Gear Equivalent to Marshall's Heavy Armor in Gw2 UPDATED

Gear Equivalent to Marshall's Heavy Armor in Gw2

Last updated July 2020, No Quarter update

Introduction

This guide is an overview of the best ways to acquire gear for level 80 PvE and WvW content.

It'south assumed that you already have a fully leveled character and know what PvE or WvW build yous're aiming for. If you don't know what build to aim for, here are some useful resources:

• Open up Earth
• Fractal
• Raid
• WvW

Equipment can be acquired from many different sources in this game. Feel free to mix and match gearing methods in a way that works for yous.

Exotic or Ascended?

In Guild Wars ii there is no gear treadmill. The only two equipment tiers for endgame gear are Exotic and Ascended.

• Exotic gear is the 2d best tier. It's relatively inexpensive and easy to obtain, every bit a full set up of Berserker'due south exotic gear only costs ~35 gold on the Trading Mail service (~10 gold if y'all don't count trinkets). It's likewise skilful plenty for everything other than loftier-level fractals.

• Ascended gear is the best tier. It's significantly more than expensive than exotic gear, as a total set is timegated and costs 200-400 gold to arts and crafts. Nevertheless, it only offers a 12.5% damage increment over exotic gear. Y'all don't need to get ascended gear unless you lot want to run high-level fractals (in which example you need the infusion slots). Nevertheless, it'due south a practiced long-term goal, especially if y'all plan to play WvW or do raids.
  • Ascended gear tin can exist upgraded with agony infusions, which provide the agony resistance needed to survive high-level fractals. Alternatively, they can exist upgraded with stat infusions, which provide a marginal amount of stats. Agony stat infusions provide the best of both worlds only are extremely expensive and most players don't bother with them.

Ascended trinkets (backpieces, amulets, accessories, rings) are relatively easy to become, so you tin can consider skipping exotic and going straight to ascended for these. They also offer the greatest increment in stats by far, making them the most efficient identify to showtime.

When upgrading from exotic gear, you lot should upgrade your weapon first, followed by your trinkets, as most of your stats are in these items.

Table of Stats and Prefixes

For the vast majority of equipment, stat combinations are but attainable if they are role of the core prepare, or you own the expansion they are associated with. Stat selectable equipment will allow you to choose from any of the combinations yous have access to, with a few exceptions (such as specialization collections).

• Core/Release stats were included at release. These stats are generally the easiest to larn.
• Core/Extended stats were added during Living World Seasons 1 and 2.
• Cadre/Hybrid stats are similar to Core/Extended stats but only bachelor on certain ascended trinkets.
• Centre of Thorns stats were added during Heart of Thorns and Living World Season three. Other than Marauder and Crusader, these stats require the Heart of Thorns expansion.
• Path of Fire stats were added during Path of Fire and Living Globe Flavor 4. These stats require the Path of Fire expansion.
  • Diviner'south gear is a weird edge case. This stat combination was retroactively added in Path of Fire to both Center of Thorns and Path of Fire gear, and then it requires either Centre of Thorns or Path of Fire.

Icon	Exotic prefix	Ascended prefix	Release	Stats	Jewel
	Apothecary'south	Ebonmane'due south/Veldrunner's	Core/Extended	Healing Power++, Condition Damage+, Toughness+	Passiflora
	Assassinator's	Soros's/Saphir's	Core/Release	Precision++, Ability+, Ferocity+	Opal
	Berserker's	Zojja's	Cadre/Release	Power++, Precision+, Ferocity+	Ruddy
	Berserker's and Valkyrie	-	Core/Hybrid	Power++, Ferocity++, Precision+, Vitality+	-
25px	Bringer'south	Giftbringer's	Cadre/Extended	Expertise++, Precision+, Vitality+	-
	Captain's	-	Core/Release	Precision++, Ability+, Toughness+	Emerald
	Carrion	Occam'south	Core/Release	Status Harm++, Ability+, Vitality+	Chrysocola
	Cavalier's	Angchu	Core/Release	Toughness++, Power+, Ferocity+	-
	Celestial	Wupwup	Cadre/Extended	Power+, Precision+, Toughness+, Vitality+, Status Damage+, Ferocity+, Healing Power+	Charged Quartz
	Cleric's	Theodosu'due south/Tateos's	Core/Release	Healing Ability++, Power+, Toughness+	Sapphire
	Commander'due south	Tizlak's	Heart of Thorns	Ability++, Precision++, Toughness+, Concentration+	Maguuma Burl
	Crusader'due south	Ossa's	Centre of Thorns	Ability++, Toughness++, Ferocity+, Healing Ability+	Agate
	Dire	Mathilde'southward/Morbach's	Core/Release	Condition Damage++, Toughness+, Vitality+	-
25px	Dire and Rabid	-	Core/Hybrid	Condition Damage++, Toughness++, Precision+, Vitality+	-
	Diviner's	Steelstar's	Heart of Thorns OR Path of Burn	Power++, Concentration++, Precision+, Ferocity+	-
	Giver'south	Tixx's	Cadre/Extended	Toughness++, Healing Power+, Concentration+	Snowflake
	Grieving	The Twins'	Path of Fire	Power++, Condition Damage++, Precision+, Ferocity+	Mournstone
	Harrier'due south	Zehtuka's	Path of Burn down	Power++, Healing Ability+, Concentration+	Brandspark
	Knight's	Beigarth's	Core/Release	Toughness++, Power+, Precision+	-
	Magi's	Hronk'southward	Core/Release	Healing Power++, Precision+, Vitality+	-
	Marauder'due south	Svaard'south	Heart of Thorns	Power++, Precision++, Vitality+, Ferocity+	Ebony
	Marshal's	Nadijeh's	Path of Fire	Power++, Healing Ability++, Precision+, Condition Damage+	Sunset
	Minstrel'due south	Maklain's	Heart of Thorns	Toughness++, Healing Power++, Vitality+, Concentration+	Freshwater Pearl
	Nomad'southward	Ventari's	Cadre/Extended	Toughness++, Vitality+, Healing Power+	-
	Plaguedoctor'due south	Nerashi'southward	Path of Fire	Status Damage++, Vitality++, Concentration+, Healing Power+	-
	Rabid	Grizzlemouth'due south/Ferratus'south	Core/Release	Status Damage++, Precision+, Toughness+	-
25px	Rabid and Apothecary'south	-	Core/Hybrid	Condition Damage++, Toughness++, Precision+, Healing Power+	-
	Rampager's	Coalforge's/Forgemaster'due south	Core/Release	Precision++, Power+, Status Harm+	Coral
	Sentinel's	Tonn's/Wei Qi's	Core/Extended	Vitality++, Power+, Toughness+	Azurite
	Seraph	Thackeray's	Heart of Thorns	Precision++, Condition Damage++, Concentration+, Healing Ability+	-
25px	Settler's	Leftpaw's	Cadre/Extended	Toughness++, Condition Damage+, Healing Ability+	-
	Shaman'southward	Zintl	Cadre/Release	Vitality++, Condition Damage+, Healing Power+	-
	Sinister	Verata'southward	Cadre/Extended	Condition Damage++, Ability+, Precision+	Charged Ambrite
	Soldier'southward	Chorben's/Ahamid's	Core/Release	Power++, Toughness+, Vitality+	-
	Trailblazer'due south	Pahua's	Middle of Thorns	Condition Damage++, Toughness++, Vitality+, Expertise+	Maguuma Lily
	Valkyrie	Stonecleaver's/Gobrech'south	Core/Release	Power++, Vitality+, Ferocity+	Beryl
	Vigilant	Laranthir's	Middle of Thorns	Ability++, Toughness++, Concentration+, Expertise+	Flax Bloom
	Viper'southward	Yassith'south	Centre of Thorns	Power++, Condition Impairment++, Precision+, Expertise+	Black Diamond
	Wanderer'southward	Ruka'due south	Heart of Thorns	Power++, Vitality++, Toughness+, Concentration+	Moonstone
	Zealot's	Keeper's	Cadre/Extended	Power++, Precision+, Healing Power+	Watchwork

Exotic Equipment

Trading Post

For Core/Release stats, the simplest and fastest way to become exotic equipment is to purchase information technology off the Trading Mail.

Don't search directly for the prefix, as that will but evidence yous crafted gear. Instead, apply the filters to observe the cheapest level 80 exotic gear with the stats you demand.

This will fix you back 10-35 gold. If you don't count trinkets it will cost less than 10 gold.

PvP/WvW

If you play PvP or WvW, reward tracks are the all-time mode to obtain exotic armor and weapons with Core/Extended, Heart of Thorns, or Path of Fire stats.

These provide stat-selectable armor pieces:

• Crystal Desert Advantage Track
• Glorious Advantage Track (PvP merely)
• Legacy Armor Reward Track
• Triumphant Armor Reward Track and Triumphant Hero'southward Armor (WvW only)

These provide stat-selectable weapons:

• Mistforged Hero'south weapons (WvW only)
• Obsidian Weapon Box (doesn't provide underwater weapons)

Yous can as well go certain Core/Release stats very hands through the dungeon reward tracks, which provide iii weapons and one slice of armor:

• Ascalonian Catacombs Dungeon Track (Soldier's, Magi's, or Rampager'southward)
• Caudecus'south Manor Dungeon Track (Rabid, Rampager'south, or Shaman's)
• Twilight Arbor Dungeon Track (Magi's, Rabid, or Rampager's)
• Sorrow's Embrace Dungeon Track (Carrion, Knight's, or Soldier's)
• Citadel of Flame Dungeon Rail (Berserker'south, Carrion, or Rampager'southward)
• Honor of the Waves Dungeon Track (Magi's, Rabid, or Soldier'due south)
• Crucible of Eternity Dungeon Track (Berserker'south, Dire, or Rampager's)
• The Ruined City of Arah Dungeon Track (Berserker'south, Knight'south, or Rabid)

If you take any of the Living Earth Season 3-5 episodes, you can get stat-selectable gear from their corresponding reward tracks. Encounter "Living World Achievements" beneath for the gear you can go (identical to the gear the advantage track provides).

Story/Accomplishment Rewards

Some story steps and achievements provide exotic gear every bit a reward. This is the all-time method of getting exotic gear for new players, simply is limited by the achievements available.

Story Rewards

Some story steps provide you with gratis exotic equipment:

Personal Story

• Victory or Death: Provides a Berserker's, Knight's, or Rabid caput.

Heart of Thorns

• The Jungle Provides: Provides a Berserker'due south, Carrion, Cleric's, Dire, Rampager's, or Shaman'due south head.
• Biting Harvest: Provides a piece of Trailblazer'southward, Viper'due south, or Wanderer's armor.
• Hearts and Minds: Provides a slice of Wanderer'due south armor.

Living World Season three

• Confessor's End: Provides a stat-selectable Cadre/Release, Core/Extended, or Heart of Thorns head.

Path of Fire

• Blazing a Trail: Provides a Marshal's backpiece.

Elite Specialization Gear

You receive some gear for grooming an elite specialization. Note that the armor pieces are not salvageable, so y'all might not want to put expensive runes in them.

Centre of Thorns

• Berserker: Lookout man's, Sinister, or Vigilant torch and caput
• Chronomancer: Berserker's, Minstrel'south, or Soldier'southward shield and shoulders
• Daredevil: Celestial, Marauder's, or Minstrel'south staff and head
• Dragonhunter: Berserker's, Commander's, or Rampager's longbow and hands
• Druid: Cleric's, Minstrel'due south, or Nomad'southward staff and shoulders
• Herald: Celestial, Crusader's, or Trailblazer's shield and shoulders
• Reaper: Berserker'southward, Knight'due south, or Trailblazer's greatsword and head
• Scrapper: Berserker'due south, Knight's, or Wanderer's hammer and head
• Storm: Assassin'due south, Celestial, or Minstrel's warhorn and shoulders

Path of Burn

• Deadeye: Assassin'due south, Berserker'southward, or Valkyrie rifle and shoulders
• Firebrand: Align's, Trailblazer'southward, or Viper'south axe and head
• Holosmith: Berserker's, Marauder's, or Align's sword and shoulders
• Mirage: Carrion, Dire, or Rabid axe and head
• Renegade: Celestial, Grieving, or Viper's shortbow and head
• Scourge: Apothecary's, Carrion, or Viper's torch and shoulders
• Soulbeast: Marauder's, Marshal'due south, or Viper'due south dagger and hands
• Spellbreaker: Assassin'south, Knight'south, or Valkyrie dagger and shoulders
• Weaver: Celestial, Grieving, or Viper's sword and hands

Mistward Collections

You receive a set of exotic Berserker's, Knight'south, or Rabid heavy armor for unlocking all Revenant specializations and completing the Mistward collections.

Heart of Thorns Pact Backpieces

For playing through the Middle of Thorns story and completing the Agent's Pack, Crusader's Pack, or Scholar's Pack collection, you get a backpiece with certain Cadre/Release or Core/Extended stats.

Living Earth Achievements

Since Heart of Thorns, most Living World episodes have had at to the lowest degree ane achievement that provides stat-selectable exotic armor:

Living Globe Flavor three

• Out of the Shadows: head
• Rising Flames: shoulders + a caput from Maintain Aurene's Shield
• A Crack in the Ice: hands
• The Caput of the Snake: head
• Flashpoint: shoulders
• I Path Ends: anxiety

Living World Flavour 4

• Daybreak: head
• A Bug in the Arrangement: shoulders + 2 backpieces from Repairing/Rebooting IG-6417
• Long Alive the Lich: chest
• All or Zero: legs
• War Eternal: boots

Icebrood Saga

• Whisper in the Dark: head
• No Quarter: multiple head and backpieces

Crafting

Crafting is an expensive just reliable way to get exotic equipment. You lot'll demand the advisable level 400 crafting profession and the recipe for the items you desire to arts and crafts. You'll likewise need the right materials, either acquired through farming or the Trading Mail.

Crafting tin get complicated for Core/Extended, Middle of Thorns, and Path of Fire stats, as the advisable recipes are oftentimes locked behind map-specific currencies, and the materials may be expensive or account leap. Use the wiki to notice the advisable crafting recipes and where they can be obtained from.

This will set you back 50-200 golden depending on the stat fix; you lot might also have to spend more gilded leveling your crafting or buying the recipes.

WvW Vendors

The Weapon Chief and Armor Master at each WvW spawn betoken sell:

• weapons and armor with Berserker'due south, Carrion, Cleric's, Knight'south, Rabid, and Soldier's stats;
• amulets, accessories, and rings with Soldier'due south stats.

Depending on the exact stats and how many Badges of Honor you have, this may or may not exist a meliorate deal than ownership them off the Trading Mail service. A full fix of weapons and armor will ready you lot back 7-ten gilt and 1200-1500 Badges of Honor.

Karma

Each of the half dozen temples in Orr has a meta event chain that, when completed, allows yous to buy exotic equipment for 42,000 karma apiece. Annotation that none of these are salvageable, and so you might non desire to put expensive runes in them.

• Cathedral of Glorious Victory (Straits of Devastation): Rampager's armor, Cavalier trinkets
• Cathedral of Eternal Radiance (Malchor's Spring): Rabid armor, Magi's trinkets
• Cathedral of Zephyrs (Malchor'south Spring): Cleric'southward armor, Rabid trinkets
• Cathedral of Verdance (Cursed Shore): Magi's armor
• Cathedral of Silence (Cursed Shore): Berserker's armor, Soldier's trinkets
• The Narthex (Cursed Shore): Soldier's armor

Dungeon Tokens

If you take some experienced friends to run dungeons with, or you're willing to accept your chances with LFG, you can go certain Core/Release stats past doing dungeons. Each explorable path has a daily advantage of ~100 unique tokens which yous tin can cash in for exotic armor and weapons at the Dungeon Armor and Weapons vendor.

• Ascalonian Catacombs: Soldier's, Magi's, or Rampager's
• Caudecus's Manor: Rabid, Rampager's, or Shaman'southward
• Twilight Arbor: Magi's, Rabid, or Rampager'south
• Sorrow's Encompass: Feces, Knight'southward, or Soldier's
• Citadel of Flame: Berserker's, Carrion, or Rampager's
• Honor of the Waves: Magi's, Rabid, or Soldier'due south
• Crucible of Eternity: Berserker's, Dire, or Rampager's
• The Ruined City of Arah: Berserker's, Knight'southward, or Rabid

Ascalonian Catacombs, Twilight Arbor (non-Aetherpath), and Crucible of Eternity are the easiest dungeons for inexperienced players to tackle. Arah is grueling and not recommended for the faint of centre. If you're new to dungeons, I recommend using a LFG description along the lines of "new thespian LF all paths, help appreciated".

Guild Backpacks

If you're in an active guild that does guild missions, yous can purchase exotic backpieces with Berserker's, Magi's, or Soldier's stats from the Social club Commendation Trader for 5 gold and 5 guild commendations each.

Yous can also buy exotic weapons from this vendor, only this is not recommended as the Trading Mail service is cheaper.

Paradigm Fractal Capacitor

You can buy an exotic Berserker's, Cavalier'south, Knight's, or Rabid backpiece from Buy-4373 for 1,350 fractal relics. This backpiece tin can exist upgraded fairly cheaply to an ascended version in the Mystic Forge, making it a expert choice for fractal players. Yet, information technology does not have an upgrade slot and hence provides inferior stats compared to all other exotic backpieces.

Notation that the upgraded ascended version volition have the same stat combination every bit the exotic version.

Beetle Incubator

If y'all have Living Globe Season four Episode 3 ("Forearmed is Forewarned"), you can buy an exotic backpiece from Kadir in the Domain of Kourna for some karma and map currency. This stat-selectable backpiece provides all Core and Path of Fire stats.

Ascended Equipment

Differences from Exotic

Ascended equipment differs from exotic equipment in three crucial aspects:

ane. Ascended equipment is Account Bound, not Soulbound.

This means yous can freely motility ascended weapons and trinkets between characters, and ascended armor between characters that wear the aforementioned weight of armor.

two. You lot can't equip multiple copies of Unique ascended trinkets.

For example, you can't equip two , even though you have two ring slots. The aforementioned applies to accessories. You tin work around this in 2 means:

• Get two differently-named rings or accessories that accept the same stats.
• Use one ring that is infused or attuned (see "Infusing and Attuning Equipment" beneath) and one ring that isn't. This is useful if y'all aren't planning to slot infusions into your rings.

3. Ascended armor and weapons can be reforged in the Mystic Forge to change their stats.

To practice this, combine the ascended piece with 5 Globs of Ectoplasm, an Anthology of Heroes (bought from Miyani), and an exotic inscription/insignia with the desired stats. This lets you stat swap any ascended weapon or armor piece, including named weapons and armor pieces yous go from achievements.

• Note that this is effectively destroying and recreating the ascended piece, so you'll lose whatsoever upgrades that were inside information technology. If you desire to keep runes, sigils, or infusions, y'all'll take to extract them with an Upgrade Extractor or Infusion Extraction Device.
• This process will too cease to count as the original item for some purposes such as forging legendary armor.

Living Earth

The single all-time mode to get ascended trinkets is through the Living World maps. All Season 3 maps and some Season four maps have a unique farmable currency that can be used to purchase stat-selectable ascended trinkets. If yous play PvP or WvW, you can also get the map currencies from the appropriate reward tracks.

Note that all of these are Unique, and so you can simply get i ring and accessory from a single map.

Living World Flavor 3

• Bloodstone Fen (Claret Rubies) - backpiece, amulet, ring
  • Note: Y'all can change the stats on Blood Red trinkets by spending unbound magic.
• Ember Bay (Petrified Woods) - backpiece, accompaniment
• Bitterfrost Frontier (Fresh Winterberries) - backpiece, accessory, ring, aquabreather
• Lake Doric (Jade Shards) - backpiece, amulet
• Draconis Mons (Burn down Orchid Blossoms) - amulet, ring
• Siren's Landing (Orrian Pearls) - backpiece, amulet

Living World Season 4

• Sandswept Isles (Difluorite Crystals) - accessory, band
• Domain of Kourna (Honour) - amulet, accompaniment, ring (Plaguedoctor's stats only)
• Thunderhead Peaks (Award) - amulet, accompaniment, ring (Augur'south stats only)
• Dragonfall (Mistborn Motes) - amulet, accessory, ring

Icebrood Saga

• Bjora Marches (Eternal Ice) - amulet, accessory (require achievements to unlock buy option)

Laurels

Another style to become ascended trinkets with Core/Release stats is to buy them from the Laurel Merchant. This vendor sells trinkets with Apothecary, Berserker'southward, Condescending'due south, Celestial, Cleric's, Knight'due south, Rabid, Rampager's, and Soldier's stats. Yous tin can also buy Core/Hybrid stats, and duplicates of any Core/Extended trinket you received from Living Globe Season 2 story achievements.

• Amulets only price thirty laurels, making this the cheapest way to get an ascended amulet.
• Rings cost 35 laurels, which is pretty cheap. However, getting them with laurels is non recommended as Pristine Fractal Relics are even cheaper.
• Accessories toll 40 honour and fifty Globs of Ectoplasm, which is only worth it if you have lots of laurels and ectoplasm to spare.

Y'all can also buy from the WvW Laurel Merchant, which costs more than Badges of Honor but fewer honour.

Fractal Rings

If you don't mind doing fractals, y'all can utilize Pristine Fractal Relics to buy ascended rings from BUY-2046 PFR. These are the aforementioned rings sold past the Laurel Merchant, except they only toll 10 Pristine Fractal Relics each. That's a mere 3 days of T1 fractal dailies, or one day of T3/T4 fractal dailies if you already accept a geared graphic symbol.

Prototype Fractal Capacitor

As previously mentioned, BUY-4373 sells a Berserker'south, Cavalier's, Knight's, or Rabid backpiece for i,350 fractal relics, which can be upgraded to an ascended version in the Mystic Forge. If y'all do fractals regularly, this is one of the cheapest ascended backpacks available.

Note that the upgraded ascended version will have the same stat combination as the exotic version.

Guild Commendations

If you lot're in an active order that does guild missions, the Lodge Commendation Trader sells the same ascended accessories equally the Laurel Merchant, but for v gilt and 12 guild commendations each. This is more cost-effective than buying them with laurels, as guild commendations aren't really used for anything else.

Mist Trinkets

You tin can buy stat-selectable ascended trinkets from vendors in fractals, PvP, or WvW. This is a relatively expensive style to obtain ascended trinkets, but the trinkets you obtain tin have whatsoever stats, and y'all can reselect stats using a Mist Capacitor. The trinkets are likewise not Unique, so you can equip multiple Mist Bands or Mist Talismans.

• Buy-2046 PFR: Pristine Fractal Relics and Integrated Fractal Matrices
• Ascended Armor League Vendor: Ascended Shards of Glory and Shards of Glory
• Skirmish Supervisor: WvW Skirmish Claim Tickets and Memories of Battle

Achievements

Some story steps and achievements provide ascended gear equally a reward. This is the all-time method of getting ascended gear for new players, but is limited by the achievements available.

Dungeon Collections

Unlocking all the skins for each of the dungeons will unlock an ascended accessory with Assassin's (Caudecus's Estate or The Ruined Urban center of Arah), Carrion (Citadel of Flame or Sorrow's Embrace), Magi'southward (Honor of the Waves or Twilight Arbor), or Sentinel'southward (Ascalonian Catacombs or Crucible of Eternity) attribute combinations. These attribute combinations can be difficult to obtain if you just have admission to core stats, but completing the collections from scratch involves running a lot of each dungeon, or its correspondind PvP/WvW reward track.

Fashion Guide

A stat-selectable accompaniment can exist obtained past completing the Manner Guide collection, though several items are very expensive to obtain.

Knight of the Thorn

If you complete the Heart of Thorns story and the Knight of the Thorn questline, you can get a stat-selectable ascended weapon with Core/Release, Core/Extended, or Centre of Thorns stats.

Yous can have the weapon be a dagger, greatsword, scepter, shield, or sword. While this weapon tin can't be stat swapped in the Mystic Forge, y'all can utilise unbound magic to reselect its stats or the blazon of weapon information technology is.

The first ascended weapon is complimentary (only requiring some easy collection achievements). To brand more than, you'll need to consummate the Centre of Thorns story on additional characters, and spend well-nigh 30 golden crafting the components for each new weapon.

You get a stat-selectable ascended backpiece for completing each Raise the Banners collection in Path of Fire. The stats available include all of the stats sold by the Laurel Merchant, equally well as Path of Burn down stats.

There are 3 collections you can terminate, each one providing an ascended backpiece. Yous get a fourth backpiece for free later completing all the previous collections.

Specialization Collections

You get an ascended weapon for completing each Specialization Drove. The resulting ascended weapons have a limited pick of stats but tin be stat swapped in the Mystic Forge.

Heart of Thorns

• Berserker: Lookout's, Sinister, or Vigilant torch
• Chronomancer: Berserker's, Minstrel's, or Soldier'south shield
• Daredevil: Celestial, Marauder'south, or Minstrel's staff
• Dragonhunter: Berserker'southward, Commander's, or Rampager's longbow
• Druid: Cleric's, Minstrel's, or Nomad's staff
• Herald: Celestial, Crusader's, or Trailblazer's shield
• Reaper: Berserker's, Knight'south, or Trailblazer'southward greatsword
• Scrapper: Berserker'due south, Knight's, or Wanderer'southward hammer
• Storm: Assassin's, Celestial, or Minstrel'south warhorn

Path of Fire

• Deadeye: Assassin'south, Berserker'south, or Valkyrie rifle
• Firebrand: Marshal's, Trailblazer's, or Viper'southward axe
• Holosmith: Berserker's, Knight'south, or Wanderer'southward sword
• Mirage: Carrion, Dire, or Rabid axe
• Renegade: Angelic, Crusader'south, or Trailblazer's shortbow
• Scourge: Apothecary'south, Carrion, or Viper's torch
• Soulbeast: Marauder'due south, Marshal'southward, or Viper's dagger
• Spellbreaker: Assassin's, Knight'due south, or Valkyrie dagger
• Weaver: Celestial, Grieving, or Viper's sword

Each of these collections includes an expensive Mystic or Mordant weapon that will set yous dorsum about 30 gold. Withal, collecting a Mystic shield or staff, or a Mordant axe, dagger, or sword, will fulfill the requirement for ii collections at once.

Story Mastery Achievements

Some story achievements provide an ascended trinket when complete:

Living World Season 2

• Gates of Maguuma Mastery: Nomad'south ring
• Entanglement Mastery: Nomad's accessory
• The Dragon's Reach, Function 1 Mastery: Nomad's ring
• The Dragon'due south Reach, Part ii Mastery: Nomad'south accompaniment; Nomad's amulet purchasable with laurels/magnetite shards
• Echoes of the By Mastery: Sinister accessory
• Tangled Paths Mastery: Sinister ring
• Seeds of Truth Mastery: Sinister amulet; Sinister ring purchasable with brigand crests
• Point of No Return Mastery: Sinister accessory; Sinister amulet purchasable with laurels/magnetite shards/brigand crests

Heart of Thorns

• Heart of Thorns: Act 4 Mastery: Commander'southward, Minstrel'due south, Trailblazer's, Vigilant, Viper's, or Wanderer'southward amulet
  • Notation that this requires the hard accomplishment Migraine. Not recommended unless you're already an experienced PvE player or you lot can get some experienced friends to carry you.

Path of Burn

• Path of Fire: Act 1 Mastery: Marshal's amulet
• Path of Fire: Human action 2 Mastery: Harrier's amulet
• Path of Fire: Human action 3 Mastery: Grieving amulet

Crafting

Crafting is an expensive but reliable manner to get ascended armor and weapons. You lot'll demand the appropriate level 500 crafting profession and the recipe for the items you desire to craft. You'll also demand the right materials, either caused through farming or the Trading Post. Notation that ascended trinkets cannot be crafted.

One important difference betwixt exotic and ascended crafting is that ascended crafting requires several time-gated materials:

• Lump of Mithrillum, Glob of Elderberry Spirit Residue, Spool of Thick Elonian Cord, and Spool of Silk Weaving Thread tin can only be crafted once a day. However, you tin can bypass the time gate by buying the finished ingots, planks, squares, or bolts off the Trading Post (although this will commonly price you more money than making the ingredients yourself).
• Vision Crystals and Bottom Vision Crystals must be crafted with ascended materials or obtained through daily login rewards. You tin can farm Living Globe Season 3/4 maps if you need ascended materials.
• To get Obsidian Shards to refine ascended materials, yous tin can subcontract the Silverwastes, Middle of Thorns maps, Unbound Magic, or Volatile Magic. You lot can also buy them with karma from the Cathedral of Glorious Victory meta event chain.

Crafting tin get complicated for Cadre/Extended, Heart of Thorns, and Path of Fire stats, equally the appropriate recipes are frequently locked behind map-specific currencies, and the materials may be expensive or account bound. Use the wiki to observe the appropriate crafting recipes and where they can be obtained from.

Crafting a total ready of ascended armor and weapons will set you back 200-400 gilt depending on the stat set; you lot might also accept to spend more than gold leveling your crafting or buying the recipes.

Grandmaster Marks

As an culling to crafting ascended armor and weapons directly, you can arts and crafts Grandmaster Marks and use them to purchase ascended gear. This is primarily useful for obtaining Core/Extended, Heart of Thorns, or Path of Fire stats without jumping through hoops to go the relevant crafting materials and crafting recipes.

One vendor in each game fashion sells the recipes for Grandmaster Marks, and likewise accepts them as a currency:

• Fractals: BLING-9009
• PvP: Ascended Armor League Vendor or Ascended Weapon League Vendor
• WvW: Skirmish Supervisor

This costs around the same every bit crafting the items normally, merely is much more convenient than farming rare/business relationship spring materials. If yous play WvW or ranked PvP you lot tin can likewise get the occasional Box of Grandmaster Marks from advantage chests.

Raids

If y'all do PvE raids, you can buy ascended equipment from the Bones Magnetite Exchange Operative for magnetite shards. This is past far the cheapest fashion to get ascended armor and weapons, but you have to invest fourth dimension into learning to raid (or at least have friends that are willing to comport you through raids).

Vial of Salt

Although this stat-selectable item is PvP-related, no PvP is required every bit the items involved in forging information technology can simple be bought off the trading post.

Rurik'due south Engagement Ring

If you have Living Earth Season iii Episode two, Rurik'southward Engagement Band is a stat-selectable ascended ring awarded from a questline in Ember Bay. The items for the questline can be bought off the Trading Post for about 50 gold, so information technology's an selection if you have lots of gold to spare.

Path of Fire Vendors

As a last resort, y'all tin use Trade Contracts and Pulsing Brandsparks to buy Path of Fire trinkets from various open world vendors. This is 1 of the worst and virtually expensive options bachelor, simply as there aren't that many means to get Path of Fire trinkets equally of this writing, information technology's included for the sake of completeness.

Runes & Sigils

Trading Postal service

The vast majority of upgrade components can be bought off the Trading Post. Some crafted runes and sigils like Superior Sigil of Concentration can be expensive, but unfortunately there'south no improve style to obtain them (other than obtaining the materials and crafting them yourself).

Runes and sigils introduced in Path of Fire, such as Superior Rune of the Renegade, can also exist obtained for Proofs of Heroics from the Heroics Notary. If you play WvW, check the Heroics Notary before buying expensive upgrade components.

Crafting

Some runes and sigils are account jump and only available through crafting, such as Superior Sigil of Cleansing. Neither the recipe nor the materials are peculiarly expensive, but you'll need to have the appropriate crafting profession leveled to craft information technology.

Dungeon-Sectional Runes and Sigils

Some runes and sigils are exclusive to specific dungeons, including the following meta runes:

• Superior Rune of the Monk: Ascalonian Catacombs
• Superior Rune of the Nightmare: Twilight Arbor

The all-time manner to become these is to farm the appropriate dungeon for a few days, and then buy them with dungeon tokens from the Dungeon Armor and Weapons vendor. The only alternative is to obtain the tokens from the appropriate PvP/WvW advantage track; this volition accept much longer and is only really worth it if you hate dungeons.

HoT-Exclusive Runes and Sigils

The remaining runes and sigils are account bound upgrades introduced in Heart of Thorns, and must either be bought with map-specific currency in PvE or with Proofs of Heroics from the Heroics Notary. In practice this boils downwards to i of these runes:

• Superior Rune of Durability: Auric Basin
• Superior Rune of Leadership: Dragon's Stand

Decide whether y'all enjoy farming PvE or WvW more, then farm the appropriate currency and buy them from the vendor.

Infusions

Infusing and Attuning Equipment

To put infusions in your gear, yous beginning demand ascended equipment with infusion slots. Nearly ascended equipment comes with i or ii preset infusion slots. You tin can increase the number of infusion slots in certain trinkets by infusing or attuning them:

• Rings and backpieces can be infused to add ane infusion slot, for a total of 2 infusion slots.
• Rings tin also be attuned to add a second infusion slot, for a full of three infusion slots.

The following Mystic Forge recipe is used to infuse rings:

• The ring in question
• 5 Vials of Condensed Mist Essence
• iii Globs of Coagulated Mist Essence
• ane Shard of Crystallized Mist Essence

The following Mystic Forge recipe is used to attune rings:

• The band in question
• 1 Agonized Essence
• 1 +1 Agony Infusion
• 1 Philosopher's Stone

Backpieces have inconsistent Mystic Forge recipes and are likewise fairly expensive to infuse (about xxx gold + a Gift of Ascension). Check the wiki to see which recipe is required to infuse your ascended backpiece.

Note that these Mystic Forge recipes effectively destroy and recreate your ascended trinkets, so y'all'll lose any upgrades that were inside them. Be certain to remove whatever expensive infusions using an Infusion Extraction Device before reforging them.

Agony Infusions

Desperation infusions are relatively straightforward to acquire. They drop from fractals, and tin can exist combined by an Artificer or INFUZ-5959 into higher tiers of agony infusions. Agony infusions can besides be bought and sold on the Trading Mail service.

New fractal players should aim for +nine Agony Infusions, as equipping 15 +nine infusions, 1 +eight infusion, and ane +7 infusion is enough to reach 150 agony resistance. This means you don't demand to spend aureate infusing your backpiece.

Stat Infusions

+4 Stat Infusions

Y'all can buy Mighty, Precise, Malign, Resilient, Vital, or Healing infusions from the Laurel Merchant for five laurels each. These are the cheapest stat infusions bachelor, just but provide +4 to a stat rather than +five.

WvW Stat Infusions

WvW Laurel Merchants and Skirmish Supervisors sell stat infusions for WvW currency. These infusions provide +v to a stat and brand you more effective against Guards, Lords, and Supervisors. If y'all play WvW, these are the cheapest +5 stat infusions bachelor.

Agony Stat Infusions

INFUZ-5959 sells +5, +7, or +nine Agony Infusions that also provide +5 to a stat. These cost agony infusions and integrated fractal matrices. The +5 Agony Infusions can also be bought for magnetite shards and gold from the Basic Magnetite Shard Exchange Operative.

PvE players who just programme to play raids can purchase the relatively cheap +5 agony stat infusions. The +7 or +nine infusions are much more expensive and should simply be considered by extremely defended fractal players.

Adapted from User:Tanetris/So Yous Desire To Gear a Character

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