First of all, ascended weapons can be obtained via crafting. Second, 5% difference is for stats (and actual weapom damage) BUT damage loss will not equal 5% it will be much lower (around 12.5% if i remember it correctly) and since in gw2 it's better to have more damage and kill mobs quicker it would be in your best interest to be fully geared.

Posted. The nice thing about acquiring ascended gear via WvW is that it's inexpensive, requiring mostly time rather than gold. Not only can you (slowly) earn the grandmaster marks, but you can also purchase ascended gear with skirmish claim tickets. Finally, there are also random ascended armor/weapon box drops.

Ascended Vipers weapons and armor are most easily crafted. You can buy the recipes via laurels and the insignia thingy comes from one of the HoT zone meta vendors (pretty sure it's Auric Basin). Easiest way to get ascended accessories is stat selectable ones from LWS3 or 4, you can do either.
Last I was told was that PvP is the fastest way to get it for cheap, but it seems that option has since been removed. Ascended chest drops from raids, fractals, Tequatl, and champion bags: RNG required, costs no gold except in cases where stat swapping is necessary. Can provide weapons and armor.
Ascended weapons are weapons of GAscended rarity. All ascended weapons come with a single infusion slot when they are one-handed or off-hand, and two when they are two-handed or aquatic. Attribute combination of an ascended weapon can be changed using the Mystic Forge by replacing it with a new item of desired stats. Yes, its a bit of a convoluted way to get low level materials, but its the easiest way to "farm" the material yourself. Farm silverwastes and collect the champ bags and other armor/gear bags you get. Open on a level 53-56 toon which nets you linen which you can sell for a ton. That way you can just buy lower level stuff while also getting a ton 7CVKJB. 584 909 838 157 129 544 230 223

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