Posted September 30, 2021 (edited) 22 hours ago, mythical.6315 said: The time gate was added to allow crafters to make a profit or at least that was the reason they gave when they introduced ascended crafting. This remained true for quite some time until they added those items as rewards all across the game. Vilin.8056. If Raiding/Fractal is the focus, then I would suggest prioritize:Healbrand -> Quickbrand -> Condi Brand. The reason I would suggest Healbrand first is because you already have an exotic condi variant, and heal variants are highly sought after in both raid and fractals. Soulbound is a binding mechanic that designates an item to be restricted to a character. Soulbound items cannot be placed on the Trading Post, mailed to another player, or placed in the inventory of another character. They can be stored in the account vault. An equipment item may also have a Soulbound on Use property, which means it can be "More recently, I’ve turned a million karma into an ascended backpack and a full set of ascended jewelry (5 pieces), done with 100% karma, and spent about a 1.7 million to produce a full set of ascended leather armor (6 pieces). Using karma reduced the armor set gold cost to about 10g.". API. 85796. “. Double-click to choose a piece of ascended chest armor. Contains all armor classes. — In-game description. From Guild Wars 2 Wiki. Ascended: 500 1 Berserker's Intricate Gossamer Insignia Box of Berserker's Draconic Armor (Exotic)) Exotic: 400 16 Orichalcum Ingot 7 These armor sets are crafted with recipes only (except for a WvW/PvP reward track (Final Reward)) and these recipes are all random drops off PoF meta events and chests found in the zones. Once acquired, one just start crafting them with the desired Crafting Discipline. The reward from this collection is a container that gives a ascended Harrier jLIqo.