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:
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)
(edited by Shadow Dragon.9874)