Guild Wars 2

I’m fairly new to crafting, although I’ve been playing for over a year on and off. I recently decided to go for Twilight on my main character. I have most of the Gift of Mastery completed and I’ve been stockpiling metals so the Gift of Twilight shouldn’t take too long (apart from the dungeon part, I hate dungeons…)

However, early on I sold most of my mats, and now I’m sitting on less than 100 of each required for Gift of Fortune. Is there an easy/decent place to farm for the mats? How long would it take? Would it be easier/faster just to farm gold and buy them? Is there another way to acquire them (chests/boxes or something?) Is there a zone/area in which all 8 required mats drop without too much running between mobs? If anyone has any secrets to making this as quick and painless as possible, I’d greatly appreciate it!

Best potential way to earn money: TP (and crafting on top off it).
Next best is running dungeons efficiently.

Don’t farm for mats. Better to run champion trains (low skill cap, but also very monotonous).

Run world bosses and temple runs.

If you have max crafting, keep crafting ascended items. Ascended insignias can be sold for a good money.

Why do you not like dungeons? Steep learning curve? PuG experience? There are solutions to that.

To put it into perspective

Running AC all paths: 5g25s+ in about half an hour, I guess.
TA UP/FW another 2g50s+
CoF p1/p2 same
SE p1/p3 same
CoE all paths 3g75s+

That’s guaranteed 16g50s in about 3 hours?

In CoE, from time to time you also get charged cores which can be turned into your charged lodestones which is also used to craft a legendary. Or sell it off for an easy 2g+

You’re not selling the dungeon running too well Xallever, there’s quite a bit of money in the drops aswell.

As for the OP, farming gold is generally better than farming the materials for anything due to RNG. Champtrains are likely the most common place for the materials to actually drop aswell as being relatively rewarding, but I’d prioritize something you enjoy or atleast mix it up. (Dungeons/Nodefarm/World-bosses, yes I read you loathe Dungeons, just for the next reader.)

Another possibility, trade Laurels for crafting bags (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Heavy_Crafting_Bag) however only do this if you never plan on doing Fractals/going for Ascended gear (trinkets mainly.) Time-gates are painful.

Esmee.1067:

You’re not selling the dungeon running too well Xallever, there’s quite a bit of money in the drops aswell.

As for the OP, farming gold is generally better than farming the materials for anything due to RNG. Champtrains are likely the most common place for the materials to actually drop aswell as being relatively rewarding, but I’d prioritize something you enjoy or atleast mix it up. (Dungeons/Nodefarm/World-bosses, yes I read you loathe Dungeons, just for the next reader.)

Another possibility, trade Laurels for crafting bags (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Heavy_Crafting_Bag) however only do this if you never plan on doing Fractals/going for Ascended gear (trinkets mainly.) Time-gates are painful.

You’re right

But if I shorten the time assuming all the smooth speed runs, could be seen as false advertisement :P

Have you gotten all your clovers yet? Doing the 10x recipe will get you a bunch of mats until you get enough clovers. Then use The Egg Baron’s spreadsheet (click the “Fine materials” tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet) to see which t5 mats are worth promoting to t6 (you’ll save a ton of gold doing this at the cost of skill points). Dungeons and champ farming are a good way to get gold to buy t5 mats. Champ farming has the added benefit of giving you skill points which you’ll need for the t5 promotion recipe.

http://eggbaron.blogspot.com/2013/02/converting-skill-points-to-gold-update.html

Do dailies and monthlies. Exchange laurels for heavy bag of crafting material. That’s how i done it. Sell excess of mats and buy the ones you still lack.

going by standard drop rates for open world PvE alone, it will take you years to get all the mats (literally).

This game is designed around gold. Gold is the end game here. By the time you’ve farmed 250 of any given T6 mat required for the gift of fortune, you’ll have made enough gold to buy the rest.

If you are a hardcore crafter, I hate to break it to you, but crafting a legendary is about 25% world exploration, and 75% gold grind.

Neural.1824:

going by standard drop rates for open world PvE alone, it will take you years to get all the mats (literally).

This game is designed around gold. Gold is the end game here. By the time you’ve farmed 250 of any given T6 mat required for the gift of fortune, you’ll have made enough gold to buy the rest.

If you are a hardcore crafter, I hate to break it to you, but crafting a legendary is about 25% world exploration, and 75% gold grind.

to me it was 25% world exploration, 35% farming karma and 40% farming gold

Neural.1824:

going by standard drop rates for open world PvE alone, it will take you years to get all the mats (literally).

This game is designed around gold. Gold is the end game here. By the time you’ve farmed 250 of any given T6 mat required for the gift of fortune, you’ll have made enough gold to buy the rest.

If you are a hardcore crafter, I hate to break it to you, but crafting a legendary is about 25% world exploration, and 75% gold grind.

Are you sure about this? In the one spot I’ve been using I seem to average 2-3 of my required mats every 4-5 minutes.

Farm Orr or frost.

I saved the gift of fortune at the end of all of my legendaries. I would have 100-150 of all t6 mats by then(10weeks), so I did not have to buy as many. I just bought 5-10 t6 mats after I farmed, so I would not waste that money on other things buy the end of it. Also ask your guildies for donation they tend to be very helpful.

Mystic Clover gambling.