A guide to the new agony infusion slot and the updated agony resist system updated with GW2’s Fractured patch.
Agony infusion slot
Agony infusion slot is a new slot on infused Ascended items (rings and backpieces only). This slot is specifically for agony infusions, which is a new type of infusion introduced with this update that only goes into the Agony Infusion slot. Infusions from from previous updates cannot go into this slot. If you have infused your ring/backpiece before this update, you will have a +5 agony infusion already in this slot. If you infused your ring/backpiece after this update, this slot is now empty.
It is important to differentiate between the term agony infusion and agony resist infusion. Agony resist infusion means any infusion with agony resistance while agony infusions specifically refer to this new type of infusion which only contains agony resist and nothing else.
Acquiring & upgrading agony infusions
+1 agony infusions drop from the chest at end of each fractal. At a minimum you will get at least one +1 agony infusion but sometimes you can get more from the chest. These infusions tradeable and can be purchased from the Trading Post as well. At a minimum you should get at least four +1 agony infusions from a full fractal run.
To upgrade agony infusions, you will need have an artificer 100 level character. Place two identical agony infusions together with Thermocatalytic Regeant (purchased from the Master Artificer, 10 for 15 silver) to upgrade them a single infusion of the the next tier. For example, you can put two +1 agony infusions together to make a single +2. You can put two +3 agony infusions together to make a +4. There is no limit to how high you can go but it gets to a crazy amount after a while.
Here is a chart showing you how many +1 agony infusions you need to make an agony infusion of a given stat. Those more observant will notice that the number of +1 agony infusions you need doubles for each agony resist you gain. The formula is 2^(n-1)where n is the agony resist number. Since there isn’t a way to extract an agony infusion out of an item once you put it inside, you will need to start over if you use an agony infusion on an item.
The highest agony resist infusion crafted so far ingame is +12. The highest sold on trading post right now is a +11 agony infusion for 250 gold. (Nov 28, 2013)
Agony resist
Number of +1 agony infusions
+1
1
+2
2
+3
4
+4
8
+5
16
+6
32
+7
64
+8
128
+9
256
+10
512
+11
1024
+12
2048
+13
4096
+14
8192
+15
16384
Getting Agony Resists
Before you spend your gold on agony infusions, deck out all of your ascended gear with Versatile Simple Infusion sold from the vendor inside the Fractal of the Mists. It costs 75 Fractal relics each and give you +5 Agony resist. You have 7 Ascended pieces so you will need 75×7 = 525 relics in total if you want to outfit all of your ascended pieces with them.
If you have infused your backpiece and rings before the patch, then your agony infusion slots should be already fitted with +5 agony infusion. This will add +5 agony resist per slot or +15 agony resist in total. This means you can have 55 agony resist total after you have decked out all of the Ascended slots with Versatile Simple Infusion. If you havn’t infused them pre-patch, then you will only have 40 agony resist in total.
Item
Agony resist
Backpiece
5-10
Ring
5-10
Ring
5-10
Accessory
5
Accessory
5
Amulet
5
Weapon
10
Total
40-55
A rule of thumb for how much agony resist you need to survive at full health is Fractal level –5. The amount of agony resist you need increase every 5 levels. So starting from fractal level 10 you will want 5 agony resist (10-5) to not die to agony. This is the minimum amount of agony resist you need, which means you will still take damage from agony.
If you want to completely minimize the amount of agony you take, you should aim for the amount of agony resist that is fractal level +10. So for a level 30 fractal having 40 agony resist should make agony a minor annoyance.
At level 50, which is currently the max cap for fractals, you will need 70 agony resist due to the mistlock instability which frequently inflicts your party with agony.
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Agony infusion slot
Agony infusion slot is a new slot on infused Ascended items (rings and backpieces only). This slot is specifically for agony infusions, which is a new type of infusion introduced with this update that only goes into the Agony Infusion slot. Infusions from from previous updates cannot go into this slot. If you have infused your ring/backpiece before this update, you will have a +5 agony infusion already in this slot. If you infused your ring/backpiece after this update, this slot is now empty.
It is important to differentiate between the term agony infusion and agony resist infusion. Agony resist infusion means any infusion with agony resistance while agony infusions specifically refer to this new type of infusion which only contains agony resist and nothing else.
Acquiring & upgrading agony infusions
+1 agony infusions drop from the chest at end of each fractal. At a minimum you will get at least one +1 agony infusion but sometimes you can get more from the chest. These infusions tradeable and can be purchased from the Trading Post as well. At a minimum you should get at least four +1 agony infusions from a full fractal run.
To upgrade agony infusions, you will need have an artificer 100 level character. Place two identical agony infusions together with Thermocatalytic Regeant (purchased from the Master Artificer, 10 for 15 silver) to upgrade them a single infusion of the the next tier. For example, you can put two +1 agony infusions together to make a single +2. You can put two +3 agony infusions together to make a +4. There is no limit to how high you can go but it gets to a crazy amount after a while.
Here is a chart showing you how many +1 agony infusions you need to make an agony infusion of a given stat. Those more observant will notice that the number of +1 agony infusions you need doubles for each agony resist you gain. The formula is 2^(n-1)where n is the agony resist number. Since there isn’t a way to extract an agony infusion out of an item once you put it inside, you will need to start over if you use an agony infusion on an item.
The highest agony resist infusion crafted so far ingame is +12. The highest sold on trading post right now is a +11 agony infusion for 250 gold. (Nov 28, 2013)
Agony resist
Number of +1 agony infusions
+1
1
+2
2
+3
4
+4
8
+5
16
+6
32
+7
64
+8
128
+9
256
+10
512
+11
1024
+12
2048
+13
4096
+14
8192
+15
16384
Getting Agony Resists
Before you spend your gold on agony infusions, deck out all of your ascended gear with Versatile Simple Infusion sold from the vendor inside the Fractal of the Mists. It costs 75 Fractal relics each and give you +5 Agony resist. You have 7 Ascended pieces so you will need 75×7 = 525 relics in total if you want to outfit all of your ascended pieces with them.
If you have infused your backpiece and rings before the patch, then your agony infusion slots should be already fitted with +5 agony infusion. This will add +5 agony resist per slot or +15 agony resist in total. This means you can have 55 agony resist total after you have decked out all of the Ascended slots with Versatile Simple Infusion. If you havn’t infused them pre-patch, then you will only have 40 agony resist in total.
Item
Agony resist
Backpiece
5-10
Ring
5-10
Ring
5-10
Accessory
5
Accessory
5
Amulet
5
Weapon
10
Total
40-55
A rule of thumb for how much agony resist you need to survive at full health is Fractal level –5. The amount of agony resist you need increase every 5 levels. So starting from fractal level 10 you will want 5 agony resist (10-5) to not die to agony. This is the minimum amount of agony resist you need, which means you will still take damage from agony.
If you want to completely minimize the amount of agony you take, you should aim for the amount of agony resist that is fractal level +10. So for a level 30 fractal having 40 agony resist should make agony a minor annoyance.
At level 50, which is currently the max cap for fractals, you will need 70 agony resist due to the mistlock instability which frequently inflicts your party with agony.
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