Guild Wars 2

So, I have a bit of an issue with the dungeon currency req for legendaries. As I understand it, dungeons are basically not a project you’re really supporting at this point. So here’s the thing: I need 500 shards of Zhaitan from Arah to complete Bifrost.

Finding a group for this is like pulling teeth because you get virtually nothing as a reward for a lengthy headache of a dungeon that only experienced players could ever hope to navigate in a reasonable amount of time.

Apparently, you receive 80 shards from completing this dungeon, but it takes forever and most groups never make it. The result is I can hours in this place (repeatedly!) and make next to no progress toward my goal because only a full clear provides a number of shards worth mentioning.

So, a simple request: Either support this content by providing appropriate rewards for a dungeon that takes a great deal of time and effort to complete, or change the requirements for legendary weapons to include fractal currencies or some other content that you do support.

You could play the PvP track for the respective dungeon.

if you have the dungeon exploration mode done you can do either the PvP or WvW reward tracks. Completion of a reward track gives you 120 dungeon tokens. If you hate PvP there are PvE friendly daily rooms to do the dailies in and WvW has EOTM, which is usually zergs running around in a circle.

Dungeons and other content need to bring back alive

11/10 totally agree!!
Give dungeons much better loot!
Make dungeons great again!!

you can do reward tracks, as mentioned above, or do the repeatable dungeon frequenter achievement (8 different paths anywhere – including story paths) and get the chest of dungeoneering, which gives 150 tokens of your choice.

Are you on a US or EU server? If you’re on EU I’d gladly do a few Arah runs with you. I’m not pro at that dungeon (especially not p4, but if you’re only in it for the tokens then I guess p4 isn’t what you’re looking for anyway ), but I do enjoy that dungeon very much, and it’s really not quite as difficult as people make it out to be.

I ran p3 with friends from my (very casual) guild just last week, and even though three out of 5 people were new to Arah explorable we got through smoothly. Once you have one or two people who can explain the encounters Arah is one of the (if not the) nicest dungeons in this game.

If all else fails you can always run other dungeons instead. 8 dungeon paths of your choice (including storymode) will give you a chest with 150 tokens from a dungeon of your choice, so at worst it’s 32 random dungeons to get the gift you need for your bifrost.

there is already a work around in place for this… if you do the dungeon achievement you get a box that allows you to choose 150 tokens of your choice from it after every 8th path you do… doesn’t matter the path, or how many times you repeat it, after 8 paths you get 150 of your choice. just do AC paths over and over, or COE… or COF… whatever floats your boat.

JaddynnStarr.5201:

there is already a work around in place for this… if you do the dungeon achievement you get a box that allows you to choose 150 tokens of your choice from it after every 8th path you do… doesn’t matter the path, or how many times you repeat it, after 8 paths you get 150 of your choice. just do AC paths over and over, or COE… or COF… whatever floats your boat.

Actually, those need to be different paths. Fortunately there are more than enough fast and simple dungeon paths around.

The rewards for dungeons are pretty good. It takes a week at most of running 1 path/day to earn 500 tokens. Among the reasons we don’t see many listings in LFG is that they get filled so quickly. Another is that with all the power creep from HoT, you don’t really need five people anymore.

If you start a group during reasonably popular hours I’m reasonably sure you won’t have trouble getting 3-4 more to run it with you.

Just finish the arah story mode, you will get pvp and wvw reward track unlocked. It is easy to solo the story dungeon. Play the wvw reward track like how you’ve played in wvw for gift of battle.

You can solo all by yourself.

Hey, besides completing the PvP and WvW tracks you can run 8 different dungeon paths daily to get Chest of Dungeoneering and chose the Bag of Shards of Zhaitan (150 shards) that’s about the same you get for completing 2 paths daily.

Dungeons I recommend to run daily:
Ascalonian Catacombs: All paths (path 2 might be a bit hard at the end with inexperienced players) and Story
Caudecus Manor: All paths if you have a thief that knows what he’s doing
Citadel of Flame: Path 1 and 2
Sorrow’s Embrace: Paths 1 and 3
Honor of the Waves: Path 1
Twilight Arbor: Up (easiest) and forward
Crucible of Eternity: All paths

(You will need to do this 4 days to get the 500 shards you need).

Also, as you might already know, paths 1 and 2 in Arah are the faster. Try to find experienced parties to run it daily (not parties with beginners trying to get the DM achievement) so you can get the shards faster.

Hope this helps.

If you think that getting 500 tokens for a legendary gift is hard I hope you don’t have any plans on finishing any of the dungeon collection achievements

Thanks for the info, guys. I didn’t know about the other options available, so at least there’s that. And I am on a NA server, for those who asked. So if you guys want to run one of these dungeons some time I’d definitely be down for that.