Great video! I would add a disclaimer that you should never ever ever stat-swap an ascended precursor. It will be replaced with a generic variant and no longer function as a precursor, which is a major feelsbad moment when it happens.
If you want to get a lot of Winterfresh Berries quickly, I recommend doing the "Return to A Crack In The Ice" achievement. The objectives are very easy, and will net you 500 berries for completing any 6 objectives.
For the ascended backpack, you can get a "free" one with the achievement "Raise the Banners: ...", the achievement is unlock after doing a story part of PoF. If I remember correctly it is a pretty easy achivement to do
Great video! As a resident dungeon enthusiast I'd also call out that dungeon currency are a great way for getting gear with core stats. Mostly only useful for berserker but still worth mentioning as a way of getting exotic gear for zero gold. Also a decent way to get exotic underwater weapons on all of your characters for cheap if you're like me and don't want to waste ascended weapons on those.
@@willdeit6057 I don't see Vipers as an option and my understanding was that only core stats are available. I was thinking recently that simply adding Celestial as an option for one of the dungeons would be a neat little buff to dungeons, as a nice and easy way for newer players to get a powerful stat combo.
Amazing guide Lara! I remember my days farming berries in Bitterfrost (haha). It is a bit sad that most interesting stat combinations for non-power and support roles are a bit more difficult (cries in "harrier" (full heal), "viper" (condi dps), "diviner" (power boon dps) and "ritualist" (condi boon dps) 🥲). I'm sure this will help out lots of (new) people!!! Good luck gearing up everyone!
Really well-explained and comprehensive guide! Seeing all the options can be a bit daunting, but once you get going it's all very doable. Happy gearing! 😄
Another good alternative source for an Exotic chest piece and just stat selectable exotic armour in general is Warlord's Armor Boxes from WvW and ranked PvP. You won't be able to get them as quickly as Bladed, but if you play much of either mode, those boxes will start piling up after a while and saving them to gear up new characters can save a quite bit of time and money.
pro tip for bladed armor: dont buy the gloves as they can be a drop in airship cargo. you will get them eventually. i currently have 4 unused glove boxes lying around on my bank. edit: another pro tip: always craft zojjas (berserkers) ascended items and statswap them with the inscription/insignia with the stats of your choice (+5ectoplasmas +1anthology of heroes), as some ascended insignias/inscription are really annoying/expensive to craft
Some additional ways to get armor- WvW and PvP both allow you to buy stat selectable armor and the Reward tracks give additional armor. WvW Hero's reward track will give you an easy cheap path to Ascended weapons.
I'm loving these straight-forward yet comprehensive and actionable guide videos you've been pumping out! GW2 can be so daunting - even as a 6 year uber-casual veteran, I still don't know the most optimal ways to gear myself up for various end game content so this video is super helpful to keep me on track.
A bit harder to get but the ascended trinkets from Bloodstone Fen can be stat swapped at the vendor that sells them. Also do the IBS Easy 3 strikes to get Eternal Ice Shards, you can swap these for other LWS4 map currency (like Mistborn Motes) at Bjora Marches. This can help you gear alts a bit faster and put a little extra gold in your pocket. Lastly check the LWS3, 4 and IBS dailies to get map currencies too.
Some bonus tips from a new, but quick-learning player: 1. Trade the blue prophet shards for green prophet shards and buy the EoD ascended weapons instead of the IBS ones if you need an expansion-locked stat. They trade at 1:1 rate so you won't lose anything 2. Get the IBS episode with Bjora Marches and do the achievement Idolatry, it will unlock buying ascended accesory (Asgeir's Talisman) for 375 Eternal Ice Shards (you get them REALLY easy, I get 500-1000 each day) and like 60k karma, much cheaper than any other accesory in the game IMO 3. Don't craft any ascended backpacks, go towards the Ad: Infinitum legendary backpack, you will need to craft an ascended Fractal backpack as part of the achievements anyways, and you can use that one until you finish the legendary one 4. Try doing the dailies and recs fractals in t4 each day, they drop at least 1 ascended ring/day, saving yourself the pristines, and can come directly attuned or infused so you don't have to use money to attune or infuse it when you will have to 5. Do harder content from the get-go (and I don't mean strikes or raids, but stuff like Tequatl, Dragonstorm, Drakkar, Triple Trouble and other that have ascended drop rate), at like 0-50% magic find on new accounts you will have a higher drop-rate for ascendeds, like Anet trying to give you a small boost and encouraging you to play more and harder content Thanks everyone for reading this and I wish you all a great day and all the best!
Gw2 is a great great mmo. Enjoy your journey and make a legendary your goal, it really changes how you play and you see so much more of the game by doing the collections
You can also buy EXOTIC stat selectable armor for Helm and Shoulder from Trading Post - Shoulders of the Ebon Vanguard Choice Chest (shoulder) and Ice Golem's Maw Box (helm)
Sandswept isle ascended trinkets are also stat selectable and are exchanged for difflourite. Making sandswept and dragonfall the only zones in s4 with stat selectable trinkets.
It's missing that you can use eternal Ice shards to buy any living world 4 currency. that alone can get you full ascended trinkets from any living world 4 map you only mention that you can use it for a back item even if you can use it for more than that. This will help new people to dump their extra quantity of eternal ice shards in to some thing instead of dropping it. I know you can turn it into gold but its kinda a hassle to do.
u can get a stat selective backpiece if u have all 3 sets of antique armor (berserker stat) they are somewhat expensive but as of today u can get every piece for 1-1.4 gold each (u will have to equip ur chara and prob alts too) so it would get a bit more expensive doing it with this armor but it will save u time and money in getting the backpiece (crafted cost if u take only the ectos is like 20g as of today) so 1.5x18=27g that would cost u to get full berserker armor for light/medium and heavy classes u have (1 set for each category) so it means u would be spending 7g on getting the armor maybe even less cuz those 250 vicious claws, 240 philosophers stone cost a bit too (just checked claws on market are at 19silver eachx250 which means around 48 gold...) so yeah just buy antique armor when gearing at least for the first time every weight class armor u will save a ton of gold on getting ascended backpiece that way
8:29 this doesn't solve the problem long term if you're running fractals, but "for the purposes of uniqueness, infused and attuned versions of rings count as different items, so if you accidentally buy two identical rings you can upgrade one of them to avoid this limitation." (wiki)
5:20: Laughs in Celebrand! Open World? Sure! Condi-Quick? You got it. Healing? Sure, let me swap my traitline and we are ready! Raids? Anyone beats ~1700t? No... Guess you also cover the tank role now!
I got my first ascended weapon last week via HoT specialization collection (Glint's Bastion for my Herald). The steps I had to go through to get the items reminded me a bit of doing the Heavenward relic weapon for Dark Knight in FFXIV; which was more difficult that the previous three expansion relics; and strangely the only one of those I've ever completed. *Edit:* I remember why. The Dark Knight lvl 60 finished relic (Cronus Lux) is still the best looking of their relics. So I was motivated purely for it's aesthetic. I ended up enjoying this in GW2 overall; although grinding HoT mastery for specific niche abilities (that I probably wouldn't otherwise bother spend time unlocking) wasn't all that fun. Still I'll look forward to doing the Renegade collection for this character when I reach PoF probably this summer.
@@broken_boomerang That's good to know. Right now I only have one character at max level, but I want to play my alts at PvE endgame too. Right now I only use them in PvP to test elite spec builds.
i really enjoyed this guide, even though i been playing off and on since launch it never fails that i learn at least ONE thing new in these guide videos. Thank you!
Ive been wandering around exploring the map but im definitely going to work on getting to at least ascended weapon, trinkets, and exotic other gear. Thanks!
One thing I will say on the stat selectable trinkets from Fractals/PvP/WvW, the ring is worth it more so than the rest, since that ring is infused already. Infusing rings is also a bit of an investment. Far more than merely attuning. Those slots are very needed in later Fractals.
While you are correct. The Ascended does take some time to make, but ANET sometimes nerfs your tune and you have to adjust. Legendary gear is great, but very challenging. The nice thing about ascended is that you can change the stats. Great video :)
You can Attune or Infuse Rings to make another version you can wear like: 1 Red Death and 1 Attuned Red Death, 1Red Death(Infused) and 1 Attuned Red Death(same goes for the season 3/4 rings) but not 2 Attuned Red Death
There is a way to get an ascended backpiece as a PvPer. For the longest time I didnt know you could do that. If you play ranked you also get some pvp tickets. With those you can buy the pvp winged back pieces up to exotic. However if you combined all their rarities into the mystic forge you will get a stat selectable ascended backpiece! (And its skin)
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This guide is going straight into my gw2 reference playlist, and then I'm shooting it over to my friend who I just got into gw2. I never knew that exotic armor sets were so easy to get thanks to Verdant Brink. I used to farm that map daily, but only for the gemstone from the hero's choice chest, so looks like I'll be getting back into doing that meta regularly. Wish I knew all this though before, cus last week I sunk a lot of my gold and mats into making a ascended medium and heavy set of armor for two of my alts😬. Had I known, I definitely would have gone the exotic route instead and saved the mats for a legendary weapon down the line.
if you like to play wvw you can also get ascended weapons there, it's kinda like the raid ascended, you get them as precursors for wvw legendary armour. if you don't like wvw then i don't recomend it cause it's too much of a grind. but if you do enjoy wvw maybe you already have all the currency you need to get it. and you can one day upgrade them to legendaries if you want (as long as you don't stat change the pieces in the mystic forge).
Really good guide as always, Lara! ^^ It's easy to be intimidated by the prospect of getting ascended gear, but it doesn't have to be hard! And one of the big reasons why legendary gear is such a good long term goal to work towards, is that for every piece of it you get you *never* have to worry about getting that piece of gear again, which is a lovely bit of QoL ^^
You can also get an Ascended backpiece with unbound magic in Bloodstone Fen. Good video, thx for the info, I didn't know about the berries (haven't gotten that far in that one yet).
I watch a LOT of guild wars 2 videos. This might be one of the best videos I have ever watched. This is so informative, pleasantly presented and well articulated.
Just throwing this in for people who do not own living world - you can get a stat selectable ascended amulet by completing the master achievement of Heart of Thorns Episode IV. It is a bit annoying - especially the flying achievement - but it can be done in one day after you complete the HoT story.
Celestial gears work just fine for condi builds. Every condi builds inevitably take advantage of all stats that Celestial has to offer. A power increase is a increase to your condi build's DPS too. Not to mention the scaling effects of Utilty items and odd condi builds like Condi Virtuoso proccing a bleed stack based on critical hit, thus synergizing with the precision stat.
Small note: you missed the tip that 2 copies of a unique rings can be overlapped if you attune one, and that stat-selection can be reset once per individual ring by attuning it, also.
Great video and great explenation 🥰❤️ I even learned some stuff despite playing the game for 10+ years :D Shows how this video can be for everyone. To everyone watching this video: good luck gearing up! 🤗
Didn't know this, turns out I had 400 laurels I had no clue how I got them. Went into edge of mist in WvW and just got 2 sets of ascended trinkets. One set for condi build one set for healer
Sie note, You DO NOT NEED to RE LEVEL Your CRAFTING Skills VIA Multiple Characters, once your have MAXed out a Crafting Proffesion on one character, you can usually switch to another Crafting Proffession for ingame gold, and be able to keep your old professions progress while on that cahracter. your progress on each proffesion will be saved based on which chracter you arer playing, so if your warrior is a weapon master and a Armor Master all you have to do is switch one of those professions to another crafting profession and you will be able to keep the progress on both of those crafting professions.
One thing about backpiece I would mention: if you can't get ascended, you can get 78 exotic from crafting. It is super easy to do, costs 70s, and exotic 80 vs 78 stat difference is super small, while 80 exotic vs 80 ascended is almost double its stats = skip 80 exotic backpiece. :)
I used to have a rabid warrior build, focusing on condi damage over time dps, tanking build, and physical combat I used sw sw, by itselff, and I came up with it after seeing the old sw sw bow build and wanting to get rid of the bow. i used to really love that build and i have been extremely tempted to bring it back. I used to love using it in pvp and pve back in heart of thorns, and god do i miss it sometimes. when the guardian brought out its sword sword physical build release during end of dragons? i was like "they took my build!!!" lol i also experimented with a gun only sniper warrior build based on the seraph traning quest in queensdale, and a healing bow warrior build as well for a while. the gun build was better for "kill securing" and the bow build was a support focused dammage over time aoe build. right now i am using berserkers "blademaster warrior build where i use both sw sw and gs focsing on burst damage. its good but i still miss experimenting alot. oh i almost forgot? I don't ever use anything but core base game builds. which means that if you are ever curious about a build i have? any player type can usually use it.
Great video, but I would add that Bloodstone Fen is another good map to get Ascended Trinkets and the backpack. But also, you could have mentioned that by doing Fractals you may get a drop of Ascended Trinkets (Attuned! if you're lucky) and what Attuned and Infused mean.
Ooh yeah, if I ever make a fractal guide, it will fit super perfectly in there! I think if you're just trying to gear up for the first time, you won't have to worry too much about it yet
You never mentioned the jade bot method to obtain trinkets, slot the junk recycler to obtain jade slivers, trade them for season 4 map currency, buy season 4 trinkets. Also eternal ice from strikes/Bjora to season 4 currency and some WvW/PvP reward tracks offer season 3/4 currency too.
For the exotic section, dont forget that the "Ice Golem's Maw Box" is a cheap stat selectable headpiece on the Trading Post (a bit over 1 gold). Iron legion weapons (Staff, Pistol, Greatsword, and Sword) are also available on Trading Post, although only beat out the more expensive stat types.
If my math is correct that's about 75 days to get all of the discounted Laurel accessories per spec per character... I'm guessing the other methods are much faster from a calendar days perspective, but take more in-game time.
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I wish more than just Verdant Brink existed... You get 1 chance per day since there's quite a few hours inbetween each Night cycle and you have to wait til people are actually active and getting it to T4. Chances are low. and I didnt get the chest the first time despite it being t4
How do you get Daily log ins? Only way I get laurels is wizards tower. But all the videos talk about daily log ins.. I've looked and looked and can't find it. Was it removed or am I just blind?
Feels like you need a phd to understand how to get max gear in gw2 and get the right stats :/ ... coming from other mmos it just feels alot easier to know that you have to get your current raid set and you are fine until next raid drops Guess it takes longer to get best gear in gw2 but once acquired you are fine forever but yeah, bit of a bummer to see such a complicated way to get gear... miss the good old gw1 days :/
I wish the game did a better job at explaining these things. I returned to the game 2 weeks ago and I was focusing on finishing the base story and reaching lvl 80. Now it's time to gear up and aside from crafting, I was confused about how else to get gear. I didn't even know there was legendary gear in the game now!
Are the daily login rewards gone now? I haven’t played in a couple years but I’ve been playing the last week and I forgot that was a thing until I saw it here. Did the battle pass type thing replace it? If so, where can I get laurels?
if gear never gets better like in most mmos then what happens when a new expansion drops ? do we just get different gear with equal stat amounts or do new expansions just not bring any new gear ? that would seem a bit boring if i never have to level up and upgrade my gear on a new xpac
Forgot to mention that blood rubi trinkets can be reset for small fee of volatile magic, and mist trinkets are not unique and can be reset too for memes of battle
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Great video!
I would add a disclaimer that you should never ever ever stat-swap an ascended precursor. It will be replaced with a generic variant and no longer function as a precursor, which is a major feelsbad moment when it happens.
If you want to get a lot of Winterfresh Berries quickly, I recommend doing the "Return to A Crack In The Ice" achievement. The objectives are very easy, and will net you 500 berries for completing any 6 objectives.
I don't see this achievement. Do you know why this may be?
Wow, amazing video. Thank you. Also I loved your birthday shrimp stream.
@@exeedorbitin the side stories section
For the ascended backpack, you can get a "free" one with the achievement "Raise the Banners: ...", the achievement is unlock after doing a story part of PoF.
If I remember correctly it is a pretty easy achivement to do
This is a good shout!! Probably would have included that achievement if I had remembered
UPDATE: you can buy stat-selectable Exotic armor in WvW since the September 26 2023 patch
Great video!
As a resident dungeon enthusiast I'd also call out that dungeon currency are a great way for getting gear with core stats. Mostly only useful for berserker but still worth mentioning as a way of getting exotic gear for zero gold. Also a decent way to get exotic underwater weapons on all of your characters for cheap if you're like me and don't want to waste ascended weapons on those.
Keeping the dungeon scene alive!!
Actually you can get Viper gear (Caudicus Manor dungeon) and if required salvage it for the Insignia.
@@willdeit6057 I don't see Vipers as an option and my understanding was that only core stats are available. I was thinking recently that simply adding Celestial as an option for one of the dungeons would be a neat little buff to dungeons, as a nice and easy way for newer players to get a powerful stat combo.
Amazing guide Lara! I remember my days farming berries in Bitterfrost (haha). It is a bit sad that most interesting stat combinations for non-power and support roles are a bit more difficult (cries in "harrier" (full heal), "viper" (condi dps), "diviner" (power boon dps) and "ritualist" (condi boon dps) 🥲). I'm sure this will help out lots of (new) people!!!
Good luck gearing up everyone!
Really well-explained and comprehensive guide! Seeing all the options can be a bit daunting, but once you get going it's all very doable. Happy gearing! 😄
Another good alternative source for an Exotic chest piece and just stat selectable exotic armour in general is Warlord's Armor Boxes from WvW and ranked PvP. You won't be able to get them as quickly as Bladed, but if you play much of either mode, those boxes will start piling up after a while and saving them to gear up new characters can save a quite bit of time and money.
pro tip for bladed armor: dont buy the gloves as they can be a drop in airship cargo. you will get them eventually. i currently have 4 unused glove boxes lying around on my bank.
edit: another pro tip: always craft zojjas (berserkers) ascended items and statswap them with the inscription/insignia with the stats of your choice (+5ectoplasmas +1anthology of heroes), as some ascended insignias/inscription are really annoying/expensive to craft
Some additional ways to get armor- WvW and PvP both allow you to buy stat selectable armor and the Reward tracks give additional armor. WvW Hero's reward track will give you an easy cheap path to Ascended weapons.
I'm loving these straight-forward yet comprehensive and actionable guide videos you've been pumping out! GW2 can be so daunting - even as a 6 year uber-casual veteran, I still don't know the most optimal ways to gear myself up for various end game content so this video is super helpful to keep me on track.
People often miss this, but (!) taking Berserker stats into WvW is a very bad idea most of the time.
It depends for whom I like 1 hit kills on these enemies
@@RUclipsChillZone Easy roamer points, yeah 🤣
Fantastic video, doing better than half the gw2 content creators in a far more cohesive, digestible manor. Please don't stop making content.
A bit harder to get but the ascended trinkets from Bloodstone Fen can be stat swapped at the vendor that sells them. Also do the IBS Easy 3 strikes to get Eternal Ice Shards, you can swap these for other LWS4 map currency (like Mistborn Motes) at Bjora Marches. This can help you gear alts a bit faster and put a little extra gold in your pocket. Lastly check the LWS3, 4 and IBS dailies to get map currencies too.
Some bonus tips from a new, but quick-learning player:
1. Trade the blue prophet shards for green prophet shards and buy the EoD ascended weapons instead of the IBS ones if you need an expansion-locked stat. They trade at 1:1 rate so you won't lose anything
2. Get the IBS episode with Bjora Marches and do the achievement Idolatry, it will unlock buying ascended accesory (Asgeir's Talisman) for 375 Eternal Ice Shards (you get them REALLY easy, I get 500-1000 each day) and like 60k karma, much cheaper than any other accesory in the game IMO
3. Don't craft any ascended backpacks, go towards the Ad: Infinitum legendary backpack, you will need to craft an ascended Fractal backpack as part of the achievements anyways, and you can use that one until you finish the legendary one
4. Try doing the dailies and recs fractals in t4 each day, they drop at least 1 ascended ring/day, saving yourself the pristines, and can come directly attuned or infused so you don't have to use money to attune or infuse it when you will have to
5. Do harder content from the get-go (and I don't mean strikes or raids, but stuff like Tequatl, Dragonstorm, Drakkar, Triple Trouble and other that have ascended drop rate), at like 0-50% magic find on new accounts you will have a higher drop-rate for ascendeds, like Anet trying to give you a small boost and encouraging you to play more and harder content
Thanks everyone for reading this and I wish you all a great day and all the best!
I just started playing GW2 after having never played before. This video was super helpful, thank you.
Gw2 is a great great mmo. Enjoy your journey and make a legendary your goal, it really changes how you play and you see so much more of the game by doing the collections
I love the different auto-generated captions for you saying "Guild Wars II". "Kill the Sue" legit made me laugh. Another great vid!
Guilt or stew is also a great one xD
as a new player this is not the guide i wanted but it was the guide i needed. thanks
You can also buy EXOTIC stat selectable armor for Helm and Shoulder from Trading Post - Shoulders of the Ebon Vanguard Choice Chest (shoulder) and Ice Golem's Maw Box (helm)
Sandswept isle ascended trinkets are also stat selectable and are exchanged for difflourite. Making sandswept and dragonfall the only zones in s4 with stat selectable trinkets.
It's missing that you can use eternal Ice shards to buy any living world 4 currency. that alone can get you full ascended trinkets from any living world 4 map you only mention that you can use it for a back item even if you can use it for more than that.
This will help new people to dump their extra quantity of eternal ice shards in to some thing instead of dropping it. I know you can turn it into gold but its kinda a hassle to do.
Is it true that you get those way faster? Then the lw currencies
@@gangrel1234 If you like to do daly strike missions then you will get more than enough than you know what to do with.
u can get a stat selective backpiece if u have all 3 sets of antique armor (berserker stat) they are somewhat expensive but as of today u can get every piece for 1-1.4 gold each (u will have to equip ur chara and prob alts too) so it would get a bit more expensive doing it with this armor but it will save u time and money in getting the backpiece (crafted cost if u take only the ectos is like 20g as of today) so 1.5x18=27g that would cost u to get full berserker armor for light/medium and heavy classes u have (1 set for each category) so it means u would be spending 7g on getting the armor maybe even less cuz those 250 vicious claws, 240 philosophers stone cost a bit too (just checked claws on market are at 19silver eachx250 which means around 48 gold...) so yeah just buy antique armor when gearing at least for the first time every weight class armor u will save a ton of gold on getting ascended backpiece that way
8:29 this doesn't solve the problem long term if you're running fractals, but "for the purposes of uniqueness, infused and attuned versions of rings count as different items, so if you accidentally buy two identical rings you can upgrade one of them to avoid this limitation." (wiki)
5:20: Laughs in Celebrand!
Open World? Sure!
Condi-Quick? You got it.
Healing? Sure, let me swap my traitline and we are ready!
Raids? Anyone beats ~1700t? No... Guess you also cover the tank role now!
I got my first ascended weapon last week via HoT specialization collection (Glint's Bastion for my Herald).
The steps I had to go through to get the items reminded me a bit of doing the Heavenward relic weapon for Dark Knight in FFXIV; which was more difficult that the previous three expansion relics; and strangely the only one of those I've ever completed.
*Edit:* I remember why. The Dark Knight lvl 60 finished relic (Cronus Lux) is still the best looking of their relics. So I was motivated purely for it's aesthetic.
I ended up enjoying this in GW2 overall; although grinding HoT mastery for specific niche abilities (that I probably wouldn't otherwise bother spend time unlocking) wasn't all that fun.
Still I'll look forward to doing the Renegade collection for this character when I reach PoF probably this summer.
The POF weapon collections are the easiest of the three (HOT, POF, EOD). Most of my ascended weapons on my different alts are from the collections.
@@broken_boomerang That's good to know. Right now I only have one character at max level, but I want to play my alts at PvE endgame too.
Right now I only use them in PvP to test elite spec builds.
I would like to add that you can get an Ascended underwater Head piece in Bitterforest as well.
after many years of wow i just started GW2 very recently and i am loving it so far, thank you for the videos this is very nice info!
i really enjoyed this guide, even though i been playing off and on since launch it never fails that i learn at least ONE thing new in these guide videos. Thank you!
Thanks for the vid! Huge help for a newbie like myself, still new to the game
Ive been wandering around exploring the map but im definitely going to work on getting to at least ascended weapon, trinkets, and exotic other gear. Thanks!
Ascended armor from pvp and wvsw are precursor for legendary armors.
One thing I will say on the stat selectable trinkets from Fractals/PvP/WvW, the ring is worth it more so than the rest, since that ring is infused already. Infusing rings is also a bit of an investment. Far more than merely attuning. Those slots are very needed in later Fractals.
They need the same currency as legendary so no point
7:00 You can also do daily in those maps to get some of map materials (and little amount of karma too ;) )
While you are correct. The Ascended does take some time to make, but ANET sometimes nerfs your tune and you have to adjust. Legendary gear is great, but very challenging. The nice thing about ascended is that you can change the stats. Great video :)
Yeee, being able to stat swap ascended gear for a small fee is HUGE when balance happens!
You can Attune or Infuse Rings to make another version you can wear like: 1 Red Death and 1 Attuned Red Death, 1Red Death(Infused) and 1 Attuned Red Death(same goes for the season 3/4 rings) but not 2 Attuned Red Death
i got my whole ascended set from fractals, weapons from dragonfall meta box (have to be lucky)
More info: You can get Temple Armour (exotic) For Karma at the temples in Orr if you have that area.
Yes, but statistics are useless.
It's about getting items that will allow you to end game
There is a way to get an ascended backpiece as a PvPer. For the longest time I didnt know you could do that.
If you play ranked you also get some pvp tickets. With those you can buy the pvp winged back pieces up to exotic. However if you combined all their rarities into the mystic forge you will get a stat selectable ascended backpiece! (And its skin)
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This guide is going straight into my gw2 reference playlist, and then I'm shooting it over to my friend who I just got into gw2. I never knew that exotic armor sets were so easy to get thanks to Verdant Brink. I used to farm that map daily, but only for the gemstone from the hero's choice chest, so looks like I'll be getting back into doing that meta regularly. Wish I knew all this though before, cus last week I sunk a lot of my gold and mats into making a ascended medium and heavy set of armor for two of my alts😬. Had I known, I definitely would have gone the exotic route instead and saved the mats for a legendary weapon down the line.
if you like to play wvw you can also get ascended weapons there, it's kinda like the raid ascended, you get them as precursors for wvw legendary armour. if you don't like wvw then i don't recomend it cause it's too much of a grind. but if you do enjoy wvw maybe you already have all the currency you need to get it. and you can one day upgrade them to legendaries if you want (as long as you don't stat change the pieces in the mystic forge).
since warlord chest were added, doing a little pvp/wvw will give loads of stat selectable armor boxes
Really good guide as always, Lara! ^^
It's easy to be intimidated by the prospect of getting ascended gear, but it doesn't have to be hard! And one of the big reasons why legendary gear is such a good long term goal to work towards, is that for every piece of it you get you *never* have to worry about getting that piece of gear again, which is a lovely bit of QoL ^^
You can also get an Ascended backpiece with unbound magic in Bloodstone Fen. Good video, thx for the info, I didn't know about the berries (haven't gotten that far in that one yet).
I watch a LOT of guild wars 2 videos.
This might be one of the best videos I have ever watched.
This is so informative, pleasantly presented and well articulated.
This is so good! I didn't know the laurel vendor had cele trinkets it's amazing
Just throwing this in for people who do not own living world - you can get a stat selectable ascended amulet by completing the master achievement of Heart of Thorns Episode IV. It is a bit annoying - especially the flying achievement - but it can be done in one day after you complete the HoT story.
Celestial gears work just fine for condi builds. Every condi builds inevitably take advantage of all stats that Celestial has to offer. A power increase is a increase to your condi build's DPS too. Not to mention the scaling effects of Utilty items and odd condi builds like Condi Virtuoso proccing a bleed stack based on critical hit, thus synergizing with the precision stat.
Celestial is just kinda awesome, isn't it?
I never thought I needed this video, thank you for explaining and showing me how to get these items!
Small note: you missed the tip that 2 copies of a unique rings can be overlapped if you attune one, and that stat-selection can be reset once per individual ring by attuning it, also.
Great video and great explenation 🥰❤️ I even learned some stuff despite playing the game for 10+ years :D Shows how this video can be for everyone.
To everyone watching this video: good luck gearing up! 🤗
Gearing up characters is one of my fav pasttimes in MMO. I am not sure i'll like this but i am trying GW2 for the first time :)
Excellent, informative and thorough video Lara!
Didn't know this, turns out I had 400 laurels I had no clue how I got them. Went into edge of mist in WvW and just got 2 sets of ascended trinkets. One set for condi build one set for healer
Sie note, You DO NOT NEED to RE LEVEL Your CRAFTING Skills VIA Multiple Characters,
once your have MAXed out a Crafting Proffesion on one character, you can usually switch to another Crafting Proffession for ingame gold, and be able to keep your old professions progress while on that cahracter. your progress on each proffesion will be saved based on which chracter you arer playing, so if your warrior is a weapon master and a Armor Master all you have to do is switch one of those professions to another crafting profession and you will be able to keep the progress on both of those crafting professions.
Thx for all ! I up my new caracter (Futur Spell Breaker) and you give me a lot of answer ^^
You can get some ascended gear now in the wiz vault too :)
You can also get an ascended Back piece in Lake Doric again it's a farmable item.
Thanks for the video.
I just wish this video came out 1 day before because that's when I got myself a "Berserker" armor set 3-4 golds each :D
;-; i understood everything this is the best guide i've seen so far (personally thinking) thank you so much ;-; on my way for the raid one
Really high quality guide :) Thanks! Really helpful
finally i was waiting for this
Such an awesome video, thank you for your time and effort!
One thing about backpiece I would mention: if you can't get ascended, you can get 78 exotic from crafting. It is super easy to do, costs 70s, and exotic 80 vs 78 stat difference is super small, while 80 exotic vs 80 ascended is almost double its stats = skip 80 exotic backpiece. :)
Awesome guide, thank you!
Thansk for a lot of good information in one video!
I used to have a rabid warrior build, focusing on condi damage over time dps, tanking build, and physical combat
I used sw sw, by itselff, and I came up with it after seeing the old sw sw bow build and wanting to get rid of the bow.
i used to really love that build and i have been extremely tempted to bring it back.
I used to love using it in pvp and pve back in heart of thorns, and god do i miss it sometimes.
when the guardian brought out its sword sword physical build release during end of dragons?
i was like "they took my build!!!" lol
i also experimented with a gun only sniper warrior build based on the seraph traning quest in queensdale,
and a healing bow warrior build as well for a while.
the gun build was better for "kill securing"
and the bow build was a support focused dammage over time aoe build.
right now i am using berserkers "blademaster warrior build where i use both sw sw and gs focsing on burst damage.
its good but i still miss experimenting alot.
oh i almost forgot?
I don't ever use anything but core base game builds.
which means that if you are ever curious about a build i have?
any player type can usually use it.
Thank you so much for this great video!!❤❤
Great video, but I would add that Bloodstone Fen is another good map to get Ascended Trinkets and the backpack. But also, you could have mentioned that by doing Fractals you may get a drop of Ascended Trinkets (Attuned! if you're lucky) and what Attuned and Infused mean.
Ooh yeah, if I ever make a fractal guide, it will fit super perfectly in there! I think if you're just trying to gear up for the first time, you won't have to worry too much about it yet
You never mentioned the jade bot method to obtain trinkets, slot the junk recycler to obtain jade slivers, trade them for season 4 map currency, buy season 4 trinkets. Also eternal ice from strikes/Bjora to season 4 currency and some WvW/PvP reward tracks offer season 3/4 currency too.
A Great video Lara well done.
For the exotic section, dont forget that the "Ice Golem's Maw Box" is a cheap stat selectable headpiece on the Trading Post (a bit over 1 gold).
Iron legion weapons (Staff, Pistol, Greatsword, and Sword) are also available on Trading Post, although only beat out the more expensive stat types.
Is there a way to get good weapons without having to craft? I absolutely loathe crafting in mmos
This is so helpful thank you
If my math is correct that's about 75 days to get all of the discounted Laurel accessories per spec per character... I'm guessing the other methods are much faster from a calendar days perspective, but take more in-game time.
Thank you for making this! Just hit 80 today.
"a crack in the ice will give access to bitter frost frontier" - shows footage of bjora lmao ❤
Hahaha, completely missed that in editing. They look very similar!!
Lara as always making helpful content
Woo! Bram-friend gear guide today edition!
not me looking at how to gear like i have choosen a class to main xD all the classes are fun!
Why is there like, a thousand different currencies and everything needs a vendor?! Jesus Christ, I already have a job to keep track of
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I wish more than just Verdant Brink existed... You get 1 chance per day since there's quite a few hours inbetween each Night cycle and you have to wait til people are actually active and getting it to T4. Chances are low. and I didnt get the chest the first time despite it being t4
I'm all sorted now, Thx
super helpful, thx for guide :)
Thanks for all the guides! The game has been more and more easier thanks to your videos!
How do you get Daily log ins? Only way I get laurels is wizards tower. But all the videos talk about daily log ins.. I've looked and looked and can't find it. Was it removed or am I just blind?
Daily's were removed with September patch, no easy laurels
Feels like you need a phd to understand how to get max gear in gw2 and get the right stats :/ ... coming from other mmos it just feels alot easier to know that you have to get your current raid set and you are fine until next raid drops
Guess it takes longer to get best gear in gw2 but once acquired you are fine forever but yeah, bit of a bummer to see such a complicated way to get gear... miss the good old gw1 days :/
I wish the game did a better job at explaining these things. I returned to the game 2 weeks ago and I was focusing on finishing the base story and reaching lvl 80. Now it's time to gear up and aside from crafting, I was confused about how else to get gear. I didn't even know there was legendary gear in the game now!
How up-to-date is this guide!? Wanting to get back in with secrets and my friend is starting from scratch. She needs Viper's.
Very! However, a cool new option not in this video is buying ascended armor and weapons in the new Wizard’s Vault
@@Laranity oooo Tyty. Is there a resource about this wizards vault I can check out?
@@fitnerdy90yeah, Google
i use a combo of minstrel and harrier for healer as i find pure harrier very squishy
what a nice guide
Raids and strike, but not fractals?
Are the daily login rewards gone now? I haven’t played in a couple years but I’ve been playing the last week and I forgot that was a thing until I saw it here. Did the battle pass type thing replace it? If so, where can I get laurels?
The weekly chest from that gives u 10 laurels
if gear never gets better like in most mmos then what happens when a new expansion drops ? do we just get different gear with equal stat amounts or do new expansions just not bring any new gear ? that would seem a bit boring if i never have to level up and upgrade my gear on a new xpac
Forgot to mention that blood rubi trinkets can be reset for small fee of volatile magic, and mist trinkets are not unique and can be reset too for memes of battle
Marks - you not mentioned marks. It's cheaper and faster to craft or make it in WvW.
Do a fashion tutorial pls
where can i buy the amulet ones? it seems that the factal vendor is not selling em
Bro wtf i just want to play a game why i have to study it damn missing the old mmorpg times
the entire bladed gear set looks like you either just got back from a "mad Max" convention, or your just a very big fan of the SAW films.