Ascended weapon
Ascended weapons are weapons of Ascended rarity. All ascended weapons come with a single infusion slot when they are one-handed or off-hand, and two when they are two-handed or aquatic. Attribute combination of an ascended weapon can be changed using the Mystic Forge by replacing it with a new item of desired stats.
Acquisition[edit]
Ascended weapons can be obtained in a variety of ways.
Achievements[edit]
Completing certain achievements will reward players with an Ascended weapon.
- Gold Fractal Master
- Machined Weapons collection
- War Cache of the Twin Dynasts
- Destroyer Weapons collection - Staff only. Requires Living World Season 3 chapter 2 - Rising Flames to complete.
- Specialization Collections - Requires the respective elite specialization to be unlocked. Must be fully trained to complete.
- From Heart of Thorns, the following can be obtained: greatsword, hammer, longbow, shield (1), shield (2), staff (1), staff (2), torch, warhorn
- From Path of Fire, the following can be obtained: axe (1), axe (2), dagger (1), dagger (2), rifle, short bow, sword (1), sword (2), torch
- From End of Dragons, the following can be obtained: dagger, greatsword, hammer (1), hammer (2), mace, pistol (1), pistol (2), scepter, sword
- Knight of the Thorn - Requires Heart of Thorns chapter 16: Hearts and Minds to be completed. Choice of dagger, greatsword, scepter, shield, or sword. May be exchanged for a different one through Ridhais.
- The King Toad and The Storm Wizard - Requires the Super Adventure Box festival to be active.
Crafting[edit]
- Primary article: Ascended crafting#Ascended weapons
Standard Ascended weapons (with Antique skins) may be crafted by level 500 Artificer, Huntsman and Weaponsmiths. The recipes can be bought from certain NPCs (e.g. Master craftsmans or Guild Traders) or obtained from opening certain containers or recipe books. Because some materials are timegated (limited to one craft per day), each weapon requires a minimum of 5 days to craft. This timegate may be circumvented by purchasing the refined materials.
Certain Ascended weapon sets (such as Stellar weapons) use their own recipes with specific unlock criteria rather than the above standard recipes.
The precursor weapons for the second generation legendaries are also Ascended.
For a full list of craftable Ascended weapon sets, see List of weapon sets and filter by Ascended and Crafted.
Players can also craft Grandmaster Marks to exchange for Ascended weapons at certain vendors. The recipes for these marks are sold at BLING-9009, Ascended Weapon League Vendor and Skirmish Supervisor.
Looting[edit]
Certain activities have a small chance of rewarding players with unique ascended weapons.
- Raid bosses may drop specific weapons, available once per kill weekly. This weapon is the same type available for purchase from Scholar Glenna after defeating that particular boss.
- Strike Mission coffers (and their Challenge Mode versions) may drop specific weapons. These coffers can be obtained through the kill reward once weekly, or through the Priority Strike daily achievement. The weapons may also be purchased directly from Shard Collectors after defeating that particular boss.
- End of Dragons missions may reward a random Living Water weapon.
- Secrets of the Obscure missions may reward a random Sinful weapon.
- Rift Hunting events may drop a random Skyscale weapon.
Notable Dynamic and Meta events may also offer unique ascended weapons.
- Defeating Tequatl the Sunless may reward players with a Tequatl's Hoard from the Exotic Dragon Chest which is only obtainable once daily. This offers the choice of a Weapon of the Sunless.
- Defeating Drakkar may reward players with a Drakkar's Hoard from the daily bonus chest. This offers the choice of a Weapon of the Broken Voice.
- Mistborn Coffers in Dragonfall may contain a Gift of Aurene, offering the choice of a Weapon of the Scion. One Gift is guaranteed to drop once per account within the first 1000 coffers opened.
- Completing Dragonstorm may drop a Gift of Aurene or a stat-selectable Frostsaw.
- Defeating Soo-Won may reward players with a random Living Water weapon.
- Dragon Coffers, available during the Dragon Bash festival and through trading, may contain a Tequatl's Hoard or Gift of Aurene.
Furthermore, most gameplay content provides a small chance of rewarding a random Ascended weapon chest.
- Daily fractal chests, with this chance increasing for higher tier chests
- World versus World rank up rewards
- Reward track loot boxes, available through Player versus Player and World versus World
- Guild missions
- World boss and open world chests
- Champion loot bags
Vendor[edit]
Weapons can be bought with the following currencies.
- Summary overview
Domain | Currencies | Available weapons |
---|---|---|
Wizard's Vault | Astral Acclaim | Any weapon type with core stats |
Fractals of the Mists | Fractal Research Pages + Fractal Relics + Grandmaster Marks [1] + Coin | Any weapon type with any stats [2] |
Player versus Player | Ascended Shards of Glory + Shard of Glory + Grandmaster Marks [1] + Coin | Any weapon type with any stats [2] |
World versus World | WvW Skirmish Claim Tickets + Memories of Battle + Grandmaster Marks [1] + Coin | Any weapon type with any stats [2] |
Raids | Raid currencies + Coin | Any weapon type with any stats [2] |
Strike Missions | Blue Prophet Shard + Coin | Any weapon type with any stats [2] |
- ^ a b c Grandmaster Marks can only be used to exchange for weapons that particular crafting discipline can craft, i.e. Grandmaster Weaponsmith's Marks can only be used to exchange for weaponsmith weapons, Grandmaster Huntsman's Marks for huntsman weapons, and Grandmaster Artificer's Marks for artificer weapons.
- ^ a b c d e Available prefixes depend on which expansions you currently own.
- Details of the individual vendors and exact costs
Main vendor | Price | Location | Availability | |||
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One-handed | Off-hand | Two-handed | Aquatic | |||
BLING-9009 [1] | 24 + 800 + 5 + 3 |
24 + 800 + 5 + 3 |
24 + 800 + 5 + 3 |
24 + 800 + 5 + 3 |
Mistlock Observatory | Stat selectable Cobalt Antique weapons with any stats[2] |
Ascended Weapon League Vendor [1] | 400 + 250 + 5 + 3 |
400 + 250 + 5 + 3 |
400 + 250 + 5 + 3 |
400 + 250 + 5 + 3 |
Heart of the Mists | Predefined Antique weapons with any stats[2] |
Skirmish Supervisor [1] | 350 + 250 + 5 + 3 |
350 + 250 + 5 + 3 |
350 + 250 + 5 + 3 |
350 + 250 + 5 + 3 |
Any WvW map | Stat selectable Mistforged Hero's weapons with any stats[2][3] |
Basic Magnetite Exchange Operative Scholar Glenna [4] |
250 + 15 | 250 + 15 | 500 + 30 | 500 + 30 | Lion's Arch Aerodrome Spirit Vale |
Stat selectable Violet Antique weapons with any stats[2] |
Scholar Glenna [4][5] | 600 + 20 |
600 + 20 |
600 + 20 |
Various raid wings | Stat selectable raid weapons[2][6] | |
Crystallographer Smoxxi | 250 + 15 | 250 + 15 | 500 + 30 | 500 + 30 | Eye of the North | Predefined weapons with core stats |
Zazzl | 250 + 15 | 250 + 15 | 500 + 30 | 500 + 30 | Arborstone | Stat selectable Living Water weapons with any stats[2] |
- ^ a b c Grandmaster Marks can only be used to exchange for weapons that particular discipline can craft, i.e. Grandmaster Weaponsmith's Marks can be used to exchange for swords, but cannot be used to exchange for a torch or staff.
- ^ a b c d e f Available prefixes depend on which expansions you currently own.
- ^ Requires respective Hero's weapons from the Hero Weapon Reward Track before purchase can be available.
- ^ a b Items that can be purchased from Glenna can also be purchased from the Portable Magnetite Shard Exchange
- ^ Items offered differs depending on her location
- ^ Requires completion of their respective raid encounter before purchase is available.
List of ascended weapons[edit]
Available weapon prefixes[edit]
This first table acts as a directory.
- Search for the attribute combination using the first or central column.
- If there is a check mark in the "Predefined" column, go to the Weapons with predefined prefixes table.
- If there is a check mark in the "Selectable (Part of prefix family)" column, note the family and go to the Weapons with selectable prefixes table.
- ^ The only ascended aquatic weapons with selectable stats available are Weapons of the Scion.
- ^ Available prefixes depend on which expansions are owned.
- ^ Elite Specialization collections
Weapons with predefined prefixes[edit]
The following weapons are acquired with the described predefined attributes.
Attributes | Prefix | Set [1] | Acquisition | Additional copies | ||||
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Major | Minor | Loot | Crafting | Vendor [1] | ||||
Berserker | Zojja | Crimson Antique weapons | Common [2] | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Zealot | Keeper | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Valkyrie | Stonecleaver | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Soldier | Chorben | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Diviner | Steelstar | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Rampager | Coalforge | Citrine Antique weapons | Common [2] | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Assassin | Soros | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Knight | Beigarth | Viridian Antique weapons | Common [2] | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Cavalier | Angchu | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Nomad | Ventari | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Settler | Leftpaw | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Sentinel | Tonn | Cobalt Antique weapons | Common [2] | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Shaman | Zintl | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Harrier | Zehtuka | Terracotta Antique weapons | Common [2] | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Giver | Tixx | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Sinister | Verata | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Carrion | Occam | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Rabid | Grizzlemouth | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Dire | Mathilde | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Bringer | Giftbringer | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Commander | Tizlak | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Marauder | Svaard | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Vigilant | Laranthir | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Crusader | Ossa | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Wanderer | Ruka | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Grieving | The Twins | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Viper | Yassith | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Marshal | Nadijeh | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Seraph | Thackeray | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Trailblazer | Pahua | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Minstrel | Maklain | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Plaguedoctor | Nerashi | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Rabid | Weapons of the Sunless | Tequatl the Sunless | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Cleric | Theodosus | Calcite Antique weapons | Common [2] | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Magi | Hronk | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Apothecary | Ebonmane | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
|
Celestial | Wupwup | Violet Antique weapons | Common [2] | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- ^ a b Some vendor sources of these weapons may give stat selectable versions with a single "Antique" weapon skin for all stats instead of those stated in this table. See the detailed Vendor table for more details.
- ^ a b c d e f g Common acquisition weapons marked with 1 in the Loot column are found inside ascended chests, which can drop anywhere in the game.
Weapons with selectable prefixes[edit]
The following weapons allow a one-time attribute selection from a range of options defined by their prefix family.
- ^ a b Available stats depend on which expansions you currently own.
- ^ These various weapons have unique prefix families. Check each weapon's page for more information.
Prefix change[edit]
- Primary article: Stat changing
The prefix of an ascended weapon can be changed by using this Mystic Forge recipe. Note the inscription must be the Exotic version of the stats of the desired weapon.
Note that the original weapon will be destroyed, including all of its upgrades. The new weapon will be the common acquisition equivalent of the new prefix. Attempting to stat-change a precursor weapon will result in a weapon that is NOT upgradable to legendary weapon.
See also[edit]