Guild Wars 2

Hi all,
I’m getting to the point with my mesmer where I want to give her Twilight. A friend of mine is currently trying to make twilight but he has spent heaps of time and what seems like a lot of gold so my question is, what is the price difference between making Twilight and buying it outright?

Thanks

Buying is more gold expensive.
For crafting you need some stuff that might be annoying at some point (like 100% map completion).

So currently best way should be that you craft it and get everything for it. Only thing I would suggest for twilight specially: Don’t do the dusk precursor collection, just buy it from tp. That will save you much time and gold.

Exactly what he said craft the gift of mastery and fortune as well as the weapon gift.

Crafting the pre literally doesn’t surpass simply buying it of the TP for every aspect the only reason to do so is because you desire to do so.

Precrafting was made in a way to equal the amount of gold the item costs on the TP in a way such that the difference might just be 50-100g however many Pres have dropped below that mark. From a gold perspective most are now cheaper.

From a time perspective you can spend time farming mats from a specific mob on a specific map or you can just do whatever you like doing to farm gold because gold comes in from just about everything. Some pre’s come with 40 days of time gated mats and in 40 days most people can farm enough gold to buy a couple of pre’s if they really dedicated. Where some one who was really dedicated at crafting is gated the gold farmer is not and thus the term fun can be used.

Mats the pre’s use way to much mats and it seems there purpose was to drain mats from the economy. If someone tells you to farm the mats or they already have the mats on hand so it’s cheaper don’t listen to them. It’s a pre not a legendary a mere exotic level component. Those who have tossed months of time gated mats at there pre won’t be able to use those mats for legendary armor or backpack items and other actual legendary items. Pre’s are an exotic that drain mats in the econ for upcoming crafting items we had Nightfury recently and upcoming armor and precrafting has kept the mat cost up so these things will be more expensive for everyone.

RNG is RNG and there is RNG in precrafting there isn’t any RNG in buying or farming for gold other than the pre simple not being in the TP. Compared to the mystic toilet the drop rates for pre crafting that require RNG is higher however they require many more instances of RNG it isn’t a single drop or even a single item like in the Mystic Forge.

So yeah don’t craft the Pre the skins are suppose to retroactively unlock also though I don’t see the point as no one is going to use the pre step skins once they actually get the legendary so there wasted skins really. Sort of like Bladed backpack or Mawdrey but people won’t use the lower tier due to stats compared to ascended.