How to upgrade mysterious vine?
It’s a scavenger hunt near identical to the creation of the first backpiece. Completing the Dragon’s Reach pt. 2 will give you items that must be infused at various points around Tyria. Other items (heat stone, grow lamp) you buy the recipe from the Dry Top merchants. These items are then combined in the Mystic Forge with various ingredients (Bloodstone Bricks, exotic Essence of Luck, etc) to make the final versions, which are consumed to upgrade the backpiece.
At least, that’s what I’ve deduced. There are no official guides yet. It appears that in addition to the new backpiece (Mawdrey) you get an inventory plant (Mawdrey II) that gives you a (daily?) gift if you feed it Bloodstone. I don’t know what’s in the gift, probably greens.
Also: Mawdrey is ascended, so you’ll need one of the armor disciplines at 500 to make it.
Here you go:
http://dulfy.net/2014/08/13/gw2-cultivated-vine-backpiece-guide/
I’m already curious how to get the plant we can feed our bloodstone dust to. Will it be a finished side product to the backpiece, or is there anything we have to do with that side product, like a recipe for upgrading it?
Everyone’s got their ascended new backpiece.
And I’m just sitting here with the original because of the bug.