Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I mentioned this on the WvW subforum and got zero replies. (well useful ones that is). This question is more about the limiting factors to craft a legendary than it is about WvW

My question is simple. Are the rates at which Memories of Battle drop severely limited now, forcing more of us players to do WvW?

I haven’t done WvW for over a year and I know that Memories of battle were part of the Rank-up chests. If I understand things correctly, they no longer drop from those and are only rewarded by their new WvW reward track (15/track). I have no previous experience with those so I would estimate that their drop rate is severely limited now in comparison, since it’s so easy to rank-up in WvW. Heck, even looking at the history of Memories of Battle on the TP, there’s been a sharp increase in value since spring patch

In fact if you can only get a Gift of Battle from the reward track once they are out of beta, and if reward tracks are slow to advance in, there would be another limiting factor. This one wouldn’t be as an issue though.

I could be making mountains out of mole-hills, which is why I am asking for input. My issue is that WvW is slow and boring. I don’t look forward to going there and following a commander run circles, chasing his tail while avoiding the big enemy blob. Same for EotM, so far since I’ve started playing again, we are always outnumbered and no real commanders on map. I’m on a good server, but I think my prime time is not their prime time if you know what I mean.

[TL:DR] So do you think that the new drop rates for Memories of Battle will be of great impact on crafting legendaries in the future? Not future legendaries, just those of us who decide to craft later on? If so, wouldn’t it make more sense to have them drop from daily WvW chests like Shards of Glory since they are mirror currencies for different game modes?

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The buy orders for Memory of Battle are 2silver10copper right as I type this. Go harvest some nodes and you’ll be able to buy what you need if you don’t want to do WvW.

https://www.gw2tp.com/item/71581-memory-of-battle

You can buy Memories of Battle off the TP. They’re also only used for the HoT legendaries and precursor collections.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

The buy orders for Memory of Battle are 2silver10copper right as I type this. Go harvest some nodes and you’ll be able to buy what you need if you don’t want to do WvW.

https://www.gw2tp.com/item/71581-memory-of-battle

Yep, I bought some yesterday to fill out what I needed for crafting. I believe you can get 100 (?) for less than 1 gold. Dirt cheap!

No, because buying 250 memories is currently 6.25g. That is negligible for anyone making a legendary since there are far higher costs involved. That’s 3-4 dailies.

Legendary crafting cost around 1100g +exotic wep.
100-1200g … depends on your luck with mystic clovers, and how long time do you have to make low offers and acctually get something for it.

I crafted 5 legendary weapons so far, and I always sold them on TP, just because I don’t wanna pay so much money for simple skin. That way I got around 1,2-1,5k gold profit for each one of them that I crafted … more than enough to get myself all ascend gear + weapons etc.

If you are one of those “I refuse to buy anything”, you always have the ability to run around in EotM to collect them.

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I could be making mountains out of mole-hills, which is why I am asking for input. My issue is that WvW is slow and boring. I don’t look forward to going there and following a commander run circles, chasing his tail while avoiding the big enemy blob. Same for EotM, so far since I’ve started playing again, we are always outnumbered and no real commanders on map. I’m on a good server, but I think my prime time is not their prime time if you know what I mean.
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That isn’t how EotM works by the way. It’s not just your server. It’s every server who is that colour for the week.