Spinal Blades is neither the easiest nor the cheapest way to get an ascended back piece. The cheapest is probably the fractal capacitor as is requires near 0 gold investment. the easiest is any of the mystic forge recipes for back items, but those aren't really cheap (about 100g or so) cheapest in actual gold involved. You can only buy one item per day. — In-game description. The Fractal Reliquary is an item that allows you to trade 25 Fractal Relics for one of four items per day. Upon use, a vendor window opens which allows you to buy an item. After buying one, the list locks until the next day. The available items change every day. Theoretically if nobody will defend Stonemist Castle, you could solo open SMC in about 6 minutes. So the build is actually good when there is not much enemy players around. It is also reasonably good in large blob/zerg fights as you can provide so much AoE pressure and do so many unblockable AoEs with 4-kits. Yes, the booster gear is basically handing you a max-level set of gear so that you can take part in the max-level game. It's not the best gear for all builds, but it's good enough to get started on everything. Chasing gear isn't the point of GW2 endgame, so it doesn't really matter in the long run. It seems to me that outside of doing PVP and WVW reward tracks, the easiest way to get stat selectable Armor is this: Bladed Set, purchased from vendors in Heart of Thorns. This requires a lot of currency from verdant brink, and you can't purchase the chest. However, it does not require crafting. The biggest bottleneck for this if you don’t have your masteries for a zone completed. One fast way is doing camps + veterans in Bjora Marches with all possible exp boosters. You’ll gain a level about every 5-7 minutes. About 12 spirit shards per hour. Or about 10 hours for a full ascended armor set. Step one, unlock the ability to gather Unbound magic. You can either run through the story of Episode 1 (Out of the Shadows) which unlocks the ability automatically about halfway through, or you can go to any of the other LS3 maps and purchase an item (Unbound Magic Gatherer or Ancient Mursaat Relic) that unlocks it. The min AR requirement for LV 100 fractal is 150. You don't actually need full ascended armor + trinkets to hit that, because you can craft up to +21 Agony Infusions, but they are pants-on-head stupid expensive (like don't even consider it - really, stop thinking about it). Vipers is the strongest DPS option for ranger, so I would definitely work on that for your ascended gear. Make a cheap set and use the start conversion on it though, because making vipers the normal way is more expensive. This should be your gear progression. Zerk gear then magis then vipers. cMSwLlI.

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