Guild Wars 2

This is like a mini guide of sorts for those who like to dungeon within GW2 and are looking to obtain a Legendary. Let me start by saying this: This is NOT the most efficient way of progressing towards a Legendary. There other more efficient ways of doing that. This is basically a consolidation of tips that can be found around here for those who are interested to use dungeoning as one of the main means of getting a Legendary.

Glob of Ectoplasm: For the dungeons that have an equivalent or higher level cap than CoF (namely CoF, Hotw, CoE, Arah). You can find rare lvl70+ armors from the vendors in LA. The cheapest ones sell for 30 tokens and you can salvage them for ectos. For a fresh daily run for any of these dungeons, you are guaranteed to get 2 rares.

Precursors: For lower level cap dungeons like AC, you can save up tokens from these to buy weapons and drop them into the MF. Even if you don’t get a precursor, you can still get an exotic which can be sold on the TP. As such, it is advisable to try for the weapon class that can fetch the highest price on the TP. This creates different uses for high and low level cap dungeons.

Lodestones: For Legendaries that require Lodestones, look for the appropriate dungeons that drop them.

• TA : Onyx
• SE : Destroyer
• Hotw : Glacial / Corrupted
• CoF : Molten
• CoE: Charged
• Arah : Putrid Essences

In my experience, you can get an average ~1.5 core from a all paths clear of the respective dungeon and I estimate that I have gotten about 1 lodestone for every 10 cores.

Gold: Get to know which are the mini bosses/champs that drop guaranteed silvers and boost the silvers drop using gold find food like Omnom bars. Consume the food items just before the first boss dies to maxmize the duration.

Karma: You gain a set amount karma (assuming no DR effects) when you clear a path and you get about 3 drops of karma. If you have excess Karma Boosters and Guild Karma Buffs, consolidate your drops and apply the buffs before consumption.

Mystic Coins: Just want to bring to attention Fotm here. Fotm sends you to 3 or 4 different Fractuals with different enemy classes. Generally you can fulfill 8-10 different enemy classes and progress towards completing the Daily Achievement Requirement for Mystic Coins. For the normal dungeons, they have events within and you can fulfill the 5 events requirement just by running dungeons.

Moreover, Fotm can also be another source for lodestones/cores, eg Swamp gives Oynx etc. Jade Maw is another great level for lodestones/cores. The chest at the end can give different varieties of lodestones/cores. The Jade Colossi at the boss can drop Oynx Lodestones. I have gotten 2 from them with no magic find.

Thanks.

Just my 2c on lodestone: from experience corrupted lodestones (or lower tier equivalents) drop from anything corrupted by jormag so it is probably more likely to get from hotw mobs. Glacial lodestones come from ice elementals i think but I once got a corrupted lodestone from an ice elemental summoned in the grenth event in cursed shore o_O

I don’t think I have ever got any lodestones in Arah though, and I can’t relate any of them to risen

You get Piles of Putrid Essence etc from Arah, not any Lodestones afaik.

Thanks for the update. I edited in the info.

Don’t forget Charged cores/lodes from CoE (Crucible of Eternity)

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Only that the droprate of charged lodestones seems to be off in CoE (that’s why they’re so expensive). CoE itself is an easy dungeon, and not so long either, except for path 3. I onced farmed the dungeon 2 weeks, every day a few runs, without getting anything. And still I only get a core every 4-6 runs. I hope they’ll fix that soon.

You also get every type of core and lodestone from Fractals.

@SSalp: I guess our experience differs. I personally did some CoE runs and managed to get about 10 Charged Cores without actively looking for it.

@Stigma: Fotm was already mentioned. Seems like you skimmed through that part >.<

I have been farming charged lodestones from sparks for the last 3 weeks from 1-2h a day. On a normal average with 130-150 magic find gear I got around 1 charged lodestone an hour.

There is on the other hand times were im much more lucky and get more.
I have had 3 in 30 min once, but had to go due to IRL. 2 charged lodestones in 30 min occurs, and 2 pr hour happen enough to call it common.

the best luck I have had once during my 3 weeks of farming is 5 lodestones in 1h of farming. Its all rng, however, the drop rates from sparks is a lot better than CoE when you consider time spent.

The only problem with sparks in malchor and cursed shore is that you need to hold zephyr temple (dwayna). and ca 2h after captured it goes contested again since 99.9% of the time no one do the event that makes it go contested. During certain times of the day it can be very difficult to get enough ppl to do the dwayna temple chain. but doable with 3 people.

@Blackwolf: Firstly, I am aware of farming Charged Lodestones from sparks. However, this guide is meant to use Dungeons as the main means of getting components of Legendaries (which is why I am posting it in the Dungeon section). Secondly, with CoE you can farm Charged Cores/Lodestones concurrently with getting CoE tokens, and there are a few ways of utilizing those tokens as mentioned.