Guild Wars 2

Well not exactly there is no collection like that, this is just a prediction on some of the things which will probably be needed to transform “Unbound” into “Ad Infinitum”.

First of all we will probably need another Fractal Journal – easy to predict as what will we be doing with all the Fractal Research Pages once we complete Ad Infinitum III?
Sell the journal? Maybe but 20 silver every 2 weeks is hardly worth the effort I think.

Next we will probably need an item awarded for a time challenge in Captain Mai Trin Boss Fractal. Now how can I claim to know that? Well it’s the only boss fractal we did not have a time challenge yet and just look at the order of the previous time challenges -10-15-20. Yes I know thats not really correct but thats due to a mistake.
I wrote in the bug section about it so if you are interested why the order is actually 20-15-10 you can go see it here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Timed-challenge-mote-little-big-mistake/first#post5780438

So if the order was correct and we add Mai the order will be 10-15-20-25. Yes because Captain Mai Trin Boss Fractal is only on levels 25, 50 and 100.

Next we will probably need a +10 infusion charged in a mist geyser somewhere.
This again I predict due to the order first we needed a +4 then +6 and now +8, so the full order would be 4-6-8-10.

There will also probably be another item we need to buy from the Aetherblade Quartermaster which will cost 4 Balls of Dark Energy. Again the sequence implies it – 1-2-3-4.
The amount of Balls of Dark Energy we get for salvaging “Upper Bound” implies it too – 9.
Remember when we salvaged “Finite Result” we got 5 and we needed 2 to craft “Upper Bound” and 3 to buy the Aetherblade Secret Handshake Tutorial Book for the Ad Infinitum III collection.
So the situation seems similar – we will need 5 to craft “Unbound” so the remaining 4 would be used to buy the next item from the Aetherblade Quartermaster.

There will probably be other items for doing fractals with challenge motes and ones you buy for relics etc. But unlike previously these will not be used for a collection but rather in the Mystic Forge to create the required gifts and we will be able to acquire them all the time in case we decide to make more Legendary back items in the future.

Id rather we just use Unbound as a precursor, throw in a Gift of Fortune, Gift of Mastery, and 10000 crystalline ingots. Oh wait…..

Oh god, I hope there’s no ad infinitum IV… as if the current ones don’t use up enough balls of dark energy.

I predict to make the legendary, we need to combine 3 of them + 250 ______ in the mystic forge. Hopefully that’s it.

NO MORE collections.

They said they didn’t implement the legendary backpiece because they wanted to make leaderboards better, cooler, grander, faster and stronger.

So whatever you need to do to get the backpiece it probably won’t be good. It also means there are probably people salvaging lots of ascended items now that are going to be pretty disappointed/feel cheated/bait and switched when they find out what it takes to do the final step.

My advice to people is to wait before you know what you’re getting yourself into.

Samnang.1879:

NO MORE collections.

Disappointment coming in 3… 2… 1….

Honestly the collections for the 3 pre steps weren’t bad, aside from the time gate.

Well, maybe the cost of getting the balls of dark energy, but hey, this is a legendary, and it will be somewhat more unique than all the weaps, at least for a while.
Pretty sure cost is still no where near making a legendary weapon of any kind.

Samnang.1879:

Oh god, I hope there’s no ad infinitum IV… as if the current ones don’t use up enough balls of dark energy.

I predict to make the legendary, we need to combine 3 of them + 250 ______ in the mystic forge. Hopefully that’s it.

NO MORE collections.

You realize that you can make up to the 3rd tier of the precursor just by getting 2 balls to start, right?

That might be true but it doesn’t mean I don’t hate collections.