Gear. While much of the community has ascended or even legendary items, this absolutely is not a requirement to get started – in fact, Raids and Strikes are a really great way to get this end-game gear. Unlike how Fractals require ascended armor with Agony Infusions, 10-player content is not gated behind any special gear.
Players should be entitled to get their best-in-slot gear with minimal effort, just as we did in Guild Wars - go to a vendor, buy it with the stuff you had gotten all or most of just by leveling up to 20.
I got 11 full sets (5 accessories + backpack)of a variety of stats using the method mentioned above. It works, and fairly rapidly. Find the heart vendors in Ember Banks and/or Bitterfrost and that sell unbound magic gathering toolls and equip yourself with them to speed that part up.
buy cheapest exotics armor pieces (20 silver) from tp. salvage with black lion salvage kit (if you have spare, their drop better than mystic salvage kit), otherwise use mystic salvage kit. hopefully you will get some ectos, so you can return ur money in addition to glob of dark matters. 10. Yes but it's way easier to get ascended gear through crafting and achivements and fractals and such. iBS is only good for a few cheap ascended options. Icebrood Saga will bring you cheap Ascended accessories and amulet from Bjora marches, and a couple others like the achievements from the treasure Hunt in Drizzlewood coast and the free ascended Before beginning your Luminescent armor collection it is best to complete the achievements for living world season 2 episodes 5-8. Guides for these can be found here: Episode 5: Echoes of the Past Episode 6: Tangled Paths Episode 7: Seeds of Truth Episode 8: Point of No Return. Carapace armor can be thought of as the precursor armor to The armor can be zerk exotic, but try get ascended weapons and trinkets (u can get trinkets through wvw reward tracks). This costs you less than 100g in total. This is more than sufficient to raid. By learning and starting the raids, you will get gear in itself much faster htan you ever could through WvW. Tbh if you plan to learn raids your current gear is fine for training. Join Crossroad Inn Training discord and run with them. That way you learn the mechanics and earn raid currencies that can be exchanged for ascended gear in the aerodrom. The best way is to check which map has the best farm effort/currency to trinket ratio for the one you want. For example: a backpiece in Siren's Landing (season 3) only costs karma and the map currency (Orrian Pearl). On another map it will be map currency + unbound magic. If you go for the backpack in Siren's Landing you save the unbound magic CC106.