Guild Wars 2

paleeshi.1924:

Svarty.8019:

I wonder if there is a limit to the number of legendaries, or whether we will indeed all be using legendaries eventually?

The thing that is limiting amount of legendaries at current stage is probably the amount of precursor. Most other things can easily be farmed or bought since they have a big stock. However precursors are pretty limited. I think only yesterday there was only 2 The Legends in trading post. But even at one time I’ve seen around 20-ish at once. If you not going to buy it or get it as a drop, the only way to get it is Mystic Forge but the gamble can be endless. So… unless they drastically increase the drop rate of precursor or give other way to acquire it, the legendaries will still be “rare”.

I own “the legend” at the moment. I don’t intend on listing it until the price goes up more. I lose almost 100 gold just selling it.

One thing I think would make me interested in legendarys are if they were much more unique, aka if they brought out a tonne of more, different looking Legendarys. I really like my characters and I want them to look different and unique, not exactly the same as everyone else.

This is such a ridiculous thread.
I’d love to see the whole server with legendaries, brighten up the game a bit.

Imagine how epic it is when 10 in a mob are shooting rainbow unicorns at the claw in Frostgorge?
Or a clash of Zerg vs Zerg with Sunrises and twilights flying everywhere.

But we’ll never get to see that. There simply aren’t enough dedicated people on one server.
Which is the way it should be.

Firegoth.6427:

This is such a ridiculous thread.
I’d love to see the whole server with legendaries, brighten up the game a bit.

Imagine how epic it is when 10 in a mob are shooting rainbow unicorns at the claw in Frostgorge?
Or a clash of Zerg vs Zerg with Sunrises and twilights flying everywhere.

But we’ll never get to see that. There simply aren’t enough dedicated people on one server.
Which is the way it should be.

Come to JQ, you will see this.

sostronk.8167:

Firegoth.6427:

This is such a ridiculous thread.
I’d love to see the whole server with legendaries, brighten up the game a bit.

Imagine how epic it is when 10 in a mob are shooting rainbow unicorns at the claw in Frostgorge?
Or a clash of Zerg vs Zerg with Sunrises and twilights flying everywhere.

But we’ll never get to see that. There simply aren’t enough dedicated people on one server.
Which is the way it should be.

Come to JQ, you will see this.

Sorry mate, I’m in EU.
Not as many hardcores as Americans

I bet you guys got people with 3+ legendaries on every corner.
Now that I think about it, most of the big TP farmers must be american, hmmm.

Guess I can feel unique in my own fishbowl.

I don’t see a problem with having a lot of legendary weapons running around. Usually when I’m standing in Lions Arch not really doing anything and I see someone with a legendary weapon I follow them around for a bit. It has sort of become a mini game for me.

I am going for The Bifrost because it’s shiny and I like the skin, I don’t care if it’s rare or not. One day I might go for the Kudzu for my Ranger. It’s a flowery bow and my ranger is a Sylvari so I think they will go well together.

Sold my precursor tonight :0 Maybe a tidy profit on it. Ive been looking around for älternative"weapons. Ive been transmuting my armor from various places (particularly various dungeon armors). Then I ran into this…

Looks better than any of the legendarys (IMO) and costs less than a precursor AND doesn’t require the luck of a precursor drop. There are a few MF weapons like this, not all as good as this one, but Id rather weapons like this over a legendary tbh.

sostronk.8167:

Gregorius.1024:

sostronk.8167:

Sauzo.6821:

Well did you guys really think that in an MMO with thousands of people playing everyday and the way legendaries are set up being pretty much just a gold sink, that you were gonna be a special and unique snowflake after 5 months into the release? You people that are so worried about others really need to just focus on your toon like Aza.2105 said.

I actually dont have a legendary. I am in the position to craft two with everything I need, but I am holding off for now to observe the market. Im not really good with that stuff tbh so I need some time to think about what I am going to do. The whole concept of legendary though, its kind of contradictory when they are common right?

Well no, this is where you use your own imagination. You’re supposed to be the ONLY commander of the pact, the ONLY hero of your race/order/etc. People need to learn to use their imagination and stop taking the game so literal. If it were meant to be taken literally, there would only be one of each legendary weapon in the game. In game, all the other players don’t really exist, at least, they’re not on your level

Oh ok, so all those other legendarys I see players carrying around don’t exist because I am playing a single player game. I must be seeing things.

But that’s what a legendary is. Excalibur, Masamune, the Trident, The Helm of Invisibility, Aegis, Caladbolg… These are one of a kind weapons that don’t exist anywhere else in their lore. A legendary weapon isn’t just rare, it’s a one of a kind weapon that exists nowhere else, with its own LEGEND. Just like there in the tales of heroes, there’s only one person who defeats the main villain, not everyone in the story.

I am 98% of the way to The Predator….and I think it is primarily some sort of mental illness that has brought me here. Initially I just sort of scanned the ingredients needed to make a Legendary, and I was new to the game and GROSSLY underestimated what was actually involved in doing it all. But I got lucky and pulled The Hunter from the MF quite quickly, and I accumulated all my karma and did not spend it. By then the onerous nature of the other needed items started to sink in, but I was so far into the process that I did not want to quit.

The problem with Legendaries in my mind is that you will never get one by simply playing the game and aquiring skills in the game. Never happen. Legendaries will not come without a dedicated grind toward that goal. I am not sure it should be that way…

It doesn’t really bother me too much to see them for sale, because realistically who is buying them? If you farmed 3K gold in game, then you deserve your legendary. If you bought that amount of gold outside the game you spent an insane amount of money. Does anyone think those legendarys in the TP ever actually sell? I have my doubts.

But I will restate…getting a legendary “the old fashioned” way is a mind numbing grind with very little skill required, I know that as well as anyone. Having said that, I am too far along to quit now.

This same issue was raised in GW1, when ‘too many people’ had 15k armour or even Vabbi armor. The obvious answer is: so what? Other people having legendaries doesn’t make your character’s Kudzu or whatever look any worse, just as 10,000 other people having Dervish Asuran Armor in GW1 didn’t make that look any less awesome.

PS: I don’t have a legendary

Carzor Stelatis.9435:

This same issue was raised in GW1, when ‘too many people’ had 15k armour or even Vabbi armor. The obvious answer is: so what? Other people having legendaries doesn’t make your character’s Kudzu or whatever look any worse, just as 10,000 other people having Dervish Asuran Armor in GW1 didn’t make that look any less awesome.

PS: I don’t have a legendary

In GW1 there were rare drop weapons you could use to show off, as well as Tormented Weapons. Celestial Compasses, Dryad Bows, Crystalline Blades, waste-of-ecto-gloves, etcetera, all were very expensive ways to show off. Not to mention limited minipets, which I personally hope they don’t bring back ones like Kanaxai and their ‘top tournament players only’ rewards, but ones like the Ghostly Hero minipet from HA wouldn’t be bad! (As if Anet is going to give us an actual new PvP mode any time soon)

In GW2, we have: Legendaries, fractal capacitors, minipets (this is my route right here, all of them!), possibly include any of the charged lodestone weapons (350 charged lodes is a heck of a lot of gold down the crapper!), and uh.. I can’t think of anything else. Some people think commander is impressive, but I don’t see it. Titles like Miniature Collector don’t include limited ones (and as of the last patch, you only need 53/54 and a miniature risen priest of balthazar), so they have no weight, and The Emperor is interesting, but is honestly just an alternative goldsink. Anyone who grinds alternate legendaries (unless their first was a one handed one, that’s different) is honestly just trying to find something to do with their life and impress people, to have what they’ve done be recognized as an accomplishment. You get one for your main and be done with it, there are way better games out there to play that only take a few hours of your free time to go through, and then you can come back to your MMO and grind away. Oh! Champion [x] titles are mildly impressive. 30x more impressive if it’s not thief, ele, or mesmer.

If we want some impressive stuff, we’ll need more dungeon-only drops. Possibly incorporate a hard mode into the current original set of dungeons! ’Cause right now, my group has CoE on farm status, and one of my friends just does Arah constantly because most of the playerbase is too bad to actually do it, let alone as fast as we do.

A hardcore player can farm enough in a months time to make a legendary. A semi hardcore 2-3 months, casual will just complain its too hard and demand precusors be easier to get.

so easy to get cos they only cost a couple 100$ bucks.

sostronk.8167:

Sold my precursor tonight :0 Maybe a tidy profit on it. Ive been looking around for älternative"weapons. Ive been transmuting my armor from various places (particularly various dungeon armors). Then I ran into this…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHBl11kPbxw

Looks better than any of the legendarys (IMO) and costs less than a precursor AND doesn’t require the luck of a precursor drop. There are a few MF weapons like this, not all as good as this one, but Id rather weapons like this over a legendary tbh.

Which dagger is that? O-O

I am a great fan of the MF weapons myself and I have resigned myself a long time ago that I will probably never have a legendary.

As someone else said up-thread I wonder if legendaries are more common on US servers?
In all my time in game I have seen 2 guys with Twilight and one with Incinerator.
I like seeing them around and it is interesting to me to see how the characters are geared skin wise and dye choices etc.

I don’t like Twilight and thought Incinerator looked much better- the footsteps on a thief makes no sense though.

how is over 1000 gold easy i got like 7 granted i spend my time in dungeons and wvw but thats not easy to get unless you buy it off gold farmers

It is easy. You can easily farm 100g in 3-5 days. People just think its hard for god knows why.

Because the only thing you, as well as about a million other “farmers”, post on the forums regarding obtaining gold is either the sort of vague post you just put up here, or you post methods that don’t truly work, such as using MF% (It DOESNT WORK — TWO GOLD after farming Orr non-stop for FOUR FRIGGING HOURS?! Yea…….THAT worked out well……pfffft).

So there it is: Pics, legit methods, or it didn’t happen.

Mazrim.2167:

Because the only thing you, as well as about a million other “farmers”, post on the forums regarding obtaining gold is either the sort of vague post you just put up here, or you post methods that don’t truly work, such as using MF% (It DOESNT WORK — TWO GOLD after farming Orr non-stop for FOUR FRIGGING HOURS?! Yea…….THAT worked out well……pfffft).

So there it is: Pics, legit methods, or it didn’t happen.

If you make that little doing pen/shelt I’m assuming you’re not joining a group and thus not getting enough mob tags.

When you’re in a party, all the damage the group does is added up towards doing enough to “tag” the mob and get the exp/drops from them. You still have to hit the mob once to qualify for exp/drops, but you don’t need to do all the damage yourself. If the rest of your party does 6000 dmg to some random risen and you clip it with some tail end of an AOE for a few hundred damage or something that’ll be sufficient to get the exp and loot.

If the problem is that you’re not doing pen/shelt but just farming random things, then do the above. So there’s your specific information about methods.

I call into question the consistent 6g+ an hour numbers people quote about orr, but you should have no problem at all making 3g an hour in an active party even if all you’re picking up are moldy bags, t5 mats, porous bones, and whites/blues with no MF and bad luck. In an hour you’ll do 3 shelters and 3-4 pens. Between those 6-7 events you’ll probably pick up 2g just in moldy bags with good mob tagging. Add in the random t5 mats and whatever blues/greens/whites you vend or whatever, 3g should be the baseline. Of course your run isn’t going to be COMPLETELY void of t6 mats, rares, unid dyes etc. Any of that will bump up your income accordingly.

I know sometimes both pen and shelt are up at once and you can’t be in two places at once. If you do one and the other starts and ends, then there surely is going to be a time where you can sneak off and do plinx somewhere in there to make up for it. Oftentimes you can do pen/shelt/plinx even without the overlap for a couple loops.

If you’re on a low pop server and visit orr at times of day where there just don’t seem to be many people around to party with at pen/shelt, guest to a higher pop server.

Conversely if it’s mobbed with 70 people and even in a party you’re having trouble getting mob tags, guest to a lower pop one.

Single biggest thing over all else needs to be that the first thing out of your mouth when you arrive at pen/shelt is “LFG”. If no one invites you, “LFM” and let the people standing around ungrouped join you instead. Being in a group is the difference between making 50s that hour or 3-4g. Next biggest thing is making sure the party is all in the same place at all times, so you’re all around each other helping add up that damage to tag mobs. Third biggest thing is making sure you’re using AOE attacks to touch as many things as possible. Even if it’s not something you’re traited for or don’t use normally.

What I listed above is about all anyone could tell you. Hope you find it useful.

Mazrim.2167:

Because the only thing you, as well as about a million other “farmers”, post on the forums regarding obtaining gold is either the sort of vague post you just put up here, or you post methods that don’t truly work, such as using MF% (It DOESNT WORK — TWO GOLD after farming Orr non-stop for FOUR FRIGGING HOURS?! Yea…….THAT worked out well……pfffft).

So there it is: Pics, legit methods, or it didn’t happen.

Orr, you farm Pent/Shelter, easily make 5g-7g an hour with a full party and MF gear. Farm Grenth whenever its up, make 5g easily in one run. Its not hard to look up either. Farming 30g a day is pretty kittening easy but people like you just QQQQQQQQQQ and want things handed to you.

That’s what happens if time and money are the only requirements for Legendaries.

That and the fact that they are the only real “long-term” goal in this game.

Running level 36+ FotM and chances are you’ll have 1-2 Legendaries per group.

Making gold is super easy if you just have time.The farm in the mentioned Orr areas is indeed valid while in a party, but it becomes invalid after about 2-3 hours – the DR will hit you and your party and when that happens, no good drops till it resets(about 2 hours tops).
A little tip nobody here will tell you out of greed for self-preserved info – gather a guild group to farm Orr, but look for one of the least populated servers which don’t have many people there(like, max 5-10 players in Orr).With that, you and your party will have no competition for the mobs and the tag.It really felt different when we had to kill the mob waves in Shelter from both sides since they pretty much overran the camp.It goes without saying that Guesting is how you do this.
Just FYI, this is not considered bug or an exploit.You may even be helping the people originally on the server .After you do this powerfarm for about 1.5-2 hours, go do speed runs on the easier dungeon paths – such as CoF path 1 and 2(path 2 only if your party can do good aoe and take a beating).For the dungeon farm, you need at least 1 alt, 2 is even better.You do path 1 and 2 on your main, then do them again on your alt.Then it must have been about over an hour, hour and a half since you started the dungeon, so off you go to Orr again.

And you have the moneyz.For the dungeons after CoF (if you like to farm the whole freaking day), then consider AC path 1 and 3.Use Omnomberry bars at all times.
Hope this helps.

I want to know who thought that shooting unicorns from a bow was a cool idea….

aPutridCorpse.8792:

I want to know who thought that shooting unicorns from a bow was a cool idea….

Sorry. Didn’t realize my dreams would become a reality…

Lots of good tips in this forum. My guild mates are always complaining about how busy pen/shelt is. We’ll have to guest to a lower pop server now. Sounds much nicer.

Ehmry is full of legendaries. We have guilds that are just legendary farmers and sellers. LA’s afk ledge is full of people showing off their psuedo and actual legendaries. I’ve seen a few people with dual incinerators and bolts. It’s pretty crazy, but I don’t mind. I like looking at them and still plan to go for all the legendaries I want.

Firegoth.6427:

Often script that happens to me in the game:
Random player: “nice weapon”
weapon switch
Random player: “lol… 2 legendaries?”

Someday we’ll find it
The legendary connection
The hardcores, the casuals and me

+1 for singing Rainbow Connection

As for the weapon switch, why not build two 1 handed legendaries! Then you can use them at the same time.

Havana.8625:

Firegoth.6427:

Often script that happens to me in the game:
Random player: “nice weapon”
weapon switch
Random player: “lol… 2 legendaries?”

Someday we’ll find it
The legendary connection
The hardcores, the casuals and me

+1 for singing Rainbow Connection

As for the weapon switch, why not build two 1 handed legendaries! Then you can use them at the same time.

It’s all about what I’m gonna show when I play.
I actually wanted to stop after the 2nd, truly, I did, but then luck had it that I stroke a gold mine (serious one) through the TP, unintentionally… let’s put it this way, it was a precursor level of luck (not precursor-related), so I made my 3rd.
And THEN I saw the new update to the unicorns… I just couldn’t resist.

But beyond that? I still got a few that interest me, but I just can’t see myself putting so much effort anymore, simply because I won’t play with the classes that will use them often enough to be worth the show.

Ivanov, Vey: You guys rock, thank you for finally explaining. The key problem I had was not running BOTH pen/shelt (I’d run one but not the other……don’t ask me why, I just didn’t for some odd reason), and not being in a group (my wife and I would group but that’s it, and she…well….she DIES a whole hell of a lot, so I try not to snicker: She knows where I live O.O).

As far as time goes, not much being a FT student finishing my Bachelor’s, but the difference in money is HUGE compared to what I was earning with the time I do have available.

Good to see at least a few people in the GW community don’t knee-jerk slap a carebear label and insults on those who don’t figure something out or don’t agree with someone’s opinion, displaying to everyone just how much of an elitist jerk they really can be.

Uh oh, somebody just found out they aren’t a special snowflake.