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.
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.
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! 😄
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!
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
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
@@punani_slayer4209 You're extremely fragile in an environment where you'll likely get hit a few times in ways that you can't dodge. Full berserker gear makes it very, very likely you'll be one-shot. In PvE that doesn't matter much, but in WvW you'll die a lot.
@@maxgehtdnixan4913 so would celestial gear be better? I just started playing this game a couple of days ago lol. Haven't even tried WvW yet but I'm planning to soon
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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!
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
no wonder that my gear sucked, i didnt do any of this. its a shame that i wasted so much time. and all the money of course it is very poorly explained in game. it is also a lot of work.
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 :/
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
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.
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?
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.
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 :)
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?
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.
So you have to buy your gear? I researched crafting and that seems to be a dead end after a very very very long road. 13 years to make it more streamlined.. Wish they did.
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)
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. :)
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 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!
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)
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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!
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! 🤗
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.
Oof! Got all the way to the last step of crafting my ascended weapon with all needed materials but then I found out I needed the ascended weapon recipe. Amazing video, though! Maybe pin a comment about that or something? It is too late to save me but others can still be saved!
@@Laranity Ahhh! You can buy them at the TP?? It is for Yassith's Razor(trying to make the Virtuoso from one of your more recent videos). I looked it up and it just said to get it from an exalted chest so I thought I was out of luck. You have been sent to me from heaven to turn my frown upside down. Thank you!!
@@Laranity Also, do you still do training Raid runs with your community? I just found your channel as I am coming back to the game after years of not playing and I have been watching a ton of your videos. And I want to get into raiding but finding a group is pretty terrifying.
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
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.
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
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
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
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!
In most cases, the best condi stat is Viper's! And you can get buy that as the "expensive stat-selectable trinkets", but it's not included in the cheap selection :(
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.
Wow, that's quality armor!
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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?
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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.
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! 😄
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!
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
i got my whole ascended set from fractals, weapons from dragonfall meta box (have to be lucky)
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
Bro wtf i just want to play a game why i have to study it damn missing the old mmorpg times
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
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Why is it bad?
@@punani_slayer4209 You're extremely fragile in an environment where you'll likely get hit a few times in ways that you can't dodge. Full berserker gear makes it very, very likely you'll be one-shot. In PvE that doesn't matter much, but in WvW you'll die a lot.
@@maxgehtdnixan4913 so would celestial gear be better? I just started playing this game a couple of days ago lol. Haven't even tried WvW yet but I'm planning to soon
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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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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!
Ascended armor from pvp and wvsw are precursor for legendary armors.
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
no wonder that my gear sucked, i didnt do any of this. its a shame that i wasted so much time. and all the money of course
it is very poorly explained in game. it is also a lot of work.
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 :/
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
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.
Thanks for the vid! Huge help for a newbie like myself, still new to the game
Is there a way to get good weapons without having to craft? I absolutely loathe crafting in mmos
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
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.
Hey nice Guide! What weappons should i buy tho?
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!
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
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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.
So you have to buy your gear? I researched crafting and that seems to be a dead end after a very very very long road. 13 years to make it more streamlined.. Wish they did.
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)
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.
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 :)
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. :)
Raids and strike, but not fractals?
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
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
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.
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!
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)
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
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).
Fantastic video, doing better than half the gw2 content creators in a far more cohesive, digestible manor. Please don't stop making content.
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.
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
Stop slurring ur words plz
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.
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.
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).
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!
;-; 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
Thx for all ! I up my new caracter (Futur Spell Breaker) and you give me a lot of answer ^^
As the video started i was like "One of the reasons i dislike GW2 , its because gear is the same as 200000 years ago" :P
Oh my god. Now let's figure what to play (class, build)
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! 🤗
The login awards drive me nuts clutter my bags and this video demonstrates why I quit this game.
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.
My problem is not gear 😅 it's making up the right stats for my build and/or role 😅
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!
Oof! Got all the way to the last step of crafting my ascended weapon with all needed materials but then I found out I needed the ascended weapon recipe. Amazing video, though! Maybe pin a comment about that or something? It is too late to save me but others can still be saved!
What recipe are you looking for? They’re usually pretty trivial to get (check the vendor and also the TP)
@@Laranity Ahhh! You can buy them at the TP?? It is for Yassith's Razor(trying to make the Virtuoso from one of your more recent videos). I looked it up and it just said to get it from an exalted chest so I thought I was out of luck. You have been sent to me from heaven to turn my frown upside down. Thank you!!
@@Laranity Also, do you still do training Raid runs with your community? I just found your channel as I am coming back to the game after years of not playing and I have been watching a ton of your videos. And I want to get into raiding but finding a group is pretty terrifying.
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
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.
Marks - you not mentioned marks. It's cheaper and faster to craft or make it in WvW.
This is so good! I didn't know the laurel vendor had cele trinkets it's amazing
When i first got ascended trinkets i farmed LWS3, it was terrible 😂
since warlord chest were added, doing a little pvp/wvw will give loads of stat selectable armor boxes
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
Do a fashion tutorial pls
Really high quality guide :) Thanks! Really helpful
I think editing this video took you more time than acquiring legendary gears
I would like to add that you can get an Ascended underwater Head piece in Bitterforest as well.
Thank you so much for this great video!!❤❤
You can also get an ascended Back piece in Lake Doric again it's a farmable item.
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
as a new player this is not the guide i wanted but it was the guide i needed. thanks
im lost.. i guess i became boomer :')
Nice guide! May I ask what accent you are speaking in?
Thank you for making this! Just hit 80 today.
7:00 You can also do daily in those maps to get some of map materials (and little amount of karma too ;) )
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How is she gathering winter berries so quickly?
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
where can i buy the amulet ones? it seems that the factal vendor is not selling em
You can get some ascended gear now in the wiz vault too :)
Such an awesome video, thank you for your time and effort!
i use a combo of minstrel and harrier for healer as i find pure harrier very squishy
I am doing free to play. Can i get exotic armors?
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!
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!
2:25 on what wiki page? im looking at the wiki and i cant find the window you show
can't you also buy condition trinkets from fractal vendor?
In most cases, the best condi stat is Viper's! And you can get buy that as the "expensive stat-selectable trinkets", but it's not included in the cheap selection :(
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