Guild Wars 2

Everyone I’ve listened to so far has been laughing about how easy the collections are for Finite Result, Upper Bound, and Unbound.

1) We do not know if Unbound is even the precursor.

2) A precursor is 1/4 of a legendary recipe. There is no limit to the evil they have in front of us for the rest of this.

If you really think you’re going to farm level 21-50 challenges for that big shiny…

Bewaaaaaaare~!

PS. On the bright side, I really like all the various levels of the back piece. This is the first legendary I’ve actually cared about since it fits my scheme and I will use it on every single character.

I thought after finishing all 3 collections, we can essentially craft the legendary backpack, maybe spending a few hundred gold (or maybe a thousand) on mats?

Anyone knows how difficult it really is?

saturn.4810:

I thought after finishing all 3 collections, we can essentially craft the legendary backpack, maybe spending a few hundred gold (or maybe a thousand) on mats?

Anyone knows how difficult it really is?

AFAIK the only hint is the bit about the legendary armor, where they mentioned that a whole suit of armor would take about equivalent mats to 1 legendary weapon.

AFAIK the crafted ascended backs take about as much as an ascended chestpiece, so we might be able to extrapolate from that.

I’m bridging a few gaps there of course ><

Considering how difficult it would actually be to craft all three steps had we started from scratch, I think/hope that that will take much of the “difficulty” away. As far as the legendary, I’m guessing we salvage Unbound for 1 item, and 3 gifts, 1 of which will likely use an exploration gift (central tyria and/or maguuma).

Though, I’d hope it’ll be like a collection, and you just have to make the 1st 3 steps to get the final result… (not likely, but would be nice)

So you’re aware they said that armor would be 1/6th a legendary in cost per piece so the whole suit would be the same cost as one legendary. So I imagine a back piece, while still expensive, won’t be the same level as say a weapon.

Dulfy made an article about the known costs (it is nearly at the bottom): http://dulfy.net/2015/11/08/gw2-hot-weapons-armor-and-backpieces-guide/
So crafting the bagpack will cost you to salvage ~12 ascended armor/weapons (assuming the last recepie will only need 3 Balls of Dark Energie).
So the cost is pretty high

We’re probably going to be kittened when it comes to the costs of going from unbound to ad infinitum. Can already see it taking a bunch of the new ascended materials + more mats.

A classic legendary weapon recipe is: Precursor + Gift of [Legendary] + Gift of Fortune + Gift of Mastery.

(All assumptions)

Precursor – Unbound or salvaged from it
Gift of Fortune – $$$$$$$, maybe gold relics, ugh
Gift of Mastery – Maguuma mastery + Gift of ascention (FoTM NPC) + bloodstone shard (200 skill pt) + 250 Obsidian shards (since the NPC sells them for relics)
Gift of Ad Infinitum – ???

So atm the legendary version is still not craftable? Or the recipe is just not discovered yet?

Frostfire.7492:

Dulfy made an article about the known costs (it is nearly at the bottom): http://dulfy.net/2015/11/08/gw2-hot-weapons-armor-and-backpieces-guide/
So crafting the bagpack will cost you to salvage ~12 ascended armor/weapons (assuming the last recepie will only need 3 Balls of Dark Energie).
So the cost is pretty high

You actually only need 2 balls at start.
2 to make finite result then you salvage it and get 5 back.
2nd collection you need 3, IF (we don’t know what’s next at this point) you also get 5 back for salvaging upper bound, then you have 7 for the 3rd collection.

At least they let you unlock the 2nd tier collection without actually crafting the 1st tier item, unlike the weapon precursor collections.

Raikuben.7489:

Frostfire.7492:

Dulfy made an article about the known costs (it is nearly at the bottom): http://dulfy.net/2015/11/08/gw2-hot-weapons-armor-and-backpieces-guide/
So crafting the bagpack will cost you to salvage ~12 ascended armor/weapons (assuming the last recepie will only need 3 Balls of Dark Energie).
So the cost is pretty high

You actually only need 2 balls at start.
2 to make finite result then you salvage it and get 5 back.
2nd collection you need 3, IF (we don’t know what’s next at this point) you also get 5 back for salvaging upper bound, then you have 7 for the 3rd collection.

You can what
You really get five guaranteed balls back and you don’t need the previous iterations of the backpiece to upgrade?

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Raikuben.7489:

Frostfire.7492:

Dulfy made an article about the known costs (it is nearly at the bottom): http://dulfy.net/2015/11/08/gw2-hot-weapons-armor-and-backpieces-guide/
So crafting the bagpack will cost you to salvage ~12 ascended armor/weapons (assuming the last recepie will only need 3 Balls of Dark Energie).
So the cost is pretty high

You actually only need 2 balls at start.
2 to make finite result then you salvage it and get 5 back.
2nd collection you need 3, IF (we don’t know what’s next at this point) you also get 5 back for salvaging upper bound, then you have 7 for the 3rd collection.

You can what
You really get five guaranteed balls back and you don’t need the previous iterations of the backpiece to upgrade?

You need an item that you get from salvaging the previous iteration
And not sure if it’s guaranteed, but I got 5x dark energy as well

Cheezy.2039:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Raikuben.7489:

Frostfire.7492:

Dulfy made an article about the known costs (it is nearly at the bottom): http://dulfy.net/2015/11/08/gw2-hot-weapons-armor-and-backpieces-guide/
So crafting the bagpack will cost you to salvage ~12 ascended armor/weapons (assuming the last recepie will only need 3 Balls of Dark Energie).
So the cost is pretty high

You actually only need 2 balls at start.
2 to make finite result then you salvage it and get 5 back.
2nd collection you need 3, IF (we don’t know what’s next at this point) you also get 5 back for salvaging upper bound, then you have 7 for the 3rd collection.

You can what
You really get five guaranteed balls back and you don’t need the previous iterations of the backpiece to upgrade?

You need an item that you get from salvaging the previous iteration
And not sure if it’s guaranteed, but I got 5x dark energy as well

I see. Originally thought to just use my Finite Result for a random alt, but I guess that works too.

saturn.4810:

I thought after finishing all 3 collections, we can essentially craft the legendary backpack, maybe spending a few hundred gold (or maybe a thousand) on mats?

Anyone knows how difficult it really is?

No, because even after someone has finished Unbound, the last pieces needed to make Ad Adfinitum are not acquirable yet.

Originally, the plan was to have a fractal leaderboard, which would tie in to how to get the last pieces to make the gifts (or whatever it is) to toss in the MF for the backpiece, but Anet decided to do something else, and whatever new thing they decided on missed the launch of HoT.

Until that final bit is released, we don’t have any real idea what it takes to make it.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

I see. Originally thought to just use my Finite Result for a random alt, but I guess that works too.

Yeah, we wish we were getting 4 ascended backpieces out of this.

I don’t think Anet will lock this behind HoT by requiring the Maguuma Mapping gift, but who knows. Won’t affect most of us i’d imaging, but there will still be salt if this is done.

Also, you can always craft multiple backpieces with the new recipes, haven’t calculated it, but it didn’t feel too pricy, and you get to select stats.

Ven Zehn.6573:

I don’t think Anet will lock this behind HoT by requiring the Maguuma Mapping gift

They locked it behind HoT by requiring masteries to purchase collection items.

I crafted 2 legedarys and did not spent a single dime of my money on it, only gold. I have 5 full map explorations. Earned every single mat. I hope the legendary fractal item will be twice harder to obtain then weapons. I remember making my fractal shiny backitem 2 years ago, and how proud i felt showing it off in front of the bank after months and months of collecting. I want same feeling while i wear my upgraded fractal shiny backitem.

Oh right, the new vendor items in the fractals:/