From Guild Wars 2 Wiki. Ascended: Mystic Forge: 1 Anthology of Heroes 1 Assassin's Intricate Gossamer Insignia 5 Glob of Ectoplasm 1 Ascended armor: Armor . If you transform any ascended weapon/armor on the mystic forge with 5 ecto, 1 anthology of heroes your ascended and one random inscription/insignia you will get an ascended that can be salvaged by research kits! The amount you get seems to be rng. Most of the times I get 250 and sometimes I high roll for 550. Ascended Berserker's has an easy option for rings via fractals, an amulet for laurels, if living world seasons are not accessible yet - accessories can be farmed via guild missions and commendation vendor. The most straightforward way to get gear and weapons can be raid/strike rewards. I calculated the percent difference between this value for the exotic gear set and the ascended gear set. Here is the link to google sheets. tl;dr A full ascended berserker set gives you a 12.5% increase in damage over a full exotic berserker gear set with power omni infusions. This is the maximum increase in damage obtainable with ascended The main reason Hardstuck guides show ascended gear is due to how easy it currently is to acquire most of them. If you find yourself in a situation where you want to play a build but only have access to exotic gear, don’t hesitate to play it anyway. Legendary gear is the final tier of items available in Guild Wars 2. Go for trinkets first and for weapon. Ascended armor doesn't give so much stat but there is an infusion slot. Ascended weapon over exotic is a 10% increased dps and it's for me the most important. The perfect order would be weapons > trinkets > armor. Don't forget that if you know how to play it's 90% of the job. Players Helping Players. Ascended gear trauma : (****. I made a really stupid costly mistake and now I am looking for a way to fix it. Having 16 characters I can easily see how I did this but now I just need to make the best of it. I have made 3 pieces of Heavy WupWup armor and the other 4 WupWup Celestial Insignia's. ascended gear and infusions question. I understand ascended gear is not needed for 90% of the content in the game, primarily for high end fractals. However, are people running full ascended gear at this point in open world PVE (meta events etc) and WvW? If so, wouldnt the infusion slots be kind of limiting? Almost for sure they were converting karma to leather via grab-grabbin' gloves. It's currently worth under 10s per 1000 karma and tedious as heck. You take a character with lots of room in inventory and a personal mystic forge node. You buy a full inventory-worth of the gloves, combine 4 at a time in the forge, salvage the results. Spears are typically crafted by Weaponsmiths and harpoon guns are typically crafted by Huntsmen. In order to purchase a Mistforged Obsidian weapon, the corresponding Obsidian weapon needs to be picked from the Obsidian Weapon Box. Ascended weapon chests do not include the following stats: Diviner's, Harrier's, Grieving, Marshal's, and 1qfh.