IMPORTANT NOTE: Discovered today that the ICEBROOD SAGA Strike Ascended WEAPONS are *NOT* fully stat-selectable and contain only CORE Stats (doesn't include Viper, Harrier, etc) - but you can of course still stat-swap these. The ARMOUR, however, IS fully stat-selectable (idk why this is, very weird). So, for WEAPONS I would instead recommend the END OF DRAGONS Strike Ascended Weapons (Living Water Weapons: 250 Green Prophet Shards + 15g) as these are totally stat-selectable. All RAID Weapons / Armour are completely stat selectable. As such, my suggested path is: EoD Strikes for WEAPONS -> IBS Strkes for ARMOUR -> Raids for BOTH. Apologies for overlooking this error - hope this helps!

Something he doesn't mention for the 2nd set of refined enoy armor is that DO NOT EVER CHANGE ITS STATS IF YOU'VE SELECTED STATS. This will overwrite the refined envoy armor making it not a precursor anymore, meaning you CANNOT use it to craft your legendary armor. I highly recommend not even using that second set at all. Keep it in your bank till you're ready to craft your legendary armor.

For those who chosed to get their ascended trinkets with the living world episode (especially season 2 and 3) just try to complete the return to [episode name] achievements. It gives a huge amount of the associated map's currency. And if you complete them all awards you a legendary amulet.

For back item, easiest one I know is to complete achievement "Raise the Banners: Amnoon Independence". It's super easy and almost half of that achievement is completing story missions in Path of Fire. It doesn't require any farming or grinding, just casual playing and is stat selectable. Item awarded is called "Ensign Banners of Amnoon".

Great video. Happy to see someone making quality modern gw2 guides for gearing. GW2 guides require a lot of time and commitment.

I just started playing gw2 a few weeks ago. thank you so much for making beginner guides. those are very helpful.

This video is SO valuable, as a fresh 80 (hopefully today :D )this together with the exotic gear video is amazing!!

I just got back into the game last week after 8 years away! I wanted to try getting into fractals for the legendary backpiece so I need ascended armor for agony slots. It looks like you put a lot of time into these videos. Thank you so much Edit: Looks like I’m gonna try to grab icebrood and finish that and eod for strike missions (I was doing PoF) Thank you again!

If you are doing icebrood saga strikes you are also getting eternal ice shards which can be exchanged to ascended accessory(upon completion of the related story), amulet(upon completion of a very short kodan collection) or living world season 4 currency which can be used to buy other accessories and rings from respective map vendors.

Subscribed, you got me actually with the GW2 video, great videos!

This was incredibly helpful and masterfully done--thank you very much. Truly great job!

You are a good content creator! The best from GW2 PVE for sure. Super friendly

If you've done any amount of decent open world farming and or t1 fractals, the PVP and fractal ascended are probably faster, easier, and more consistent to get than most of the other methods. You're going to want a level 500 armor/weapon smith for your account anyway and the grand master marks aren't that hard to get nor that expensive (so long as you're not rushing daily crafts). Also for PvP and WvW those ascended pieces are already a step to legendary armor. This video is still a great resource, but fyi newbies, you'll have to encounter crafting at some point, bitting the bullet early and getting some ascended gear from it isn't a bad idea.

There are a couple of ascended trinkets that can be changed (like the ones from bloodstone fen) by using their capacitor.

Damn. This is really useful. Thanks!

Sick guide, thanks for this.

I have six characters and for all of them I got the trinkets from the following LW maps LW S3 Bloodstone Fen LW S3 Bitterfrost Frontiere LW S4 Sandswpt Isle LW S4 Dragonfall You will need a lot of the currency from each map BUT if I as a very temp player can do it, anyone can. Basically farm each map every day for a week. Whenever possible do the Hearts in the zone so you can buy more shards/ berries /motes / whatever. Do any dailies if that is the map of choice that day. At worst it will take about half a week to get what you need!

Bro you sound just like "Skill Up", I had to double check the channel name. Great video by the way!

Amazing breakdown ... tysm!

For trinkets I found Dragonfall is best, you get 3 trinket types (amulet, ring and earring) from a vendors for the map currency

coming back to game..thanks for this

You made a mistake in LW trinkets. Each LW map has an ACCOUNT limit per day on how much map currency you can get. So essentially this account limit is almost used up by your first character, so farming it with alts is not a thing. On the second toon you might get a couple of nodes out of it and then it's over for the day. However, there is one map where you can with as many toons as you like because there is no account limit on that. That's Bitterfrost Frontier. Also the vendor there sells rings, accessories backpieces AND (you forgot to mention this) an ascended underwater helmet. This is also the only place to date where you can get this (outside of crafting). So that's a good place to farm and is a lot quicker than running strikes. Do note that you have to spend 5g once on any of the LW3 vendors so you can also get unbound magic which is the other currency you need. Then there's Bloodstone Fen. The vendor there has rings, backpacks and amulets. What's cool about those, is that you can stat change them. You do need to buy something from that vendor that costs 100 unbound magic per time (which is cheap) that can reset your Bloodstone Fen items stats allowing you to take new stats. It's a one shot item, so you need to get one each time you want to do that, however, you can reset all Bloodstone Fen trinkets in one go. Then there is the point that when it comes to rings and accessories, you can only have one of each on a given character. So you cannot buy two of the same rings and equip it on the same character (ascended gear is account bound though so you can give one to another character if you made that mistake). The only ones you can double up are the wvw and fractal ones. Not sure about the pvp ones (I don't really play pvp), but I imagine it is the same. It tells you in the text though. Lastly, ascended trinkets represent MOST of your stats. So if you get ascended trinkets before doing raids or tier 1-2 fractals you'll be doing fine and you can get your weapons and then your armor (armor gives the least stats). So my advice is to get LW3 (and possibly 4) get your trinkets sorted there and then (or in the meantime) look at other stuff. Anyways, a long post but hopefully a useful one.

For dragon and ritualist trinkets, you get ascended versions from story achievements.

this is actually a really good video

Only Bitterfrost Frontier, and Siren's Landing's daily gathering limit are character bound, others are all account bound, except doing heart event

Welp, hopefully this month I can at least get EoD. I can get others through gems. Thank you for the guide!

Amazing information. As 1 month old player, the thought of fractal / strikes / raid is so menacing. Heard people who run pve instances isn’t as nice, so i never touch those area😅

Great video, thoughts on vermintide 2?

Your killing it m8

Personally, I think this is where Anet need to overhaul the gearing system. There is a lot of time spent just to get the gear needed if you want to play a specific build etc and most people just don't have the time to grind out for the legendary armour

6:54 Damn, Bloom's farm lookin' nice

Thanks for both of these super useful videos. My only question would be roughly how many hours a full set will take. I bought on release so have probably 6 to 8 sets to make (9 characters who can share sets but some will have Zerkers, some condi, and some healers). I have alot of mats saved having bought GW2 on release just never played alot. Trying to weigh up the most time efficient way (farm gold and craft vs farm these). I probably only play less than 8 hours a week. Probably I'll just work my way through the last two expansions in exotic gear when I think about it. :)

you can now buy 1 ascended weapon and three ascended armor pieces from the wizards vault each season, i used that to gear up

Wich Armor/Skin do your Char. wearing in this Video? Great Video thumbs up and greatings from germany

EoD Green Shards is actually 160, you can get 5 Mystic Clovers (30 Shards Each) and 1 Antique Summoning Stone (10 Shards) weekly

There’s something funny about suggesting doing raids, what I considered to be the hardest content of anything in Guild Wars 2, in order to get the gear so you’re more survivable and can hit harder, which would really help you out in those raids 😅

Honestly this might be the best ascended armory guide. Even better then teapot or mukluks Videos. Also very good on you for all the references to other content creators!

I think that the per character for those farms is only for winterberry, the other maps can only be done once per account per day

Any idea on how to acquire the Steelstar's light Ascended armor set wiki is not helpful i managed to get the insignia but finding the armor set recipe's is difficult to say the least.

But right below in the corner of tNice tutorials blue screen, there's "Program" wNice tutorialch most likely states "Aggressive TE" if you click on that you have a

I grinded pvp seasons for a while to get the stat swappable ascended trinkets

thank you sir

For the love of god, do NOT stat change your envoy ascended armor you get from the raid. They are precursors to their legendary version. Stat swapping them in the mystic forge replaces them with generic ascended equipment.

When the "stats are selectable" does that mean you can constantly swap stats like the legendary weapons can?

Kinda funny how you mention the 'return to' achievements just for blue prophet shards, but don't mention as a side note that doing all of them would get a very easy legendary amulet ^^

I just downloaded the game. Love it! What class are you using though? Looks amazing

Your Rev amor is stunning, what are the skins ?

3:23 The thing is, stat swapping ascended gear stats without crafting also severely limits your options. The insignia types for basic prefixes, like Berserker & Rampager, can be acquire from the trading post. But that's about it. No viper insigina without crafting. Shame. Still, you can get harrier prefix so might as well play a healer...

Do I have to finish all the expansions including the LW seasons chronologically before doing all these? Sorry, I've only been playing the game for like 3 weeks atm. And I'm only currently grinding mastery pts for now. I skipped my personal storyline, LW and HoT and jumped right into PoF for the mounts. What do you suggest? Very Nice content btw. Been watching some of your videos for the past 2 days. I just subscribed. :)

9:23 how can you turn the sword into a scepter? I found nothing on the interwebs

I just started my journey to envoy. I’ve been playing since launch and I still haven’t done a single raid. They are so intimidating lol. Is the lfg really the best place to start? Or should I spend the time combing through really active guilds that teach new players? I’m running heal mech if that matters

What about the Laurel vendor? You can buy ascended trinkets etc with it, but what's the optimal usage of them? Thanks in advance.

been a gw2 player since beta... still get social anxiety to join and try raids.... maybe someday

4:41 Yes. This so much. Whenever I teach people how to do Bounties in PoF. I always tell them. Don't start with the one you want. Do a couple beforehand to get a nice group, THEN pick the one for your Collection.

Can I ask what the boots or boot skin is on your Rev?

You forgot one key element... Some raids require specific masteries :)) . And if you really want to no craft gear use raids/fractals or pvp/wvw and collect tokens

I don't have that knight of the thorn side story and I did all the heart of thorns in story journal

I don't get it, the first steps cannot be used if I'm not on end of dragons elite spec? I wanted to get accessories for my firebrand and I've completed my elite spec collection, but it's not listed there. I don't want to farm materials or craft. I want to do group content.

Mate any Aussie Timezone raid training groups? I always check LFG and never see anything there.

Strike or Fractal is faster for Ascended Armor?

Can anyone tell me what armor he’s wearing at 7 seconds? It looks sick!

so how can I apply this video while only having HoT and PoF ? ... first video for getting started was really helpful btw

Can you buy legendary gear from other players?

Oh cool I need dlc for this

Me who in 3 runs of spirit vale has dropped 2 ascended weapon be here like now I need a full set

not much of a mention about Fractals, does that mean that you dont play them much, or its way easier to get them the other way? (sry dont want to sound ignorant)

what's the point of getting geared in a month for raids u will finish in 1or2 weeks and don't drop legendary gear or unic gear for the raid

can u use pvp ascended armor in pve??

Nice

Exactly

Bro how do you get that training lfg so fat? Mine's always empty

its so fkin confusing as a new player. There's so much trash in my bags from doing meta events in all the expansions..

What helmet is he wearing in the thumb?

Ended up crafting my ascended armor set. definitely noticed a difference, with a staff elementalist wearing full exotics I wasn't able to complete modremoth nor balthazar solo, it was just too hard. with the Zojja set and ascended jewelry I was able to finish the end of both storylines with ease.

Question, isn't your dps going to suck in raids without ascended armor/weapons/trickets and infusions? I have always believed you need to have the best gear possible for the raids. If not, I will stop spending enormous amounts of gold to get ascended gear...

hee guys im kinda new. any can help me true ? also what char shall i use? defender or warrior

I just finished HoT Story, but I do not have Knight of Thorns Side Quest / Side Story :/

Is there a way to select all stats in power only?

getting ascended seems to be a pain X.X

Where is this place at 00:27

how do I get your helmet ?

Doesn't elite spec collections require to craft some badges or stuff?

As someone returning I find this video very difficult to follow, doesn't feel like the easy way, but maybe im missing something :/ I'm guessing this guide (and the required one before it) is only good for brand new players. I have full exotic, I have also finished EOTD, but I can't seem to do much of what you suggest in this video at the beginning, finding it frustrating.

got mine slowly from raid trainings xD

Im new and all i see in my raids LFG is people selling runs lmao... and the training section is always completely empty.

Easy :v jdjdjsj good video bro❤

You get quite a number of ascended weapons dropping from strikes too

Crafting suddenly seems like the easy option. Lol

Half way through and im like wellp... Not happening soon. Just sticking with tp exotics

i rly wana get back in this game but its too scarey lol. i nvr finished my 1st playthrough. i got so lost but i wana. i dont like bein the lost lil lamb......mmmmbut i am. considering starting over fresh.

Thank you, Kylo Ren!

If I just got to lvl 80 last week on first toon. I’ve been doing living world season 1 and now 2. Do you recommend just continuing go through all the expandsions and living world seasons in order through completion?

How much time would this take?

thanks. I learned LMMS pretty thouroughly but im switcNice tutorialng to soft soft because LMMS is kinda ass and you cant record in it

The best way to get ascendeds with 0 gold cost = play fractals.

Are you live?

"How to get full ascended gear the EASY way!!" "Do raids."

Ah this is mostly for people who enjoy group content, pvp doesn't count as it don't take a lot of time.

Every time I come back to this game and try to play it seems ANET keeps adding more steps to obtain get one piece of ascended gear and I end up just stop playing..grinding for days and weeks is not enjoyable at all and ruins the game play for myself..and the fact that you must buy 75% of the living world seasons which also another reason most players quite..and the Raids-PvP-WvW-Fractals is the most toxic community I have ever seen on a game..

(the easy way)