Guild Wars 2

I started crafting Sunrise and i’ve got a question.
Should i get precursor first? and should i gamble or buy it?

My suggested order of things to get:
1) Gift of Battle (Badges from WvW) + Bloodstone Shard (200 SP) + Gift of Exploration (Map Completion)
2) Mystic Clovers (Karma + SP)
3) Gift of Mastery (Karma)
4) Gift of Dungeon (a dungeon’s tokens)
5) 100 Icy Runestones + Precursor (gold)
6) Gift of Legendary + Gift of Magic + Gift of Might + Gift of Fortune (materials)
7) Legendary

I would adjust this on a per-player need. The idea is to get everything at the same time: get gold while you get karma and sp, run the dungeon while you get T6 mats, etc. It won’t look like much progress at first, but then everything will come together really quick.

gamble for precursor if you like to gamble. do not do it to try and save money. by my calculations, it will currently cost you 1600g to craft Dawn (vs. buying on the TP for 1000g)

Save up a sizable amount of dungeon tokens and get exotic weapons from there. Use only 4 daggers/swords/greatswords or staves. If you have no use for tokens (some can be converted to gold for better profit via salvaging inscriptions/recipes/ectos), it’s a good way to gamble without losing much gold while saving to buy the pre if your luck is bad.

you can buy exotics for less than 1g. that means you’re paying 210 dungeon tokens for 1g’s worth (it’s less than this, but this makes the math cleaner).
instead, you could pay 30 dungeon tokens for a rare and salvage it into about 0.85 ectos. at 40s/ecto, to get 1g’s worth (after TP tax) would only take 103 dungeon tokens. That’s more than twice the value.
So I would highly recommend spending dungeon tokens on level 68+ rares, salvage that, then sell the ectos (or use them for something else). If the dungeon doesn’t have level 68+ rares, buy exotics that can give inscriptions/insignia: Soldier (Ptv), Rabid (Cprt), Dire (Ctv), Cavalier (Tpf), Sentinel (Vpt), Shaman (Vch), or Magi (Hpv). Salvaging exotics give a little less than Rares