Guild Wars 2

I’ve decided to make some Celestial Ascended armor for my Elementalist, but it requires about 1500 dragonite ore for a full set. I know that capturing temples is the best way to currently get them (30 Ore per Temple Per Day Per char… Correct me if I’m wrong?) I also know that there are websites that you can go to, to see exactly what temples we are attacking.
But I wanted to see more in general, what servers have organized trains/groups that run temples on a daily basis that I can guest over to.

Also if you know a better way to get some dragonite ore, let me know

Edit: Also i thought i put this in the Players Helping Players section, srry if its in the wrong spot :P

gw2stuff.com

all of those events give dragonite ore.

6 Stacks in bank from WvW.

Nick.6972:

6 Stacks in bank from WvW.

Yea sadly i took a break from GW2 during season 1… so i didnt get much

gw2stuff.com

Using that site and guesting, I can hit all the temples usually 2 to 3 times a day with multiple characters. (they dont all get bonus chests obviously, but main chest is repeatable)

Pro-tip:

-Utilize guesting to maximize the number of temples/bosses you can do
-Utilize all characters so you can get the boss chest.

Yaks Bend has a world boss train that starts pretty close to server reset. It will run through all the world boss and temple as they come available. I normally jump on it every once in a while to build up some dragonite. I did it last night and ended up with 160 dragonite ore in about 35mins, not to bad. I did the Karka Queen, Dwayna, Lyssa, Grenth, Fire Shaman, and kitten. Then I went off doing my own thing. Now the order of events doesn’t go in the same order, but the train always starts at the karka queen a little before reset.

Yes, find if your server as some world boss train (most have), if not ask around for one that has, guest there, join the guild that runs it if any (usually very large, open guilds), so you can quickly see where they are from guild panel. It’s fast and provides many ectos and mats on top of dragonite ore.

If your cashed up heavily on gold, one option is to buy giant wintersday gifts. The return of dragonite isn’t excellent, but you will get some amounts faster and get some of your gold back from what you purchase. Throw in some temple farming and it will speed up the acquisition alot. This is what I have been doing.

The giant wintersday gifts have a chance to drop dragonite Ore of either 1 or 50. Its the 50s you really want but the 1s still add up. I only have a small sample size of around 4000 gifts, but it appears I am getting around 120 dragonite per 1000 gifts. Current buy price is around 1s 68c for a gift so 16.8g for 120 dragonite but you get a reasonable amount back, particularly if you get alot of the back recipes. And you also get alot of essence of luck and materials etc.

As I said, its only if you really want to speed up the process and you have alot of gold. You will make a loss and RNG plays a factor on just how much you lose and I haven’t got a reasonable sample size to give accurate figures on how much you will lose. But for me it felt worth it.

nirvana.8245:

If your cashed up heavily on gold, one option is to buy giant wintersday gifts. The return of dragonite isn’t excellent, but you will get some amounts faster and get some of your gold back from what you purchase. Throw in some temple farming and it will speed up the acquisition alot. This is what I have been doing.

The giant wintersday gifts have a chance to drop dragonite Ore of either 1 or 50. Its the 50s you really want but the 1s still add up. I only have a small sample size of around 4000 gifts, but it appears I am getting around 120 dragonite per 1000 gifts. Current buy price is around 1s 68c for a gift so 16.8g for 120 dragonite but you get a reasonable amount back, particularly if you get alot of the back recipes. And you also get alot of essence of luck and materials etc.

As I said, its only if you really want to speed up the process and you have alot of gold. You will make a loss and RNG plays a factor on just how much you lose and I haven’t got a reasonable sample size to give accurate figures on how much you will lose. But for me it felt worth it.

Thanks i didnt think of that. I got both the ascended back pieces from the gifts by opening less than 100 of them (totaL)when the event started.. so hopefully i will have much better luck than you have