Guild Wars 2

I’ve been working steadily towards a legendary for about a year now (made the gift of mastery last july), and I’ve faced the problem of constantly switching which legendary I wanted, especially as I made and grew to main different characters. I main elementalist, but I also play mesmer as my original main and most often played alt, and I also dabble in necro from time to time and may roll a guardian in the future. My problem is that I can’t decide which of the two legendaries listed above that I should focus my efforts on, so I’m trying to see what other people advise. I’ll probably try to make them both one day, but I need to know which I should try to craft first.

Meteorlogicus: I think this scepter is by far the best looking in the game, and I planned on making it for some time before storm’s price increased by 5 times thanks to its visual update and the wardrobe change (which is sad because I liked it even before then, and should’ve tried to get the pre then, but I was poor and unfocused at the time). I occasionally use scepter on ele in LH might stacking builds in PvE (which is tough for me in PUGs) and I frequently use it in pvp/wvw roaming (staff for zergs) in a bursty fresh air set up. On mesmer I frequently play condition builds, either PU or lockdown, which use scepter and either torch or focus (focus for lockdown condition). On necro I don’t use scepter much since I usually go for power/wells, but if I roll a guardian I’d probably use scepter a lot as my primary ranged weapon. The drawbacks of making this weapon are that it costs almost twice as much as the minstrel, and I probably wouldn’t use it on my D/F ele builds that I run with in fractals (obviously lol) and for my power mesmer builds.

The Minstrel: I really do like the minstrel’s appearance even though its effects are more modest than most legendaries, the only thing I’m concerned about is that making it would feel more about instant gratification and less about the best possible end result. As mentioned before I use focus a lot in ele builds, as I run D/F in pve a lot and S/F in pvp a lot besides staff, and for mesmer, I know I could use focus in every single build other than PU, because its great as a general purpose mobility/utility weapon and and gives a lot of possibilities with lockdown. I also use focus in a lot of my chill and power necro builds and when I roll a guardian I’m sure I could use focus on a build.

Anyway, my concerns are about which of these I can afford in the near future, and which would see the most use. I feel like focus would see more use and would definetly be cheaper, whereas the scepter would be more expensive and probably used a bit less, but I like the skin a bit better. I only have 200 gold right now, and I’ve been flipping short/medium term items and I can usually get about 10 gold a day, maybe more as my wealth steadily increases. Any advice or suggestions on this matter would be greatly appreciated!

Minstrel is more useful.. since its used in meta for guard , mes , necro , ele and is cheap

Meteorlogicus.. is nice for ele.. but you are on hammer fgs or icebow most of the time… its good for solo guardian lupicus? and conditionmancer lol.. or maitrin mesmer… i made meteorlogicus but it was my 7° legendary.. so i didnt care much that it wasnt that useful and the new footsteps looks cool (bigger than my asura ele xd) and scepter is terrible for mesmer specially now that are the worst dps class..

Csele.1647:

Minstrel is more useful.. since its used in meta for guard , mes , necro , ele and is cheap

Meteorlogicus.. is nice for ele.. but you are on hammer fgs or icebow most of the time… its good for solo guardian lupicus? and conditionmancer lol.. or maitrin mesmer… i made meteorlogicus but it was my 7° legendary.. so i didnt care much that it wasnt that useful and the new footsteps looks cool (bigger than my asura ele xd) and scepter is terrible for mesmer specially now that are the worst dps class..

Thanks for your input. And yeah I only run scepter mesmer on condi builds for wvw/pvp. I rarely run mesmer in pve at all, I basically just use ele for all pve. So I guess in in terms of usability, the minstrel would see more use. Its just that meteorlogicus looks so kitten awesome :/

I’d rather make the sceptre. The focus skin looks horrible: barely any effects, really cheap looking texture. It doesn’t look like a legendary at all and IMO you’re better off with other focus skins.

Plus, a focus as a whole just doesn’t get much action as a weapon. It’s like a shield, you’d carry it around but it rarely gets used actively.

Having made the Minstrel and another Legendary, I would advise against Minstrel. You may get more use out of Minstrel but you won’t feel like your efforts are rewarded with something truly special. I’d rather take a stats hit and get a much cheaper and better looking exotic, if I had to do it over again.

I’d much rather have an AWESOME looking legendary item that I don’t use as much than a lame one that I use all the time.

Cost of Minstrel isn’t as high and I can see why that has a strong appeal, but, keep in mind everyone who sees you with Minstrel is going to say “ah, that sucks”.

neonreaper.4805:

Having made the Minstrel and another Legendary, I would advise against Minstrel. You may get more use out of Minstrel but you won’t feel like your efforts are rewarded with something truly special. I’d rather take a stats hit and get a much cheaper and better looking exotic, if I had to do it over again.

I’d much rather have an AWESOME looking legendary item that I don’t use as much than a lame one that I use all the time.

Cost of Minstrel isn’t as high and I can see why that has a strong appeal, but, keep in mind everyone who sees you with Minstrel is going to say “ah, that sucks”.

Thanks for the input. While I personally like the Minstrel, I do realize that it has a very poor reputation amongst the player community, and it sucks that I could get hate for that. And I’d say I really do love meteorlogicus even though I can’t use squeeze it onto as many builds as I could with a focus. So maybe you’ve convinced me to go for the scepter. I’d probably grind out the fractal focus skin as a counterpart for it….

Anyway for meteorlogicus. I don’t know where to begin to get that much gold. It worries me greatly, but it seems so worth it to me. If anyone has any advice on how to defray the cost of meteorlogicus, let me know (besides the typical run CoE erryday for cores/lodes).

nearlight.3064:

neonreaper.4805:

Having made the Minstrel and another Legendary, I would advise against Minstrel. You may get more use out of Minstrel but you won’t feel like your efforts are rewarded with something truly special. I’d rather take a stats hit and get a much cheaper and better looking exotic, if I had to do it over again.

I’d much rather have an AWESOME looking legendary item that I don’t use as much than a lame one that I use all the time.

Cost of Minstrel isn’t as high and I can see why that has a strong appeal, but, keep in mind everyone who sees you with Minstrel is going to say “ah, that sucks”.

Thanks for the input. While I personally like the Minstrel, I do realize that it has a very poor reputation amongst the player community, and it sucks that I could get hate for that. And I’d say I really do love meteorlogicus even though I can’t use squeeze it onto as many builds as I could with a focus. So maybe you’ve convinced me to go for the scepter. I’d probably grind out the fractal focus skin as a counterpart for it….

Anyway for meteorlogicus. I don’t know where to begin to get that much gold. It worries me greatly, but it seems so worth it to me. If anyone has any advice on how to defray the cost of meteorlogicus, let me know (besides the typical run CoE erryday for cores/lodes).

My only critic about Minstrel, it’s hard to make it match with other weapons. I am a Male Guardian so that might be the problem, it probably fit better on something like a Female Mesmer :P.

I would totally go for Meteorlogicus, the attention to detail make it a very nice Legendary, it’s a little overwhelming but nothing too bad.

I have both the Meteorlogicus & The Minstrel. They both looks good together

I had the precursors for both Meteorologicus and Minstrel at the same time. I ultimately went with the scepter, even though I rarely use scepter on any character, because I just think it’s a better-looking legendary. The Minstrel wasn’t given nearly enough love by the design team, and so it’s just not worth the cost (in my opinion).

However, in terms of usefulness, focus is the better option.

Yeah, after reading all of your posts, I realize that the only way I think the minstrel looks amazing is on a human female mesmer with the chaos of lyssa. Other than that, its a nice skin but just average at best.

So I will go for the meteorlogicus even though I won’t be able to use it on as many builds as with a focus. I just know that its going to be a much longer journey. My goal for a legendary is to get one by the end of the month. For someone with only 200 gold and all of his clovers/gift of mastery, 250 ectos and 90ish of each T6 mat, do you think this is a realistic goal?

If you can earn 60 gold a day then yes u can make it in 1 month.

Flash.6912:

If you can earn 60 gold a day then yes u can make it in 1 month.

Hmmm well that goal is a bit lofty to me. How would you suggest doing this? TP short/medium term flipping gives me 10-40 silver per item usually in the market I’ve been using, and I can flip anywhere from 10 to 100 items per day.

I guess speedrunning all the easy dungeons could generate a lot of this money, but because I’m busy in real life during the day, and I always try to run a fractal each day and run with my guild in wvw, my free time for explorable dungeons is limited.

If u have a delicated dungeons guild you can make 60g a day easy.

Flash.6912:

If u have a delicated dungeons guild you can make 60g a day easy.

Okay then, I guess I’ll look for one thats okay with very limited representation hahaha. Thanks for your input.

Minstrel and Meteorlogicus, I have and love them both. They are understated and beautiful.

Iris Ng.9845:

Minstrel and Meteorlogicus, I have and love them both. They are understated and beautiful.

That looks absolutely awesome!! And on a sidenote, my sylvari necro has pretty much the same armor as your mesmer! Except darker looking and I have the TA shoulders.

I know I definetly want to get both of them, I just need to get down to dungeon running like a maniac.