at 4:05 you say the portal will take you into the next part of the quest. It takes you out of the instance and you have to finish the entire quest again. YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE CHARR TO FINISH THEIR DIALOGUE IN ORDER TO PROGRESS THIS STORY. You should've mentioned that.
No way you are back woooooo!!!! Dude it’s been a long time since I’ve been to your channel, but your guides are the reason I have all the mounts. I appreciate your hard work and am happy to see you back !!
New to the game. 6th day in and just hit 80 your guides are incredibly helpful. It's very annoying when every other RUclipsr is like "xyz story forge crafting 500 information fractal CM I made a guide here" and then you're like what is fractal? What is cm? " plus, from 1-80 I ended with 8 gold in total, so while I'm still doing the msq on base game on the final chapter right now, there's no clear answers on whether I should focus on doing story, do the daily bosses, etc. It's nice being able to do whatever you want, but people don't mention small things like if you wanna do dungeons etc, Mondays work best because of reset. Fractals are nice, but they take an hour and strikes are way more efficient! Etc etc. Also, a huge pain point is the mastery points, sure if you know what you're doing you'll have enough and if you just play the game you'll eventually unlock everything, but I dumped my points into every tree so when I hit 80 and took the virtuoso specialization I only had like 20 points to put into the tree.
Easiest ascendant weapon? Caladbolg. You also need expansion and just walk around the world a bit after you completed it. You can choose one of 5 avaliable forms of Caladbolg. In cca one (two) hour(s) you have ascendant weapon with selectable stats and unique skin. Farming of "Forging steel" is not much fun way to spend time, my subjective opinion. Maybe even the specialisation collection are better way to get ascendant weapons.
Caladbold is also an easy ascended weapon with a limited choice of what weapon you want it to be but overall having at least one desired choice for most players.
Issue with caladbolg is that it for some fucking reason has less sigil slots then weapons usually do. So if u care about dmg/optimazitation that could be annoying
@@slashersoul2380 Fair point, tho I'd say usually by the time you can afford to care about optimization on a serious level, you'd have the materials to craft an ascended weapon or would have gotten an ascended weapon via rewards or achievements. There's actually another really easy to get ascended weapon of any choice with any stats which is obtained by completing Tier 1 of the Seasons of the Dragons achievement.
Thank you for this one! My only complain about this game is this right here ... there is not enough of this kind of activities (quests that leads to rare items) to motivate me to play this game more.
While I agree with you, there is quite a number of achiev that leads to ascended and rare items, my personal problem is that they ain't much intuitive, usually the description of ONE of the 14 steps is something like "tip: there is a monster of interest somewhere on heart of maguma", like what the fuck, you then later discover that the monster is invisible, and you should kill the monster, on a very specific point of a very specific map, within 30s without being hit, on an specific event, that needs 40 players, while having 200% participation of the meta event, tier 3, while having an specific item on the bag... Then congratulations, you got one step done, out of 14... While yeah, challenge is nice, at least make it clear what challenge I have to go through, also, they should add a window just for equipment quests, would be easier to choose what to do
Jep my only complaint as well, recently got back in the game i'm a GW2 player that started playing GW2 fro mthe beginning of release when it was not free to play, some of these mechanics or way's to get precursors or now ascended kinda tilted me out of the game, maybe WoW was not the answer you have to farm a boss 200 times for somethin , but hell it can at least be a option to have Boss loot in the game over just doin tedious tasks with 20 steps or having some elaborate 4 page manual of you gathering materials and the forge , i really wish there was story related and event related and boss related loot drops as well, and yes they probably then might be more comon then what it is now, but i think theres allot more players like me and you guy's who are really turned of by this ... same with the mounts btw, specially flying mounts , but megh .. i'm having fun right now being back in the game once again finally replaying some of the old exapsions missions i missed and living world plus End of Dragons, it's pretty good )
im actually saving up for a 2handed ascended weapon and im like 200 shards short and i havnt done any of those achievements i didnt know they even existed, its gonna be breeze since ive already done the story so ill just enter and gather away! tyy
I completed forging steel and got achievement as well. But after entering into the portal at the end I was teleported back to aurene. I cannot see any portal to DARKRIME DELVES. Do I have to complete forging steel again?
I’ve only got 217 shards even after completing all 8 challenges. My tier rewards show that I’m only at tier 1. Is anyone else having this problem? Am I missing something :(
Hi, interesting. But do you keep in mind, to each specialization (iirc) exists an achievement which gives you a ascended weapon for this specialization. For example Dark Harvest for the Reaper...
4 easy ascended backpacks: basically, complete Path of Fire main story 3 times, siding with a) Sunspears, b) Mordant Crescent, c) Free People of Amnoon. Completing each path will yield an ascended backpack; complete all 3 and you'll get the 4th backpack. The achievement is called "Raise the Banners: Amnoon Arbitrator".
How is ascended armor gear easier to get than weapon? I struggled so hard to get ascended armor but for weapon i got my first set of 4 weapons so easy without any of these
I guess I base that opinion on crafting. An entire set of armor only requires 1 max lvl crafting discipline. Depending on your build, you may need to level multiple weapon disciplines to 500. This video is mostly for new players without a ton of masteries, crafting, or elite specs unlocked.
@@CommonTate yes there's one playthrough of the heart of thorns story required. If that's done, you'll be able to get the sword repaired in like one hour and you can choose between different weapons (like if you want it to become a great sword, dagger, shield, axe etc) and of course with the stats selectable as you want it to.
Man I hated that mission so much I would rather check for another way to get an ascended new weapon ahahahaha, however I will try with some friends later
If you need a greatsword, sword, dagger, scepter or shield, then you can do the Knight of the Thorn side quest once you've finished the Heart of Thorns story, to get an ascended weapon within the Caladbolg set. The first weapon for your account is basically free, but additional weapons will require around 20 gold worth of materials to craft some items that are given to you for your first weapon for your account, and you'll need to complete the Knight of the Thorn side quest on another character. Once you've obtained a weapon, you can take it to an NPC in your home instance to change it into a different type of weapon, for 1000 unbound magic. If you need other types of weapons, then the easiest would probably be collections.
If you don’t have a crafter you can literally brute force 500 for like ~50g in most crafts, took me 30 minutes to go 0-500 with 40 gold a month or so back so I could start crafting ascended
WAIT i'm confused, tate didn't you say you stopped doing mmo's and gw2 that's why you started yet another new channel o_o if you wonna branch out just do it, you don't need to keep making new channels.
@@bingtotgaming crazy to think before the expansions came out, this is how everyone played. They could have at least let us use trading post. (I know it's to cut down on gold sellers, but when your account is verified and linked to GW1, that should count for something)
@@bingtotgaming how? You have to buy GW1 AND the EotN expansion in order to connect your account. Which costs about the same as buying the PoF/HoT expansion. Not to mention GW1 players have already been to Istan and Kaineng, so stripping them of that in GW2 was kinda lame. I'm not saying we should get EVERYTHING for free, you could still put mounts/gliders/masteries even the Living Worlds stuff behind the paywall, but the trading post and SUPER limited inventory/storage when people have already payed real money for more storage in GW1 is lame. Especially when they fill your storage with skins and minis from Eye of the North for connecting your accounts.
@@virtuousheathen981 I don't get your point. gw2. is not an expansion or an update in gw1. its a completely separate game. it doesnt matter what expansion you buy in gw1 or how big you spent there, youre not playing the same game. it doesnt give you special treatment just because you played the gw1. nobody does that.
You literally make the BEST guides, i'm glad your back!!
Nice hisoka pic
The nostalgia of hearing your voice. Makes me remember getting my skyskale. Always good guides.
Clicked as soon as I saw the notification. Good to see you back man
Am still regularly recommending many of your guides to players, great to see you back.
Best mentor ever, keep it up
I don't always comment, but know that I do enjoy every video
Thanks for all the service you have done for the community
at 4:05 you say the portal will take you into the next part of the quest. It takes you out of the instance and you have to finish the entire quest again. YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE CHARR TO FINISH THEIR DIALOGUE IN ORDER TO PROGRESS THIS STORY. You should've mentioned that.
thank you! i couldn't figure what to do in order to get there
Yeah this is horrible, just wasted an hour with this, thanks for the comment, would be a good pin or edit
YOURE BACK!! so happy rn!
Actual good advice. Returning player here and much appreciated.
He's back!!!!! We miss you man! You are the reason I have my mounts! Thank you!
Holy shit he’s back. Thanks a lot for your guides, got both my main and alt with skyscale and griffon. Started playing the game 8months ago.
They always come back lol ! Best gw2 guides out there welcome back
No way you are back woooooo!!!! Dude it’s been a long time since I’ve been to your channel, but your guides are the reason I have all the mounts. I appreciate your hard work and am happy to see you back !!
love you even managed to make it kinda spoiler free with some choices of words
Welcome back m8.
Oo welcome back sir!!
New to the game. 6th day in and just hit 80 your guides are incredibly helpful. It's very annoying when every other RUclipsr is like "xyz story forge crafting 500 information fractal CM I made a guide here" and then you're like what is fractal? What is cm? " plus, from 1-80 I ended with 8 gold in total, so while I'm still doing the msq on base game on the final chapter right now, there's no clear answers on whether I should focus on doing story, do the daily bosses, etc. It's nice being able to do whatever you want, but people don't mention small things like if you wanna do dungeons etc, Mondays work best because of reset. Fractals are nice, but they take an hour and strikes are way more efficient! Etc etc.
Also, a huge pain point is the mastery points, sure if you know what you're doing you'll have enough and if you just play the game you'll eventually unlock everything, but I dumped my points into every tree so when I hit 80 and took the virtuoso specialization I only had like 20 points to put into the tree.
This is awesome. I didn't know about this and i'm definitely going to try it. Just gotta decide what weapon to get!
Omg, glad that you are back! welcome welcome!
This was an interesting tip that I hadn't thought about. Thanks.
Glad to see you're back!
taking the portal actually took me out of the instance and back at eye of the north
H-he's back!
WELCOME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You’re the best dude
Edit: just did it today after watching this. Didn’t think I’d get n ascended weapon anytime soon. I00 shards off my second one
Best Channel for Guides :)
Yoooooo welcome back!!!! I owe u my skyscale 💖💖
Hey is someone know? i colected all blue proper shards but in EON, on shard trader , there no scythe ??? Thank you if someone know?
Awesome guide, I'm going to try this tonight! Thanks a ton!
Thanks this really helped get my first ascended weapon :)
Easiest ascendant weapon? Caladbolg. You also need expansion and just walk around the world a bit after you completed it. You can choose one of 5 avaliable forms of Caladbolg. In cca one (two) hour(s) you have ascendant weapon with selectable stats and unique skin. Farming of "Forging steel" is not much fun way to spend time, my subjective opinion. Maybe even the specialisation collection are better way to get ascendant weapons.
Plus, stats can be changed easily at any time in the home instance. It's by far my favorite "easy / cheap" ascended weapon.
YAYYY. YOU’RE BACK!!!
Nicke to see u back
Aaaaaand he's back! Woooooo!
is there any way to find the gathering faster? im really stuck on it and not sure on how to get to a few of them
Caladbold is also an easy ascended weapon with a limited choice of what weapon you want it to be but overall having at least one desired choice for most players.
Extremely easy! 20 minutes if you have all the waypoints & finished hot
Issue with caladbolg is that it for some fucking reason has less sigil slots then weapons usually do. So if u care about dmg/optimazitation that could be annoying
@@slashersoul2380 Fair point, tho I'd say usually by the time you can afford to care about optimization on a serious level, you'd have the materials to craft an ascended weapon or would have gotten an ascended weapon via rewards or achievements. There's actually another really easy to get ascended weapon of any choice with any stats which is obtained by completing Tier 1 of the Seasons of the Dragons achievement.
@@xwxo ye definitly true. Just thought id mention it ^^
what's the names of the gathering achivments plz
Thank you for this one! My only complain about this game is this right here ... there is not enough of this kind of activities (quests that leads to rare items) to motivate me to play this game more.
While I agree with you, there is quite a number of achiev that leads to ascended and rare items, my personal problem is that they ain't much intuitive, usually the description of ONE of the 14 steps is something like "tip: there is a monster of interest somewhere on heart of maguma", like what the fuck, you then later discover that the monster is invisible, and you should kill the monster, on a very specific point of a very specific map, within 30s without being hit, on an specific event, that needs 40 players, while having 200% participation of the meta event, tier 3, while having an specific item on the bag... Then congratulations, you got one step done, out of 14...
While yeah, challenge is nice, at least make it clear what challenge I have to go through, also, they should add a window just for equipment quests, would be easier to choose what to do
Jep my only complaint as well, recently got back in the game i'm a GW2 player that started playing GW2 fro mthe beginning of release when it was not free to play, some of these mechanics or way's to get precursors or now ascended kinda tilted me out of the game, maybe WoW was not the answer you have to farm a boss 200 times for somethin , but hell it can at least be a option to have Boss loot in the game over just doin tedious tasks with 20 steps or having some elaborate 4 page manual of you gathering materials and the forge , i really wish there was story related and event related and boss related loot drops as well, and yes they probably then might be more comon then what it is now, but i think theres allot more players like me and you guy's who are really turned of by this ... same with the mounts btw, specially flying mounts , but megh .. i'm having fun right now being back in the game once again finally replaying some of the old exapsions missions i missed and living world plus End of Dragons, it's pretty good )
thanks for this vid mate, picked up an ascendent mace today :D ...turns out I had some extra shards on me so also picked up an ascendent glove
Super helpful guide. To the point and great presentation. You got a sub
What are the harvesting achievements? Do they have a name? Sorry, a little confused. Thanks for the guide, though.
wow I would never have figured out that the chapter is for free thx
If it wasn't for your guides, I would never have gotten the skyscale. Thanks!
Yo what? What year is it?
Happy you're back :)
Is there a website where I can locate resources and living world currency with the help of a map
im actually saving up for a 2handed ascended weapon and im like 200 shards short and i havnt done any of those achievements i didnt know they even existed, its gonna be breeze since ive already done the story so ill just enter and gather away! tyy
Done haha, ty so much
I completed forging steel and got achievement as well. But after entering into the portal at the end I was teleported back to aurene. I cannot see any portal to DARKRIME DELVES. Do I have to complete forging steel again?
Is this the only strike that scales if you take a squad of 1? Never heard of such a thing before.
Thank you, thats really helpful
Waitasec! You are back!?!?!??!
why did my game not procceed to the next instance i'm confused
Did you start the story before doing the strike mission?
@@CommonTate yes what I did wrong was instead of entering the instance i clicked the portal lmao
one question do the weapons have celestial stats
Can marauder weapons drop from this?
:O :O :O main man is back yo
Thanks a lot that was really helpful, subscribed ! Could you elaborate on the fastest way to get a 2 handed weapon (200 more shades) ?
I’ve only got 217 shards even after completing all 8 challenges. My tier rewards show that I’m only at tier 1. Is anyone else having this problem? Am I missing something :(
Always good content! Gonna do this tonight now I've finished EOD story finally between overtime and life 😂😂
I said this but then overtime happened again 😂😭
@@zackvale Hang in there man! I feel for you :(
Has anyone else gotten first Ascended armor set from Fractals? That was fun 6 months I took to grind full Ascended almost daily.
You back?? Yahooooooo
Ascended armor is meant to be easier to find? I got so many ascended weapons before my first ascended armor.
Great work, thanks much.
After completing 7/8 t4 achivements i have 215 shards -.- Kinda confused here. A buddy of mine have 350.
Hi, interesting. But do you keep in mind, to each specialization (iirc) exists an achievement which gives you a ascended weapon for this specialization. For example Dark Harvest for the Reaper...
I wish those weapons had better stat selection options, I think I've only had one so far with the prefix I wanted.
You can stat swap the weapons relatively cheaply in the mystic forge
Daily Tequatl ftw
oh look a rareTate
Is there any way we could get a guide for back slot?
4 easy ascended backpacks: basically, complete Path of Fire main story 3 times, siding with a) Sunspears, b) Mordant Crescent, c) Free People of Amnoon. Completing each path will yield an ascended backpack; complete all 3 and you'll get the 4th backpack. The achievement is called "Raise the Banners: Amnoon Arbitrator".
@@Lingvar TYVM
Also Winterberry farm.
@@CommonTate TYVM
"Giant White Dragon", nice anti-spoiler ;)
I was getting hyped but it's only 1H. I need a staff. :p
'1 handed' ascended weap box? either way good shit
Can I get viper stat weapon?
You can stat swap the weapon you get in the mystic forge. Viper's is a Heart of Thorns stat combo.
wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Yassith%27s_armor
New player here, perfect.
3:55 lmao nice great sword 3 xD glad you’re still trying to slip in some comedy
I thought this was a caladbolg guide. 👁️👄👁️
Is this part of the return to dragons?
This is part of the Icebrood Saga
@@CommonTate but you had to do that same thing for return to dragon achievements.
Can you get this as a free account?
just got the axe
thanks alot
How is ascended armor gear easier to get than weapon? I struggled so hard to get ascended armor but for weapon i got my first set of 4 weapons so easy without any of these
I guess I base that opinion on crafting. An entire set of armor only requires 1 max lvl crafting discipline. Depending on your build, you may need to level multiple weapon disciplines to 500. This video is mostly for new players without a ton of masteries, crafting, or elite specs unlocked.
by the way this is not the easiest asc weapon, the easiest asc weapon is the repair quest of the destroyed sword caladbolg, amazing video though
That is easy, but you have to complete all of Heart of Thorns before you can do that, right? I was shooting more for ease of access with this one.
@@CommonTate yes there's one playthrough of the heart of thorns story required. If that's done, you'll be able to get the sword repaired in like one hour and you can choose between different weapons (like if you want it to become a great sword, dagger, shield, axe etc) and of course with the stats selectable as you want it to.
This is fucking amazing. Thank you !
Man I hated that mission so much I would rather check for another way to get an ascended new weapon ahahahaha, however I will try with some friends later
If you need a greatsword, sword, dagger, scepter or shield, then you can do the Knight of the Thorn side quest once you've finished the Heart of Thorns story, to get an ascended weapon within the Caladbolg set. The first weapon for your account is basically free, but additional weapons will require around 20 gold worth of materials to craft some items that are given to you for your first weapon for your account, and you'll need to complete the Knight of the Thorn side quest on another character. Once you've obtained a weapon, you can take it to an NPC in your home instance to change it into a different type of weapon, for 1000 unbound magic. If you need other types of weapons, then the easiest would probably be collections.
Is it doable on multiple characters?
One time only.
@@CommonTate Now I know :) I did it last night, worked like a charm, thanks!
if u hv a crafter its easier to farm gold then craft ascended
If you don’t have a crafter you can literally brute force 500 for like ~50g in most crafts, took me 30 minutes to go 0-500 with 40 gold a month or so back so I could start crafting ascended
@@blackpsalmmusic9180 took me longer in one sitting to reach 0-500 coz i was using guide.
I dont have that achievement
Should really emphasize one handed weapon only on the title.
more content
WAIT i'm confused, tate didn't you say you stopped doing mmo's and gw2 that's why you started yet another new channel o_o if you wonna branch out just do it, you don't need to keep making new channels.
No worries :) I came back with a fresh perspective. I still upload on the other channel! New future channels planned!
cool
I'm convinced it isnt even possible for F2P players to get endgame gear 😭😭
of course its not. f2p have so many restrictions and only have core tyria access. its only intended for trying the game.
@@bingtotgaming crazy to think before the expansions came out, this is how everyone played. They could have at least let us use trading post. (I know it's to cut down on gold sellers, but when your account is verified and linked to GW1, that should count for something)
@@virtuousheathen981 that would make it unfair to those new players that don't have gw1.
@@bingtotgaming how? You have to buy GW1 AND the EotN expansion in order to connect your account. Which costs about the same as buying the PoF/HoT expansion.
Not to mention GW1 players have already been to Istan and Kaineng, so stripping them of that in GW2 was kinda lame. I'm not saying we should get EVERYTHING for free, you could still put mounts/gliders/masteries even the Living Worlds stuff behind the paywall, but the trading post and SUPER limited inventory/storage when people have already payed real money for more storage in GW1 is lame. Especially when they fill your storage with skins and minis from Eye of the North for connecting your accounts.
@@virtuousheathen981 I don't get your point. gw2. is not an expansion or an update in gw1. its a completely separate game. it doesnt matter what expansion you buy in gw1 or how big you spent there, youre not playing the same game. it doesnt give you special treatment just because you played the gw1. nobody does that.