First and foremost, exotic armor is fine for literally all content except tier 4 fractals. Tier 1 & 2 fractals are absolutely fine without a single piece of ascended armor and just getting ascended trinkets. Tier 3, it'll be slightly easier to get the Agony Resistance (AR) you need with a couple pieces of ascended armor, but still doable. Raids
I think strikes are probably the fastest way to get weapons and armour, in terms of time per day, and if you don't get ascended drops you'll get currency to buy it. But I agree with @Khisanth.2948 that if you have enough time the best approach is to use a mix of methods because they all have limitations (time gates, item types or stat
What they’re saying is that only stat combinations that came out with the base game are available on the ascended gear from the Wizard’s Vault. Each expansion brought new stat combos, and those aren’t able to be chosen on the gear from the Wizard’s Vault. However, you can change the stat combo on ascended armor and weapons for a
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.
Agreed. First ascended set I basically always would recommend berserkers because of how useful it is in the whole game. Also in Fractals power DPS is meta because there are way too many short phases in fights so condi doesn't get chance to ramp up fast enough (I guess with the exception of a few builds that heavily use burn because it ticks hard and fast).

If you like doing fractals regularly, then you can slowly work towards Ad Infinitum. Likewise with raiding regularly and legendary armour. But if you're strictly casual, then I'd say focus on the amulet first, then maybe a gen1 or gen3 legendary. If you purely want a qol item the go for a permanent bank contract.

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