Guild Wars 2

Random tips and tricks (not exploits) that I like to share with people to play smarter and efficiently. Please feel free to share your tips

1.) Going for a precursor through the mystic forge route?
Don’t forge anything other than greatswords. Dusk/Dawn have a high selling price, so if you do end up with one, you can sell it for a ton, buy your other cheap precursor and still have money left to spend. This of course doesn’t apply if you buy your rares on the TP, but crafting them yourself is the cheapest way to go.

2.) Arah Assault
On the second to last stage when clearing Arah, you need to keep the promenade clear of mobs and cap it. As soon as you kill the champion risen giant in the previous stage, you need to get to the promenade stairs quickly so you can stop the eye at the top of the stairs. This will force himself to attack you and will not enter the ring. You do not need to kill him and risk wiping. Just tag him when it’s nearly over. You will still get loot.

3.) Tequatl
He fears frequently, every 1 minute or so. If you are lazy and don’t like walking back all the time, toggle walk. Whenever you are feared, you are feared at a walking pace instead. Also, if you are a ranged player, standing near his sides and behind him is generally the safest spot.

4.) Going for a legendary?
Leave the precursor to be the last item you get and instead invest your money in the other materials – t6, globs and lodestones.

We already know that a new way of acquiring precursors will be introduced (we just don’t know when). But when it is, we know that it will increase the supply to the point of lower prices (don’t give me the excuse that the lost shores didn’t do that, it was a one time supply increase anyways).
People still seem to think that the precursor is the most expensive component, but really it’s not. This current mindset will push the prices of t6, globs and lodestones up since it would give players new found ‘hope’ to completing their legendary. You can avoid that by buying everything now. It’s also a good investment opportunity considering t6 prices are at a low once again and globs prices have stabilized at equilibrium

5.) Claw of Jormag
You don’t need to keep attacking him whenever you get the chance – it’s real easy to get a gold medal for killing him. In the first phase when he is on the hill, you should make the elementals a priority. They can drop many claws as well as lodestones. You won’t get another opportunity to have many elementals packed together. When it’s on the 2nd phase, that is a good time to start beating on him

Also, if Claw is still on the 1st phase and his health drops below 50%, don’t waste your time. His HP always resets back to 50% in the 2nd phase.

6.) Crusader Angaria @ Anchorage
The event is one of three pre-events for Arah Assault. It is also the best event in Orr that everyone should go to when it’s available. This event is currently bugged, which is why it’s so good. You have 8-12 mobs that spawn very frequently (often in 3 second intervals between waves) and the loot is excellent (unlike Halia Corpseflayer). Often I see people finishing up the Dexa collection quest (scrap metal) when all it takes is 1-3 scrap metal collections to get gold. Should I also mention that you can get up to 7 minutes of constant farming?

7.) Anchorage Elemental farm
If you want money, and if you can convince people to work with you, farming Anchorage Assault is one of the most profitable (and deadly) events. The fire elemental farm rate is fast and can drop the most valuable of gems. Of course, the lava fonts are deadly and as such, you need to be ranged. When it fails, the event respawn is roughly 15 minutes.

8.) Halia Corpseflayer
This event pops up as a preevent to Anchorage Assault. Constant waves at a theoretical unlimited timeframe. The event ends when Halia is defeated. I’ve had it run for an hour. This event is not designed for loot – the loot is very bad for some reason. But it is great for getting exp. If you have a character that is not level 80, you need to pop an exp potion and a killstreak potion and head over there and hope it lasts long. Great for exp.