Guild Wars 2

This is something I’ve written some time ago for my guild, I revised it and decided to also post it here. Please note that everything is speculation. Hope some people will find it useful.

Karma
Be it recipes to craft the armor or obsidian shards, karma will most probably be necessary in crating the legendary armor. Saving some karma might be a good idea when legendary armor is out.

Spirit Shards
Currently Bloodstone Shard’s description is “An orb of pure power used to create legendary weapons”. There’s a possibility it’s description will be changed for legendary armor or another type of shard based on spirit shards will be introduced. Same as for Karma you might want to save some.

Magnetite Shards
Based on the first two wings when the third wing be introduced it will have a vendor. Although the possibility is low there might be some gifts to purchase from it that will be required for the legendary armor based on Magnetite Shards.

Provisioner Token
Wiki description: “Provisioner Tokens are a currency earned by trading in a rare level 80 crafted weapon or armor to Faction Provisioners in various zones in Magus Falls. They are stored in the Account Wallet and can be spent at the Faction Provisioners.” A total of 300 provisioner tokens will be required in order to purchase 6 Gifts of Craftsmanship; each gift will be used to upgrade a piece of armor from precursor to legendary.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/48zlyd/im_mike_obrien_here_with_gw2_dev_team_ama/d0nx80s?context=1
Items for each vendor (only one item/one vendor/day)
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Faction_Provisioner
(It is far cheaper to craft those items rather than buying from TP)

Legendary Insights
Token obtained by defeating a raid boss first time that week. The number of legendary insights needed to craft the legendary armor is currently unknown. (Anet_AndrewM posted on reddit that they are still working on balancing the number required for legendary armor)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/48zlyd/im_mike_obrien_here_with_gw2_dev_team_ama/d0nx80s?context=1

Gift of Battle
Purchased from WvW for 500 Badges of Honor. It will be changed in the future to be reward at the end of a reward track; you might want to save 6×.

Ascended Materials

• Spiritwood Planks
• Elonian Leather Square
• Bolt of Damask
• Deldrimor Steel Ingot
  You can craft the above once each day. You might want to have a couple saved.
• Fulgurites https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fulgurite
• Crystalline Ore

Legendary Tokens/Items
*Gift of Maguuma and Gift of Insights
I don’t think the last component will be 250 Crystalline Ingots however those two combined with Bloodstone Shard and another type of token might be required to craft some armor based gift (similar to Gift of Maguuma Mastery). Six of these might be required.

Other tokens/mats/currencies you might consider saving

• Laurels
• T6 Mats (Vial of Powerful Blood, Ancient Bone, Vicious Claws, Piles of Crystalline Dust, Vicious Fangs, Armored Scales, Elaborate Totems, Powerful Venom Sacs) + Globes of Ectoplasm

Armorsmith, Tailor, Leatherworker to 500
For obvious reasons you might want to upgrade your crafting skill to 500 for these three disciplines.

Other
Other than those you might want to finish first 12 items in the legendary armor collection. The ascended armor you get after you finish the collection (probably is a full set (6 pieces)) will probably be used to craft the PRECURSOR for the legendary armor, not the legendary armor itself.
Please note that everything above is speculation.

The devs have given some conflicting information so it is hard to get a feel for what will be needed.

In the reddit AMA they said you will need 6 craftsmanship gifts, one for each piece of armor. However about a month later they said you will create the whole set at once, not individual pieces.

I don’t think they really know yet how they want to handle it. They also said that they want the full set of armor to cost the same as one of the new legendary weapons. Not sure if this still hold true or not.

It would be beyond absurd for require 6 Maguuma mastery gifts, but if you make the whole set at once then 1 of these would be reasonable.

Based on what they said you will make the whole set at once but in a similar way to the fractal backpiece. You will get 6 armor pieces then need to salvage them to get 6x (item of legendary awesome sauce) and the legendary armor will need 6x craftsmanship, 6x item of legendary awesome sauce, 6×... etc. but you will make the whole set in 1 mystic forge recipe.

The other thing that isn’t clear is if you get 3 sets of armor at the end or this or just 1. Almost no one uses a single class in raids, many people use 5-6 classes regularly. Making a single set of legendary armor and then being locked out of the other 2 armor weights would be really lame. I should hope that you unlock all 3 armor weights once you get the collection done since it doesn’t seem repeatable.

I think the collection rewards is the precursor armor. If i recall right it says something similiar to this “Choose a set of precursor armor”. Not sure though

Since the name of the collection is similar to the 1. generation precursors, i guess the 2nd collection will be called something like

Envoy Armor II: The Perfected Armor

where you just need to craft a lot of stuff (like first 250 basic armor sets and then 250 of both components for repairing) and also spending several currencies, maybe magnetite shards too. So maybe besides the ascended stuff its also a good idea to hoard some bolts of silk, thick leather and mithril ingots.

6 gifts of maguuma mastery seem a bit excessive, but there is still collection 3 (and maybe 4?) where they can do something similar like they did in the last fractal collection (infuse a gift of maguuma mastery to receive a collection item)

Legendary insights work as i timegate. Assuming that wing 3 also brings 3 bosses, you would be limited to a maximum of 9 insights per week. I guess they wont introduce a timegate much longer than probably 8 weeks, wich would be 72 insights (considering most people would need longer, since most cant kill all bosses every week)