Guild Wars 2

I don’t want a recipe, but just a simple guide to tell me how to even begin to craft a legendary weapon. I’ve read so much (and watched a ton of Youtube) trying to find any answers, but it’s like everyone knows something I don’t. Where do you begin? If the game offered any guidance at all on using the MF or starting the legendary, that would be nice, but it’s utterly lacking. Why not have a quest that walks you through building a simple item in the forge? I’ve had forge stones gathering dust in my bank, not knowing how to properly use them, afraid I might waste them. The game really does lack a decent guide on crafting for beginner’s. Not all of us played GW1 or know the place where all this important info comes from. Help, please.

Mystic forge is complicated but easy to use. What you need to know is if you put 4 of the same weapon levels and same colour, you have a chance of getting the colour above it! But I hear it’s a small chance.

For legendaries, you get these gift things from doing stuff around the world (dungeons, exploring, crafting) and when you mix them together in the forge you get better gifts which need to be mixed together to get your legendary!

Erm…. you can start wherever you want/feel most comfortable starting. First thing you have to know is all the materials required for making your legendary. Here gw2wiki will be of big help. From there you decide how you’ll proceed. Personally, here’s my plan:

Get dungeon gift (easiest, to give you some hope :P)
Get 500 badges (via eb and bl jumping puzzles mainly)
All throughout those, you might want to farm to get money you’ll need to buy/MF your precursor. I’d advise you to get your precursor as soon as you can since it’s still relatively cheap compared to before.

Then the first gift I’d recommend getting is the gift of fortune. Why? Next to precursors, it’s the most expensive thing you will need, so better get the hard part out of the way. Gather around 480-500 ectos, around 148-150 skill points, 250 worth of obsi shards (but just to be safe I’d go with ~300 since the temple of balthazar doesn’t open regularly) and ~231 mystic coins to get your 77 clovers. They will also give you a bit of t6 mats. The rest you can farm for coin or for the mats themselves.

After that, you might want to start with your gift of ________ (say, gift of sunrise). So you might need to level to 400 2 professions you’ll be needing, either in an alt or your main char. This might take awhile depending on the weapon you want (ones requiring charged lodestones or any lodestone in general will be difficult). You’ll also be needing 100 icy runestones which is a fixed 100g (1g ea) and the sigil for the gift of _______

Hopefully by this time you’ll have your precursor now. Now all that’s left is to get you your remaining obsi shards to get you gift of mastery. After that… you’re done!

Keep in mind this is my path, and I’m not really going to stick myself to doing one thing before proceeding to the next. In a day I usually do my daillies, farm for an hour or so, do dungeons for karma and coin, and wvw for fun (and karma as well, and badges if you haven’t done them). The way I do it is I do these multiple activities a day to keep it varied. I can’t stay and farm in orr for more than 1hr and 30min in a day. I also level up 2-3 alts so that takes away a big chunk of my time.

Here’s the link for all the items you’ll need for your legendary http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary_weapon

happy hunting!

Thanks guys! You helped tons. I still think the game should be better at walking you through crafting and the MF, at least by say making you craft something for a quest, or a quest that requires one of these gifts as its goal. Thanks again.

Hey have you tried these links?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary_weapon
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/64363-legendary-weapons-guide/
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/news/780-the-recipe-for-crafting-your-legendary-including-screenshots/

It is a long explanation but (re)reading these guides helped me understanding the process more.

GL