Yes, the booster gear is basically handing you a max-level set of gear so that you can take part in the max-level game. It's not the best gear for all builds, but it's good enough to get started on everything. Chasing gear isn't the point of GW2 endgame, so it doesn't really matter in the long run. Dungeons. They give you tokens that you can use to purchase level 80 exotic armor and weapons. You will want to start aiming for armor with power/precision/ferocity stats (berserk), power being the main stat. Citadel of Flame is a good dungeon to start with, as it is one of the dungeons that awards you with berserk armor and is relatively easy. Yup 3 spirit shards from full silverwaste unmodified xp. Well that's plain dreadful, pretty much only shard on ding now. That's way way way slower than anything else for ascended. Can't really gear ascended in anyway fast now unless youre sitting on bunch of spirit shards. Maybe it's even faster wvwing for tomes now hah, to gear in pve. The free piece from The Sun is Silent for This One, is nice, but it's probably harder then just crafting your sixth piece of ascended gear the old fashioned way. Just make sure you're farming difluorite crystals every day and doing your ascended refinement and you'll get your set. GW2Efficiency. API. 73481. “. Double-click to salvage crafting materials from an ascended item in your inventory. Stabilizing Matrices can be salvaged from rings. Dark Energy and other items can be salvaged from weapons, armor, and other trinkets. — In-game description. Ascended Salvage Kit is a salvage kit used to salvage ascended equipment. . Crafting is actually pretty useless in this game because anyone can get full sets of gear from dungeon currencies or with karma points. Even the backpacks can be purchased with fractal currencies. The only 1 reason to craft is for the ingredient to make a legendary, but overall, guild wars 2 crafting is useless, specially when even legendaries Full armor costs 1380 with 60 tokens for a run. Path 1 takes around 10-15 minutes with any pug group. So after 23 days you would get your full armor set for playing 15 minutes each day and 23 gold on top. (less gold after HoT hits) However the gear I have seen of Exotics has the exact same stats as my rare items. The fastest* way for new core players to get ascended weapons is by doing SAB Tribulation 16 times for the King Toad and/or Storm Wizard collections. It's doable at level 2 with no gear, but it does cost 32 gold per ascended weapon. * The runs have to be done in April, so not the fastest if it isn't early spring. Yes, the booster gear is basically handing you a max-level set of gear so that you can take part in the max-level game. It's not the best gear for all builds, but it's good enough to get started on everything. Chasing gear isn't the point of GW2 endgame, so it doesn't really matter in the long run. So, that's 3 easy ways to get the "best in slot" gear without even touching the crafting system. You also have options with PvP and WvW (also provides stat selectable exotic armor). I just recommend playing whatever you have the most fun doing rather than farming since ascended isn't required for most things other than higher level fractals.

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