Hey WP. I love it that GW2 offers such a huge grind for a marginal increase in power. You're part of the 1% hardcore as you said yourself. The fact that you can have a meaningful goal without outright destroying the game for me as a casual makes GW2 awesome in my opinion.
hey WP, just wanted to thank you for making videos :) Eventhough I don't play GW2 anymore, I still watch your (and Matt's) videos (even guides), cause even if I'm sad/depressed, they can cheer me up, because of your constant optimistic, cheerful tone and enthusiasm! don't stop!
Start honestly? I've already considered it! Unfortunately the way GW2 is optimized, my PC can't run it on high, or even medium, with enough FPS to create something like my Experience Eorzea video.
Learned stuff almost right away, which is 100% better than every other "tutorial" video out there. I'm really glad I found this video as I was one of those guys who quit after launch haha. Thanks.
WP, if you have a Red Ring of Death and a Red Ring of Death (Infused) you can equip both at the same time. This will allow you to have the extra offensive infusion slot which is a bit more meaningful than a defensive slot.
Wooooah thats nuts, I never realised! So you could save 150 blood, basically. If you have those old magic find ones too you can double up on offensive/defensive slots by choosing new stats for them.
Damn WP, your ele's a total beast now. I made my elementalist an asura in honour of Lys and this video really made me want to work harder on my ascended gear. I main a mesmer but plan on going for ascended stats that can be directly used by my ele as well, so this was a really insightful video for me. Thanks! :)
You can also get +5 stat, +1% damage/defense vs Guards Infusions from Lauren Vendor in WvW - just for 100 badges of honor + laurels (no gold cost). That's a great cheap alternative for people who have enough AR or don't really care that much about FoTM. I myself use a combination of these expensive +5 power, +5 AR and different WvW ones, since I have 45 AR which is enough for me.
You can get multiple pristine relics a day. The daily chest is 1 per day per tier. That is, once you have 11+ personal reward level for your fractal, you can start getting 2+ pristine a day. You get 1 chest for your first fractal on scale 1-10, 1 chest for scale 11-20 and so on.
That was a fantastic video! Thanks for sharing. I've finally just started getting my crafts to 500. That's taking me forever. But getting ascended everything is definitely a goal of mine. thanks for sharing this guide to let me know how little I've done so far :p
Thank you for the learning experience, I have been playing GW2 for many years and collecting all kinds of items and never doing stats and wondering why my characters fight so poorly now I know I suck at not giving them their stats upgrade. Because I just didn't know I even bought Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire when they had that promo for 5000 crystal. Also the original game gw2 I ventured all that map and story line enjoyed the game so much I wanted to go further in the game I have 3 ladys and one floppy eared character he a necromancer and one of my better characters because he has minions to help him fight. All characters are lv 80. But they all lack strength mostly my fault because I just wanted to do the maps and some combat. but now am stuck because of not doing stats. So watching your video on stats is showing where I went wrong, plus I have been doing the game solo I don't belong to a guild. mostly because I live in canada. Our time zones are very different when I play you all are sleeping. lol
Thank you for this. Very informative as always. I just wanted to point out that I visited the laurel vendor in WvW as you suggested and you can actually buy all trinkets from him, not just amulets. I haven't checked the vendors in the cities.
that is such a tremendous effort for an admittedly meager return. however in terms of accomplishment, it is unmatched (unless you're a legendary hoarder.) i respect your fortitude and dedication to making the leap from exo to ascended. however, as a super casual player, i'll most likely never do this. it's a bummer, but it's just a vast sea of effort and i just don't play often enough to warrant it.
IMO do consider the trinkets! They're worth a BIG stat gain and basically cost no gold, just dailies and playing with your guild! (Backpiece can cost gold but is worth very few stats anyway).
For example if you have +200%crit damage you need exactly 2100 power and the rest precision for most dmg overall. (and also crit chance helps on crit procs, while power also affects non-crit or always crit damagers like sigil of air or Arcane Wave and is better against non-crittable gates,bosses)
I always thought that it was a suitable end goal to shoot for, but you should really achieve it at a fair pace. Since the difference isn't very high, there's no reason to rush it. Als I preferred getting the ascended back item since it just costs fractal relics rather than that pesky gold, which I can instead spend on getting the ascended armor sooner. Of course, in the end I ended up with the spinal blade pack instead, because that one came around long before I saved up enough fractal relics, and is much easier to craft.
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I agree that pretty much any GW2 player with a bit of dedication should have at least these ascended trinkets (not talking about infused versions), but hey… you're crazy WP, just crazy. ;-)
Definetly insane :) But i am facinated and understand your reasons why you did it. If i had the time (i have about 2 hours of gametime all 2 days or so) maybe i would try to get a legendary, which in my perspective is borderline insanity but as shown ingame a really common thing. Seeing this made me realise that this is an awesome aspect of GW2! It's an iiisaaane goal that you can go for, but it is not one that you need to play the content efficiently. The balance there, in my opinion, is very good. The stats could be twice as good as they are witheout giving me as a casual player te feeling to be left out. // i guess lots of typos; absolutely not native and no autocor. at my smartphone.
I just spent 30 Laurels on an Amulet that has Defensive infusions because the name and picture was cooler. Didn't even realize that there was one with an offensive slot. ;_____; I don't even know why I'm upset, considering that I'm not bothering with min-maxing the infusions. ;_______;
I like to run a Precision/Ferocity build on the Ranger class. While it is easy to get over 100% critical hit chance in any of the PvE stuff, I'd like to mention that going over that percentage means it stacks higher in PvP. PvP drops your critical hit chance by a significant margin when you go into it. My initial 80% critical hit chance was reduced to around 22% chance in PvP. It is worth it to go above the 100% chance of critical hit if you intend to do PvP. Or, at least, I argue it is worth it, if you run a Precision/Ferocity build. Then again, I am in the minority of what stats to take into PvP, since a 30% or so Critical Hit chance isn't seen "as worth it". But, I, personally, enjoy it. You see 200 damage hits suddenly skyrocket from that do about 1000, and players suddenly start fearing your character. Especially if you have runes that activate on critical hit.
I think the Assassin Amulet in PvP costs gold, so I had a Berserker amulet instead. Still, my Crit chance is almost 30% there. I'm not sure you can ever push it to 40, but the higher the better for me. I'll need to spend some gold to get the amulet I want at some point.
Magnificent! Also completely insane. Congratulations WP but I don't think I'll be following in your footsteps, I am waaaay too casual a player for that. =)
Fun fact - Those old Versatile 5/5 Infusions, if made today, would cost about 173 Gold. Making a modern 5/9 today costs about 72 Gold, plus 300 Fractal Relics.
I've been considering this for a long time myself. The problem besides money for me has always been which stat do I go for? Do I like my gear set currently? On my guardian it would be a no brainer, but for example on my wvw Wells Necro this becomes a bit more difficult. Very interesting indeed and it is an eventual goal of mine. Video was awesome, detailed and I loved it. Thanks.
Thanks a whole bunch! One of the nice things from a design standpoint is that they ever correctly insentivise other gear types people can do it all over!
WoodenPotatoes But the amount of effort to craft ascended gear should maybe be coupled with same option you got with legendaries, to freely select your stats when out of combat. Or as you said in a different video, at least if legendary armor makes it into the game, then its "precursors" will be ascended armor plus something more...
What's the guardian no brainer stat? I haven't been playing the game much since the start and haven't really gone for a specific stat yet, and I've no idea what's the "best" for guardian. Not that I really care for min-maxing, but I suppose I kinda have to.
Jontman42 not really a nobrainer stat on guardian... for full glass cannon dmg you want Berserker, for survivability in WvW/PvP you'll want Soldier/Knight.. i like using a mix of Soldier,Knight,Cleric and Cavalier and going Berserker on trinkets to up the dmg
With +250% crit damage for example you need 1400 power and as much crit chance as you can get to deal the most overall damage (ofc it doesn't worth to go over 80% crit chance if u have fury) In other words precision gives more damage than power when power reaches 1400. the closer you are to this the better
I'm on my path for ascended armour, reacently i crafted shoes. I've spent around ~70gold on that, and thei givame me +1 power moer over my dungeon shoes. Worth the effort, for sure....
Hey WP, what else do you do with your laurels? As someone who mostly logs in for dailies, I actually found it easier to buy ascended trinkets in laurels than get together enough gold for a backpiece, or find groups for fractals etc.
Started stat chasing on my ranger before I realized how broken they are. Half of my damage (pet) doesn't get affected by my chase for ascended. It's like going for full power while constantly knowing the 40% reduction taken right off from already measly stat upgrades. Who knows, maybe The disheartening feeling will disappear when Anet fixes the pet stats so as to be affected by the player's gear stats.
WP i follow all of your youtube vids and i hope you keep on playing and posting new vids you've really helped me out in the game as i'm sure you've helped out a bunch of other players too .. but man are you insane xD the amount of gold is just TOO DAMN HIGH xD i've been playing since launch and i'm still going for my 1st legendary (incenerator) , i understand the trinkets and weps are completely necessary but the armor ? man i really hope you give us your feed back about if it is worth it, because i really don't think it will be worth it, at least for me as a Thief in the game i don't think it would improve that much the back stab x) any ways =) hope you keep posting vids and thanks for all the ones you've been posting it has been really helpful ^^
Thanks for Vid Wooden. Grats on stat cap. It has solved my personal debate of whether to go for Ascended armour or not. Answer: No :P. I'll just concentrate on getting my ascended weapons. No need for Stat Cap for me, just want to keep WvWing for Blackgate. xD
Potential Noob question, but isn't it a real bummer just how weak the stat bonus from the infusions is? I mean +5 Power? For that amount of gold it should be much higher, shouldn't it? A crest of the soldier gives you +20 Power, + 14 Toughness and +14 Vitality and it costs pretty much nothing in comparison...
In my opinion if you get an ascended armour chest, it's totally not worth it unless you're getting that exact armour set. The weapons are totally different however.
Just noticed for the laurels WP, realistically if you are playing everyday, you should go for your monthly. That is 10 laurels right away. Cuts down on 10 days of laurel farming. XD
Question for your next Q&A: Anet has given no support on the forums at all for 40 days now, since the April megapatch. What is your opinion on this, and do you think that this has seriously damaged community relations? (My belief is that it has).
that's the reason why I quit GW2 back in 2013 ....had 3 lvl80s char with full exo set .....I was totally done and bored , I came back to GW 2 a few weeks ago .....and with all the new things they added , I'm afraid I will never get any ascended items :(
Would like to see Runes on your armor, some consumables (Sharpening Stones & +Power Food) with 25 stacks of Might, 25 stacks of Bloodlust etc. And see what you can do with it ;)
I think I would be more motivated to go through all this trouble if Guild Wars had more lore for its classes (professions). Wanting to be the best possible mesmer, the best possible necromancer, the best possible guardian etc. doesn't have as much weight for me when the universe itself refuses to define what those things actually ARE.
Definitely not a waste of your time, nice to see that while I will miss out on legendarys (really bad at jumping puzzles) the gameplay loss looks to be marginal, good use of diminishing return game design but that's from someone who probably won't be doing all of it so take with a pinch of salt. Nice to know what I'll be doing with my laurels (ascended trinkets).
Wow I almost cry seeing all those blood go into the magic toilet. I have 4 characters that is fully ascended but they only have the WvW infusion. Which is fine with me since I do a lot of WvW and haven't touch Fotm for months. I just use food and consumable to bridge the different in power which is a bit cheaper :)
your stellaris video led me here. This is a pretty amusing video . I love those individual armour peices but they do not work together. still wear that zephyrite helm to this day mind you. Your dying is awful lol
Hey guys,hey wp. I quit playing the game right before the giant steampunk robot update (forgot the name) so i wonder : how were you able to acces the fractals when LA was under attack ? And what happened to the story missions that took place there ?
Nice vid bro! I have been saying that to my guildfriends a long time.. but the money/Effort to get all that is not in my horizon. The only flaw i see whrn you reach all that is all those +1 Agony Infusions that we have from fractals that cant help to all the work that you show us.
What exactly are you doing to farm all that blood? It's an obscene amount and the only T6 I know that you can actually just straight-out farm is scales. p.s. we miss you on E-Bay
I don't even understand how you can have so many stacks of Vials of Blood. It took me like 3 weeks of solid dungeon/world boss farming to get a stack of 250 Ectos, doing dungeons for rares everyday, and world events. Now those Vials of Blood are even harder to find then Ectos in my opinion...Share your secrets Master!
Now I feel bad for spending one of my Pristine Relics on something dumb, but I eventually got 10 relics again, as well as a Ring of Red Death from the bonus chest, so 2 rings in one day XD
Hi Wooden Potatoes :) Any chance you could update this and / or produce a guide (easy to follow please) on the new ways of making doing AR. thanks so much
"If you really want to grind for stat cap..." no thats not what gw2 was supposed to be, i believe colin johanson himself said that after reaching max level even casual players should be stat capped within a small amount of time
WP how pissed would you be now if the start of season 2 introduced legendary armour with the ability to change stats and ascended gear had no part of the crafting of it.
I just play on the weekends and about an hour when I get home, I got work 8 hrs a day, how much in days can I reach this? how many hours of play in a day did you get in the past month?
Beyond amazing video WP. I now know for sure that stat cap is NOT for me. All that's left for me to understand is how one earns that much in gold and lootz in a short period of time. I'm gonna need it for Bolt.
Haha for sure, I never cared for it until I started running dungeons ! It took me about 20 days for the ascended armour and 20 days for the infusions, I would say. Its all dungeons.
WoodenPotatoes really, you telling us that you make 50g from dungeons. I kind of find that hard to believe. You sure you are not using really money to buy gems then converting them to gold? Any way who am i to say one can actually make that much from dungeons. Good video by the way.
WoodenPotatoes really, you telling us that you make 50g from dungeons. I kind of find that hard to believe. You sure you are not using really money to buy gems then converting them to gold? Any way who am i to say one can actually make that much from dungeons. Good video by the way.
If not for making a video I fail to see the worth in this. Much less so the fun to be had. I know a few people who would go for this, but most people, including myself, can be put off by grind, enough to make them lose any sense of replayability.
Hey WP. I love it that GW2 offers such a huge grind for a marginal increase in power. You're part of the 1% hardcore as you said yourself. The fact that you can have a meaningful goal without outright destroying the game for me as a casual makes GW2 awesome in my opinion.
Nice perspective!
Very liberal definition of the word meaningful there.
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hey WP, just wanted to thank you for making videos :) Eventhough I don't play GW2 anymore, I still watch your (and Matt's) videos (even guides), cause even if I'm sad/depressed, they can cheer me up, because of your constant optimistic, cheerful tone and enthusiasm! don't stop!
it's just nice listening to these people. they have such enjoyable voices.
Thank you! But I have to tell you the truth.... WP is just a potato.. and I might of just ate him.. I'm sorry this will be his last video..
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noooo! but what about his beautiful and elegant chesthair?! D:
TSLlolzGaming I'm still waiting for an Experience Tyria video. Start playing GW2 now.
Start honestly? I've already considered it! Unfortunately the way GW2 is optimized, my PC can't run it on high, or even medium, with enough FPS to create something like my Experience Eorzea video.
Learned stuff almost right away, which is 100% better than every other "tutorial" video out there.
I'm really glad I found this video as I was one of those guys who quit after launch haha. Thanks.
+cerroh Hey no worries at all! Thanks for watching!
WP, if you have a Red Ring of Death and a Red Ring of Death (Infused) you can equip both at the same time. This will allow you to have the extra offensive infusion slot which is a bit more meaningful than a defensive slot.
Wooooah thats nuts, I never realised! So you could save 150 blood, basically.
If you have those old magic find ones too you can double up on offensive/defensive slots by choosing new stats for them.
WoodenPotatoes Yeah I wish I had known that trick before I wasted 60g on 150 Vicious Claws.
Nike!
I turned mine into a condi ring for my engie so not much better xD
I did not know about this either...still I think my OCD would bother me. lol
inkthedink You'd think so, but the trade off is having two identical looking rings more than makes up for it when you open your hero panel.
"Mystic coins, very very cheap on the trading post" Ah, simpler times.
Damn WP, your ele's a total beast now. I made my elementalist an asura in honour of Lys and this video really made me want to work harder on my ascended gear. I main a mesmer but plan on going for ascended stats that can be directly used by my ele as well, so this was a really insightful video for me. Thanks! :)
You can also get +5 stat, +1% damage/defense vs Guards Infusions from Lauren Vendor in WvW - just for 100 badges of honor + laurels (no gold cost).
That's a great cheap alternative for people who have enough AR or don't really care that much about FoTM.
I myself use a combination of these expensive +5 power, +5 AR and different WvW ones, since I have 45 AR which is enough for me.
Yeah it seems like buying better agony infusions is going to be cheaper even if you want that 5AR.
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Yeah you can mix and match! Personally I went all out because I want 100AR for future fractals content.
WoodenPotatoes what future fractals content ? lol
misterzeerow Look at the date before asking..
Ah the good old days. I remember those days when traits were like that.
You can get multiple pristine relics a day. The daily chest is 1 per day per tier. That is, once you have 11+ personal reward level for your fractal, you can start getting 2+ pristine a day. You get 1 chest for your first fractal on scale 1-10, 1 chest for scale 11-20 and so on.
That was a fantastic video! Thanks for sharing. I've finally just started getting my crafts to 500. That's taking me forever. But getting ascended everything is definitely a goal of mine. thanks for sharing this guide to let me know how little I've done so far :p
Love how a 6 year old video is still valid information for this game. Haha
Thank you for the learning experience, I have been playing GW2 for many years and collecting all kinds of items and never doing stats and wondering why my characters fight so poorly now I know I suck at not giving them their stats upgrade. Because I just didn't know I even bought Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire when they had that promo for 5000 crystal. Also the original game gw2 I ventured all that map and story line enjoyed the game so much I wanted to go further in the game I have 3 ladys and one floppy eared character he a necromancer and one of my better characters because he has minions to help him fight. All characters are lv 80. But they all lack strength mostly my fault because I just wanted to do the maps and some combat. but now am stuck because of not doing stats. So watching your video on stats is showing where I went wrong, plus I have been doing the game solo I don't belong to a guild. mostly because I live in canada. Our time zones are very different when I play you all are sleeping. lol
Thank you for this. Very informative as always. I just wanted to point out that I visited the laurel vendor in WvW as you suggested and you can actually buy all trinkets from him, not just amulets. I haven't checked the vendors in the cities.
that is such a tremendous effort for an admittedly meager return. however in terms of accomplishment, it is unmatched (unless you're a legendary hoarder.) i respect your fortitude and dedication to making the leap from exo to ascended. however, as a super casual player, i'll most likely never do this. it's a bummer, but it's just a vast sea of effort and i just don't play often enough to warrant it.
IMO do consider the trinkets! They're worth a BIG stat gain and basically cost no gold, just dailies and playing with your guild! (Backpiece can cost gold but is worth very few stats anyway).
WoodenPotatoes Always go for ascended trinkets... that's a no brainer :D
WoodenPotatoes Agreed, having a full set of ascended trinkets does make a noticeable difference, and they are eaasy to get.
For example if you have +200%crit damage you need exactly 2100 power and the rest precision for most dmg overall. (and also crit chance helps on crit procs, while power also affects non-crit or always crit damagers like sigil of air or Arcane Wave and is better against non-crittable gates,bosses)
I always thought that it was a suitable end goal to shoot for, but you should really achieve it at a fair pace. Since the difference isn't very high, there's no reason to rush it.
Als I preferred getting the ascended back item since it just costs fractal relics rather than that pesky gold, which I can instead spend on getting the ascended armor sooner.
Of course, in the end I ended up with the spinal blade pack instead, because that one came around long before I saved up enough fractal relics, and is much easier to craft.
I agree that pretty much any GW2 player with a bit of dedication should have at least these ascended trinkets (not talking about infused versions), but hey… you're crazy WP, just crazy. ;-)
Definetly insane :)
But i am facinated and understand your reasons why you did it. If i had the time (i have about 2 hours of gametime all 2 days or so) maybe i would try to get a legendary, which in my perspective is borderline insanity but as shown ingame a really common thing.
Seeing this made me realise that this is an awesome aspect of GW2! It's an iiisaaane goal that you can go for, but it is not one that you need to play the content efficiently.
The balance there, in my opinion, is very good.
The stats could be twice as good as they are witheout giving me as a casual player te feeling to be left out.
// i guess lots of typos; absolutely not native and no autocor. at my smartphone.
best guild wars 2 guide ever so far!
That was a ton of work, thanks for the video. There should be a title this kind of dedication.
I just spent 30 Laurels on an Amulet that has Defensive infusions because the name and picture was cooler. Didn't even realize that there was one with an offensive slot. ;_____; I don't even know why I'm upset, considering that I'm not bothering with min-maxing the infusions. ;_______;
I bought two of the same ascended accessories -.-
I like to run a Precision/Ferocity build on the Ranger class. While it is easy to get over 100% critical hit chance in any of the PvE stuff, I'd like to mention that going over that percentage means it stacks higher in PvP. PvP drops your critical hit chance by a significant margin when you go into it. My initial 80% critical hit chance was reduced to around 22% chance in PvP. It is worth it to go above the 100% chance of critical hit if you intend to do PvP.
Or, at least, I argue it is worth it, if you run a Precision/Ferocity build. Then again, I am in the minority of what stats to take into PvP, since a 30% or so Critical Hit chance isn't seen "as worth it".
But, I, personally, enjoy it. You see 200 damage hits suddenly skyrocket from that do about 1000, and players suddenly start fearing your character. Especially if you have runes that activate on critical hit.
I think the Assassin Amulet in PvP costs gold, so I had a Berserker amulet instead. Still, my Crit chance is almost 30% there. I'm not sure you can ever push it to 40, but the higher the better for me. I'll need to spend some gold to get the amulet I want at some point.
Magnificent! Also completely insane. Congratulations WP but I don't think I'll be following in your footsteps, I am waaaay too casual a player for that. =)
Haha, and that's okay! :D
WoodenPotatoes It's not okay! Gief me power!
Fun fact - Those old Versatile 5/5 Infusions, if made today, would cost about 173 Gold. Making a modern 5/9 today costs about 72 Gold, plus 300 Fractal Relics.
Thanks for making this vid. I finally now know what to do at lvl 80. I have two lvl 80's, a guardian and a ranger.
Yeah, Balls deep into power!
Also 20:01 reminds me of that "Turn it to 11, its more than 10 so it should be better"
I've been considering this for a long time myself. The problem besides money for me has always been which stat do I go for? Do I like my gear set currently? On my guardian it would be a no brainer, but for example on my wvw Wells Necro this becomes a bit more difficult. Very interesting indeed and it is an eventual goal of mine. Video was awesome, detailed and I loved it. Thanks.
Thanks a whole bunch! One of the nice things from a design standpoint is that they ever correctly insentivise other gear types people can do it all over!
WoodenPotatoes But the amount of effort to craft ascended gear should maybe be coupled with same option you got with legendaries, to freely select your stats when out of combat. Or as you said in a different video, at least if legendary armor makes it into the game, then its "precursors" will be ascended armor plus something more...
trymba Not really. The armor is not legendary itself. It would be really nice though.
What's the guardian no brainer stat? I haven't been playing the game much since the start and haven't really gone for a specific stat yet, and I've no idea what's the "best" for guardian. Not that I really care for min-maxing, but I suppose I kinda have to.
Jontman42 not really a nobrainer stat on guardian... for full glass cannon dmg you want Berserker, for survivability in WvW/PvP you'll want Soldier/Knight.. i like using a mix of Soldier,Knight,Cleric and Cavalier and going Berserker on trinkets to up the dmg
Now get a legendary trident, and infuse that. :D
Shhhhhhhh lets pretend thats not a part of it :D
For max HP/vit or Armor/toughness you can do the same, but different mats.
With +250% crit damage for example you need 1400 power and as much crit chance as you can get to deal the most overall damage (ofc it doesn't worth to go over 80% crit chance if u have fury) In other words precision gives more damage than power when power reaches 1400. the closer you are to this the better
It crazy to think how much the game has changed
I'm on my path for ascended armour, reacently i crafted shoes. I've spent around ~70gold on that, and thei givame me +1 power moer over my dungeon shoes. Worth the effort, for sure....
Or just max your crafting out and craft them yourself which is what guild wars forces you to do if you want armor.
Hey WP, what else do you do with your laurels? As someone who mostly logs in for dailies, I actually found it easier to buy ascended trinkets in laurels than get together enough gold for a backpiece, or find groups for fractals etc.
Started stat chasing on my ranger before I realized how broken they are. Half of my damage (pet) doesn't get affected by my chase for ascended. It's like going for full power while constantly knowing the 40% reduction taken right off from already measly stat upgrades.
Who knows, maybe The disheartening feeling will disappear when Anet fixes the pet stats so as to be affected by the player's gear stats.
WP i follow all of your youtube vids and i hope you keep on playing and posting new vids you've really helped me out in the game as i'm sure you've helped out a bunch of other players too .. but man are you insane xD the amount of gold is just TOO DAMN HIGH xD i've been playing since launch and i'm still going for my 1st legendary (incenerator) , i understand the trinkets and weps are completely necessary but the armor ? man i really hope you give us your feed back about if it is worth it, because i really don't think it will be worth it, at least for me as a Thief in the game i don't think it would improve that much the back stab x)
any ways =) hope you keep posting vids and thanks for all the ones you've been posting it has been really helpful ^^
Thanks for Vid Wooden. Grats on stat cap. It has solved my personal debate of whether to go for Ascended armour or not. Answer: No :P. I'll just concentrate on getting my ascended weapons. No need for Stat Cap for me, just want to keep WvWing for Blackgate. xD
what about your underwater gear?
Potential Noob question, but isn't it a real bummer just how weak the stat bonus from the infusions is? I mean +5 Power? For that amount of gold it should be much higher, shouldn't it? A crest of the soldier gives you +20 Power, + 14 Toughness and +14 Vitality and it costs pretty much nothing in comparison...
the extra damage or defense you get in this game is really expensive.. so you go only if you want.
In my opinion if you get an ascended armour chest, it's totally not worth it unless you're getting that exact armour set. The weapons are totally different however.
11:40 A friend of mine got an ascended weapon box for ascalon path 1. It was in the champion loot bag of the endboss.
Just noticed for the laurels WP, realistically if you are playing everyday, you should go for your monthly. That is 10 laurels right away. Cuts down on 10 days of laurel farming. XD
Very interesting watch.
Not sure if it's your voice, or the clarity from your use of pop-ups.
Good.
Very good guide. Is it still the same? (just wondering since this video 2 years old already). What are the main differences? Thank you!!!
Question for your next Q&A: Anet has given no support on the forums at all for 40 days now, since the April megapatch. What is your opinion on this, and do you think that this has seriously damaged community relations? (My belief is that it has).
But is your underwater gear at stat cap
You are insane WP! lol However, congrats on the achievement :)
that's the reason why I quit GW2 back in 2013 ....had 3 lvl80s char with full exo set .....I was totally done and bored , I came back to GW 2 a few weeks ago .....and with all the new things they added , I'm afraid I will never get any ascended items :(
I dont have ascended either and starting as of today, with a bit of will power anyone can do it
Would like to see Runes on your armor, some consumables (Sharpening Stones & +Power Food) with 25 stacks of Might, 25 stacks of Bloodlust etc. And see what you can do with it ;)
Yeah I'm thinking of doing this and nuking a wvw zerg in tornado form! Video should be coming in a week or so, other plans first.
a cheaper way to get full on trinkets is haveing an offensive one infused and not infused that way you can wear 2times the same ring ^^
I think I would be more motivated to go through all this trouble if Guild Wars had more lore for its classes (professions). Wanting to be the best possible mesmer, the best possible necromancer, the best possible guardian etc. doesn't have as much weight for me when the universe itself refuses to define what those things actually ARE.
I really enjoyed this video. You're now the 1% :D
Definitely not a waste of your time, nice to see that while I will miss out on legendarys (really bad at jumping puzzles) the gameplay loss looks to be marginal, good use of diminishing return game design but that's from someone who probably won't be doing all of it so take with a pinch of salt. Nice to know what I'll be doing with my laurels (ascended trinkets).
great work , best gw2 guide by far
As someone who just needs t6 mats to finish The Dreamer, this video hurt to watch.
What do you mean you should make your ascended rings and backpiece (infused) "now" or you could "lose" the infusions down the line?
Wow I almost cry seeing all those blood go into the magic toilet. I have 4 characters that is fully ascended but they only have the WvW infusion. Which is fine with me since I do a lot of WvW and haven't touch Fotm for months.
I just use food and consumable to bridge the different in power which is a bit cheaper :)
You can get ascended accessories from laurels and ecto as well
ectos have so many uses.. i still prefer use my badges.. just my opinion
I still need to craft my first legendary lol
At least 30 days for 30 laurels, did they remove monthlies or something? Not played in 5 months sorry.
your stellaris video led me here. This is a pretty amusing video . I love those individual armour peices but they do not work together. still wear that zephyrite helm to this day mind you. Your dying is awful lol
Thank You For The Videos ... Very Appreciated.
Quick question - what class do you run dungeons the most on? (I guess you like you mix it up depending on the dungeon)
How mad would you be if they decided to let you progress ascended armor by making it infused (at the cost of destroying all your slotted infusions)?
i have one question, for "extra" weapons/gear what should i do with them? i have been salvaging every useless piece of equipment
Hey guys,hey wp. I quit playing the game right before the giant steampunk robot update (forgot the name) so i wonder : how were you able to acces the fractals when LA was under attack ? And what happened to the story missions that took place there ?
How 83 AR? I thought the cap was only 70, unless you crafted better agony resist infusions to put on infused rings and back piece?
Nice vid bro!
I have been saying that to my guildfriends a long time.. but the money/Effort to get all that is not in my horizon.
The only flaw i see whrn you reach all that is all those +1 Agony Infusions that we have from fractals that cant help to all the work that you show us.
Excellent Guide once again
i watched this whole video just to see stat capped tornado meteor shower. lets see one!
Hahaha, I will do one I promise!
What exactly are you doing to farm all that blood? It's an obscene amount and the only T6 I know that you can actually just straight-out farm is scales.
p.s. we miss you on E-Bay
what armor are you wearing? ;) and nice video :D
After watching this, I highly doubt I will actually do it. Unless I really start to get bored with GW2, I just don't think I have the patience :)
TY for the video -- I been wondering what it takes to make all that ascended armor.
I don't even understand how you can have so many stacks of Vials of Blood. It took me like 3 weeks of solid dungeon/world boss farming to get a stack of 250 Ectos, doing dungeons for rares everyday, and world events. Now those Vials of Blood are even harder to find then Ectos in my opinion...Share your secrets Master!
+Gunmetal Panda buy them?
I love the elite specs but I kind of miss the old trait system
Now I feel bad for spending one of my Pristine Relics on something dumb, but I eventually got 10 relics again, as well as a Ring of Red Death from the bonus chest, so 2 rings in one day XD
Hi Wooden Potatoes :) Any chance you could update this and / or produce a guide (easy to follow please) on the new ways of making doing AR. thanks so much
WP, if you don't ever run fotm, wouldn't it make sense to just buy the wvw infusions, given that they're cheaper and give wvw boosts?
Yep! I think I said that on the vid, but I'll personally be running fractals soon! :D
"If you really want to grind for stat cap..." no thats not what gw2 was supposed to be, i believe colin johanson himself said that after reaching max level even casual players should be stat capped within a small amount of time
WP how pissed would you be now if the start of season 2 introduced legendary armour with the ability to change stats and ascended gear had no part of the crafting of it.
Just Maxed out my Stat's too with Warrior
GG's!
by using the infusions, didn't you make it soulbound?
I wonder if WP was pissed when the changes to infusions happened, after he spent so much time and effort in these too
Wonderful video. Well done and thank you, WP. :-)
Didn't you forget your upgrade slots for like runes and / or sigils?
How do you get so much glob of ectoplasms so fast?
WP, why aren't you on Patreon? I'd love to start supporting you (among others I'm sure).
Nice ! Now you can go to high level fractal and survive 3seconds, or WvW and get one shotted by a thief ! Worth :p
Rayane Belkadi Or dodgeroll and use damage mitigation :P
WoodenPotatoes
But that takes effort...
What will you do now when there will be legendary armor? :)
So is all this still relevant today in the game?
and how do it get laurel
I am youre new fan = just loking one movie and already fan :D
regarding exotic rings: +82 to the major stat? 67+25 is still 92 as far as I know :p
It was an on the spot calculation :P
The wiki doesnt mention whether your own stats affects the damage of Arrow Carts. Has this changed recently??
It mentions that condi damage and power specifically do
I hate that the heavy ascended armor looks terrible on my charr, otherwise it would be a great goal for me
you can put any skin on it with transmutation stones bro :)
I just play on the weekends and about an hour when I get home, I got work 8 hrs a day, how much in days can I reach this? how many hours of play in a day did you get in the past month?
I played every day and spent probably 5h or so each time in dungeons
Hey, WP, what is the best way to farm Vials of powerful blood? Seeing as you have so many :D
farm dungeons. then buy blood
Beyond amazing video WP. I now know for sure that stat cap is NOT for me. All that's left for me to understand is how one earns that much in gold and lootz in a short period of time. I'm gonna need it for Bolt.
Haha for sure, I never cared for it until I started running dungeons ! It took me about 20 days for the ascended armour and 20 days for the infusions, I would say. Its all dungeons.
WoodenPotatoes You do it just by dungeons? No Trade Post skills or Mystic Forge secrets?
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No, I've been tempted by them but I'm not a lucky person and the forge has always screwed me! 50g a day every day, basically.
WoodenPotatoes really, you telling us that you make 50g from dungeons. I kind of find that hard to believe. You sure you are not using really money to buy gems then converting them to gold? Any way who am i to say one can actually make that much from dungeons.
Good video by the way.
WoodenPotatoes really, you telling us that you make 50g from dungeons. I kind of find that hard to believe. You sure you are not using really money to buy gems then converting them to gold? Any way who am i to say one can actually make that much from dungeons.
Good video by the way.
If not for making a video I fail to see the worth in this. Much less so the fun to be had. I know a few people who would go for this, but most people, including myself, can be put off by grind, enough to make them lose any sense of replayability.
Hey WP! Will you try wildstar? it starts in 12 days!