Few Questions from an old player
Short and sweet:
1. Silverwastes can be a very good way to get gold and mats. This guide on reddit should help explain the mechanics:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2tgy37/essential_guide_to_the_silverwastes/cnyy51s
2. Dungeons are a great way to quickly earn gold. Not much there has changed.
3. For build suggestions, I usually turn to:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki or
http://intothemists.com/
Hope that helps!
well… for the silver wastes… i highly suggest to use the LFG tool to taxi into a populated map. You basically “farm” by defending the outposts what gives you bandit crests that are a new form of currency you can trade in for keys to open burried chests…that get unearthed with shovels that you get via rng by doing map objectives that include like mentioned before defending the outposts from mordrem protecting supply caravans from mordrem and gathering rubble to repair damage on the outposts between the attacking weaves. Eventually a breach happens that results in 4 different boss battles that will give you one guaranteed rare item if defeated…and more if all 4 bosses are defeated including a nightmare key.. later more on that. After the breach… regardless if all bosses went down or not a form of world boss happens…called the vinewrath. Its really similar to the marionette. Defending lanes while other teams try to defeat champions before the vinewrath. If this event is successfull you will get 4 guaranteed bandid chests and a world boss chest including another nightmare key. After the wrath several other activities open up. One beeing a pac man like maze with a very high chance to get good loot, especially from the big chest in the center that opens as many times as you got nightmare keys to open it. Said keys also can be made by combining 25 nightmare essences and a bandit key that gets usually used to open the unearthed chests. Besides the maze there also is a champion train going on that works like any other…and a chest farm where people bunch together with their shovels and keys and farm the map for said chests. To sum it up:
- By doing breaches and completing them you get guaranteed rare items
- Each unearthed chest gives you one guaranteed champion bag
- The maze got a high chance of giving champion bags on smaller chests
- aswell usually 4 or more champion bags on the big chest
- SW champions drop a bag like usual
- the vinewrath drops if defeated 4 champ bags and whatever is in the world boss chest
- also there is a chance to get rares and exotics by just doing events.. but its rare
Also the organs are meant for collections to get access to a set of prestige armor skins
with blue glow effect. You can also get “non glowing” pieces of that armors from the vinewrath and buy pieces that come in boxes with crests you earn.
As for dungeons… yes people still do them and they are still profitable
As for the guide….i am too stupid to play mesmer so im not much of a help there.. sorry man lol