User:Nolanlemahn/Gear

Gearing a character for Raids and Fractals requires a twofold understanding: you must know what stat(s) you needs, and you must understand the game's "diagonal" gear progression. Some stats are harder to get than others.

By the end of this guide, you will have a plan for gearing one or more characters in fully GAscended and/or FExotic gear, regardless of which stat you have selected.

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The following are requirements:

• You know which stat you need. The primary stats are Berserker's, Viper's, Harrier's, and Minstrel.
• You own both Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire.
• You own Living World Season 3.
• You have Recursive Resourcing, a Central Tyria mastery.

The following is assumed in order to lower the bar of entry:

• Any required runes or sigils you'll get on your own.
• You have no interest in PvP or WvW.
• You have no interest in specialization collections, or gear from achievements otherwise.
• You don't intend on relying on random drops.
• You don't own any recipes that would make this easier.
• You currently do not raid, and therefore cannot reliably obtain Magnetite Shards.
• For time estimates, where applicable, it is assumed that you only have 1 character.

Step 1: Stats

Determine which set your stats come from. Stats that are italicized are not part of a meta build, but either were previously, or are otherwise part of a non-standard build.

Set A1 (Base core)
Berserker's

Set A2 (Base alternate)
Assassin's
Magi's
Nomad's
Zealot's
Sinister

Set B (Heart of Thorns)
Commander's
Minstrel's
Viper's

Set C (Path of Fire)
Grieving
Harrier's

Beyond this point are details for acquiring items from each set and for each equipment slot. Skip any section that you already have items for.

Step 2: Rings

Set A1 Rings

Time (each): 3-5 hours over 4-7 days
Requires: Party of 5

Any ring in Set A1 can be acquired from Fractals of the Mists, a rotating dungeon with high daily rewards and player-selected difficulty. With 17 Agony Resistance (AR), you will be able to complete a difficulty scale of 25 and less. Assuming you complete all 3 Daily Fractals and the Initiate difficulty daily recommended Fractal, you will earn 4 Pristine Fractal Relics a day - enough to earn both rings in 5 days. Even with no AR, you will be able to comfortably complete a difficulty scale of 20 or less, and should expect to earn 3 Pristine Fractal Relics a day - enough to earn both rings in 7 days.

Returning players with preexisting AR will be able to complete higher-difficulty scales (and might have these rings already). Because these items are Unique, you are effectively unable to wear two of the same ring at the same time; have one of each.

Item	Type	Rarity	Facts	Cost
Crystalline Band	Ring	GAscended	+126  Power +85  Precision +85  Ferocity	10
Ring of Red Death	Ring	GAscended	+126  Power +85  Precision +85  Ferocity	10

While you should strive to obtain GAscended trinkets, the FExotic acquisition for a Berserker's ring is as follows. All variants have the upgrade slot populated with the gemstone or jewel used to craft it. If a recipe sheet is not stated for a given recipe, then the source is the discovery panel of the crafting interface.

Trinket	Rating	Ingredients	Level	Stats	Links	Trading post	Value
FRuby Orichalcum Ring	400	1 Orichalcum Band 1 Orichalcum Setting 5 Exquisite Ruby Jewel	80	+90  Power +64  Precision +64  Ferocity	Item: Recipe: Show base ingredients API: 13417	… …	3  96

Set A1, A2, and B Rings

Time (each): 2-15 hours over 4-10 days
Requires: Patience!
Suggestion: Black Ice Band, Gilded Orchid Band

➡ Fire Orchid Blossom Farming
➡ Fresh Winterberry Farming
Blood Ruby Farming is not recommended.

Item	Type	Rarity	Cost
Blood Ruby Band	Ring	GAscended	2,000  + 100
Black Ice Band	Ring	GAscended	2,000  + 200
Gilded Orchid Band	Ring	GAscended	2,000  + 100
Bloodstone Capacitor	Consumable	BBasic	100

Set A1 and C Rings

Time (each): 5-20 hours over 4-10 days
Requires: Patience, play during peak hours
Suggestion: ???

➡ Difluorite Crystal Farming

Item	Type	Rarity	Cost
Difluorite Band	Ring	GAscended	2,000  + 100

Step 3: Accessories/"Earrings"

Set A1, A2, and B Accessories

Time (each): 3-22 hours over 4-10 days
Requires: Patience!
Suggestion: Black Ice Earring, Sparking Petrified Wood

➡ Fresh Winterberry Farming
➡ Petrified Wood Farming

Item	Type	Rarity	Cost
Black Ice Earring	Accessory	GAscended	4,000  + 300
Sparking Petrified Wood	Accessory	GAscended	4,000  + 150

Set A1 and C Accessories

Time (each): 7-30 hours over 4-10 days
Requires: Patience!
Suggestion: ???

➡ Difluorite Crystal Farming

Item	Type	Rarity	Cost
Multifaceted Difluorite Earrings	Accessory	GAscended	4,000  + 150

Step 4: Backpiece

Set A1 Backpieces

Time (each): N/A
Requires: Money
Suggestion: Build a different backpiece

This item (Bough of Melandru) has only one advantage: the uninfused version actually has 2 infusion slots. In most other respects, it is a poor choice of item; it is relatively expensive, can't select A2 stats, and honestly doesn't even look that great.

The crafting level requirement is not a disadvantage; you should expect to craft most of your first set of GAscended gear.

Item	Rarity	Discipline(s)	Rating	Ingredients
Bough of Melandru (Learned from: Recipe: Bough of Melandru)	GAscended	ArmorsmithLeatherworkerTailor	500	50 Icy Runestone 7 Evergreen Lodestone 15 Bolt of Damask 1 Vision Crystal

Item	TP buy price	TP sell price
Recipe: Bough of Melandru	…	…

Set A1, A2, and B Backpieces

Time (each): God knows
Requires: Patience!
Suggestion: Blood Ruby Backpack, "Relic" backpieces

➡ Blood Ruby Farming
➡ Fire Orchid Blossom Farming
➡ Fresh Winterberry Farming
For backpieces specifically, due to the need to infuse, Blood Ruby Farming is reasonable.

Item	Type	Rarity	Cost
Blood Ruby Backpack	Back item	GAscended	5,000  + 200
Bloodstone Capacitor	Consumable	BBasic	100
Icebrood Horn Backpack	Back item	GAscended	5,000  + 400
Lava Skull Backpack	Back item	GAscended	5,000  + 200
Relic of Balthazar	Back item	GAscended	315,000  + 200
Relic of Dwayna	—	—	315,000  + 200
Relic of Grenth	Back item	GAscended	315,000  + 200
Relic of Lyssa	Back item	GAscended	315,000  + 200
Relic of Melandru	Back item	GAscended	315,000  + 200
White Mantle Scroll	Back item	GAscended	5,000  + 200

Step X: Material Farming

Blood Ruby

You can gather roughly 20-30 per day per account (normally) on the standard farming circuit. You will almost certainly need multiple characters. Use GW2Navi's built-in map.

• 3 Blood Rubys per completed meta event per character per day
  • [Group Event] Defeat the spirit of Justiciar Hablion (80) can be semi-reliably completed each day during peak hours.

Difluorite Crystal

• 3 Difluorite Crystals per completed meta event per character per day
• 2 Difluorite Crystals additionally, per completed meta event via event participation chests
  • The Specimen Chamber is time-consuming, but profitable.

• 3 Difluorite Crystals per character per day
  • [Group Event] Defeat Dominus Crystallum! (80) will take about 5 minutes.

• 8 Difluorite Crystals per character per day
  • [Group Event] Defend livestock from the beetle stampede (80) → [Group Event] Defeat Abiri, the Beetle Queen (80). The pre-event could take well over 8 minutes, but the boss should take no more than 2. The pre-event generally finishes the nearby Renown Heart.

• 5 Difluorite Crystals per character per day
  • Defeat the rampaging elementals! (80) → [Group Event] Destroy the stormcaller echoes (80) → [Group Event] Help Elder Rhona track down the source of the storm (80) → [Group Event] Defeat Zohaqan (80) is an incredibly long event chain. The third step is highly profitable, and the final step rewards the crystals.

• 3 Difluorite Crystals per character per day
  • [Group Event] Destroy the Mark III Suppressor Golem (80) appears somewhere in the southern area of the map - at random. It is soloable, however.

• 5 Difluorite Crystals per character per day
  • Disrupt the Magnetics Lab is unusually fast, destroying the nearby turrets with the pulses.

Fire Orchid Blossom

Fire Orchid Blossoms can be obtained from the relatively-lucrative [Group Event] Defeat the destroyer lieutenant (80) chest, once per character per day. If you plant two characters - one at each destroyer lieutenant - you can loot both chests in the same rotation. This requires some guesswork and/or re-logging shenanigans; the intent is to loot the destroyer that dies first with one character, then loot the destroyer that dies second on the other. This would result in 10 blossoms per (unpredictable) rotation.

• Searing Ascent has a chest that is once per character per day, and rewards 3 Fire Orchid Blossoms in addition to a guaranteed ERare. Planting extra characters at this chest is recommended.

• [Group Event] Kill the greater spirit of nature (80) is also once per character per day, and rewards 3 Fire Orchid Blossoms. While the chest is not as lucrative, the event will generally complete the nearby Renown Heart, granting a total of 6 blossoms.

Fresh Winterberry

You can gather roughly 50-70 per day per character (normally) on the standard farming circuit. Use GW2Navi's built-in map.

Petrified Wood

• 2 Petrified Wood per day
  • "Daily Destroyer Boss or Wurm Boss", "Daily Sloth or Drake", and "Daily Ember Bay Magic Gatherer" will be automatically done.

• 3 Petrified Wood per event completion
  • Defend Skrilla while she searches for treasure (80) has no limitations whatsoever, and gives 3 Petrified Wood. You can probably assume that each character will get credit for Skrilla at least 0.5 times in its rotation.

• 6 Petrified Wood per character per day
  • The two-step chain: Help the trapped skritt by breaking defiance on the roots holding them (80) → [Group Event] Defeat the Molten Dominator (80) is less than 10 minutes, and will generally complete the nearby Renown Heart. The event and karma vendor combined each give 3 Petrified Wood.

• 6 Petrified Wood per character per day
  • The two-step chain: [Group Event] Power up Ahadd's golem by defeating amplified Destroyers and delivering their cores (80) → [Group Event] Protect the energy relays to help Smoosh-a-Tron defeat Vermignus (80) is less than 15 minutes in a competent map instance, and will generally complete the nearby Renown Heart. The event and karma vendor combined each give 3 Petrified Wood.

• 6 Petrified Wood per character per day
  • The three-step chain: Feed the sloth plant with full buckets of fresh water and rolling devil fertilizer (80) → Escort the sloth feeder to the feeding area (80) → [Group Event] Protect the slublings from the sloth queen (80) will likely be between 15 and 25 minutes. However, if the escort event is upscaled, you will encounter enough Champions that the event will still be worthwhile. The feeding event will complete the nearby Renown Heart, and killing the sloth queen will give 3 Petrified Wood

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