Guild Wars 2

So, as we get wardrobe and other stuff with the patch coming on 15th of April I thought to try and gather some information on what skins one should craft in PvP before the massive changes in order to save some gold, time and possibly other resources.

In PvP some of you may have some crafting materials saved up (slivers, powder, tokens and so on). I looked around and checked wiki to see what items to craft ( http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_reward ) and based on that I crafted some items myself and here are some tips on what to get in PvP (notice that the PvP crafting may require multiple tries as same recipe has multiple item outputs):

For the PvP crafting you should have some pvp crafting materials saved up or a way to salvage some from pvp items. These materials include the powder, orbs, crystals, slivers and tokens. Notice that if you have glory left you can buy item tokens from the glory vendors. Rank tokens you can get by salvaging proper pvp gear (related to the rank in question).

If you have paid tournament tokens + item tokens and the other materials (the easier to get materials) there are some rare skins that can be rather expensive to get in PvE:

• Dark Moon Shield cannot be acquired in PvE as far as I know
• Moon Shield
• Plated Sniper Rifle
• Dwayna’s longbow
• Dwayna’s Short Bow very expensive to craft in PvE
• Gargoyle Scythe available in PvE but might save a bit of gold if you get it in PvP
• Jade Staff has the same skin as the legend
• Lava Axe
• Magmas Arm has the same skin as the colossus

If you think it’s worth it you might want to try to craft some of the dungeon weapons in PvP to avoid farming dungeon tokens, info found on wiki. Same goes for dungeons armors, however, a lot of them are restricted by rank lvls. But for example Inquest armor (CoE dungeon) can be crafted with paid tournament tokens (+ other materials).

Might be worth it to you to craft the Vigil, Priory & Whisperer weapons too as they cost over 3g each (one handed are 3g 60s and two-handed are 5g 52s each), these require free tournament tokens instead of paid tournament tokens:

• Whisperer weapons
• Vigil weapons
• Priory weapons

As for rank restricted rewards (instead of tournament tokens you need rank tokens, such as tiger tokens for tiger rank items):

Rank 1-9 (rabbit) & Rank 10-19 (deer) & Rank 20-29 (dolyak):

• Didn’t see any armors/weapons that aren’t easy/cheap to get in PvE so no suggestions for those rank lvls.
• EDIT: at rabbit rank you can craft peacemaker’s weapons (T3 Asura cultural weapons) so you may save quite a bit of karma if you craft them in PvP instead
• at deer rank you can craft Charr T3 cultural weapons (gear weapons)

Rank 30-39 (wolf):

• Priory armor – light, medium, heavy (entire set of order armor = 8g 88s, might be worth it to craft in PvP if you have the materials)
• Masquarade armor Cannot be acquired in PvE at the moment
• Commando armor Heard that this armor set isn’t available in PvE (or at least as a full set), someone can correct me

Rank 40-49 (tiger):

• Vigil armor – light, medium, heavy (order armor set = 8g 88s in total)
• Fiery Gladius expensive to craft in PvE (name in PvE = Firebringer)

Rank 50-59 (bear):

• Whisperer armor – light, medium, heavy (order armor set = 8g 88s in total)

Rank 60-69 (shark):

• T1 cultural armor
• Majestic Sword the precursword Dawn greatsword has the same skin
• Sai the precursor Spark has the same skin
• EDIT: T3 human cultural weapons (seraph weapons)

Rank 70-79 (phoenix):

• T2 cultural armor
• Pact weapons
• Runic blade same skin as infinite light (very expensive to craft in pve)
• EDIT: Wolfborn weapons (T3 cultural weapons for Norn)

If you are running low on karma but are interested in the temple armor, you might check if crafting it is worth it to you:

• light
• medium
• heavy

There are also some PvE items that one should probably pay attention to, but for now I’m ending this post while it still keeps its focus on the PvP crafting.

Hopefully this post has been somewhat helpful. Feel free to correct me if I made a mistake or please let others know if you know of some items outside of this list that they should craft in PvP.

Thanks for this! I’m only r21 but have collected a decent amount of PvP crafting materials and 40k+ Glory. Turns out I got lucky since I already have a few of the paid tournament weapon skins. Now attempting to add to that list. 13 Paid Tournament Tickets to go…

many thanks for your post!! It’s usefull

For rabbit – the peacemaker’s weapons are t3 asuran cultural and could save you quite a bit of karma if you want them. And they’re rabbit so easy to get.
I think deer has another t3 cultural weapon set.

This helped a lot! Thanks

thehipone.6812:

For rabbit – the peacemaker’s weapons are t3 asuran cultural and could save you quite a bit of karma if you want them. And they’re rabbit so easy to get.
I think deer has another t3 cultural weapon set.

Ah yes good points! Rabbit rank indeed has the T3 asura cultural weapons (peacemaker’s) and Deer has T3 charr cultural weapons (gear weapons). Adding these to the list

Hey thanks for the thread, was looking to craft some rare pvp skins (i’m r50) but couldn’t figure out the recipes… Is there a possibility to:
1. cheap as pve skin (share not the same name… which is pretty hard to find out)
2. craft them in pvp (with <r50 or tournament tokens)

Axe: Bonecleaver, Sinister, Justice, Sephis
Dagger: Bloodfang, Salient
Focus: Spirit Chalice, Straw Effigy
Greatsword: Long, Steel
Hammer: Maul, Spiked Crusher
Longbow: Hornbow, Avian, Stoneshard
Mace: Spiked Club
Scepter: Frog, Hypnotic, Onyx
Shield: Blood Bulwark, Ornate Defender, Tall
Short Bow: Short Hornbow, Avian
Staff: Fire, Wing, The Crossing
Sword: Dual Edge, Aflicted Blade, Swordbreaker
Torch: Plated
Warhorn: Glyphic, Windstorm, Siren

Ty for the guide.

atm. besides of several pvp mats, I still have ~40 tournament chests and 100k glory left.
I would like to go for sth. like infinite light or equal.
Any ideas, what the chances for slavaging phoenix tokens / getting the sword out of the MForge are?

In addition, I struggle between 2 methods:

Either buy t2 cultural armor and slavage it for phoenix tokens, or use the glory, I would need for the t2 for mystery coffers and hope that I’m lucky with those.
In addition, I would at least always get some more mats out of the coffers. But therefore I don’t know how the “procrates” for rare skins are and it seems more random, as I maybe would get a rare item, which I don’t want or might already have.

So any suggestions?

EverythingEnds.4261:

Ty for the guide.

atm. besides of several pvp mats, I still have ~40 tournament chests and 100k glory left.
I would like to go for sth. like infinite light or equal.
Any ideas, what the chances for slavaging phoenix tokens / getting the sword out of the MForge are?

In addition, I struggle between 2 methods:

Either buy t2 cultural armor and slavage it for phoenix tokens, or use the glory, I would need for the t2 for mystery coffers and hope that I’m lucky with those.
In addition, I would at least always get some more mats out of the coffers. But therefore I don’t know how the “procrates” for rare skins are and it seems more random, as I maybe would get a rare item, which I don’t want or might already have.

So any suggestions?

It’s a gamble either way. I have tried to get few rare pvp skins that are the result of the so called “proc” in the mystic forge and to my experience I’ve had to try (on average) around 3-5 times before I got the wanted result. Few times I got the item on first try but few times it took me almost 10 tries.

So if those two choices you mentioned are indeed the sole choices in this case, I’d p

with 100 000 glory you can get 500 mystery coffers (+costs 24g). However, at least to my experience and also the info I could find suggests that the chances of getting high rank skins from the coffers are not that high so keep that in mind. You could end up spending all the glory without getting any phoenix rank skins.

if you decide to go with the T2 armor you can get two armor boxes with the 100k glory (one box = 40k glory + 3.5g). That’d give you 12 chances to possibly get a phoenix token from salvaging and with that token you’d have a chance to get the runic blade from the forge.

I personally would go with the T2 armor gamble only if I had no interest in the other skins in the pvp (as with 100k glory you can craft quite a few items) but I would prepare myself for a disappointment as the T2 salvage + proc from forge involves just way too much RNG for my taste.

So, I’d personally first make sure that I have unlocked all the relatively easy to get skins (easy to get in PvP) that do not require high rank tokens (like phoenix rank tokens) and after that go with the T2 armor box as even though the chances of finally getting the sword skin are quite low (because of all the RNG) the t2 armor is still a guaranteed phoenix rank item and with 1 box you get 6 item pieces so that’s 6 tries.

But, in the end, it won’t be easy and is heavily relying on you getting lucky. But out of those two choices, if the only thing you want is the phoenix rank items (that you want to salvage for rank tokens) I’d go with the T2 armor set route instead of buying a mass of mystery coffers.

Raven Bloodshield.5472:

Hey thanks for the thread, was looking to craft some rare pvp skins (i’m r50) but couldn’t figure out the recipes… Is there a possibility to:
1. cheap as pve skin (share not the same name… which is pretty hard to find out)
2. craft them in pvp (with <r50 or tournament tokens)

Axe: Bonecleaver, Sinister, Justice, Sephis
Dagger: Bloodfang, Salient
Focus: Spirit Chalice, Straw Effigy
Greatsword: Long, Steel
Hammer: Maul, Spiked Crusher
Longbow: Hornbow, Avian, Stoneshard
Mace: Spiked Club
Scepter: Frog, Hypnotic, Onyx
Shield: Blood Bulwark, Ornate Defender, Tall
Short Bow: Short Hornbow, Avian
Staff: Fire, Wing, The Crossing
Sword: Dual Edge, Aflicted Blade, Swordbreaker
Torch: Plated
Warhorn: Glyphic, Windstorm, Siren

Some of those skins are listed on the list located on: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_reward

For example the glyphic weapons are on wolf rank tier.
I personally do not know most of the recipes (heavily relying on the info on wiki and so on) so unfortunately cannot check the item recipes.

However, I’d suggest trying to check the pvp locker for the skins (preview till you find the correct skins) and then check the pvp name on wiki or so (for example you can search “fire staff” on wiki and it’ll give you the pvp fire staff result (that skin requires phoenix rank tokens though so it’s easier to get in PvE).

30-39 isn’t dolyak haha :P

thanks sooooooo much for this list! I sure wish I did more spvp now just to get Infinite Light skin.

well, this is upsetting. I don’t have any weapon tokens and I don’t have any pvp salvage kits to salvage the weps I have for a chance at getting a weapon token. And no glory to buy either >< FML. I really wanted to make dwayna’s bows

MightyMicah.7451:

30-39 isn’t dolyak haha :P

Heh, sorry about that, should have written wolf there A slight error, fixed

I only had enough glory and paid tournament tokens for 2 attempts at the longbow (Dwayna’s) I don’t pvp much. Second try was Dwayna’s, I am ecstatic!

As patch day is almost here, anyone found anything to add to the list?