Ascended back item

Ascended back items are back items of GAscended rarity. All ascended back items come with an infusion slot. A few specific back items can be upgraded in the Mystic Forge to infused versions, adding one additional infusion slot to the back item for a maximum of two.

Unlike other ascended armor components, ascended back items cannot have their stats changed in the Mystic Forge, so care must be taken to select the correct set. The Blood Ruby Backpack is the only back item that can have its stat reset with a Bloodstone Capacitor, allowing players to choose a different stat.

Acquisition

Achievements

Completing certain achievements may reward players with ascended back items.

• Heart of Thorns: Order backpack collections (Lightbringer's, Magister's and Warmaster's Packs) and the Luminate's Backplate collection
  • Living World Season 3: Various collections and scavenger hunts (A Henge Away from Home, Relic Collector)
• Path of Fire: Raise the Banners collections (Amnoon Independence, Salute to Palawa Joko, Sunspear Support, and Amnoon Arbitrator)
  • Living World Season 4: Various collections and scavenger hunts (Redeeming IG-6417)

Crafting

Many ascended back items can be crafted in the Mystic Forge.

• Predefined book or quiver back items
• Tempered Spinal Blades variants
• Fractal back items, leading up to Fractal Capacitor (Infused)
• Mawdrey, from a scavenger hunt from Living World Season 2
• Wings of Ascension and Warcry, precursors to the PvP and WvW legendary back items The Ascension and Warbringer

Other ascended back items can be crafted with certain crafting disciplines after learning their recipe from a recipe sheet.

• Human God themed back items: Light of Dwayna, Shadow of Grenth, Chaos of Lyssa, Bough of Melandru
• Precursors to the Fractal legendary back item Ad Infinitum from the Legendary Backpacks achievements
• Ascended Banner of the Dauntless Commander - requires Living World Season 4 episode 3 Long Live the Lich

Loot

The following raid bosses have a chance to drop an ascended back item:

• Sabetha
• Keep Construct
• Xera
• Deimos

Vendors

Ascended back items can be bought from the following vendors.

Main vendor	Price	Location	Availability
	Regular
Scholar Glenna	600  + 20	Various raid wings	All Assaulter, Defender, Healer and Malicious stats
Scholar Rakka	200  + 5,000	Bloodstone Fen	All stats; requires LW Season 3, Ep. 1
Scholar Surra	200  + 5,000	Ember Bay	All stats; requires LW Season 3, Ep. 2
Slooshoo	400  + 5,000	Bitterfrost Frontier	All stats; requires LW Season 3, Ep. 3
Quartermaster Hitchens	200  + 5,000	Lake Doric	All stats; requires LW Season 3, Ep. 4
Various	200  + 315,000	Siren's Landing	All stats; requires LW Season 3, Ep. 6

List of ascended back items

Available back item prefixes

This first table acts as a directory.

1. Search for the attribute combination using the first or central column.
2. If there is a check mark in the "Predefined" column, go to the Back items with predefined prefixes table.
3. If there is a check mark in the "Selectable (Part of prefix family)" column, note the family and go to the Back items with selectable prefixes table.

Attributes				Prefix	Availability
					Predefined	Selectable (Part of prefix family)
Major		Minor				Assaulter	Defender	Malicious	Healer	All
Power		Precision	Ferocity	Berserker	1	1	0	0	0	1
Power Power		Precision Vitality	Ferocity Ferocity	Berserker and Valkyrie	0	0	0	0	0	1
Power		Precision	Healing Power	Zealot	0	1	0	0	0	1
Power		Toughness	Vitality	Soldier	1	1	1	0	0	1
Power		Vitality	Ferocity	Valkyrie	0	1	0	0	0	1
Precision		Power	Toughness	Captain	0	0	0	0	0	1
Precision		Power	Condition Damage	Rampager	0	1	0	0	0	1
Precision		Power	Ferocity	Assassin	0	1	0	0	0	1
Toughness		Power	Precision	Knight	0	1	1	0	0	1
Toughness		Power	Ferocity	Cavalier	1	1	1	0	0	1
Toughness		Vitality	Healing Power	Nomad	0	0	1	0	0	1
Toughness		Condition Damage	Healing Power	Settler	0	0	1	0	0	1
Toughness		Healing Power	Concentration	Giver	0	0	1	0	1	1
Vitality		Power	Toughness	Sentinel	0	0	1	0	0	1
Vitality		Condition Damage	Healing Power	Shaman	0	0	1	1	0	1
Condition Damage		Power	Precision	Sinister	0	1	0	1	0	1
Condition Damage		Power	Vitality	Carrion	0	0	0	1	0	1
Condition Damage		Precision	Toughness	Rabid	1	0	0	1	0	1
Condition Damage Healing Power		Precision Toughness	Toughness Condition Damage	Rabid and Apothecary	0	0	0	0	0	1
Condition Damage		Toughness	Vitality	Dire	0	0	1	1	0	1
Condition Damage Condition Damage		Toughness Precision	Vitality Vitality	Dire and Rabid	0	0	0	0	0	1
Healing Power		Power	Toughness	Cleric	0	0	0	0	1	1
Healing Power		Precision	Vitality	Magi	0	0	0	0	1	1
Healing Power		Toughness	Condition Damage	Apothecary	1	0	0	0	1	1
Expertise		Precision	Vitality	Bringer	0	0	0	1	0	1
				Celestial	0	1	1	1	1	1
Requires Heart of Thorns
Power	Precision	Toughness	Concentration	Commander	0	1	0	0	0	1
Power	Precision	Vitality	Ferocity	Marauder	0	1	0	0	0	1
Power	Toughness	Concentration	Expertise	Vigilant	0	1	1	0	0	1
Power	Toughness	Ferocity	Healing Power	Crusader	0	1	1	0	0	1
Power	Vitality	Toughness	Concentration	Wanderer	0	1	1	0	0	1
Power	Condition Damage	Precision	Expertise	Viper	0	1	0	1	0	1
Power	Concentration	Precision	Ferocity	Diviner	0	1	0	0	1	1
Precision	Condition Damage	Concentration	Healing Power	Seraph	0	0	0	1	1	1
Toughness	Condition Damage	Vitality	Expertise	Trailblazer	0	0	1	1	0	1
Toughness	Healing Power	Vitality	Concentration	Minstrel	0	0	1	0	1	1
Requires Path of Fire
Power		Healing Power	Concentration	Harrier	0	1	1	0	1	1
Power	Condition Damage	Precision	Ferocity	Grieving	0	1	0	1	0	1
Power	Healing Power	Precision	Condition Damage	Marshal	0	1	0	0	1	1
Condition Damage	Vitality	Healing Power	Concentration	Plaguedoctor	0	0	1	1	1	1

Back items with predefined prefixes

The following back items are acquired with the described predefined attributes.

Attributes		Prefix	Back items	Acquisition			Notes
Major	Minor			Loot	Crafting	Vendor
		Berserker	Quiver of Swift Flight Inf Book of Secrets Inf	0	1	0	Mystic Forge
			Prototype Fractal Capacitor Beta Fractal Capacitor (Infused) IsInf Fractal Capacitor (Infused) IsInf	0	1	0	Mystic Forge (Fractals of the Mists)
		Soldier	Bowyer's Delight Inf Koss on Koss Inf	0	1	0	Mystic Forge
			Prototype Fractal Capacitor Beta Fractal Capacitor (Infused) IsInf Fractal Capacitor (Infused) IsInf	0	1	0	Mystic Forge (Fractals of the Mists)
		Cavalier	Sights Be True Inf Symon's History of Ascalon Inf	0	1	0	Mystic Forge
			Prototype Fractal Capacitor Beta Fractal Capacitor (Infused) IsInf Fractal Capacitor (Infused) IsInf	0	1	0	Mystic Forge (Fractals of the Mists)
		Rabid	Endless Quiver Inf Tome of the Rubicon Inf	0	1	0	Mystic Forge
			Prototype Fractal Capacitor Beta Fractal Capacitor (Infused) IsInf Fractal Capacitor (Infused) IsInf	0	1	0	Mystic Forge (Fractals of the Mists)
		Apothecary	Sclerite Karka Shell	0	1	0	Mystic Forge (Festival of the Four Winds)

^Inf – Link to the infused version

^IsInf – Is already infused

Back items with selectable prefixes

The following back items allow a one-time attribute selection from a range of options defined by their prefix family.

Prefix family	Back items	Acquisition			Notes
		Loot	Crafting	Vendor
Assaulter, Defender, Malicious, and Healer	Sabetha's Crucible Inf Xera Backpiece Inf Burden Inf	1	0	1•	Raid encounters
All	Quiver of a Thousand Arrows Inf There with Yakkington: A Traveler's Tale Inf	0	1	0	Mystic Forge
	Tempered Spinal Blades Inf Dynamic Tempered Spinal Blades Inf Static Tempered Spinal Blades Inf Synergetic Tempered Spinal Blades Inf	0	1	0	Mystic Forge (requires Spinal Blade Pack Blueprint and Blade Shards)
	Light of Dwayna Inf Recipe Shadow of Grenth Inf Recipe Chaos of Lyssa Inf Recipe Bough of Melandru IsInf Inf Recipe	0	1	0	Crafting
	Mawdrey Inf	0	1	0	Mystic Forge (requires Living World Season 2: Ep. 3 and Ep. 4)
	Lightbringer's Pack Inf Magister's Pack Inf Warmaster's Pack Inf	0	0	0	Lightbringer's Pack collection Magister's Pack collection Warmaster's Pack collection
	Luminate's Backplate Inf	0	0	0	Luminate's Backplate collection
	Finite Result Recipe Upper Bound Recipe Unbound IsInf Recipe	0	1	0	Ad Infinitum I: Finite Result Ad Infinitum II: Upper Bound Ad Infinitum III: Unbound
	Warcry	0	1	0	Mystic Forge (World vs World)
	Wings of Ascension	0	1	0	Mystic Forge (Structured PvP: Year of the Ascension)
	Blood Ruby Backpack Inf	0	0	1•	Living World Season 3 (Ep. 1)
	Lava Skull Backpack Inf	0	0	1•	Living World Season 3 (Ep. 2)
	Icebrood Horn Backpack Inf	0	0	1•	Living World Season 3 (Ep. 3)
	White Mantle Scroll Inf	0	0	1•	Living World Season 3 (Ep. 4)
	The Wayfarer's Henge Inf	0	0	0	Living World Season 3 (Ep. 5) – A Henge Away from Home
	Relic of Abaddon Inf	0	0	0	Living World Season 3 (Ep. 6) – Relic Collector
	Relic of Balthazar Inf Relic of Dwayna Inf Relic of Grenth Inf Relic of Lyssa Inf Relic of Melandru Inf	0	0	1•	Living World Season 3 (Ep. 6)
	Rising Banners of the Sunspear Inf	0	0	0	Raise the Banners: Sunspear Support
	Ensign Banners of Amnoon Inf	0	0	0	Raise the Banners: Amnoon Independence
	Dreaded Banners of King Palawa Joko I Inf	0	0	0	Raise the Banners: Salute to Palawa Joko
	Sagacious Banners of Dynastic Reckoning Inf	0	0	0	Raise the Banners: Amnoon Arbitrator
	Mark Y Golem Inf	0	0	0	Living World Season 4 (Ep. 2) – Redeeming IG-6417
	Ascended Banner of the Dauntless Commander Inf Recipe	0	1	0	Requires Living World Season 4 (Ep. 3) – More Than a Hero to be completed
	Dragonscale Cape Inf	0	0	0	The Icebrood Saga (Ep. 5) – Cloaked in Scales

^Inf – Link to the infused version

^IsInf – Is already infused

^Recipe – Required crafting recipe sheet

See also

• Back item - A list of non-Ascended back items
• Salvaging ascended equipment

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