User:Intricity/Analysis on Ascended Armor

Last Updated: August 4, 2017

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All values are taken from GW2 Efficiency.

Notes

• GW2 Efficiency does not calculate values for account bound materials, and therefore have a price of 0 factored into their cost. i.e. Fulgurite.
• Total cost was obtained by adding the "buy" price and "sell" price and taking the average.
• Average cost per piece was obtained by taking the total cost and dividing by 6.
• Rabid, Magi, Dire and Shaman all have the lowest cost to craft and have their positions swap around regularly depending on the price of their insignia.
  • i.e. one week it may be Rabid that's the cheapest, then the next week Magi, then Rabid again, then Shaman, etc.
• Minstrel and Trailblazer are the most expensive to craft.
• Berserker and Viper should be obvious.

Crafting Cost

Name (Prefix)	Average cost per piece			Total cost
	Light	Medium	Heavy	Light	Medium	Heavy
Dire	56  89  58	62  56  59	56  20  94	341  37  49	375  39  52	337  25  65
Magi	56  84  30	62  51  30	56  15  66	341  5  78	375  7  81	336  93  94
Rabid	56  73  86	62  40  86	56  5  22	340  43  14	374  45  17	336  31  30
Shaman	56  77  57	62  44  58	56  8  93	340  65  43	374  67  46	336  53  59
Berserker	63  41  89	69  8  90	62  73  25	380  51  36	414  53  39	376  39  52
Viper	63  28  85	68  95  86	62  60  21	379  73  11	413  75  14	375  61  27
Minstrel	83  5  23	88  72  24	82  36  59	498  31  39	532  33  42	494  19  55
Trailblazer	84  27  12	89  94  12	83  58  48	505  62  70	539  64  73	501  50  86

Grandmaster Mark Cost

Notes

• This does not take into account the values for Fractal Relics, Fractal Research Pages, Ascended Shards of Glory, WvW Skirmish Claim Ticket or Memories of Battle.

Mark	Cost to craft one	Full set cost
Grandmaster Armorsmith's Mark	20  57  44	411  48  94
Grandmaster Leatherworker's Mark	15  6  77	301  35  54
Grandmaster Tailor's Mark	16  30  89	326  17  94

Cost to stat change

Notes

• Because Berserker and Viper stats are the most common to swap to, they are the only ones calculated.
• There is an additional cost of 5 Globs of Ectoplasm per swap.

Insignia	Cost to craft one	Cost for six
Berserker's Intricate Gossamer Insignia	7  64  23	45  85  38
Viper's Intricate Gossamer Insignia	7  2  28	42  13  68

Cost of crafting the cheapest set to stat change

The cheapest set to craft at the moment is Rabid

Note: The cost of the 30 Globs of Ectoplasm required has not been added into the cost. Please check the price on the Trading Post and add it to the total to get the approximate cost.

Change to	Light	Medium	Heavy
Berserker	386  28  52	420  30  55	382  16  68
Viper	382  56  82	416  58  85	378  44  98

Conclusion

It is slightly more expensive to craft the cheapest set to stat swap. ~6  for Berserker stats, and ~3  for Viper stats.

If you want to craft the cheapest to stat swap to Vipers, ask yourself whether or not 150 Fulgurite is worth ~3 ?

All armor, except heavy, are cheaper to obtain through Grandmaster Marks.

If you obtained an ascended item with unwanted stats as a reward (or if your current item is unwanted), then it will always be cheaper to stat swap it.