Guild Wars 2

and have been put off for it by the price of precusors, the trident kraitkin is now down to about 18 gold on the marketplace. That’s the lowest I’ve seen it.

I know it’s an underwater weapon and as such you can’t take it out in LA, but I think it’s awesome looking anyway (and yes I’m going for one). Though when I bought the precusor it was 29 gold.

At any rate, if you just want the achievement or you want that blank space off your load screen, this is an option.

You still have a lot of mats you’ll need and dungeon runs and badges of honor and the rest, but for many, the precusor is the sticking point.

I rather have a legendary that counts. Not something that I will only use for the underwater fractal at most. But for those who just want the achievement, this one is by far the cheapest pre cursor (Venom)

Also dont forget all those other mats you will be using are expensive. They are not cheap and its not vaiable to farm them all over again just for a 2nd legendary.

The new weapons being introduced via tickets are becoming more detailed than the majority of the legendaries right now.

This might be the only appealing weapon if you aren’t interested in the common legendaries you see everywhere.

I don’t care whether other people are impressed or not. I sold Dusk, and have Flame of Rodgort and Venom banked so I can work towards making either/both Rodgort and Kraitkin. I bought a bank tab and character slot, gave some gold to my wife, and still have a couple hundred left for other things. Not a bad deal for a lucky RNG drop.

If something I like better comes along, I haven’t equipped either precursor so I can sell them at a later date if I choose not to go for the legendary version.

Mustafa.7684:

I rather have a legendary that counts. Not something that I will only use for the underwater fractal at most. But for those who just want the achievement, this one is by far the cheapest pre cursor (Venom)

Also dont forget all those other mats you will be using are expensive. They are not cheap and its not vaiable to farm them all over again just for a 2nd legendary.

Depends on what you like. What else would I do with the gold I’m making? Bet on Moa races?

I don’t really need gold that much. I’m quite happy to play the game, get mats very slow, get gold for doing what I do and when I have enough get the mats. It’s just my style of play. It doesn’t matter if it takes me a year to get it or not. I already have the dungeon tokens. I’m still working on badges of honor (and I got those slowly too).

In the end, I’m getting kraitkin because I absolutely love the way it looks. I don’t mind if it’s an underwater weapon. I’ll make it my business to farm for my armored scales if nothing else.

I actually like underwater combat and can spend quite a bit of time underwater. Having a really cool looking weapon doesn’t hurt me in any way.

why buy precursors when you’ll be able to get them for free in the scavenger hunt?

Shadow Blade.1324:

why buy precursors when you’ll be able to get them for free in the scavenger hunt?

Because 29 gold wasn’t that much money to me, and there’ll still be plenty of quests I can do for OTHER precusors that are more expensive. I’d finished working on The Predator, I already has all my mystic clovers and all the dungeon tokens, so why shouldn’t I buy it? Is 29 gold so much that it isn’t worth getting sooner?

Those quests might not be out till later this year. Maybe next year. I’ll have it before those quests come out.

Remember, even with the precusor you’ll need a godawful amount of other stuff, so if I have this to work towards (or save towards, because I don’t really work for it) before the quests come out, it’s money well spent.

Vayne.8563:

Remember, even with the precusor you’ll need a godawful amount of other stuff, so if I have this to work towards (or save towards, because I don’t really work for it) before the quests come out, it’s money well spent.

but is it? you could put that gold toward all those other things, you aren’t getting a gift of might or magic through farming these days, and if they continue the current trend that likelihood grows ridiculously small, where as you are guaranteed a precursor through the scavenger hunt and guaranteed a price drop as people sell precursors obtained through the hunt

Shadow Blade.1324:

Vayne.8563:

Remember, even with the precusor you’ll need a godawful amount of other stuff, so if I have this to work towards (or save towards, because I don’t really work for it) before the quests come out, it’s money well spent.

but is it? you could put that gold toward all those other things, you aren’t getting a gift of might or magic through farming these days, and if they continue the current trend that likelihood grows ridiculously small, where as you are guaranteed a precursor through the scavenger hunt and guaranteed a price drop as people sell precursors obtained through the hunt

I get plenty of T5 mats and with the price of dust dropping (or easily farmed by salvaging ectos) I can convert for what I need for legendaries.

As I said, when the scavenger hunt drops I can work on other weapons. I thoroughly suspect I’ll be finished with kraitkin and working on my third legendary before the scavenger hunt comes out.

Also, I’d stop calling it a scavenger hunt, because it’ll probably not be in the true sense of the word. The associate with that image might end up disappointed a lot of people.

In my opinion, underwater legendaries are not worth it. Even if the precursor is cheap, there are plenty of items you still need, to make a weapon which you don’t see it 90% of the time.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Kraitkin

Look at how much mats is needed for gift of kraitkin.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_of_Energy
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Eel_Statue
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_of_the_Forgeman

Vayne.8563:

and have been put off for it by the price of precusors, the trident you need for kraitkin is now down to about 18 gold on the marketplace. That’s the lowest I’ve seen it.

Fixed. For a moment I thought “wait, the legendary is sold for 18 gold? o_O” xD.

Precursor is the lowest cost of a legendary – even the 500g ones.

Vayne.8563:

Also, I’d stop calling it a scavenger hunt, because it’ll probably not be in the true sense of the word. The associate with that image might end up disappointed a lot of people.

I have a whole barrel of popcorn set aside for the “you promised us a scavenger hunt!” threads.

I’ve had everything for a legendary minus the precursor for a while now. I also had the means to buy any of the ones off the tp, but that’s completely irrelevant to me. For one of the pinnacle achievements in the game, I should not have to buy it off the tp or have to rely on luck. There already is an achievement for gold, heck there are several (golden, the emperor, mini collector, etc). As for luck…..well I don’t want to even think about how many I could have bought if I sold everything I have thrown in to the mystic toilet or how many event chests I have opened.

Basically the whole deal is, for lack of better words, “bogus”. It’s much like getting a degree via a checkbook or random lottery versus actually having to take the classes and pass them.

There is not much about them in their current state that appeals to me except that they are tied to an achievement and a medal. Hopefully in the future they will release ones that cannot be more easily had by simply standing in LA playing the tp or repetitive grind such as CoF P1.

Shadow Blade.1324:

why buy precursors when you’ll be able to get them for free in the scavenger hunt?

Because some people want them now. I really doubt the scavenger hunt will even be released in 2013 anyways. In 6 months you could easily get the gold to buy even the 600g precursors. Just depends how bad you want your legendary.

Shadow Blade.1324:

why buy precursors when you’ll be able to get them for free in the scavenger hunt?

Because we have no idea what the actual system will involve, only that it will require visiting nearly every part of the game and will eventually lead to a precursor weapon. I suspect it’s something like a modified form of the “Gift of …” that requires a variety of activities and produces a ticket for a weapon you can redeem with the new vendor who stands near the Black Lion Traders. Or maybe you get a random precursor and it might not be the one you want. Or the new Legendaries (if they make new ones) might not be interesting enough to go after. It might take so long to put into place that you already have two or three Legendaries before this even happens.

Any number of reasons.

Part of the fun of a Legendary is showing it off. And you can’t really do that with the underwater weapons. Which is a shame since I find the trident to be the best looking legendary in the game.

tolunart.2095:

Shadow Blade.1324:

why buy precursors when you’ll be able to get them for free in the scavenger hunt?

Because we have no idea what the actual system will involve, only that it will require visiting nearly every part of the game and will eventually lead to a precursor weapon. I suspect it’s something like a modified form of the “Gift of …” that requires a variety of activities and produces a ticket for a weapon you can redeem with the new vendor who stands near the Black Lion Traders. Or maybe you get a random precursor and it might not be the one you want. Or the new Legendaries (if they make new ones) might not be interesting enough to go after. It might take so long to put into place that you already have two or three Legendaries before this even happens.

Any number of reasons.

Or that there will ever even be a scavenger hunt.