Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I have 2 questions regarding ascended backpieces:

1. Are the spinal blades the cheapest (fractal back excluded) to get berserker stats? I want a backpiece with lightning-/windcatcher skin so the original look doesnt matter only the stats. Or do the ‘catcher’ skins come with stat choice?

2. Not so long ago I saw some rants about ‘Light of Dwayna’ is now too easy to get via PvP. Probably it has to do something with the not so long ago introduced reward tracks. So how can you spare money to get this back item? Or is that the ‘Wings of Dwayna’ bow and not the backpiece?

Ty

Spinal back piece is the cheapest provided 2 VERY IMPORTANT POINTS :
- you purchase the recipe using the elonian leather (5 gold at Miyani) and you are leatherworker 500.
- you have enough blade shards to craft the entire thing (these things are hard to come by nowadays).

I can tell you what I have found from my experience:
1. As far as I can tell, Tempered Spinal Blades are the cheapest assuming you already have the Blade Shards and are planning on using Leatherworking to make the Gift of Blades (since the recipe uses Elonian Leather Squares which are cheaper than Bolts of Damask or Deldrimor Steel Ingots). Your other option outside of the Fractal backpiece is the Quiver of Swift Flight, but that requires 250 Vials of Powerful Blood to make. The catcher skins are just skins and have no stats of their own.

2. The Light of Dwayna is not easy to get. The ingredients required to make it, along with the recipe you would have to purchase, make it the most expensive backpiece to make next to the Chaos of Lyssa. The item I think you are referring to is the Fires of Balthazar Skin which is a reward from one of the PvP reward tracks.

If you have Leatherworking to 500, and have the 1000 or so Blade Shards it takes to make it, I would go for the Tempered Spinal Blades and just use the catcher skin on it. Otherwise, prepare yourself for some Fractals or start saving the money for the Vials.

Ty guys, you pretty much covered all I need to know.

Yep, I got LW at 500 (crafted one spinal blades backpiece already). Got enough blade shards too. So I’ll just buy the back skin.

The Dwayna back however, must be crafted as there is no other way to get that skin.

ty once more

Nimrud.5642:

Ty guys, you pretty much covered all I need to know.

Yep, I got LW at 500 (crafted one spinal blades backpiece already). Got enough blade shards too. So I’ll just buy the back skin.

The Dwayna back however, must be crafted as there is no other way to get that skin.

ty once more

The dwayna thing I think you’re referring to is the wings and feathers of dwayna which were both super easy to get in pvp but enormously expensive in pve. These are bows with the blue body and the golden feathers that tumble off of them.

But I’d also say that you can make the quiver that let’s you choose stats, with vicious claws iirc. I made it last week on my alt account, so this still works.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quiver_of_a_Thousand_Arrows

I thought the OP was going to blame GW2 for his lower back pain….