Best Wizard's Vault loot in terms of Gold/Astral Aclaim.

I did some quick & dirty math to see which items in the Wizard's Vault are the best value for those that want to use their AA for profit.

First of all, if you plan on making one of the legendary weapons currently offered, then the Legendary Weapon Starter Kit is ABSOLUTELY worth it. It contains the Precursor, the Gift of [Legendary], and your choice of a Gift of Might or Magic, roughly a 500g value. Everything is account-bound, so if you wanna use this as an AA-to-Gold method you'll have to commit to crafting the Legendary, but it's by far the best value in the vault. 0.5g/AA.

Next is the 90 Bags of coins for 6AA each. Just straight up raw gold, no RNG or market value to worry about. 0.16g/AA

Mystic Coins, at their current TP price of 1.2g, are 3rd place at 0.13g/AA. Could potential rise to 2nd if MC prices ever hit 1.5g, although Bag of Coins would be better if you intended to sell them since you wouldn't have to worry about TP taxes.

4th place are Heavy Crafting bags. for 8 AA you get 3 random T6 trophies averaging 0.65g. There's some RNG here, since Crystalline Dust is worth significantly less than the other t6s. 0.08g/AA on average.

5th is Bags of Laurels, 10AA for 1 Laurel, which if used to purchase a Heavy Crafting Bag are 0.065g/AA

6th is the Bag of Coins for 30AA with no limit. I'd only get these if you're about to overcap your AA and there's nothing else in the vault you want. Otherwise save your AA for the next quarterly reset. 0.03g/AA.

Large Crafting Bags are a ripoff, 10 T5 trophies at the very luckiest are only .1g, and the gold/AA is an abysmal .0025. Never get these.

I'm not sure where Mystic Clovers fit in, since their cost varies on whether you craft them in the Mystic Forge or buy them with Raid/Fractal/Strike/WvW currency. They're about 0.06g/AA going by the Mystic Forge price, and 0.04 from vendors. Only worth it if you're crafting legendaries, but better than the 30AA coins if you are.

So basically if you don't care about any of the cosmetics or upgrades in the Wizard's Vault and just wanna convert your AA to Gold, just go down the list:

  1. Legendary Starter Kit ONLY if making one of the offered weapons.
  2. Bags of Coins for 6AA
  3. Mystic Coins
  4. Heavy Crafting Bags
  5. Bags of Laurals
  6. Mystic Clovers ONLY if crafting Legendaries
  7. Bags of Coins for 30AA.

Let me know if there's anything I missed or mistakes in my calculations.