Small warning for people regarding ascended WvW (and I think PvP) armor. They are indeed stat selectable and there is also a recipe to change the stats. However, changing the stats through the recipe means changing the item itself. Since ascended armor in wvw (and I think PvP as well, please someone confirm) are already also a precursor for Legendary armor, changing the item will break it's precursor status permanently. So, choose wisely and remember that you need to stick with those stats if you want to maintain the item's potential to upgrade to Legendary. (I am talking about stat CHANGE. Say you picked Assassin's, but decide you actually want Berserker. Using the recipe makes it Zojja's in that case and no longer Mist Forged - as in my wvw example. This does NOT apply to transmuting, changing the looks.)
A big exception to the berserker/viper/harrier rule is wvw where you usually want more survivability. This means the default stats in wvw builds are usually marauders for power, minstrels for healing, and trailblazers/dire for condi.
I personally use Marauder (Svaard's) over Berserker a lot outside of WvW as well -- Running fractals, bounties & metas with the extra survivability on a Mesmer means your glass cannon doesn't instantly shatter if you miss a dodge roll. It does mean you won't be on top of the DPS, but outside of strikes/raids you rarely have a dedicated HFB/Druid to count on, so I like to bring the survival insurance myself.
Just started GW2 as a ranger week ago and followed your other videos advice by at least getting exotic gear at 80. Although I had no idea how to get any ascended gear. Awesome video! Thank you! 🙌🏽
If your looking for ascended weapons that are not time gated, every class has a specialization collection achievement which awards you with a ascended weapon. It may be a grind but it's achievable in one play session. I would also recommend new players complete daily fractals, its the simplest way to get rings amulet and trinket while getting random ascended drops in the process. Once you familiarize with that system look into crafting grandmaster marks and trade them and fractal relics (resources youve farmed in fractals) for stat selectable armor or weps
Thanks for this video Mukluk! There are so many ways to get gear, I really needed this overview. I was about to start farming Winterberries again for a stat-selectable ascended back item but I really had enough of doing that after getting all three types of waterbreathers. This video made me realize I had more than enough stuff to Mystic Forge the ascended quiver back item much to my relief :)
Thank you for the video. I stopped playing after Living World Season 1, right around when they implemented tons of anti farming mechanics. The game just felt like it was punishing me for playing. Jumping back in now YEARS later and my characters gear is hot garbage and I don't know how anything works anymore. The guide you recommended will be very helpful. Thank you again!
@@Keeperoffyre what would u otherwise do with the mats? If i dont use shit for crafting my inventory literally explodes. And most stuff isnt worth selling in its raw Form on the tp
wow, so many people in the comments (including me) are returning players after skipping out years. the horizontal progression is paying off as this guide will always be relevant and we don't have 8 years of catching up to do except some story, elite specs and masteries
Something I think really would have added that cherrie on top to this video is - Your opinion on what to chase right after you hit 80 - like Barrie farm if you have it. If you have the gold, the “vial of salt” is an ez necklace. - dragon fall with a good commander is amazing for the time spent / gold gain / mist mote farm. If you have sky scale and taco, runing the “mistmote” farming path is almost better then winter barrie farm. - In my opinion- getting to doing T4 fractals ( and CM when you learn them ) is one of the best thing you can do for account as a whole.
Like I would offer if your just starting fractals and need to start stacking Agony resistant. I would do winter berries farming / a Vial of salt / petrified wood farm. You can in attune one of the rings of ice and that will allow you to two slot rings of ice ( this will need to be swapped for another ring at higher levers ) - this will allow you to get in to door to fractals and start your way through the Tires.
@@icecea read what I wrote again...This video is about hitting 80 how do you get gear. I wrote about how to get gear and move into higher end content... edit: the second part of my comment is where I give a better explanation on getting your trinket load out
agree. just to add more meat and personal opinion of a concerned "experienced-gamer" :D :D :D tbh i have expected some tips and tricks rather than converting the wiki page into a video. no hate here, just a content idea. Like for example winterberry farm is i think one of the easiest way to get your rings/earrings and eternal ice shard for amulets. (opinion) I mean, this is actually mentioned in the wiki page and I know it because ive already went through it before. But maybe there are other tips and tricks that can muk share based on his personal experience. :D
Years ago like 5+ a friend of mine spent a month getting a legendary weapon the day he got it he never touched the game again, I haven't played in 6 years thinking of coming back.
Awesome informative video, Muk! I had a lot of gold saved up even after getting the griffon, so I crafted all of my gear (even bought time-gated mats because YOLO) then stat-swapped to Viper’s for my condi Mirage (sorry to disappoint ya, Muk, but I main a Mesmer now). This was super expensive, but at least I was able to easily farm trinkets from the LWS3 maps.
thanks for linking the wiki page! i never knew about that one i like to buy all my accessories from WvW; it's got lower cost of laurels compared to the laurel merchant in LA, but you have to pay with some WvW currency, but not too difficult to get.
@@datmanbrooksiehd875 not difficult but more time consuming. If you get the home instance node and the one that gives you mats each day its easier but will still take time to get all the bloodstone needed
There are significant exceptions to the glass cannon berserker/viper/harrier section, to the point that I don't think it can really be a rule or recommendation without their mention. WvW doesn't really use those, and for any serious open world stuff, particularly if you're doing open world stuff that isn't super populated - catching up on something, having to do somewhat more challenging stuff alone - you're much more likely to want way more sustain and tank. At the very least Marauder's for power, and likely Trailblazer for condi. Celestial gear is also really good for a lot of open world builds. If you're looking to focus on group content, then sure, get the glass cannon stuff. But particularly in open world, you have to provide your own buffs and healing if you aren't doing a popular meta, and often even if you are. Don't fall into the trap of going full glass cannon if you don't need to just because guides and content creators of GW2 for some reason still absolutely insist on it.
THERE IT IS! THERE IT IS! OH MY GOD! Such perfect timing! I just made a lvl 80 ranger last night and wanted to gear it for soulbeast and druid. Muk seems to always have a video guide ready when I need it most.
One thing not covered that is a small detail is that the pvp ascended jewelry shares its properties with the ascended jewelry from bloodstone fen, bloodstone fen also has a reset item
for Caladbolg.. I need a visioncrystal and after some hours googling and asking questions to randoms... it takes ALOT of efford to get one.. so its basically not that easy.
thing about crafting weapons. Its best to craft odd stat combination of weapons, because its sometimes cheaper, you can then change stats into what you want in mystic toilet. But be aware that any weapons and armor you throw there will destroy em and you will be given new weapon or armor, so remove your infusions etc before doing that
Word of warning for anyone doing specialization achievements for weapons these days, don't do heart of thorns ones. HoT specialisation collections require more mystic coins than it's worth unless you REALLY want the skin. Path of fire however are cheap and only require 1 coin. If you can't do any path of fire spec collections for a weapon then your best bet is to craft or do the returner achievements, 4 will get you an ascended weapon chest.
@@dymasych6931 There's an event going on currently that is apparently permanent where they're re-giving out all of living world season 3 and 4. Everytime they do they add an achievement tab for the relevant map called "Return To" in side stories. Completing them is super fast and easy esp with PoF mounts, and the easiest way to get Ascended trinkets of any stat type in the game.
It's possible my math included ascended food, I'll have to check again. In any case my goal there was to make fresh 80s not feel like they "had no chance" next to more geared folks, hopefully that translated well.
in a normal gear grinder i just have to do the current content to get new gear. and i only really need it if i want to do instances. this is a lot of work with very little chance of success
Try farming berries or petrifying wood if you got the s3 maps (it rests every 22ish hours for every charecter) so the more charecters yoh farm with the lesser the time
Hey there. Hoping that you or any of your viewers can help me with this. I am trying to get a full ascendet gear for my solo world build and all of the trinkets are called "marauder" as the stats they provide, but I can't finde any of those marauder trinkets in any of the methods you mentioned. Same with the main gear, called Svaadi. I didn't find it anywhere. I am missing something?
You will need about 100 gold or something around this Plus you will need to craft something that has a daily limit of crafting which you may need around 5 of them so crafting an armur can take you around 4-7 days depending on your patience
@@Yusufsanad you can do the slow way to craft the daily material or just buy the mats So more time spent = less gold spent This applies in the fractals/pvp methods
Fractals are usualy a daily 30 min run if you got a good group and the drops depend on your luck in all cases either world bosses for armor/weapons or fractals (more frequant) for everything
Question. I am making a bunch of ascended armor/weapon trinket sets. I have made Berserker, Diviner's, Marauder's, and Viper's. What else would be good to make? I play all classes and PVE and WVW. Thanks
Every time I play GW2 just make me realize how much I miss GW1. GW2 hit the mark on SO many things, but the few things that was perfect in GW1 that they didn’t bring over saddens me lol
hey mukluk thanks for all the useful guides, quick question if you're available, im a new 80 with all exotics, i do about 70%wvw + 30% fractals got 4 ascended rings But only 1 of them is useful (3 have condi dmg on them which i dont need) whats the best thing to do with those? ascended salvage kit? my main direction is to focus on this one toon cos i dont think i have time for multiple mains, saving up for later/ other builds is okay but not first priority. it seems most effective for me to get my rings/amu with laurel+ badge of honor route, what about weapons? all i could find were the ones that still require Grandmaster marks (i dont have 500 craftings) is 500 crafting necessary? (other than drop loots) thanks a lot!
Can you drop acended straight from fractals? also why da hell do i need account bound crafting insignias to buy gear from fractal vendore? stupid ass system tbh.
Can you only get the chest from world bosses once per day? As in does it only have a chance to drop on your first completion? Or can you still get it upon multiple completions?
started the game today and this is my yt recommendation can u guys help me with some tips? i'm a f2p (by now, thinking to buy PoF and HoT) level 10 warrior. thx!
Yeah I got a tip. If you find you're dying a lot try equipping a shield. Shields let you use your 5th ability on your skill bar to block all incoming damage for about 5 seconds. Or maybe it was 4 seconds. Also shields give you more amour value. Armour value works like this. The more you have the less damage you take. Lastly here is on more tip. Don't worry if you're wearing mostly scale mail, or chain mail amour. chain mail, scale mail and plate mail are all classed as heavy armor and give the same stats. Each one just looks different.
It is true that you will be a minor disadvantage (otherwise there would be no point to the gear upgrade) in WvW but it is a few percent, like 5-10% of stats maybe. And that is only for WvW, in PvP everyone is equalized.
Ive Got a quick question: some of the ascended gear available at merchants doesnt have Infusion slots but the other Kind that can increase karma gain etc. Are those worth getting or should i go for the Infusion slots for the agony res?
damn the amount of crap that they give you in this game is crazy. All I want is to gear up by doing pvp matches and all I get is random crap I have no idea what to do with :P
- Exotic to Ascended difference is 5 %, not 10 % or so. - The "stats" part isn't exactly correct in the sense that people should aim for meta builds to save them from the hassle of reacquiring or stat-swapping gear. - Fractals are bad for getting ascended items because it requires you to already have ascended items to get regular drops. Even with regular ring drops, you are very unlikely to get useful stats, since it only really has berserker stats. - Crafting grandmaster marks to buy ascended items from the fractal vendor is not really worth it.
I haven't found a full guide for a F2P like me to get those ascended gears. Kinda getting confused from those other videos saying this and that. I've started this December and just playing SW and PVP for now while trying to earn money for the expansion. I wish to see a real guide to how I can get ascended as a F2P dedicated items, materials and things that a F2P has access.
The orbs that float above me are legendary trinkets, none of them are difficult, just take time. I have guides for some of them (the rest coming soon) in the legendary guides playlist on this channel.
I stopped playing the game after I hit level 80 with a couple of characters. Never had ascended gear only bought exotic. I focused on the story and exploration because gearing and grinding is too much for me. Most of the ascended gear you get after farming a shit tons of mats and leveling your crafting and can only be crafted. How do I even know what stats I need when this game has dozens of combinations. It's too overly complicated for no reason. Hopefully in the future they implemented a normal system to get ascended like other games. As it is currently it pushes people away.
www.snowcrows.com and see what gear stats u want. plus Berserker stats has always been go to option since 2012 in pve for most classes, and besides he shows you in the video the top stats you want for most content. :) its super easy get the mats to craft ascended gear, it just take some time. you can also do low tier fractals, and gear ur toon up that way. or do raids in exotic gear. or farm the living story maps but if you dont like farming, then mmo is not for you. i mean. its ment for you to play only that game for years, everyday and never stop. set your own goals, short term and long term, read up what needs to be done to get them. most are super easy once you get used to fractals and raids and wvw and pvp and crafting, all have guides. you really get too many asc items. i have salvage over 300+ items you can do the basic collection for weapons, and armor, and if u get an asc gear box, you can just stat swap it to another stat
How do you know what stats you need in any other game? You check what the stats do or check what you need for your build. Being able to balance your stats more than just picking one of 3 options is not a con, it's a pro, you can tailor gear to your needs and playstyle, you can add more survivability and sacrifice some healing for WvW for example. And again, you can just pick Berserker / Viper / Harrier depending on your role if you don't want to think too much about it.
Most ascended items are bind to account (as opposed to bind to character) which means you can almost always trade ascended gear through your bank to other characters.
I didn't think Caladbolg was worth anything, after having leveled several 80's and seeing it drop to useless so often...looks like I might need to remake all my toons >.>
Really do love this game but what kills it for me is end game gearing. It's stupidly easy to get decent gear and then nothing to do after it :/ I really hope GW3 has a more interesting endgame.
That's GW2 for ya! No powercreep, it stopped at Ascended. Unlike other dead MMOs where your old gear becomes useless once a new update expansion is released.
not gonna lie.. crafting is the easiest way if u are willing to pay some gold..i reached from full exotic to acended in just 5 days.. although accessories are prob tho
👏🏻Are 👏🏻you 👏🏻telling 👏🏻 me that my bitchass spent ALL THAT TIME grinding and crafting just to find out...years later THEY SELL ASCENDED ARMOR AND WEAPONS *screams get louder* FROM FACTAL MERCHANTS??????!!!!! I'm done. This game has TAKEN my life and now my soul!
I hit 80 on 4 out of 5 of my character slots and have no clue what most of what you are talking about is. There is no way a person who has only made the journey once is gonna be able to follow your video.....
A good amount of people still play it actually from what I can tell. I just started playing it again the other day, and it's one of the more populated MMOs I've ever played. Rarely have I been somewhere and not had often at least a couple other people there with me. Random low level areas, cities, there's always people around. No clue what the actual population of the game is, but from what I've seen it's far from dead.
WHat pisses me off is that the ONE class i have interest in the Death Knight ( or is called the Reaper?) is only unlocked at lvl 80.+... So i have to drag it out with a class i don't want, to finaly have the class i want for 80 fucking levels... They could have put that at like lvl 30-40... For once i would like one of those "Boost" like wow to get insta lvl 80 and be done with it...
Great! Perfect video for me! I’m not new or returning, I’ve had the game for two years and I still have no idea what I’m doing.
@@laynejasper4967 liar xD
I just got the game 2 days ago.. they gave me a boost now I’m not new to MMO’s so I know NOT to use it lol but I’m lost 😂😂
SAME LMAO
okay but SAME
Ahahaha I've been playing for just over a year now and I still don't have a clue either 🙃 😅
Small warning for people regarding ascended WvW (and I think PvP) armor.
They are indeed stat selectable and there is also a recipe to change the stats.
However, changing the stats through the recipe means changing the item itself.
Since ascended armor in wvw (and I think PvP as well, please someone confirm) are already also a precursor for Legendary armor, changing the item will break it's precursor status permanently.
So, choose wisely and remember that you need to stick with those stats if you want to maintain the item's potential to upgrade to Legendary.
(I am talking about stat CHANGE. Say you picked Assassin's, but decide you actually want Berserker. Using the recipe makes it Zojja's in that case and no longer Mist Forged - as in my wvw example. This does NOT apply to transmuting, changing the looks.)
Bless you for having Subtitles! It is much easier for the hard of hearing.
Playing GW2 for 3 years and I still find myself referring to your guides. This, is the evergreen content you were speaking of. o/ Hope all is well Muk
Dude I'm a vet player and I still reference these guys. Lol. This game has so much you gotta look for guides and what not.
A big exception to the berserker/viper/harrier rule is wvw where you usually want more survivability. This means the default stats in wvw builds are usually marauders for power, minstrels for healing, and trailblazers/dire for condi.
I personally use Marauder (Svaard's) over Berserker a lot outside of WvW as well -- Running fractals, bounties & metas with the extra survivability on a Mesmer means your glass cannon doesn't instantly shatter if you miss a dodge roll. It does mean you won't be on top of the DPS, but outside of strikes/raids you rarely have a dedicated HFB/Druid to count on, so I like to bring the survival insurance myself.
@@odw32 marauder works on some decent dps builds as well or characters where you aren’t on top of dps list anyway (looking at you, bannerslave)
Just started GW2 as a ranger week ago and followed your other videos advice by at least getting exotic gear at 80. Although I had no idea how to get any ascended gear. Awesome video! Thank you! 🙌🏽
If your looking for ascended weapons that are not time gated, every class has a specialization collection achievement which awards you with a ascended weapon. It may be a grind but it's achievable in one play session. I would also recommend new players complete daily fractals, its the simplest way to get rings amulet and trinket while getting random ascended drops in the process. Once you familiarize with that system look into crafting grandmaster marks and trade them and fractal relics (resources youve farmed in fractals) for stat selectable armor or weps
Finally, the perfect video for returnee player and new player that decided to buy GW2 while it's on sale :D
Thanks for this video Mukluk! There are so many ways to get gear, I really needed this overview.
I was about to start farming Winterberries again for a stat-selectable ascended back item but I really had enough of doing that after getting all three types of waterbreathers. This video made me realize I had more than enough stuff to Mystic Forge the ascended quiver back item much to my relief :)
great video going to recommend to everyone, Never heard of book of secrets 5:58 before and probably for good reason 250 Powerful Bloods, yikes!
Thank you for the video. I stopped playing after Living World Season 1, right around when they implemented tons of anti farming mechanics. The game just felt like it was punishing me for playing. Jumping back in now YEARS later and my characters gear is hot garbage and I don't know how anything works anymore. The guide you recommended will be very helpful. Thank you again!
exact same story as me lmao
Welcome back 😊
Thank you for making this.. some guys tried to help me in game but I guess they could only type to much while doing what they wanted to do.
What a coincidence, this is exactly what I am just starting. Super helpful as always.
I almost got full ascended trinkets with Laurels and I just got my first ascended weapon as a drop from tequatl. Was so excited when I got it
trying to craft Ascended gear is a time-consuming process, so be prepared to have patience when doing this.
also, great video as always, good sir!
Takes like 6 minutes :^)
@@Hekk. yeah if you have the materials on hand, probably lol
Or just avoid it completely coz gw2 crafting is terrible!
@@Keeperoffyre what would u otherwise do with the mats? If i dont use shit for crafting my inventory literally explodes. And most stuff isnt worth selling in its raw Form on the tp
@@slashersoul2380 refine then sell or stockpile if you are working on a legendary
I used the magnetite that I got from your raid training in order to get the balls of dark energy to make my ad infinitum today. :D
wow, so many people in the comments (including me) are returning players after skipping out years.
the horizontal progression is paying off as this guide will always be relevant and we don't have 8 years of catching up to do except some story, elite specs and masteries
yes me too. I played 2018. Now I'm returning 2023😊
Something I think really would have added that cherrie on top to this video is - Your opinion on what to chase right after you hit 80 - like Barrie farm if you have it. If you have the gold, the “vial of salt” is an ez necklace. - dragon fall with a good commander is amazing for the time spent / gold gain / mist mote farm. If you have sky scale and taco, runing the “mistmote” farming path is almost better then winter barrie farm. - In my opinion- getting to doing T4 fractals ( and CM when you learn them ) is one of the best thing you can do for account as a whole.
Like I would offer if your just starting fractals and need to start stacking Agony resistant. I would do winter berries farming / a Vial of salt / petrified wood farm. You can in attune one of the rings of ice and that will allow you to two slot rings of ice ( this will need to be swapped for another ring at higher levers ) - this will allow you to get in to door to fractals and start your way through the Tires.
@@icecea if you have 0 ar you wont be able to do some of t1 xD
@@icecea read what I wrote again...This video is about hitting 80 how do you get gear. I wrote about how to get gear and move into higher end content... edit: the second part of my comment is where I give a better explanation on getting your trinket load out
agree. just to add more meat and personal opinion of a concerned "experienced-gamer" :D :D :D
tbh i have expected some tips and tricks rather than converting the wiki page into a video.
no hate here, just a content idea.
Like for example winterberry farm is i think one of the easiest way to get your rings/earrings and eternal ice shard for amulets. (opinion)
I mean, this is actually mentioned in the wiki page and I know it because ive already went through it before. But maybe there are other tips and tricks that can muk share based on his personal experience. :D
Years ago like 5+ a friend of mine spent a month getting a legendary weapon the day he got it he never touched the game again, I haven't played in 6 years thinking of coming back.
Awesome informative video, Muk! I had a lot of gold saved up even after getting the griffon, so I crafted all of my gear (even bought time-gated mats because YOLO) then stat-swapped to Viper’s for my condi Mirage (sorry to disappoint ya, Muk, but I main a Mesmer now). This was super expensive, but at least I was able to easily farm trinkets from the LWS3 maps.
thanks for linking the wiki page! i never knew about that one
i like to buy all my accessories from WvW; it's got lower cost of laurels compared to the laurel merchant in LA, but you have to pay with some WvW currency, but not too difficult to get.
I just finished all the main campaigns I’m gonna be working on getting all Bezerker Ascended gear on my ranger now… then Legendary gear
Ooooo this is exactly the kind of video I needed! Thanks Muk!
Blood stone trinkets, rings and the backpack is a must for any new player as you can stat swap them.
I did not know that! Are they much harder to obtain then bitter frost frontiers ascended stuff ?
@@datmanbrooksiehd875 not difficult but more time consuming. If you get the home instance node and the one that gives you mats each day its easier but will still take time to get all the bloodstone needed
There are significant exceptions to the glass cannon berserker/viper/harrier section, to the point that I don't think it can really be a rule or recommendation without their mention. WvW doesn't really use those, and for any serious open world stuff, particularly if you're doing open world stuff that isn't super populated - catching up on something, having to do somewhat more challenging stuff alone - you're much more likely to want way more sustain and tank. At the very least Marauder's for power, and likely Trailblazer for condi. Celestial gear is also really good for a lot of open world builds. If you're looking to focus on group content, then sure, get the glass cannon stuff. But particularly in open world, you have to provide your own buffs and healing if you aren't doing a popular meta, and often even if you are. Don't fall into the trap of going full glass cannon if you don't need to just because guides and content creators of GW2 for some reason still absolutely insist on it.
I got the weapon chest once on festival season :D
or Marauders gear if you wanna power build without dying all the time.
bloodstone fen has trinkets which you can reset many times
Tequatle is my favorite for ascended weapons. From max 10 runs i got 3 ascended weapons.
THERE IT IS! THERE IT IS! OH MY GOD! Such perfect timing! I just made a lvl 80 ranger last night and wanted to gear it for soulbeast and druid. Muk seems to always have a video guide ready when I need it most.
Oof. Getting all those hero points for both elite specs is a pain though so good luck.
@@renno2679 not really, just find a train for hot or pof (usually the comm doing hot does pof right after) and you can get them done in a few hours
@@renno2679 you can buy them in wvw if you have wvw currency testimony of heroics
One thing not covered that is a small detail is that the pvp ascended jewelry shares its properties with the ascended jewelry from bloodstone fen, bloodstone fen also has a reset item
I was literally waiting for this guide for years; D
I recommend the Blood Legion Soldier helm box instead of Ice Golem helm as it only cost 20s on TP
only if you have a charr as character.. thanks for wasting my 20s
@@arnegeys3176 Charr best race 😜
Just returned to GW2 and haven't hit max level yet so this video was real insightful :)
for Caladbolg.. I need a visioncrystal and after some hours googling and asking questions to randoms... it takes ALOT of efford to get one.. so its basically not that easy.
1:23 'Ascended gear is roughly a 10% or so increase in stats from Exotic gear.' Isn't it more correct to say it's *just 5%* ?
thing about crafting weapons. Its best to craft odd stat combination of weapons, because its sometimes cheaper, you can then change stats into what you want in mystic toilet. But be aware that any weapons and armor you throw there will destroy em and you will be given new weapon or armor, so remove your infusions etc before doing that
thank you so much for this I just started playing but this guide still helps so much thank you so much
I luv this advice about the mystic forge.
Just what I needed, way to go muk ;)
I like using sinister for condi weapons, but it's only 3 stats so vipers is probably better.
muk, what do you think is the more efficient way when it comes to Armor and Weapons?
access/trinkets are easiest in LWS maps/currencies imo.
Strikes IMO, there is no luck involved, just do a bunch of strikes, get shards, buy the thing you need.
Word of warning for anyone doing specialization achievements for weapons these days, don't do heart of thorns ones. HoT specialisation collections require more mystic coins than it's worth unless you REALLY want the skin.
Path of fire however are cheap and only require 1 coin.
If you can't do any path of fire spec collections for a weapon then your best bet is to craft or do the returner achievements, 4 will get you an ascended weapon chest.
Hey. What do you mean "returner achievements"?
@@dymasych6931 There's an event going on currently that is apparently permanent where they're re-giving out all of living world season 3 and 4. Everytime they do they add an achievement tab for the relevant map called "Return To" in side stories. Completing them is super fast and easy esp with PoF mounts, and the easiest way to get Ascended trinkets of any stat type in the game.
I can't believe how cheap are the dailies right now!! A bolt of damask used to be 8g now is ~1.7g! Even Buying dailies is cheaper than crafting!
Hey muk I think the stats different between ascended and exotic is only 5% not 10%
It's possible my math included ascended food, I'll have to check again. In any case my goal there was to make fresh 80s not feel like they "had no chance" next to more geared folks, hopefully that translated well.
iirc the stat difference is 5% but in practise it results in a 10% dps loss.
I'm fully ascended. I just cant believe i found Tanetris' guide before you do
There's a lot of wonderful content out there, there is probably more I haven't seen yet :P
in a normal gear grinder i just have to do the current content to get new gear. and i only really need it if i want to do instances.
this is a lot of work with very little chance of success
Thanks for the video ^^ Was utile for me :)
That long ass name always cracks me up lol
This video is neat.
Forgot about PoF banners for easy ascended back items
Very informative video. I'm still too new to know what most these things are though but at least I know there's many ways to gear up haha
thanks, Muk but what about Asc backpack 😔😔
Click the link in the description, it has a location of many of them. (living world merchants and mystic forging can make them off the top of my head)
Try farming berries or petrifying wood if you got the s3 maps (it rests every 22ish hours for every charecter) so the more charecters yoh farm with the lesser the time
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Thanks alot muk i used mystice forge recipes to get my new asc backpack❤️❤️
Hey there.
Hoping that you or any of your viewers can help me with this.
I am trying to get a full ascendet gear for my solo world build and all of the trinkets are called "marauder" as the stats they provide, but I can't finde any of those marauder trinkets in any of the methods you mentioned.
Same with the main gear, called Svaadi. I didn't find it anywhere. I am missing something?
Selectable ascended trinkets has marauders. LW3 Berries is the easiest one to get IMO.
Svaadi has marauders stats and only for ascended armors
I find a missing info in the article, how much time I will invest in each style of gearing.
You will need about 100 gold or something around this
Plus you will need to craft something that has a daily limit of crafting which you may need around 5 of them so crafting an armur can take you around 4-7 days depending on your patience
@@Yusufsanad you can do the slow way to craft the daily material or just buy the mats
So more time spent = less gold spent
This applies in the fractals/pvp methods
Fractals are usualy a daily 30 min run if you got a good group and the
drops depend on your luck in all cases either world bosses for armor/weapons or fractals (more frequant) for everything
Mystic forge is uhh instant xD
Question. I am making a bunch of ascended armor/weapon trinket sets. I have made Berserker, Diviner's, Marauder's, and Viper's. What else would be good to make? I play all classes and PVE and WVW. Thanks
I mean.. heck at that point I would probably work on legendary armor so you can have all remaining sets available.
@@MuklukUA-cam it’s too expensive
Every time I play GW2 just make me realize how much I miss GW1. GW2 hit the mark on SO many things, but the few things that was perfect in GW1 that they didn’t bring over saddens me lol
How can you join strike teams or raids? Is there a queued up system like WvW or PvP?
i just got exotic gear... time to grind for ascended ;-;
OMG teach me senpai!
I finally got fully ascended geared last year and I'm happy with it. Fractals and Leather working is how I got it.
... I'm level 27. What am I doing here?
Hahaha
Gear isn’t earnt via gameplay progression in gw2, it’s just grinded for.
What is the skin name for your gloves ?? looks sick
It's the medium armor legendary gloves from raids, they grow the spikes when you are in combat
@@MuklukUA-cam thought so T_T so no skin for me for a long time xD
What i want to know muk, is what kind of build u have been using for fractal (druid) ?
gw2efficiency.com/c/Mukluk%20Twitch That link lets you inspect my character, build number 2 is my raid/healing build.
it somehow annoyed me how you pronounced "Diviners"
Simply i can get any item just by playing the game?
hey mukluk thanks for all the useful guides,
quick question if you're available,
im a new 80 with all exotics, i do about 70%wvw + 30% fractals
got 4 ascended rings But only 1 of them is useful (3 have condi dmg on them which i dont need)
whats the best thing to do with those? ascended salvage kit?
my main direction is to focus on this one toon cos i dont think i have time for multiple mains,
saving up for later/ other builds is okay but not first priority.
it seems most effective for me to get my rings/amu with laurel+ badge of honor route,
what about weapons? all i could find were the ones that still require Grandmaster marks
(i dont have 500 craftings) is 500 crafting necessary? (other than drop loots)
thanks a lot!
You could go for the collection weapons, that's how I got my first ascended staff. And yes I usually salvage ascended stuff I don't need.
@@MuklukUA-cam thanks mukluk!
Algorithm comment.
liked the video !
what is that thing above ur head at the beginning of your video?
Legendary trinkets display that by default. Since recording this they've added the ability to turn that off if you wish.
Can you drop acended straight from fractals? also why da hell do i need account bound crafting insignias to buy gear from fractal vendore? stupid ass system tbh.
Can you only get the chest from world bosses once per day? As in does it only have a chance to drop on your first completion? Or can you still get it upon multiple completions?
First kill of each boss each day I believe.
started the game today and this is my yt recommendation
can u guys help me with some tips? i'm a f2p (by now, thinking to buy PoF and HoT) level 10 warrior. thx!
Play through the story and explore. Take things slow and don't rush it.
Yeah I got a tip. If you find you're dying a lot try equipping a shield.
Shields let you use your 5th ability on your skill bar to block all incoming damage for about 5 seconds. Or maybe it was 4 seconds.
Also shields give you more amour value. Armour value works like this. The more you have the less damage you take.
Lastly here is on more tip. Don't worry if you're wearing mostly scale mail, or chain mail amour.
chain mail, scale mail and plate mail are all classed as heavy armor and give the same stats. Each one just looks different.
If you are brand new I would recommend this guide: ua-cam.com/video/sEXcaZizax0/v-deo.html
1:29 then 3:52. Which is it?
It is true that you will be a minor disadvantage (otherwise there would be no point to the gear upgrade) in WvW but it is a few percent, like 5-10% of stats maybe. And that is only for WvW, in PvP everyone is equalized.
Ive Got a quick question: some of the ascended gear available at merchants doesnt have Infusion slots but the other Kind that can increase karma gain etc.
Are those worth getting or should i go for the Infusion slots for the agony res?
Karma gain etc is found on amulet/neck item. That is called an "enrichment". Amulets do not have infusion sockets.
@@MuklukUA-cam oh damn ur right all of them give enrichments instead of infusions. Didnt realise that. Ty very much mukluk good sir
I can't get my weapon cause I need to find a Caffinated Skritt :(
GGs
damn the amount of crap that they give you in this game is crazy. All I want is to gear up by doing pvp matches and all I get is random crap I have no idea what to do with :P
- Exotic to Ascended difference is 5 %, not 10 % or so.
- The "stats" part isn't exactly correct in the sense that people should aim for meta builds to save them from the hassle of reacquiring or stat-swapping gear.
- Fractals are bad for getting ascended items because it requires you to already have ascended items to get regular drops. Even with regular ring drops, you are very unlikely to get useful stats, since it only really has berserker stats.
- Crafting grandmaster marks to buy ascended items from the fractal vendor is not really worth it.
6%. It's a 10% improvement step, as relative to the white common gear being 100%.
0:01 whats is the name of that glowing balls on top of ur head?
Can anyone tell me if this information he is giving is still of use today?
The info in this video is still up to date at this time, yes.
I haven't found a full guide for a F2P like me to get those ascended gears. Kinda getting confused from those other videos saying this and that. I've started this December and just playing SW and PVP for now while trying to earn money for the expansion. I wish to see a real guide to how I can get ascended as a F2P dedicated items, materials and things that a F2P has access.
Mic volume is low
Will try to fix that next time o7
Hey, how can I build those things that float in your character. I'm new in the game. 😁
The orbs that float above me are legendary trinkets, none of them are difficult, just take time. I have guides for some of them (the rest coming soon) in the legendary guides playlist on this channel.
I stopped playing the game after I hit level 80 with a couple of characters. Never had ascended gear only bought exotic. I focused on the story and exploration because gearing and grinding is too much for me.
Most of the ascended gear you get after farming a shit tons of mats and leveling your crafting and can only be crafted. How do I even know what stats I need when this game has dozens of combinations. It's too overly complicated for no reason.
Hopefully in the future they implemented a normal system to get ascended like other games. As it is currently it pushes people away.
www.snowcrows.com and see what gear stats u want. plus Berserker stats has always been go to option since 2012 in pve for most classes, and besides he shows you in the video the top stats you want for most content. :)
its super easy get the mats to craft ascended gear, it just take some time. you can also do low tier fractals, and gear ur toon up that way. or do raids in exotic gear. or farm the living story maps
but if you dont like farming, then mmo is not for you. i mean. its ment for you to play only that game for years, everyday and never stop. set your own goals, short term and long term, read up what needs to be done to get them. most are super easy
once you get used to fractals and raids and wvw and pvp and crafting, all have guides. you really get too many asc items. i have salvage over 300+ items
you can do the basic collection for weapons, and armor, and if u get an asc gear box, you can just stat swap it to another stat
How do you know what stats you need in any other game? You check what the stats do or check what you need for your build. Being able to balance your stats more than just picking one of 3 options is not a con, it's a pro, you can tailor gear to your needs and playstyle, you can add more survivability and sacrifice some healing for WvW for example. And again, you can just pick Berserker / Viper / Harrier depending on your role if you don't want to think too much about it.
i'm so lost
Question can i make a ascended and give it to another character in my account ?
Most ascended items are bind to account (as opposed to bind to character) which means you can almost always trade ascended gear through your bank to other characters.
@@MuklukUA-cam nice ty for replying
I didn't think Caladbolg was worth anything, after having leveled several 80's and seeing it drop to useless so often...looks like I might need to remake all my toons >.>
In conclusion :...
It's not easy.
I'm working towards ascended gear through wvw rn and it's sooo damn slow. The grandmaster mark system just feels so inefficient to me.
You can craft the grandmasters Mark's to speed up the process
Really do love this game but what kills it for me is end game gearing. It's stupidly easy to get decent gear and then nothing to do after it :/ I really hope GW3 has a more interesting endgame.
That's GW2 for ya! No powercreep, it stopped at Ascended. Unlike other dead MMOs where your old gear becomes useless once a new update expansion is released.
@@Soul_Wizard_Of_Lemuria that's actually so untrue, the expansions 100% introduced power creep to both pve and pvp content.
this isnt the game for you. theres plenty to do when you get decent gear. achivements, mounts masteries etc.
Oh man, I remember crafting my ascended breastplate for my warrior....
So much gold, went into that. Single. Piece. Of armor.
Oh god why..
not gonna lie.. crafting is the easiest way if u are willing to pay some gold..i reached from full exotic to acended in just 5 days.. although accessories are prob tho
Please explaine the damn fucking currencies and how to get them and how to convert them .. jesus fuck the most important part is overlooked
👏🏻Are 👏🏻you 👏🏻telling 👏🏻 me that my bitchass spent ALL THAT TIME grinding and crafting just to find out...years later THEY SELL ASCENDED ARMOR AND WEAPONS *screams get louder* FROM FACTAL MERCHANTS??????!!!!!
I'm done. This game has TAKEN my life and now my soul!
I hit 80 on 4 out of 5 of my character slots and have no clue what most of what you are talking about is. There is no way a person who has only made the journey once is gonna be able to follow your video.....
saw this on my feed holy shit people still play this game lmao
A good amount of people still play it actually from what I can tell. I just started playing it again the other day, and it's one of the more populated MMOs I've ever played. Rarely have I been somewhere and not had often at least a couple other people there with me. Random low level areas, cities, there's always people around. No clue what the actual population of the game is, but from what I've seen it's far from dead.
Its an amazing MMO
Step 1: be rich
Srep 2: Don't be not rich
Gold is not important in pvp
MFW playing WVW for hundreds of hours back in the day without any real rewards lmao
gw2 should let players sell ascended gear for those lazy people who doesnt want to craft or collecting materials.
WHat pisses me off is that the ONE class i have interest in the Death Knight ( or is called the Reaper?) is only unlocked at lvl 80.+...
So i have to drag it out with a class i don't want, to finaly have the class i want for 80 fucking levels...
They could have put that at like lvl 30-40...
For once i would like one of those "Boost" like wow to get insta lvl 80 and be done with it...
If you purchased the expansions (which is required to play reaper) you get one of those boosts along with some other included goodies.