Guild Wars 2

Which is more efficient if you’re going for a third one (for swapping), go through the tedious process of trying your luck with precursors, earning skill points and wvw badges, map completion etc. OR just buy it off of the TP. Also, at what price are you willing to part with their legendaries? I often see them sellers list their items for around 1800 to 2100 gold, but the buyers only go up to around 1500. Is 1500 a reasonable amount to sell a legendary in terms of the effort you’ve put in?

Legendary regular sell for 1800+ so no, it doesn’t matter how much the buy order are. For example someone have been putting buy order for Bolt for around 2 weeks with a mere 1000g, and I have noticed at least 3 Bolts have been sold at 1799, 1888, and 1999.

In term of pure material cost, i.e cost of the stuff you can buy, a legendary comes around 1200->1400g already, adding the time for the badge, 400+ skill point and the insanity endured for world completion, to be honest I feel even at 1800 it’s too cheap. Because remember, if a legendary sell at 1800, 15% fee equate to 270g. That leave the seller 1530g, that means only about 100-200g profit margin.

It takes at least 3 days playing delicately to do 100% map completion, if the same afford was put in say … CoF, you’ll make more than 100g in three days, most will take a week or two. Depending on your server could be a week or more to get the badges, and 450sp can be used to make a lot of other thing. All of that for 100-200g profit it definitely not worth it. One can make that amount in less time doing other thing.

So no, unless you’re buying the cheapest legendary, 1500 is in no way a reasonable amount, unless you can find a trusty buyer to directly trade, maybe. But with the TP fee you would already sell at a loss in term of buyable mat, and pretty much gave out your account bound mat for free.

I have 2 legendaries. Yes I plan on a third.

When making legendaries everyone needs to realize unless you drop a precursor or have insane luck and forge one. Its best to let the legendary come to you.

Took me 3 months of gameplay to create each legendary. First time there was a lot more opportunity with Plinx and dungeon farming. Karka event destroyed precursor prices and I invested heavily.

But its a very y achievable goal if you just play the game and the TP everyday. The only thing you have to save up for is bloodstone, shards and clovers. Let the rest come to you.

Just my opinion.

Don’t even bother buying a legendary straight off. The mark-up is not worth it.

I grinded out all my three legendaries and slowly working on my 4th.

Yea I think it might be best to farm it too since it’s most likely that the legendaries will drop in price when the precursors become more available.. Even now I see that most of the legendaries are dropping in price.. Some even as low as 1.4k. Bolt used to be so insanely expensive but also has dropped in price recently too.

Which is better depends entirely on how good you are at making money (with whatever means you use to do so).

Going for third but i hate to make world completion with another toon just for 2 more gift of discovery.

If you already have 2 then you know the drill by now….either grind gold or play the tp. Grinding mats, using forge or waiting for pre drop, completing dailies/monthlies for coins,….basically playing content for it, is a bad idea in terms of efficiency.

Titan.3472:

Going for third but i hate to make world completion with another toon just for 2 more gift of discovery.

I agree, it sucks. I had to do it and it was just brutal, but I made it a mission to do at least 50% of a zone per day.

Unfortunately it looks like I’m going to have to do 100% completion on a 3rd character if I want more legendaries. Just looking over some of the concept art by one of the former artists, there are some REALLY nice looking legendaries that could come into play in the near future..

@vol now you made me curios xD mind sharing that link with us?

Lucas of the Desert.2165:

@vol now you made me curios xD mind sharing that link with us?

Enjoy:

http://kekai-k.tumblr.com/post/44440600480/guild-wars-2-legendary-weapons-i-designed

Some of them are already in-game of course, and there is no guarantee that the unreleased concept legendaries will be made, but if they will be…

The ones that are unreleased look like a mace, a spear/trident, a torch, and some wierd kitten thing for engineers

Abriel.4103:

Legendary regular sell for 1800+ so no, it doesn’t matter how much the buy order are. For example someone have been putting buy order for Bolt for around 2 weeks with a mere 1000g, and I have noticed at least 3 Bolts have been sold at 1799, 1888, and 1999.

In term of pure material cost, i.e cost of the stuff you can buy, a legendary comes around 1200->1400g already, adding the time for the badge, 400+ skill point and the insanity endured for world completion, to be honest I feel even at 1800 it’s too cheap. Because remember, if a legendary sell at 1800, 15% fee equate to 270g. That leave the seller 1530g, that means only about 100-200g profit margin.

It takes at least 3 days playing delicately to do 100% map completion, if the same afford was put in say … CoF, you’ll make more than 100g in three days, most will take a week or two. Depending on your server could be a week or more to get the badges, and 450sp can be used to make a lot of other thing. All of that for 100-200g profit it definitely not worth it. One can make that amount in less time doing other thing.

So no, unless you’re buying the cheapest legendary, 1500 is in no way a reasonable amount, unless you can find a trusty buyer to directly trade, maybe. But with the TP fee you would already sell at a loss in term of buyable mat, and pretty much gave out your account bound mat for free.

Is it actually possible to go from a new character to world completion in only 20 hours? You say you can make 100g in CoF in the same time, which is about 20 hours. If this is true world completion might actually be a valid farming strategy since skillpoints can sometimes be converted into a good chunk of gold (although not at the moment)… however I must suck at world completion since I took significantly longer than that.

World completion I feel is the biggest deterrent for me in terms of making a new character. However, when I think about it, given that I’d much rather farm dungeons than anywhere else, alts are imperative. Without alts, I’m earning a fraction of the tokens and thus gold from people who have plenty of toons.

Vol.5241:

Lucas of the Desert.2165:

@vol now you made me curios xD mind sharing that link with us?

Enjoy:

http://kekai-k.tumblr.com/post/44440600480/guild-wars-2-legendary-weapons-i-designed

Some of them are already in-game of course, and there is no guarantee that the unreleased concept legendaries will be made, but if they will be…

The ones that are unreleased look like a mace, a spear/trident, a torch, and some wierd kitten thing for engineers

Mace = Meteorologicus, sadly redesigned.
Spear/Trident = Kraitkin, looks far better after small redesign.
Torch = Rodgort.

There’s nothing new in there.