Guild Wars 2

Hey Guys,
I’ve reached 136 AR and I’ve started doing 76+ form.
My true goal is to get the Golden Fotm Shield.
What would be the best way of accomplishing this?

Only ways I know of are Fotm daily for a gamble or complete 76-100 Fotm lvls.

Doing 76-100 is your best bet. The chance to get a gold skin from the lvl 51-100 daily chest is about 2,5%, much lower from the other dailies. Since there are 19 skins, the chance to get the shield is pretty low. Though you could collect golden fractal relics from salvaging other golden fractal weapons until you have 10 and craft the shield.

Gold fractal weapons do drop from the mid-tiers daily chest. I got the shield about 3 days ago.

They also drop from the recommended fractal daily chests; but those can drop any fractal-reward anyway (ascended boxes etc.)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18IHVJao5j85KOp6lBTOgO8qs4VYD3Xty-jKPZo8o-Q4/pubhtml
Look at [KING]’s research. The droprate is abysmal for anything below 51-100 daily. It is waaaay harder to get all golden weapons than it was to get all blue weapons before HoT. Anet replaced one RNG lottery with a worse one…

Though unlike it was with original fractal weapons, it IS possible to aim at a specific one.

Astralporing.1957:

Though unlike it was with original fractal weapons, it IS possible to aim at a specific one.

Overall it is still a lot more time consuming to get. You had about 25% chance to get a blue weapon if you did 50 40 30 daily. Now you have roughly 2,5-3% chance for a gold one if you do all the dailies. Considering you need to salvage 10 golden ones to craft a specific golden weapon, it takes much longer to collect all 19 skins.