Guild Wars 2

I’m just curious – I’ve heard a lot of people say they either got lucky and had a precursor drop or refused to buy one on the TP or take a chance on the Mystic Forge so they kept farming likely places like boss chests until one dropped. Then they used it to make their legendary.

But as far as I know there is no way to control which precursor you get. It’s not that one boss drops Dusk and another Dawn and another The Lover etc. if you’re lucky enough to get one at all which one you get is random.

So I’m curious – did you get really, amazingly lucky and the precursor you got was the right one for the legendary you wanted? Did you just make whichever legendary you had a precursor for? Did you decide any drop counts, sell it and use the gold to buy the one you wanted?

Maybe they farmed their gold together to buy one or they got a precourser with enough worth to sell and buy the one they need.

Two people in my guild made the legendary they got the precursor for. One of them got the one they wanted – they were tossing thousands of daggers into the mystic forge and got it that way – and the other got the shortbow precursor in a drop and decided to just go for it, even though their ranger wasn’t their main.

I got Dusk in Cursed Shore when I was farming for tier 6 mats, sold it and bought Dawn. The price I sold it for was 670g and after the taxes I received 603g. Then I made an order for Dawn for 500g and got it. So I made a little over 100g there.

So yeah, people in my guild say I’m the luckiest guy ever. I got a precursor as a drop AND it was the most expensive one! Didn’t have to throw a single greatsword in the forge.

I got lucky. My first character was an engineer. He was the first guy I leveled to 80 and I love using the rifle. I got the Hunter as a precursor drop back during the karka event.

Admittedly I’m not sure if I had to pick one out of all of them that was the one I’d have picked, but since it dropped, it seemed like destiny. And I really do like the Predator after all so it worked out great.

This luck based obtaining of precursors is just so unfair really legendary experience…

I gave up on mine back in november and then spent all of my gold on exotics and t3 armor.

In March i was in HOTW p1 and i got Spark from the chest at the last boss. And i am one of those people that never got lucky. I had some mats left over from when i was aiming for The Juggernaut. And i thought hard about if i should sell Spark, and buy the Colossus, but i thought that since RNG gods gave me Spark, they probably wanted me to make Incinerator too.

So i made the dagger.

I can’t really say if i am happy or not after completing it. The only reason i wanted a legendary in the first place was because of the badge on the log in screen. I am glad, and relieved that i have the achievement, but its so not worth the effort and gold, to have a weapon with a tacky particle effect. That’s just my opinion though, i am sure other people love their legendary skins.

I will probably not make another one unless they make it a journey rather than a farm fest mixed with luck.

I went the Mystic Forge route and I wanted either Twilight or Sunrise. So I put in 4 80 exotic greatswords on my second attempt and received Dusk. You can control which type of legendary you get through the Mystic Forge but if you go out in the open world to loot one, it’ll be completely random.

I got the Energizer from the forge this week from throwing in 4 random rares. Sold it since I’m not interested in making The Moot and going to use the proceeds towards the one I want.

had the dusk drop while grindg an orr mob for t6 mats. wasn’t the precursor i needed but after it sold it ended my hunt for the legendary quip.

orginally i was going to do the epic world bosses/MF route and completely ignore grinding money for the tp unless i got a different precursor ( which just happened to be the case)