Guild Wars 2

Here’s my idea for a quest to obtain a precursor, it’s a long-term idea but it’s not 1-year since it’s just a part of the process to attain a legendary.

1st: There would be two types of [Gift of Fortune], [Gift of Mastery], and Gift of [Weapon], the first type would be just as it is now, the other would have a glow effect on the icon, maybe a display message “This artifact is illuminated.”, I’ll explain why this is necessary.

2nd: I thought about this place in kodan territory, it would be The Stone of Silent Voice, the stone holds three locks that fit three special “keys”, the gifts would be these keys: Gift of Fortune, Gift of Mastery and a gift to a specific precursor (Dusk, Dawn, The Lover, etc). Putting the three gifts would give you a long-term buff: Infinite Enlightenment. When you gain this buff, you will be enlightened and new things will be available for you, the gifts will now lose the extra glow they came with, this prevents one from gaining this buff over and over effectively farming precursors nonstop.

3rd: This is the farming part, and also the effective quest part. There will be NPCs in each map the dragons spawn: Servants of Light. These NPCs will only be visible by those who have the Infinite Enlightenment buff and only when the dragon is about to spawn (they’ll stay there for 15min. before the dragon lands, then disappear), they’ll grant the players the Inspired Soul buff, this buff allows the players to receive 1-2 (random chance) [Crystallized Dragon Essence] but they’ll only receive these tokens if they defeat the dragon with the buff activated. To spice things a little bit, if you’re downed you lose the buff and, therefore, won’t have any chances to get the tokens. You will be required to have 250 [Crystallized Dragon Essences] later on.

4th: Shadow Behemoth will now hold a mysterious portal upon its death, a mystical floating stone door-like portal with glyphic writings in it that will lead ONLY enlightened players to the: Maze of Chaos. I don’t know exactly how this could be scaled for solo players, or parties, but this would be a labyrinth with confusing doors that leads you ahead, each door will progress you further or push you back and they’ll have a veteran inside each room guarding the exit. At the end of this labyrinth you will find the Priestess of Light, she’ll be exchanging the hard-earned [Crystallized Dragon Essences] for one of her magical weapons (precursors) and, unlike dropped ones, these will be acc-bound. The portal to the Maze of Chaos could also require a map-wide collection dynamic event.

Notes:
- The Infinite Enlightenment is triggered upon using your three gifts in the locks on The Stone of Silent Voice;
- Each precursor would cost 250 [Crystallized Dragon Essences];
- As stated before, there would be two different gifts of each one to separate illuminated ones from ordinary ones, the illuminated would trigger the buff on a player so that they’ll be able to quest for the precursor. The illumination would disappear from the gifts to ensure the player won’t be able to farm a lot of precursors for free, it’s intended to be a 1-time long-term buff;
- The Infinite Enlightenment buff would disappear upon leaving the Maze of Chaos.

I know they’ll have a scavenger hunt, but it doesn’t hurt to suggest something using what the game has to offer. :P

Totally agree with the idea.

But i think that this kind of precursor should be soulbound, and not account bound, forcing you to know how to play with other characters. If it’s only account bound, i will be able to farm with my favorite character any legendary i want.

Other point is that any player will be able to enter the Maze of Chaos. It’s less limited to the few portions of players.

And my last suggestion is that Enlightment buff will disappear once you buy your precursor weapon with Dragon Essence.

Well that would put Jormag out since it’s hard to NOT go down since he’s the one with the most adds/things to dodge in his fight.

Tequatl and Shatterer would be on farm, since they’re super EZ mode.

However, if it’s still RNG for tokens to drop, then is there much point?
And if it’s a guaranteed drop, you can easily farm them once every 2-3 hours. So if you play for long periods of time, you can get a few in a day and take maybe 3 weeks (or a bit longer, but not much) to get a precursor.

That’s not really a long time frame at all.

It’s not intended to be the current lottery item its now.

How many times you can kill a Dragon w/o getting downed is what gonna make your way faster or slower. This will totally depend on your playerskill and team you have with you.

Inspired Soul could disappear if you are out of combat for about 3 minutes (or less). This will prevent from player to have the Dragon Essence w/o participate the full combat against those Dragons

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Well that would put Jormag out since it’s hard to NOT go down since he’s the one with the most adds/things to dodge in his fight.

Tequatl and Shatterer would be on farm, since they’re super EZ mode.

However, if it’s still RNG for tokens to drop, then is there much point?
And if it’s a guaranteed drop, you can easily farm them once every 2-3 hours. So if you play for long periods of time, you can get a few in a day and take maybe 3 weeks (or a bit longer, but not much) to get a precursor.

That’s not really a long time frame at all.

Suggestions are appreciated, those 2 tokens could be 10% chance, and maybe 500 tokens overall?
People just zerg them pointlessly by now and don’t get anything useful, maybe that would an extra usefulness reward-wise just like FotM Pristine Relics, but it has a quest flavor to it.

How would you extend the time frame? =)