From WvW however, there is a positive light for doing it and that's getting the badges for the practically free exotic armor and bandit weapons. You can get ascended armor using your memories of battle but that's still super expensive, and much much more time consuming than fractals, raiding, and ranked PvP.
Envoy Armor I: Experimental Armor is a Legendary Armor collection achievement to gain the first tier of the precursor armor for the Legendary armor, Experimental Envoy armor. This collection is the first step to obtain the armor. The envoys shepherd the souls of the dead to their place in the Underworld.
Notice that the difference between exotics and ascended is the least noticeable on armor. You can easily "make do" with ascended trinkets and exotic armor. You should definitely try to get ascended weapons, but those are significantly easier to get than the armor.
Grandmaster Marks for buying ascended gear. Background: So, I have an account that I am trying to gear all by itself without help from my other account. I have been doing fractals on that account to work on getting Attuned and infused rings, and then eventually ascended armor & weapons. I thought to try and do all the daily fractals to get the You can craft any regular old ascended armor, and then there is a discovery crafting recipe that can give you the regular insignia that you can use to change stats DPJwL.