Guild Wars 2

Rambodacious.7495:

Now, I will inevitably receive responses saying “don’t have to have a legendary to play the game.” My response is up at the very top. I’ve done everything else this game has to offer in PvE. Map completion, all dungeons, my personal story, fractals out the wazzoo, etc. Creating a legendary is all I had left. However, given my limited playtime, it would appear that my gold grind to acquire the weapon, may very well be infinite, or so close to infinite as it being not worth it to continue playing.

What are other people’s thoughts?

You can wait for the 28th and start doing the new daily/monthly to get Laurels then exchange them for the Ascended Amulets/Rings. You can try leveling your Fractal level up, I think the limit is around 80, but it is “doable” up to 40, I don’t think you can get higher without using “questionable” tactics. With the Ascended Amulets you should be able to get higher.

So yeah there should still be something for you to do in PVE.

Other than that, wait for one of the new releases I guess. They will add more content with them, there is a good reason to come back when they do.

Checking the old dungeons after their “make up” is another option

I did the math on this in “Unattainable Goals 2” thread.

If I “just play the game” the way anet wants me to, it will take as long as 16 years (if i’m generous enough to DOUBLE my drop rate on lodestones, it’s 8 years) to get one of these worth-while weapons (legendaries are a subset of these).

My math, Plasma, says you are farming 2mins a day to stretch 100 Lodestones out that long. Though I was assuming Lodestones drop roughly half as often as many report them to currently.

Gisei.5749:

My math, Plasma, says you are farming 2mins a day to stretch 100 Lodestones out that long. Though I was assuming Lodestones drop roughly half as often as many report them to currently.

My playtime is about 8-9 hours a week in 4-5 hour blocks.

I make about 20 gold a week doing nothing but casual play of few hours a day… let’s say about 20 hours per week.
So it would take me about 19 months of that to get that amount of gold, for the op with 8 hours per week that would be 8g/week = 47months or roughly 4 years.

So yeah, you can’t get that kind of money just by playing the game.
My suggestions for your available time would be to flip the TP, you can make ton more gold that way than through usual PvE.

Oh and by the way, in case you are wondering why ANet has set the requirement so high – it is because they expected players to band together to get that gear fast for each other. A guild dedicated to decking out their members with legendary weapons is much more efficient at it than people going solo… basically it was never meant to be a solo undertaking.

Even with that they seem to have underestimated the players, since they were surprised how quickly some managed to get their hands on a legendary weapon.

Gaudrath.6725:

I make about 20 gold a week doing nothing but casual play of few hours a day… let’s say about 20 hours per week.
So it would take me about 19 months of that to get that amount of gold, for the op with 8 hours per week that would be 8g/week = 47months or roughly 4 years.

So yeah, you can’t get that kind of money just by playing the game.
My suggestions for your available time would be to flip the TP, you can make ton more gold that way than through usual PvE.

If I wanted an experience similar to GW2spidy, there are plenty of online communities dedicated to fantasy-wall street.

I created this game to explore the world, slay dragons, and perhaps slay fellow players, and that’s the point of this thread.

Rambodacious.7495:

However, given my limited playtime, it would appear that my gold grind to acquire the weapon, may very well be infinite, or so close to infinite as it being not worth it to continue playing.

What are other people’s thoughts?

Well, this is your problem, I mean, our problem. It’s not the grind, it’s our limited playtime. The requirement for getting a Legendary is hard (No, I’m not complaining. I’m merely stating the obvious and I agree that it should remain that way) and too many for players like us with limited time to play.

Well, in this game, we get what we worked for. Play a couple of hours, you get greens. Play some more, you get exotics.

I would suggest that if you can farm the items, farm them. Buy them only if you are really close and/or there is no other choice.