Gw2 Best Use Of Laurels

Terminal updated July 2020, No Quarter update

Introduction

This guide is an overview of the all-time ways to acquire gear for level 80 PvE and WvW content.

It'southward assumed that you lot already have a fully leveled graphic symbol 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 up World
Fractal
Raid
WvW

Equipment can exist acquired from many different sources in this game. Experience gratis to mix and match gearing methods in a way that works for you.

Exotic or Ascended?

In Club Wars 2 in that location is no gear treadmill. The simply ii equipment tiers for endgame gear are Exotic and Ascended.

Exotic gear is the second all-time tier. It's relatively cheap and like shooting fish in a barrel to obtain, as a total set of Berserker'south exotic gear simply costs ~35 golden on the Trading Post (~10 gold if you don't count trinkets). It's also expert enough for everything other than high-level fractals.

Ascended gear is the best tier. It's significantly more than expensive than exotic gear, as a full set is timegated and costs 200-400 gold to craft. All the same, it only offers a 12.v% damage 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). Yet, it's a good long-term goal, especially if you programme to play WvW or practice raids.
- Ascended gear can be upgraded with agony infusions, which provide the agony resistance needed to survive loftier-level fractals. Alternatively, they tin can be upgraded with stat infusions, which provide a marginal amount of stats. Agony stat infusions provide the best of both worlds merely are extremely expensive and most players don't bother with them.

Ascended trinkets (backpieces, amulets, accessories, rings) are relatively easy to get, so you can consider skipping exotic and going straight to ascended for these. They too offer the greatest increase in stats past far, making them the nearly efficient place to start.

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

Table of Stats and Prefixes

For the vast bulk of equipment, stat combinations are only accessible if they are part of the core ready, or y'all own the expansion they are associated with. Stat selectable equipment will allow you to choose from any of the combinations you accept admission to, with a few exceptions (such as specialization collections).

Core/Release stats were included at release. These stats are generally the easiest to acquire.
Core/Extended stats were added during Living World Seasons 1 and 2.
Core/Hybrid stats are similar to Core/Extended stats just only bachelor on certain ascended trinkets.
Heart of Thorns stats were added during Heart of Thorns and Living Earth Season iii. Other than Marauder and Crusader, these stats require the Eye of Thorns expansion.
Path of Fire stats were added during Path of Burn and Living Globe Season 4. These stats require the Path of Burn expansion.
- Diviner'southward gear is a weird edge case. This stat combination was retroactively added in Path of Burn to both Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire gear, so it requires either Middle of Thorns or Path of Burn.

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

Exotic Equipment

Trading Mail service

For Cadre/Release stats, the simplest and fastest style to get exotic equipment is to buy it off the Trading Post.

Don't search straight for the prefix, as that will only show you crafted gear. Instead, use the filters to notice the cheapest level 80 exotic gear with the stats you need.

This volition prepare you back 10-35 golden. If you don't count trinkets it volition toll less than 10 gold.

PvP/WvW

If y'all play PvP or WvW, reward tracks are the best mode 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 Reward Rails
Glorious Reward Rail (PvP only)
Legacy Armor Advantage Track
Triumphant Armor Reward Track and Triumphant Hero'south Armor (WvW only)

These provide stat-selectable weapons:

Mistforged Hero'southward weapons (WvW simply)
Obsidian Weapon Box (doesn't provide underwater weapons)

Y'all can also get certain Core/Release stats very hands through the dungeon reward tracks, which provide 3 weapons and one piece of armor:

Ascalonian Catacombs Dungeon Track (Soldier's, Magi's, or Rampager'south)
Caudecus's Estate Dungeon Track (Rabid, Rampager'south, or Shaman's)
Twilight Arbor Dungeon Runway (Magi'southward, Rabid, or Rampager'southward)
Sorrow's Encompass Dungeon Track (Carrion, Knight's, or Soldier's)
Citadel of Flame Dungeon Track (Berserker's, Carrion, or Rampager's)
Honor of the Waves Dungeon Rails (Magi's, Rabid, or Soldier's)
Crucible of Eternity Dungeon Track (Berserker's, Dire, or Rampager's)
The Ruined City of Arah Dungeon Track (Berserker'southward, Knight'south, or Rabid)

If you have any of the Living World Season 3-v episodes, you can get stat-selectable gear from their corresponding reward tracks. See "Living World Achievements" below for the gear yous can get (identical to the gear the reward track provides).

Story/Achievement Rewards

Some story steps and achievements provide exotic gear as a advantage. 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 gratis exotic equipment:

Personal Story

Victory or Expiry: Provides a Berserker's, Knight's, or Rabid caput.

Heart of Thorns

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

Living World Flavour 3

Confessor's End: Provides a stat-selectable Core/Release, Core/Extended, or Centre of Thorns caput.

Path of Fire

Blazing a Trail: Provides a Marshal's backpiece.

Elite Specialization Gear

You receive some gear for preparation an elite specialization. Note that the armor pieces are non salvageable, so you lot might not want to put expensive runes in them.

Heart of Thorns

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

Path of Burn down

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

Mistward Collections

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

Heart of Thorns Pact Backpieces

For playing through the Heart of Thorns story and completing the Agent'southward Pack, Crusader'south Pack, or Scholar'due south Pack drove, you get a backpiece with certain Cadre/Release or Core/Extended stats.

Living World Achievements

Since Heart of Thorns, most Living World episodes have had at to the lowest degree one achievement that provides stat-selectable exotic armor:

Living World Season 3

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

Living World Flavour 4

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

Icebrood Saga

Whisper in the Night: head
No Quarter: multiple head and backpieces

Crafting

Crafting is an expensive but reliable way to get exotic equipment. You'll need the appropriate level 400 crafting profession and the recipe for the items you desire to arts and crafts. You'll also demand the right materials, either acquired through farming or the Trading Post.

Crafting can go complicated for Cadre/Extended, Heart of Thorns, and Path of Burn down stats, as the appropriate recipes are oftentimes locked behind map-specific currencies, and the materials may be expensive or account bound. Utilize the wiki to find the appropriate crafting recipes and where they can be obtained from.

This will set you back 50-200 gold depending on the stat set; you might also have to spend more gilt leveling your crafting or buying the recipes.

WvW Vendors

The Weapon Main and Armor Master at each WvW spawn point sell:

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

Depending on the exact stats and how many Badges of Honor you have, this may or may non exist a better deal than ownership them off the Trading Mail. A full fix of weapons and armor volition prepare you lot back seven-10 gilded and 1200-1500 Badges of Honor.

Karma

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

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

Dungeon Tokens

If you accept some experienced friends to run dungeons with, or you're willing to take your chances with LFG, you lot can get certain Core/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's, Magi'due south, or Rampager'due south
Caudecus's Estate: Rabid, Rampager'due south, or Shaman's
Twilight Arbor: Magi's, Rabid, or Rampager'south
Sorrow'south Embrace: Carrion, Knight'southward, or Soldier's
Citadel of Flame: Berserker'south, Carrion, or Rampager's
Honor of the Waves: Magi's, Rabid, or Soldier'south
Crucible of Eternity: Berserker'due south, Dire, or Rampager'due south
The Ruined Metropolis of Arah: Berserker's, Knight'south, 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 non recommended for the faint of heart. If you're new to dungeons, I recommend using a LFG description forth the lines of "new player LF all paths, help appreciated".

Social club Backpacks

If yous're in an agile guild that does lodge missions, you lot tin buy exotic backpieces with Berserker's, Magi's, or Soldier's stats from the Order Commendation Trader for 5 golden and 5 lodge commendations each.

You can likewise buy exotic weapons from this vendor, but this is not recommended as the Trading Mail is cheaper.

Epitome Fractal Capacitor

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

Annotation that the upgraded ascended version will have the aforementioned stat combination equally the exotic version.

Beetle Incubator

If you accept Living World Flavour 4 Episode 3 ("Forearmed is Forewarned"), you tin 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 3 crucial aspects:

i. Ascended equipment is Account Bound, not Soulbound.: This ways you can freely motility ascended weapons and trinkets between characters, and ascended armor between characters that habiliment the same weight of armor.

2. Yous can't equip multiple copies of Unique ascended trinkets.: For case, you tin't equip two , fifty-fifty though you have ii ring slots. The same applies to accessories. You can piece of work around this in two ways:

Go 2 differently-named rings or accessories that have the same stats.
Use 1 ring that is infused or attuned (see "Infusing and Attuning Equipment" below) and one band that isn't. This is useful if y'all aren't planning to slot infusions into your rings.

three. Ascended armor and weapons can be reforged in the Mystic Forge to modify their stats.: To do this, combine the ascended piece with five Globs of Ectoplasm, an Anthology of Heroes (bought from Miyani), and an exotic inscription/insignia with the desired stats. This lets y'all stat bandy any ascended weapon or armor piece, including named weapons and armor pieces you become from achievements.

Note that this is effectively destroying and recreating the ascended piece, so you'll lose whatsoever upgrades that were inside information technology. If you desire to go on runes, sigils, or infusions, y'all'll have to excerpt them with an Upgrade Extractor or Infusion Extraction Device.
This process volition as well cease to count every bit the original item for some purposes such as forging legendary armor.

Living World

The single best mode to go ascended trinkets is through the Living World maps. All Flavor three maps and some Flavor iv maps have a unique farmable currency that tin exist used to buy stat-selectable ascended trinkets. If yous play PvP or WvW, you can as well get the map currencies from the appropriate reward tracks.

Notation that all of these are Unique, so yous can only get ane band and accessory from a single map.

Living World Flavour three

Bloodstone Fen (Blood Rubies) - backpiece, amulet, ring
- Note: You can change the stats on Blood Ruby trinkets by spending unbound magic.
Ember Bay (Petrified Wood) - backpiece, accessory
Bitterfrost Frontier (Fresh Winterberries) - backpiece, accompaniment, band, aquabreather
Lake Doric (Jade Shards) - backpiece, amulet
Draconis Mons (Burn down Orchid Blossoms) - amulet, ring
Siren'due south Landing (Orrian Pearls) - backpiece, amulet

Living Earth Flavor 4

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

Icebrood Saga

Bjora Marches (Eternal Ice) - amulet, accessory (require achievements to unlock purchase option)

Accolade

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

Amulets only cost 30 honour, making this the cheapest way to become an ascended amulet.
Rings price 35 laurels, which is pretty inexpensive. However, getting them with laurels is not recommended equally Pristine Fractal Relics are even cheaper.
Accessories cost 40 award and 50 Globs of Ectoplasm, which is just worth information technology if y'all have lots of laurels and ectoplasm to spare.

Y'all can also buy from the WvW Laurel Merchant, which costs more Badges of Award but fewer honor.

Fractal Rings

If you don't heed doing fractals, you tin use Pristine Fractal Relics to purchase ascended rings from BUY-2046 PFR. These are the same rings sold by the Laurel Merchant, except they simply price 10 Pristine Fractal Relics each. That'southward a mere three days of T1 fractal dailies, or 1 day of T3/T4 fractal dailies if y'all already have a geared character.

Prototype Fractal Capacitor

As previously mentioned, Purchase-4373 sells a Berserker's, Condescending'southward, Knight's, or Rabid backpiece for 1,350 fractal relics, which can be upgraded to an ascended version in the Mystic Forge. If y'all do fractals regularly, this is one of the cheapest ascended backpacks available.

Note that the upgraded ascended version will have the aforementioned stat combination as the exotic version.

Guild Commendations

If you're in an active guild that does club missions, the Order Commendation Trader sells the same ascended accessories as the Laurel Merchant, but for v gold and 12 guild commendations each. This is more price-effective than buying them with honor, every bit guild commendations aren't really used for annihilation else.

Mist Trinkets

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

Purchase-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 Claim Tickets and Memories of Battle

Achievements

Some story steps and achievements provide ascended gear as a advantage. This is the all-time method of getting ascended gear for new players, but is express by the achievements available.

Dungeon Collections

Unlocking all the skins for each of the dungeons volition unlock an ascended accompaniment with Assassin's (Caudecus's Estate or The Ruined City of Arah), Carrion (Citadel of Flame or Sorrow's Embrace), Magi'due south (Honor of the Waves or Twilight Arbor), or Scout'south (Ascalonian Catacombs or Crucible of Eternity) aspect combinations. These attribute combinations tin be hard to obtain if yous only accept access to core stats, but completing the collections from scratch involves running a lot of each dungeon, or its correspondind PvP/WvW reward runway.

Style Guide

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

Knight of the Thorn

If you complete the Centre of Thorns story and the Knight of the Thorn questline, y'all can become a stat-selectable ascended weapon with Cadre/Release, Core/Extended, or Heart of Thorns stats.

You can have the weapon be 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 need to consummate the Heart of Thorns story on boosted characters, and spend about 30 gold crafting the components for each new weapon.

You get a stat-selectable ascended backpiece for completing each Raise the Banners drove in Path of Fire. The stats available include all of the stats sold by the Laurel Merchant, as well as Path of Burn down stats.

There are 3 collections you can finish, each one providing an ascended backpiece. You go a quaternary backpiece for free afterwards completing all the previous collections.

Specialization Collections

Yous get an ascended weapon for completing each Specialization Collection. The resulting ascended weapons have a limited selection of stats merely tin exist stat swapped in the Mystic Forge.

Heart of Thorns

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

Path of Burn

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

Each of these collections includes an expensive Mystic or Mordant weapon that will set yous back nearly 30 aureate. Withal, collecting a Mystic shield or staff, or a Mordant axe, dagger, or sword, volition fulfill the requirement for two collections at once.

Story Mastery Achievements

Some story achievements provide an ascended trinket when complete:

Living World Season 2

Gates of Maguuma Mastery: Nomad'due south ring
Entanglement Mastery: Nomad's accessory
The Dragon's Reach, Role 1 Mastery: Nomad'due south ring
The Dragon's Reach, Part 2 Mastery: Nomad'south accessory; Nomad's amulet purchasable with honor/magnetite shards
Echoes of the Past Mastery: Sinister accompaniment
Tangled Paths Mastery: Sinister ring
Seeds of Truth Mastery: Sinister amulet; Sinister ring purchasable with brigand crests
Point of No Render Mastery: Sinister accessory; Sinister amulet purchasable with accolade/magnetite shards/brigand crests

Heart of Thorns

Heart of Thorns: Act 4 Mastery: Commander's, Minstrel's, Trailblazer'south, Vigilant, Viper's, or Wanderer's amulet
- Note that this requires the difficult achievement Migraine. Non recommended unless you're already an experienced PvE histrion or yous can get some experienced friends to bear you.

Path of Burn down

Path of Fire: Act 1 Mastery: Marshal's amulet
Path of Burn down: Act two Mastery: Harrier's amulet
Path of Fire: Act 3 Mastery: Grieving amulet

Crafting

Crafting is an expensive merely reliable manner to get ascended armor and weapons. Yous'll demand the appropriate level 500 crafting profession and the recipe for the items you desire to arts and crafts. You'll also need the right materials, either acquired through farming or the Trading Postal service. 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 Rest, Spool of Thick Elonian Cord, and Spool of Silk Weaving Thread tin can only be crafted once a day. However, y'all tin can featherbed the fourth dimension gate past buying the finished ingots, planks, squares, or bolts off the Trading Post (although this volition normally cost you lot more money than making the ingredients yourself).
Vision Crystals and Bottom Vision Crystals must be crafted with ascended materials or obtained through daily login rewards. Y'all can farm Living World Season 3/4 maps if you demand ascended materials.
To get Obsidian Shards to refine ascended materials, yous tin can farm the Silverwastes, Eye of Thorns maps, Unbound Magic, or Volatile Magic. You lot can also purchase them with karma from the Cathedral of Glorious Victory meta event chain.

Crafting tin can go complicated for Core/Extended, Middle of Thorns, and Path of Fire stats, as the advisable recipes are often locked behind map-specific currencies, and the materials may be expensive or account leap. Use the wiki to find the advisable crafting recipes and where they tin be obtained from.

Crafting a full set of ascended armor and weapons will fix you lot back 200-400 aureate depending on the stat set; you might too take to spend more gold leveling your crafting or ownership the recipes.

Grandmaster Marks

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

Ane vendor in each game way 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 around the aforementioned as crafting the items unremarkably, but is much more convenient than farming rare/account bound materials. If you play WvW or ranked PvP you can also get the occasional Box of Grandmaster Marks from reward chests.

Raids

If you practise PvE raids, you tin can buy ascended equipment from the Basic Magnetite Exchange Operative for magnetite shards. This is past far the cheapest way to get ascended armor and weapons, but you have to invest time into learning to raid (or at least take friends that are willing to acquit y'all through raids).

Vial of Salt

Although this stat-selectable item is PvP-related, no PvP is required every bit the items involved in forging it tin simple be bought off the trading post.

Rurik's Engagement Ring

If you lot accept Living Earth Season iii Episode 2, Rurik'south Engagement Ring is a stat-selectable ascended ring awarded from a questline in Ember Bay. The items for the questline tin be bought off the Trading Mail service for about 50 gold, so it's an choice if you have lots of gold to spare.

Path of Burn down Vendors

As a last resort, you tin apply Trade Contracts and Pulsing Brandsparks to buy Path of Fire trinkets from various open world vendors. This is one of the worst and well-nigh expensive options available, but as at that place aren't that many means to go Path of Burn down trinkets as of this writing, it's included for the sake of completeness.

Runes & Sigils

Trading Post

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

Runes and sigils introduced in Path of Fire, such equally , can too exist obtained for Proofs of Heroics from the Heroics Notary. If you play WvW, check the Heroics Notary before buying expensive upgrade components.

Crafting

Some runes and sigils are account bound and only available through crafting, such as . Neither the recipe nor the materials are particularly expensive, only you'll need to have the appropriate crafting profession leveled to arts and crafts information technology.

Dungeon-Exclusive Runes and Sigils

Some runes and sigils are exclusive to specific dungeons, including the post-obit meta runes:

: Ascalonian Catacombs
: Twilight Arbor

The best way to become these is to farm the appropriate dungeon for a few days, and so buy them with dungeon tokens from the Dungeon Armor and Weapons vendor. The only culling is to obtain the tokens from the advisable PvP/WvW advantage track; this will take much longer and is only really worth it if you detest dungeons.

HoT-Exclusive Runes and Sigils

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

: Auric Bowl
: Dragon'southward Stand

Decide whether y'all enjoy farming PvE or WvW more, and then subcontract the appropriate currency and buy them from the vendor.

Infusions

Infusing and Attuning Equipment

To put infusions in your gear, you lot first need ascended equipment with infusion slots. Near ascended equipment comes with one or two preset infusion slots. Yous can increase the number of infusion slots in certain trinkets by infusing or attuning them:

Rings and backpieces can be infused to add one infusion slot, for a total of 2 infusion slots.
Rings can likewise exist attuned to add together a 2nd infusion slot, for a full of three infusion slots.

The following Mystic Forge recipe is used to infuse rings:

The band in question
5 Vials of Condensed Mist Essence
3 Globs of Coagulated Mist Essence
1 Shard of Crystallized Mist Essence

The following Mystic Forge recipe is used to attune rings:

The band in question
1 Agonized Essence
1 +1 Desperation Infusion
1 Philosopher's Stone

Backpieces have inconsistent Mystic Forge recipes and are also fairly expensive to infuse (near xxx gold + a Souvenir of Ascension). Check the wiki to come across which recipe is required to infuse your ascended backpiece.

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

Agony Infusions

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

New fractal players should aim for +9 Agony Infusions, every bit equipping fifteen +9 infusions, ane +8 infusion, and 1 +vii infusion is enough to accomplish 150 desperation resistance. This ways you don't need to spend gilt infusing your backpiece.

Stat Infusions

+4 Stat Infusions

You can buy Mighty, Precise, Malign, Resilient, Vital, or Healing infusions from the Laurel Merchant for five honour each. These are the cheapest stat infusions available, but only provide +4 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 than effective against Guards, Lords, and Supervisors. If you play WvW, these are the cheapest +5 stat infusions bachelor.

Agony Stat Infusions

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

PvE players who but program to play raids tin purchase the relatively cheap +5 agony stat infusions. The +7 or +9 infusions are much more expensive and should but be considered past extremely defended fractal players.

Adapted from User:Tanetris/So You Want To Gear a Character

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