Guild Wars 2

I notice that the Eternity greatsword takes three Gifts of Exploration to complete. However, finishing the map only grants two Gifts of Exploration. Do I need to level a second character and get 100% map completion again to craft this weapon? Or, is there another way to get Gifts of Exploration?

Gifts of Exploration are account bound, so I would assume that you could get additional ones on additional toons.
However, I believe you are also mistaken on the amount of Gifts of Exploration you need. You should only need one.
You do need other types of gifts though, a Gift of Mastery forged using a Gift of Exploration and a Gift of Battle, as well as a Gift of Fortune forged using a Gift of Magic and a Gift of Might.
Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Eternity

Lamarius.3201:

Gifts of Exploration are account bound, so I would assume that you could get additional ones on additional toons.
However, I believe you are also mistaken on the amount of Gifts of Exploration you need. You should only need one.
You do need other types of gifts though, a Gift of Mastery forged using a Gift of Exploration and a Gift of Battle, as well as a Gift of Fortune forged using a Gift of Magic and a Gift of Might.
Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Eternity

Eternity is made from two other legendary greatswords, each of which requires its own Gift of Exploration.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sunrise
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Twilight

Thanks for your answer. I really hope that they implement another way to get Gifts of Exploration, though. I hate the idea that I can only have two legendary weapons on each character. Some characters need 3-4 just to fill their two primary weapon sets, never mind underwater weapons or weapons that they use less frequently.

Even worse, this means that one of my characters will only get one legendary instead of his allotted two.

Oh I see what you mean. Well this is 100% pure non-sourced opinionated speculation, but it may be possible to get more gifts by exploring future expansion areas.
I find it weird that they have only one legendary weapon made using other legendary weapons. It better be freaking cool.

From what I’ve gathered, it shows the Sunrise skin during the day and the Twilight skin at night. So yeah, freaking cool.

From what I’ve seen, and I’m not stating this is guaranteed true or viable, just possible, the legendaries are Bind on Use, so you oculd just buy Sunrise and/or Twilight.

Also, i read that each item is supposed to have an alternative…so possibly a statue instead of a gift of exploration might work?