may be expensive or account bound. Employ the wiki to notice the advisable crafting recipes and where they can be obtained from.

This will ready you dorsum fifty-200 gold depending on the stat set; yous might also have to spend more gold leveling your crafting or buying the recipes.

WvW Vendors

The Weapon Primary and Armor Master at each WvW spawn betoken sell:

• weapons and armor with Berserker's, Carrion, Cleric's, Knight'south, Rabid, and Soldier's stats;
• amulets, accessories, and rings with Soldier'southward stats.

Depending on the verbal stats and how many Badges of Honor you lot have, this may or may not be a better deal than buying them off the Trading Mail. A total set of weapons and armor will set you lot back seven-ten gilded and 1200-1500 Badges of Honor.

Karma

Each of the six temples in Orr has a meta result chain that, when completed, allows you lot to buy exotic equipment for 42,000 karma apiece. Notation that none of these are salvageable, and then yous might not want to put expensive runes in them.

• Cathedral of Glorious Victory (Straits of Devastation): Rampager's armor, Cavalier trinkets
• Cathedral of Eternal Radiance (Malchor's Jump): Rabid armor, Magi's trinkets
• Cathedral of Zephyrs (Malchor'southward Leap): Cleric's armor, Rabid trinkets
• Cathedral of Verdance (Cursed Shore): Magi's armor
• Cathedral of Silence (Cursed Shore): Berserker's armor, Soldier's trinkets
• The Narthex (Cursed Shore): Soldier'southward armor

Dungeon Tokens

If you have some experienced friends to run dungeons with, or you're willing to take your chances with LFG, you tin can get certain Cadre/Release stats by doing dungeons. Each explorable path has a daily reward of ~100 unique tokens which you tin cash in for exotic armor and weapons at the Dungeon Armor and Weapons vendor.

• Ascalonian Catacombs: Soldier'due south, Magi'south, or Rampager's
• Caudecus's Estate: Rabid, Rampager's, or Shaman's
• Twilight Arbor: Magi's, Rabid, or Rampager's
• Sorrow's Embrace: Feces, Knight's, or Soldier's
• Citadel of Flame: Berserker's, Carrion, or Rampager's
• Honor of the Waves: Magi's, Rabid, or Soldier'southward
• Crucible of Eternity: Berserker's, Dire, or Rampager's
• The Ruined City of Arah: Berserker's, Knight's, or Rabid

Ascalonian Catacombs, Twilight Arbor (not-Aetherpath), and Crucible of Eternity are the easiest dungeons for inexperienced players to tackle. Arah is grueling and not recommended for the faint of middle. If you're new to dungeons, I recommend using a LFG clarification forth the lines of "new player LF all paths, help appreciated".

Guild Backpacks

If you're in an active guild that does guild missions, you can buy exotic backpieces with Berserker's, Magi's, or Soldier's stats from the Gild Commendation Trader for five gold and five order commendations each.

You tin can besides purchase exotic weapons from this vendor, only this is not recommended equally the Trading Post is cheaper.

Prototype Fractal Capacitor

You tin can buy an exotic Berserker's, Cavalier'south, Knight's, or Rabid backpiece from BUY-4373 for ane,350 fractal relics. This backpiece can be upgraded adequately cheaply to an ascended version in the Mystic Forge, making it a good choice for fractal players. However, it does not accept an upgrade slot and hence provides inferior stats compared to all other exotic backpieces.

Annotation that the upgraded ascended version will have the same stat combination as the exotic version.

Beetle Incubator

If y'all have Living Earth Season 4 Episode 3 ("Forearmed is Forewarned"), y'all can buy an exotic backpiece from Kadir in the Domain of Kourna for some karma and map currency. This stat-selectable backpiece provides all Core and Path of Burn down stats.

Ascended Equipment

Differences from Exotic

Ascended equipment differs from exotic equipment in three crucial aspects:

i. Ascended equipment is Account Bound, not Soulbound.

This ways y'all can freely move ascended weapons and trinkets between characters, and ascended armor between characters that wear the same weight of armor.

2. You tin can't equip multiple copies of Unique ascended trinkets.

For example, you can't equip two , fifty-fifty though you take two ring slots. The aforementioned applies to accessories. Y'all tin work around this in two ways:

• Get two differently-named rings or accessories that have the aforementioned stats.
• Use one ring that is infused or attuned (meet "Infusing and Attuning Equipment" below) and one band that isn't. This is useful if you aren't planning to slot infusions into your rings.

3. Ascended armor and weapons can exist reforged in the Mystic Forge to alter their stats.

To do this, combine the ascended piece with 5 Globs of Ectoplasm, an Anthology of Heroes (bought from Miyani), and an exotic inscription/insignia with the desired stats. This lets you stat swap whatever ascended weapon or armor piece, including named weapons and armor pieces you get from achievements.

• Note that this is effectively destroying and recreating the ascended piece, so you'll lose whatever upgrades that were inside it. If you want to keep runes, sigils, or infusions, you'll have to excerpt them with an Upgrade Extractor or Infusion Extraction Device.
• This process will also cease to count every bit the original item for some purposes such as forging legendary armor.

Living Globe

The single best manner to go ascended trinkets is through the Living Earth maps. All Season three maps and some Season iv maps have a unique farmable currency that tin be used to buy stat-selectable ascended trinkets. If y'all play PvP or WvW, you tin also get the map currencies from the advisable reward tracks.

Notation that all of these are Unique, so you can simply go one ring and accessory from a single map.

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• Bloodstone Fen (Blood Rubies) - backpiece, amulet, ring
  • Note: Y'all can modify the stats on Blood Ruby trinkets by spending unbound magic.
• Ember Bay (Petrified Forest) - backpiece, accessory
• Bitterfrost Frontier (Fresh Winterberries) - backpiece, accessory, ring, aquabreather
• Lake Doric (Jade Shards) - backpiece, amulet
• Draconis Mons (Fire Orchid Blossoms) - amulet, band
• Siren's Landing (Orrian Pearls) - backpiece, amulet

Living World Season iv

• Sandswept Isles (Difluorite Crystals) - accompaniment, band
• Domain of Kourna (Laurels) - amulet, accessory, ring (Plaguedoctor's stats but)
• Thunderhead Peaks (Accolade) - amulet, accessory, band (Diviner's stats but)
• Dragonfall (Mistborn Motes) - amulet, accessory, ring

Icebrood Saga

• Bjora Marches (Eternal Ice) - amulet, accessory (crave achievements to unlock purchase selection)

Laurels

Another way to get ascended trinkets with Cadre/Release stats is to buy them from the Laurel Merchant. This vendor sells trinkets with Apothecary, Berserker's, Condescending's, Celestial, Cleric's, Knight's, Rabid, Rampager'southward, and Soldier's stats. You can also buy Cadre/Hybrid stats, and duplicates of whatever Core/Extended trinket you received from Living World Season 2 story achievements.

• Amulets merely cost xxx laurels, making this the cheapest way to become an ascended amulet.
• Rings toll 35 accolade, which is pretty inexpensive. However, getting them with honour is non recommended equally Pristine Fractal Relics are even cheaper.
• Accessories cost twoscore laurels and fifty Globs of Ectoplasm, which is simply worth it if you have lots of honour and ectoplasm to spare.

You tin as well buy from the WvW Laurel Merchant, which costs more Badges of Honor but fewer laurels.

Fractal Rings

If you lot don't heed doing fractals, yous can use Pristine Fractal Relics to buy ascended rings from Buy-2046 PFR. These are the same rings sold by the Laurel Merchant, except they only cost 10 Pristine Fractal Relics each. That's a mere three days of T1 fractal dailies, or 1 day of T3/T4 fractal dailies if you lot already accept a geared character.

Prototype Fractal Capacitor

Equally previously mentioned, BUY-4373 sells a Berserker'due south, Cavalier'due south, Knight's, or Rabid backpiece for 1,350 fractal relics, which can be upgraded to an ascended version in the Mystic Forge. If you do fractals regularly, this is one of the cheapest ascended backpacks available.

Note that the upgraded ascended version will have the same stat combination equally the exotic version.

Social club Commendations

If you're in an active lodge that does club missions, the Guild Commendation Trader sells the same ascended accessories equally the Laurel Merchant, but for 5 gold and 12 society commendations each. This is more than cost-effective than ownership them with award, as guild commendations aren't really used for annihilation else.

Mist Trinkets

You lot can buy stat-selectable ascended trinkets from vendors in fractals, PvP, or WvW. This is a relatively expensive way to obtain ascended trinkets, simply the trinkets you obtain can have any stats, and you tin can reselect stats using a Mist Capacitor. The trinkets are besides not Unique, and so you can equip multiple Mist Bands or Mist Talismans.

• Buy-2046 PFR: Pristine Fractal Relics and Integrated Fractal Matrices
• Ascended Armor League Vendor: Ascended Shards of Glory and Shards of Glory
• Skirmish Supervisor: WvW Skirmish Merits Tickets and Memories of Battle

Achievements

Some story steps and achievements provide ascended gear as a advantage. This is the best method of getting ascended gear for new players, only is limited by the achievements available.

Dungeon Collections

Unlocking all the skins for each of the dungeons will unlock an ascended accessory with Assassinator's (Caudecus's Estate or The Ruined Urban center of Arah), Carrion (Citadel of Flame or Sorrow'due south Embrace), Magi'due south (Laurels of the Waves or Twilight Arbor), or Lookout's (Ascalonian Catacombs or Crucible of Eternity) attribute combinations. These attribute combinations can be difficult to obtain if y'all simply accept access to cadre stats, but completing the collections from scratch involves running a lot of each dungeon, or its correspondind PvP/WvW reward track.

Style Guide

A stat-selectable accessory can be obtained past completing the Style Guide drove, though several items are very expensive to obtain.

Knight of the Thorn

If you consummate the Heart of Thorns story and the Knight of the Thorn questline, you tin get a stat-selectable ascended weapon with Core/Release, Core/Extended, or Heart of Thorns stats.

Yous can accept the weapon exist a dagger, greatsword, scepter, shield, or sword. While this weapon can't be stat swapped in the Mystic Forge, y'all tin can apply unbound magic to reselect its stats or the type of weapon it is.

The first ascended weapon is free (only requiring some easy collection achievements). To make more, you'll demand to complete the Heart of Thorns story on additional characters, and spend well-nigh 30 golden crafting the components for each new weapon.

Yous get a stat-selectable ascended backpiece for completing each Raise the Banners collection in Path of Fire. The stats bachelor include all of the stats sold by the Laurel Merchant, every bit well as Path of Fire stats.

In that location are iii collections you lot can finish, each one providing an ascended backpiece. You get a 4th backpiece for free later completing all the previous collections.

Specialization Collections

You get an ascended weapon for completing each Specialization Collection. The resulting ascended weapons accept a limited selection of stats but can be stat swapped in the Mystic Forge.

Middle of Thorns

• Berserker: Sentinel's, Sinister, or Vigilant torch
• Chronomancer: Berserker's, Minstrel's, or Soldier's shield
• Daredevil: Celestial, Marauder'southward, or Minstrel'southward staff
• Dragonhunter: Berserker'southward, Commander's, or Rampager's longbow
• Druid: Cleric'due south, Minstrel'south, or Nomad'south staff
• Herald: Celestial, Crusader'due south, or Trailblazer's shield
• Reaper: Berserker's, Knight'southward, or Trailblazer'due south greatsword
• Scrapper: Berserker's, Knight's, or Wanderer'south hammer
• Storm: Assassin's, Celestial, or Minstrel'southward warhorn

Path of Fire

• Deadeye: Assassin'due south, Berserker's, or Valkyrie rifle
• Firebrand: Marshal's, Trailblazer'due south, or Viper's axe
• Holosmith: Berserker'due south, Knight's, or Wanderer's sword
• Mirage: Carrion, Dire, or Rabid axe
• Renegade: Celestial, Crusader'southward, or Trailblazer's shortbow
• Scourge: Apothecary's, Carrion, or Viper's torch
• Soulbeast: Marauder'due south, Marshal's, or Viper'due south dagger
• Spellbreaker: Assassinator'southward, Knight's, or Valkyrie dagger
• Weaver: Celestial, Grieving, or Viper's sword

Each of these collections includes an expensive Mystic or Mordant weapon that will fix you back well-nigh 30 gold. Yet, collecting a Mystic shield or staff, or a Mordant axe, dagger, or sword, volition fulfill the requirement for 2 collections at once.

Story Mastery Achievements

Some story achievements provide an ascended trinket when complete:

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• Gates of Maguuma Mastery: Nomad'southward ring
• Entanglement Mastery: Nomad'south accessory
• The Dragon's Reach, Office i Mastery: Nomad's ring
• The Dragon's Reach, Function 2 Mastery: Nomad's accessory; Nomad's amulet purchasable with honor/magnetite shards
• Echoes of the Past Mastery: Sinister accessory
• Tangled Paths Mastery: Sinister ring
• Seeds of Truth Mastery: Sinister amulet; Sinister ring purchasable with bandit crests
• Indicate of No Render Mastery: Sinister accessory; Sinister amulet purchasable with laurels/magnetite shards/bandit crests

Heart of Thorns

• Center of Thorns: Act IV Mastery: Commander'southward, Minstrel's, Trailblazer's, Vigilant, Viper'south, or Wanderer'southward amulet
  • Note that this requires the hard achievement Migraine. Not recommended unless you're already an experienced PvE player or yous can become some experienced friends to bear you lot.

Path of Fire

• Path of Fire: Human action ane Mastery: Align's amulet
• Path of Burn: Act 2 Mastery: Harrier'southward amulet
• Path of Fire: Human activity 3 Mastery: Grieving amulet

Crafting

Crafting is an expensive merely reliable style to get ascended armor and weapons. You lot'll demand the advisable level 500 crafting profession and the recipe for the items you lot want to craft. You'll also demand the right materials, either acquired through farming or the Trading Post. Note that ascended trinkets cannot be crafted.

One important difference between exotic and ascended crafting is that ascended crafting requires several time-gated materials:

• Lump of Mithrillum, Glob of Elder Spirit Remainder, Spool of Thick Elonian Cord, and Spool of Silk Weaving Thread can only be crafted once a twenty-four hour period. Notwithstanding, you can bypass the fourth dimension gate by buying the finished ingots, planks, squares, or bolts off the Trading Post (although this will usually cost you more coin than making the ingredients yourself).
• Vision Crystals and Lesser Vision Crystals must be crafted with ascended materials or obtained through daily login rewards. You can farm Living World Season 3/four maps if yous demand ascended materials.
• To get Obsidian Shards to refine ascended materials, you can farm the Silverwastes, Heart of Thorns maps, Unbound Magic, or Volatile Magic. You can also buy them with karma from the Cathedral of Glorious Victory meta consequence chain.

Crafting can get complicated for Core/Extended, Heart of Thorns, and Path of Fire stats, as the advisable recipes are ofttimes locked backside map-specific currencies, and the materials may be expensive or account bound. Use the wiki to find the appropriate crafting recipes and where they tin can exist obtained from.

Crafting a full fix of ascended armor and weapons will set you dorsum 200-400 gold depending on the stat set; you might also have to spend more gold leveling your crafting or buying the recipes.

Grandmaster Marks

As an culling to crafting ascended armor and weapons directly, you lot tin can craft Grandmaster Marks and apply them to purchase ascended gear. This is primarily useful for obtaining Cadre/Extended, Heart of Thorns, or Path of Burn down stats without jumping through hoops to get the relevant crafting materials and crafting recipes.

1 vendor in each game mode sells the recipes for Grandmaster Marks, and also accepts them as a currency:

• Fractals: BLING-9009
• PvP: Ascended Armor League Vendor or Ascended Weapon League Vendor
• WvW: Skirmish Supervisor

This costs effectually the same equally crafting the items normally, merely is much more user-friendly than farming rare/account spring materials. If you play WvW or ranked PvP you lot can besides get the occasional Box of Grandmaster Marks from reward chests.

Raids

If you practice PvE raids, yous can buy ascended equipment from the Bones Magnetite Exchange Operative for magnetite shards. This is by far the cheapest way to get ascended armor and weapons, but yous have to invest time into learning to raid (or at to the lowest degree have friends that are willing to bear you lot through raids).

Vial of Table salt

Although this stat-selectable item is PvP-related, no PvP is required as the items involved in forging it can simple exist bought off the trading post.

Rurik'due south Engagement Ring

If you lot have Living World Season 3 Episode 2, Rurik'southward Engagement Band is a stat-selectable ascended ring awarded from a questline in Ember Bay. The items for the questline can be bought off the Trading Mail for about 50 gold, so information technology's an option if you have lots of aureate to spare.

Path of Burn Vendors

As a concluding resort, you tin utilise Merchandise Contracts and Pulsing Brandsparks to buy Path of Burn down trinkets from diverse open earth vendors. This is one of the worst and almost expensive options bachelor, but equally there aren't that many ways to get Path of Burn down trinkets as of this writing, information technology's included for the sake of abyss.

Runes & Sigils

Trading Post

The vast majority of upgrade components can be bought off the Trading Post. Some crafted runes and sigils similar can be expensive, simply unfortunately in that location's no amend way to obtain them (other than obtaining the materials and crafting them yourself).

Runes and sigils introduced in Path of Fire, such every bit , tin can also exist obtained for Proofs of Heroics from the Heroics Notary. If you lot play WvW, bank check the Heroics Notary before buying expensive upgrade components.

Crafting

Some runes and sigils are account jump and only bachelor through crafting, such equally . Neither the recipe nor the materials are particularly expensive, but you'll demand to accept the appropriate crafting profession leveled to craft it.

Dungeon-Exclusive Runes and Sigils

Some runes and sigils are exclusive to specific dungeons, including the following meta runes:

• : Ascalonian Catacombs
• : Twilight Arbor

The all-time way to get these is to farm the appropriate dungeon for a few days, then buy them with dungeon tokens from the Dungeon Armor and Weapons vendor. The simply culling is to obtain the tokens from the appropriate PvP/WvW reward rail; this will take much longer and is but actually worth information technology if you hate dungeons.

HoT-Exclusive Runes and Sigils

The remaining runes and sigils are account spring upgrades introduced in Heart of Thorns, and must either exist bought with map-specific currency in PvE or with Proofs of Heroics from the Heroics Notary. In practise this boils down to one of these runes:

• : Auric Basin
• : Dragon's Stand

Make up one's mind whether y'all enjoy farming PvE or WvW more, and so subcontract the appropriate currency and buy them from the vendor.

Infusions

Infusing and Attuning Equipment

To put infusions in your gear, you lot outset demand ascended equipment with infusion slots. Well-nigh ascended equipment comes with one or ii preset infusion slots. You tin increase the number of infusion slots in certain trinkets past infusing or attuning them:

• Rings and backpieces can exist infused to add 1 infusion slot, for a total of two infusion slots.
• Rings can besides be attuned to add a 2d infusion slot, for a total of iii infusion slots.

The following Mystic Forge recipe is used to infuse rings:

• The ring in question
• 5 Vials of Condensed Mist Essence
• iii Globs of Coagulated Mist Essence
• i Shard of Crystallized Mist Essence

The following Mystic Forge recipe is used to attune rings:

• The ring in question
• 1 Agonized Essence
• i +1 Agony Infusion
• i Philosopher's Stone

Backpieces accept inconsistent Mystic Forge recipes and are likewise adequately expensive to infuse (about 30 gilt + a Gift of Ascent). Bank check the wiki to meet which recipe is required to infuse your ascended backpiece.

Note that these Mystic Forge recipes finer destroy and recreate your ascended trinkets, and so you'll lose any upgrades that were inside them. Be sure to remove whatsoever expensive infusions using an Infusion Extraction Device earlier reforging them.

Desperation Infusions

Desperation infusions are relatively straightforward to acquire. They drop from fractals, and can be combined by an Artificer or INFUZ-5959 into higher tiers of agony infusions. Agony infusions can as well be bought and sold on the Trading Post.

New fractal players should aim for +nine Agony Infusions, as equipping fifteen +9 infusions, one +8 infusion, and i +7 infusion is enough to achieve 150 agony resistance. This means y'all don't need to spend gold infusing your backpiece.

Stat Infusions

+4 Stat Infusions

You can buy Mighty, Precise, Malign, Resilient, Vital, or Healing infusions from the Laurel Merchant for 5 honour each. These are the cheapest stat infusions available, but only provide +four to a stat rather than +5.

WvW Stat Infusions

WvW Laurel Merchants and Skirmish Supervisors sell stat infusions for WvW currency. These infusions provide +5 to a stat and brand you more effective against Guards, Lords, and Supervisors. If you play WvW, these are the cheapest +5 stat infusions bachelor.

Desperation Stat Infusions

INFUZ-5959 sells +5, +7, or +9 Agony Infusions that too provide +5 to a stat. These cost agony infusions and integrated fractal matrices. The +5 Desperation Infusions can also be bought for magnetite shards and aureate from the Basic Magnetite Shard Commutation Operative.

PvE players who simply plan to play raids can buy the relatively cheap +five agony stat infusions. The +vii or +9 infusions are much more than expensive and should merely be considered by extremely defended fractal players.

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