Used at vendors in Cantha and to craft newer recipes. Research Notes are a currency and crafting material earned by salvaging crafted items with the Research Kit. They are stored in the wallet, where they are immediately added upon obtaining. 1 Novice level recipes (Rating of 50 or below) do not give research notes. Just look for the cheapest recipe stat combo you can on GW2efficiency and then stat change to your desired stats. Each piece should be under 30g I'd bet. If you're farming some of the top metas, you could very realistically get full ascended in a week or two play 1-2 hours per day. strikes for armor and weapons. Specialization staves are probably the easiest - but they are from different elite specializations (druid and daredevil). 4. Druid and Daredevil staff requires Mystic Coins. Which is extremely costly to get. Plus there is an mastery grind required to get. It is much easier to just grind the gold to buy from fractals. Theres a few ways to get armor, but most people just craft it. Some content can drop ascended gear, and you can just change its stats to what you want, which is cheaper. For your first set you'll probably be looking at about 100g per piece. @weaponwh.9810 said:any other way to get ascended craft recipe without spend Laurel or craft the Fulgurite stuff? i'm short on both. The best option is to have at least one recipe for each type of gear and always make that, then transform the stats in the mystic forge using the stat-appropriate exotic inscription or insignia. Go to the gw2efficiency page, click crafting, and enter in the names of the gear you want to craft. That'll tell you exactly how much it'll cost. Marauder's emblazoned/draconic/ [I forget what the light armor set is called] It's not as bad as berserker's armor because Ebony Orbs are not near as expensive as powerful blood. Drops specific to gear type or source . Each type of ascended gear can additionally drop various materials when salvaged: Ascended rings, 2-42 Stabilizing Matrices. Every ring drops one stack of 2-5, 10 or 20 Stabilizing Matrices, with lower quantities being more common. The average is around 4. 7. Posted September 28, 2017. If you want a weapon and have a character that finished HoT story, doing the Caladbolg quest afterwards is by far the easiest way to get an Ascended weapon. Can easily be done in an evening and gives you the choice of Greatsword, Sword, Shield, Scepter or Dagger with your choice of stats, and to top it off you can Just get the basic versatile infusion for a +5. Those other infusions are for infused rings and back items (which can already have +5 each from the versatile infusion), and allow for high level fractal players to get more AR than the 70 you can get from the regular slots on trinkets, armor, and weapons. As I'm sure you know as you get higher in It passively (and insanely quickly) allows you to stockpile 10-50 contacts per day per character. I'm amassing 1200+ a week just from this farm. Fractals, raids, PvP, and WvW are definitely quicker ways to obtain them but, if you're not in a rush, this is an extraordinarily easy way to slowly pick up all your harrier trinkets. 1. XeFXR.