Fastest way to exotics, and it's free. If you're looking for fast, craft cheap ascended armor and weapons, and use the mystic forge to stat-change them into Minstrels. This still costs insignias and inscriptions though, so there is a cost in Pearls for each piece that will hurt. If you're ok on time-gating past exotics, just get Triumphant Hero Yup, new as of this patch I think. Its very worth it at the moment, with the price of matrices as high as they are. No, both attuning and infusing rings have given one additional roll since ascended salvaging launched. When it first launched, attuned infused rings weren't salvageable actually. Players should be entitled to get their best-in-slot gear with minimal effort, just as we did in Guild Wars - go to a vendor, buy it with the stuff you had gotten all or most of just by leveling up to 20. Crafting harrier gear raw is icnredibly inefficient. There is many alternative better ways to get the gear. The best option is verdant brink, where the bladed armor is basically free level 80 exotic with stats of your choice. Completely easy and braindead to obtain by running the meta event a few times and buying chests. I was smart enough to find a niche, I struggled to craft ascended gear when it came out, it got easier and easier, now its complete joke, u can get it by logging in. it was needless all of the issues i described affect veteran players so new players can have participation trophies, the change was uncessesarry and it just ruins the enjoyment for many players who like to craft things. Yes, Ascended gear was a departure from how gear was handled in the original GW game. So was putting a large percentage of character stats on gear. So was having 13-16 pieces of gear to fully gear a character for land combat (plus more for underwater, if anyone cares anymore). I was a big fan of the original game. Technically you don't need Ascended gear for anything aside from Fractals of the Mists, that set of exotic armor will do you just fine. It honestly doesn't matter what you level up, but I would recommend looking into what masteries you need for certain story bits (you don't need any for core, but Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire require some specific masteries to progress) In story/season/laurel you can get ascended jewel and back easily (search "gw2 ascended" on YouTube), and you can start fractal with an exotic gear for 1rst tier. After you'll need some ascended. So the jewel and back you'll will cover you for tier 2 fractal (because only acended gear can wear the special protection you need for the "agony .

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