Guild Wars 2

So I finally completed Astralaria last night, with minimal use of the TP, and I’d just like to congratulate ANet on the whole legendary journey. I feel a much greater sense of accomplishment, having built up the precursor from the rubbish looking The Device, all the way to this intricately engraved axe, compared to having crafted TFP and Sunrise previously.

All that being said, please provide more info on the next upcoming legendaries, surely you must know which ones are being released next. The last 3 months of creating Astralaria have been some of the best I’ve spent, gathering all the materials, visiting remote locations etc etc.

Agreed….its way past time they stopped refusing to give us even these basic details on new legendary weapons. This is content promised before the expansion was even mentioned to us. Now we are months into the expansion and they refuse to even talk about top level details like which ones are next or show us the artwork. What we deserve is to have the promised…and now purchased content…delivered in a timely fashion. What I’m sure most of us would settle for…is to at least know what we are getting next, a reliable time frame, and what they will look like. I don’t think that’s too much to expect…for something we were promised for free…ended up having to pay for…and are being stone walled about in regards to information.

That being said, I am also crafting Astralaria. It has been an enjoyable experience so far…except when dealing with the scarcity of certain required materials…namely orbs for the amalgamated gemstones. I’m also still irritated in the lack of true diversity in means of obtaining the required HoT mastery points. I’m on the final stage of Astralaria where these are the only things gating my progress. I guess sooner or later I’ll break down and force myself to re-do the HoT story and grind out these story achievements for mastery points…and unfortuately…as many of the remaining adventures as I can complete.

As an aside, I find the naming “Astralaria” annoying. I live in Australia and every time I see this name it catches my eye because I subconsciously think it’s something relevant to my region. Not asking for it to be changed, of course. It’s just annoying. Hopefully, future legenderies won’t have annoying names like Europenia or Unitedstatesia.

I’m attempting to complete Astralaria, and mostly I like the journey – the thing I hate is the inclusion of events that have to fail. Tier 4 collection requires Arah be lost so you can do the event chain to retake it. Problem? Now Arah defense is a farming spot. Last several times I’ve looked there’s a tag farming it for hours.

Anet really should know better than to pull this again. Yes, AGAIN. They did this with the scavenger hunt for traits and it backfired so badly they had to redo a lot of the methods to acquire them. But so far, no fix for precursors. I just have to hope I luck into a non-farming map, which …. is pure luck, what with megaservers dumping everyone into the same map.

Dear Anet: LUCK IS NOT AN ACHIEVEMENT.

eleutheria.5396:

I’m attempting to complete Astralaria, and mostly I like the journey – the thing I hate is the inclusion of events that have to fail. Tier 4 collection requires Arah be lost so you can do the event chain to retake it. Problem? Now Arah defense is a farming spot. Last several times I’ve looked there’s a tag farming it for hours.

Anet really should know better than to pull this again. Yes, AGAIN. They did this with the scavenger hunt for traits and it backfired so badly they had to redo a lot of the methods to acquire them. But so far, no fix for precursors. I just have to hope I luck into a non-farming map, which …. is pure luck, what with megaservers dumping everyone into the same map.

Dear Anet: LUCK IS NOT AN ACHIEVEMENT.

I would just like to say that they changed the need for Arah to fail in the January 12th patch. “Astralaria IV—Magnification Lens: This collectible can be earned from the “Ensure that the Pact holds the Gates of Arah” event at the Narthex.” Hope this helps and sorry you didn’t see the update sooner ): idk why they have yet to update the in-game description.

That is very good news! Thank you so much!

(Incidentally, I think they did the exact same thing with Nevermore and the owl event – there was an event that initially had to fail, and then they fixed it without updating the in-game descriptor. I realized this by accident.)