Guild Wars 2

Hey,

So I am able to buy the sinister insignias in SW but when it comes to finding/purchasing the recipe to make sinister gear using the insignia; where do you get that!? I bought an ascended shoulders recipe from the laurel merchant and verata’s gear wasn’t one of the options.

Any help is appreciated

Not sure exactly what you’re asking, but if you’re looking for the recipes for making verata’s sword or chest armor (for example), you can buy those on the TP for really cheap.

The alternative is to farm SW for them to drop, but the drop rates are really really low — trust me, I did exactly that until I discovered they weren’t accountbound (I never got any verata recipe to drop, by the way)

Thats perfect! Thank you

Tyriun.2986:

Hey,

So I am able to buy the sinister insignias in SW but when it comes to finding/purchasing the recipe to make sinister gear using the insignia; where do you get that!? I bought an ascended shoulders recipe from the laurel merchant and verata’s gear wasn’t one of the options.

Any help is appreciated

I got mine from the TP. The RNG is a bit iffy on Verata.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Verata%27s_Armor_Recipe_Book

Alot of those recipes on the tp got bought out a couple of days ago, though, so some listings are quite high. I would suggest putting in some buy orders.

CureForLiving.5360:

Tyriun.2986:

Hey,

So I am able to buy the sinister insignias in SW but when it comes to finding/purchasing the recipe to make sinister gear using the insignia; where do you get that!? I bought an ascended shoulders recipe from the laurel merchant and verata’s gear wasn’t one of the options.

Any help is appreciated

I got mine from the TP. The RNG is a bit iffy on Verata.

I have to disagree on the RNG part because I think ANet did a good job there.
The fact that you can choose which recipe you want from the recipe books means you only need to farm 6 of the books. If they dropped as regular recipes, like Ventari recipes in Dry Top, your chances to get the 6 recipes for your armor class in your first 6 drops is significantly lower.

It also is a little safeguard to make buy outs of certain recipes less efficient.
If I buy out a single verata recipe, supplies can be replenished by any player that gets a recipe book, if i buy out a ventari recipe, its supplies can only be replenished by every 18th drop of a recipe (assuming their drop rate is equal).

Wanze.8410:

CureForLiving.5360:

Tyriun.2986:

Hey,

So I am able to buy the sinister insignias in SW but when it comes to finding/purchasing the recipe to make sinister gear using the insignia; where do you get that!? I bought an ascended shoulders recipe from the laurel merchant and verata’s gear wasn’t one of the options.

Any help is appreciated

I got mine from the TP. The RNG is a bit iffy on Verata.

I have to disagree on the RNG part because I think ANet did a good job there.
The fact that you can choose which recipe you want from the recipe books means you only need to farm 6 of the books. If they dropped as regular recipes, like Ventari recipes in Dry Top, your chances to get the 6 recipes for your armor class in your first 6 drops is significantly lower.

It also is a little safeguard to make buy outs of certain recipes less efficient.
If I buy out a single verata recipe, supplies can be replenished by any player that gets a recipe book, if i buy out a ventari recipe, its supplies can only be replenished by every 18th drop of a recipe (assuming their drop rate is equal).

Having joined several SW chest-trains, and having opened literally hundreds of chest and only getting about 3 receipts. Well your mileage my vary, but in my case the RNG was very iffy.

CureForLiving.5360:

Wanze.8410:

CureForLiving.5360:

Tyriun.2986:

Hey,

So I am able to buy the sinister insignias in SW but when it comes to finding/purchasing the recipe to make sinister gear using the insignia; where do you get that!? I bought an ascended shoulders recipe from the laurel merchant and verata’s gear wasn’t one of the options.

Any help is appreciated

I got mine from the TP. The RNG is a bit iffy on Verata.

I have to disagree on the RNG part because I think ANet did a good job there.
The fact that you can choose which recipe you want from the recipe books means you only need to farm 6 of the books. If they dropped as regular recipes, like Ventari recipes in Dry Top, your chances to get the 6 recipes for your armor class in your first 6 drops is significantly lower.

It also is a little safeguard to make buy outs of certain recipes less efficient.
If I buy out a single verata recipe, supplies can be replenished by any player that gets a recipe book, if i buy out a ventari recipe, its supplies can only be replenished by every 18th drop of a recipe (assuming their drop rate is equal).

Having joined several SW chest-trains, and having opened literally hundreds of chest and only getting about 3 receipts. Well your mileage my vary, but in my case the RNG was very iffy.

And rightly so. Why do you expect good loot to drop from a chest that only requires you to press f to open it, after someone else discovered it?
The underground bosses during the breach have a significantly higher droprate of the books compared to chests.

Sinister is a condition armor, synergizing with Rabid for Toughness. The closest backitem is rampager or rabid.

I run Sinister on 4 of my characters for mostly PVE purposes, and for WvW I tend to replace some armor pieces and or trinkets with Rabid and or Dire

sinister(/rabid) PU condi Mesmer
sinister(/rabid) S/S & LB warrior
sinister(/rabid) A/? Ranger
sinister(/rabid) terror hybrid necro.

when full sinister all these builds will do good damage, BUT most condition based weapons scale horribly with power. Might is an obvious benefit to all the builds as are warrior power/ condition banners.

Wanze.8410:

And rightly so. Why do you expect good loot to drop from a chest that only requires you to press f to open it, after someone else discovered it?

I never expected good loot from the chests, in fact if you look at my posts you’ll see that I expect very much the opposite.

Wanze.8410:

The underground bosses during the breach have a significantly higher droprate of the books compared to chests.

Thanks for the information I guess.