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Posted by: Karizee.8076

Karizee.8076

Got mine from the Mystic Forge. My friend got his from Twilight Arbor.

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Posted by: Obsidian.1328

Obsidian.1328

Averaging probably 5-6 hours a day since launch…never seen one precursor. :-(

Obsidian Sky – SoR
I troll because I care

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Posted by: Inculpatus cedo.9234

Inculpatus cedo.9234

Dusk – a couple of months ago – dropped off a level 6 raptor hatchling in Metrica – ~1000 hours played – no special gear or anything, I might have been using some kind of food, but probably not

The Energizer – from the Karka event in November of last year

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Posted by: RainbowSyrup.4130

RainbowSyrup.4130

Leaf of Kudzu
Random drop off mob in Straits of Devastation

Dawn
Bought from TP

The Colossus
Bought from TP

time played: 3062hrs over the past 391 days.

’’I’m sad hanar can’t wear sweaters’’
-Grunt

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Posted by: Orangensaft.7139

Orangensaft.7139

2x from Trading Post (colossus and dusk)
no drop so far

i hate RNG and RNG hates me

We Glitched Out Of All [MAPS]
26x lvl 80 Characters
Most fabulous Character: http://i.imgur.com/5JtcBI1.jpg?1

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Posted by: HELLruler.4820

HELLruler.4820

Dusk
Some hours after the Crown Pavilion was released (got it there killing a boss)
About 800 hours

That sucks so much. Played a lot, getting a precursor is still totally luck based, and I got one I don’t want – it’d be nice to have Twilight, but it’s not enough to make me complete the map lol – gave it to a friend

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Posted by: Dresden.1736

Dresden.1736

Spark
Mystic Toilet
About 150g in rares, and nothing. Got fed up, threw 32g in Exos, and got it. About 3 months ago.

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Posted by: Sandrox.9524

Sandrox.9524

Just for the sake of comparison:
Zap
TP
300g,1 year ago?
Spark
TP
1200g,today :|

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Posted by: Lady Deedra.3126

Lady Deedra.3126

LOL forged every single one of mine. Too many to list.

Skjold Pjod
I am “That” guy you have all heard about.
1,073 precursors forged and counting.

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Posted by: Erick Alastor.3917

Erick Alastor.3917

Zap and Dusk – In my dreams. I was happy then I woke up.

“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
- Mike Obrien

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Posted by: JinroTYKU.3915

JinroTYKU.3915

Dusk: Lvl 10 Ascalon Fractal Chest
Dawn: Bought at around 500g at tp

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Posted by: Zackie.8923

Zackie.8923

dawn : from my blood and sweat

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Posted by: Crossaber.8934

Crossaber.8934

Dawn
Timberline Fall – Nonmoa Lake – loot from Lv60 shark
was 9 months ago – currently 1.8k hours

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Posted by: Tommyknocker.6089

Tommyknocker.6089

Dusk – x5
Dawn – x5
The Legend – x5
The Colossus – x2
The Hunter – x1
Spark – x1
Leaf of Kudzu – x1

All from the forge

So according to this limited data, the best way to get a precursor is not to:

Have traveled the world in search of every poi, vista, creature and event
Defeated many a creature in a to-the-death encounter
Played over 4000 hours in the game, defeating every dungeon, fractal, and lord.
Crafted a plethora of weapon/armor/jewelery/food etc.

BUT to voluntarily sink 1000’s of gold into an the waiting arms of an imaginary creature.

YEP seems legendary to me…. and not even a bit anti-climatic /s.

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Posted by: mage.3570

mage.3570

The Energizer (for Mace)
Fractals Level 38 (vet mob drop)
~2k hrs (summer last yr?)

Been there, done that. What’s next?

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

Rodgort’s Flame. Bought it from the TP a month back or so when I saw it was only 80 gold.

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Posted by: Sins.4782

Sins.4782

Chaos Gun, from CM p3’s end boss. ~2.5k hours played.

Also Carcharius from the mystic toilet, throwing in exotic foci and shields from dungeon tokens.

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Posted by: Enaretos.8079

Enaretos.8079

Dusk
Chest in HoTW I don’t remember the path, after killing the mage and two quaggans.
About 1K hours
→ sold for 600g

Dawn
From TP for 700g
About 2,4K hours

Dusk
From TP for 1K gold
About 2,6K hours

Chaos Gun
From TP for 650g
About 2,6K hours

Spark
MF with 8 rare daggers
About 2,7K hours

Leaf of Kudzu
TP for 700g
About 2,7K hours

Rodgort’s Flame
TP for 100g
About 2,7K hours

I actually bought a lot more to play with, etc…

Overall I wasted more than 5K gold on MF and got only one Spark :/

Snow Crows member since January 2014
My Twitch

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Posted by: dace.8019

dace.8019

Colossus
MF with 12 Exotic hammers after about 40g in Rares failed
~1600 hours

Spark
Veteran Icebrood Fish below the entrance to HotW in Frostgorge Sound (open world).
~2300 hours

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Posted by: Sekushi.8094

Sekushi.8094

4 Dawns
1 Dusk
All of these I got from a single mystic forge sitting using about 280 berserker’s pearl broadswords. Each cost about 4 gold each at the time totaling 1120 gold.
1.5k hours played.

Haven’t been able to get a single pre curser from the forge since.

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Posted by: crochip.2389

crochip.2389

Zap and The Energizer, both from WvW.
Zap sold for 280 gold at that time and energizer for 90 gold.

3560 hours

Maaarrrr | Piken Square | Second Law [Scnd]

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Posted by: LadyRhonwyn.2501

LadyRhonwyn.2501

The Hunter
MF, just tossed in some rarest for a daily flushing (when they were still part of the daily)
Year and a half, about a week after I finished Frenzy….

Rage
TP, as it’s an underwater weapon, it’s cheap, nobody wants it :p

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Posted by: Elynaeh.8164

Elynaeh.8164

4k of playtime and no precursor yet probably spend hundreds of gold worth of itmes into the MF + daily dungeons and all world bosses

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Posted by: Diba.4682

Diba.4682

-Dawn
-From a Friend who found it and gave it to me
- 10secs

[None]
MF
Spent about 300g worth of rares

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Posted by: Kilara.4710

Kilara.4710

Tooth of Frostfang
Mystic Forge
3 tries with exotics

Leaf of Kudzu
Mystic Forge
idk how many tries. Just used bows I found.

Rage
TP
30 Gold

The Legend
Drop in TA

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Posted by: Myst.5783

Myst.5783

Spark
Mystic Toilet 50g

Dawn
Mystic Toilet 400g

Chaos Gun
Cursed Shore
Random Mob.

Currently playing: Mesmer/Ele/Theif
JQ

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Posted by: Scryeless.1924

Scryeless.1924

My account isn’t allowed to receive PreC’s:(
Mace PreC
Friend crafted it for me in MF.
24g worth of rares is what it took.

SoS – Ele – Burn Me, Freeze Me, Blind Me, Pound Me — Wait…What?
Warrior – The New Burninator! Strongbad would be so proud!
Guardian – Burn for you, heal for me, block for me and uh…sorry Im all out of gifts.

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Posted by: Ze Dos Cavalos.6132

Ze Dos Cavalos.6132

Dusk
bought in tp

Chosen
bought in tp

Dawn
bought in tp

I play the game since beta, never got a precursor drop.
Had to work hard to buy all the precursors I wanted

[DIE] Death is Energy

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Posted by: Taku.6352

Taku.6352

Leaf of Kudzu – TP – ~450g
The Howl – TP – ~200g
Tooth of Frostfang – TP – ~550g
Rage – TP – ~40g
The Predator – TP – ~550g
Rodgrot’s Flame – champion bag drop
The Chaos Gun – TP – ~450g
The Lover – TP – ~610g

And over 1200g down the mystic forge including exos and rares without a single precursor. Also closing on 6k hours of playtime.

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Posted by: SkyFallsInThunder.8257

SkyFallsInThunder.8257

The Bard – first Karka event endchest, I got lucky and was not kicked. Sold for 7-8g back then, which I used to buy a set of Superior Soldier runes for my guardian… and put them on the Vigil Armor I was using back then, which is not even exotic and which cannot be salvaged. Great system, ANet!

The Bard – FOTM lvl 49 preFractured from a Veteran elemental in the Snowblind Fractal. Sold for ~100g.

Luckeeeeh meeeh…

Also bought Dawn from the TP for ~600g before the craze and crafted Sunrise.

(edited by SkyFallsInThunder.8257)

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Posted by: Allisa Wonderland.8192

Allisa Wonderland.8192

Rage
Random mob at Modnir PvE event not from a chest
About a year ago
Total hours 5000+

Bought each of these from the trading post:
The lover
Dusk
Sunrise
Leaf of kudzu
Legend
Spark

High MF and I try to avoid champ boxes and stick to scaled mob events.. I make the gold I need for the legendaries, but just don’t see the precursor drops.

And I don’t forge.

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Posted by: NinjaRobot.4635

NinjaRobot.4635

dawn dec 2013 ~3600 rare gs +160 exotic gs
zap april 2014 ~700 gold from tp
dusk june 2014 ~1150gol from tp
The Colossus coming soon!!!

4000 hours played

I think I have the most expensive sunrise out there.

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Posted by: Aeolus.3615

Aeolus.3615

The legent @ Karka chest.

1st April joke, when gw2 receives a “balance” update.

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Posted by: Buttercup.5871

Buttercup.5871

I think it’s safe to say the precursor drop rate is too low.
In my 3k+ hours never seen a precursor drop, either.

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Posted by: Xerion.8014

Xerion.8014

Bought my Howl really cheap in the first month. ~5g it was.
Bought my Rodgort’s Flame from a guildmember for ~10g.

If i didn’t got them so cheap i would not have a legendary. Such a waste of time.

Xerion The Fierced – #1 Ranger Extraordinary
“Beautiful, talented and unique.”
Velocity [VcY] – Somewhere roaming on Far Shiverpeaks

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Posted by: Belzebu.3912

Belzebu.3912

Teeth of Frostfang
Trading Post (about 400g back then)
About 1000 played when I bought it, currently I have ~1600 hours (I play since the betas, but I don’t have much time per day to play)

Charter Vanguard [CV] – HoD
Bardy Belzebuson – Ranger Sir Belzebu – Herald
(and the other 8 elite specs maxed too)

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Posted by: RashanDale.3609

RashanDale.3609

Venom
~15 gold on the trading post
~a year ago, i think

Dusk
found it when i cleaned up the backpack of my ranger twink i play like 3 times a month. i guess it dropped at one of the temple events
a couple of months ago

no idea how much time played i had when i got them. im playing since release and got at least 3000 hours, i think

“Revenant is actual proof that devs read the necromancer forum” – Pelopidas.2140
Gunnar’s Hold

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Posted by: thehipone.6812

thehipone.6812

Venom, less than 10 gold off the TP after the karka attack living story event.
Tooth of Frostfang, TP buy order ~500gold maybe 4-5 months ago

Too many hours, probably closing in on 2k.

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Posted by: GigglyPants.3291

GigglyPants.3291

the chosen
from a lowly modrem seed pouch during dragons reach living story
total gametime of around 400 hours

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Posted by: Darkobra.6439

Darkobra.6439

Zap. Level 42 veteran flesh golem at the end of a jump puzzle. 100 hours played.

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Posted by: Sariel V.7024

Sariel V.7024

Hi guys, i wanted to start a topic on where you all found your precursor and which one. Just do like this:

[Precursor name]
[Precursor Location/Rare Items used/Exotic items used/…]
[Total Time played]

grtz

Rodgort’s Flame
TP/~40g/Half my liquid assets
Dunno. About 20 months.

The Lover
Marionette/my godkitten sanity/30000 non-white hairs/courting a ban
~21 months

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Posted by: Never.8571

Never.8571

Sunrise
TP/892g
~1800 hours

Dusk
Onscreen chest from Shatterer
~1815 hours

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Posted by: Vatlaaw Fierceshot.5713

Vatlaaw Fierceshot.5713

Spark
Got it about 6 months ago from the toilet
Used about 650 rares
Played since launch

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Posted by: RedWolf.6513

RedWolf.6513

1800 hours and 2 years in this game since launch. Played it about 5 or 6 hours a day. No legendary or precursor. Nah, I’m not angry at all. It is all about enjoying and playing the game.

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Posted by: Liston.9708

Liston.9708

Energizer – tp
Storm -tp
Storm – drop from easy JP ne LA (sold it)
Dusk – tp
Colossus – tp
Zap – tp
Venom – tower lord wvw (sold it)
Chaos gun – MF (sold it)
Dawn -tp

YB→YB→YB→YB→YB→YB→YB→most likely YB

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Posted by: Curse Drew.8679

Curse Drew.8679

I’ve got The Chosen & Storm from the mystic forge, broke even pretty much on those. I found The Collosus in WvW, a drop from vet Hylek (or whatever those frog ppl are called). And Dusk & Spark i bought from the TP.

3000+ hours played.

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Posted by: Zaxares.5419

Zaxares.5419

The Hunter – Sometime in early 2013, from a random ghost in AC Story. Sold it.

The Energizer – October 2013, from a random centaur in Harathi Hinterlands. Sold it.


And that’s why I don’t like skipping mobs. Think of all the potential Precursors you’re missing, people!

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Posted by: gaborkaldy.3210

gaborkaldy.3210

2.3k hours across 3 main characters. Varied gaming fields between WvW, Dungeons, Open World, Champ farm and Living Story.

Precursors dropped: 0

I guess some accounts are just more equal than others.

Ah, I bought off Zap from my guildie for 350G a year back and crafted my Bolt with blood and sweat.

It’s always Beer Time!
Desolation – [TEU]

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Posted by: Sorin.4310

Sorin.4310

Dawn: TP. Mystic toilet doesn’t interest me.

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Posted by: ProtoGunner.4953

ProtoGunner.4953

Dawn – TP for 300g (was November 2012)
Venom – TP for 30g
Frostfang – TP for 415g

and soon: Dusk – will be TP I guess. I spent a good 1000g of rares/exotics in the Mystic Toilet to just get nothing…

‘would have/would’ve been’ —> correct
‘would of been’ —> wrong