Hey guys, I’ve always used Players Helping Players but never posted anything. This one is kind of different. My friend has a birthday in about two and a half weeks, and both of us are avid players. He lives halfway across the world, so I thought my gift to him could be a GW2 item. Do you guys know of any non bound item I could mail to him that’s the top quality I could obtain in two weeks? I’d like it to be as valuable as possible to make it the best present it could be. I’d like it to be a weapon, but it could be armour, consumables, anything. He is a guardian by the way.
Additional information: My best character is a level 80 so I have access to all the dungeons, etc.
If he’s going to be playing the expansion, HoT, you could give him the Wings of Dwayna longbow. I personally think it’s the best longbow skin to fit the Dragonhunter’s new mechanics.
It’s pretty valuable, but doable in a short time. Just an idea.
Yes he is playing HoT and I just started playing again and only have about 20 gold, which is why I stated the question in a way suggesting I had to start from scratch.
Also how could farming keys get him a skin? I’m returning to the game and re-learning many things
Well it still heavily depends on several factors:
1. how well equipped is your friend?
2. what is his personal taste?
Ascended gear is account bound, so you can’t give him that. That leaves you with legendaries, which are way out of your league in this time frame i would say, and skins. But skins are very subject to personal taste of course.
You farm keys by creating new characters and finishing the first story chain. It’s a long, tedious process and even if you do it for 2 weeks, it’s still very questionable you’ll get enough tickets to get a specific skin. Drop rate is abysmally low.
Well you can farm SW for gold untill you sob in your room from sleep deprivation and buy something for gems. I don’t know what style he prefers but look into outfits and armors you can buy for gems. But make sure you select gift option when buying.
So making a level 10 character and getting his story done get you a black lion chest key.
It take around an hour or less if you craft a little or use tome of knowledge for 1 key.
Those key can open black lion chest.
And in black lion chest you got chance to drop some scrap or complete black lion ticket. (1 black lion ticket = 10 scrap)
And with enough black lion ticket you can get skins at the seller in lion arch, those skin are usually really cool. And cost from 1 to 7 black lion ticket.
So it can take some time and RNG, but if you see a skin he would like for 1-3 ticket it’s possible to get it in 2weeks.
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drop rate are around 1 scrap each 2 box, so it would take 20-60 hour ^^, less if you get lucky. 3 times less if you use items or crafting to level up you character faster.
I was looking around after the Wings of Dwayna link and thought maybe I would be able to craft him a cool exotic weapon? I have some spirit shards and other things saved up from before, do you think this could be doable?
So making a level 10 character and getting his story done get you a black lion chest key.
It take around an hour or less if you craft a little or use tome of knowledge for 1 key.
Those key can open black lion chest.
And in black lion chest you got chance to drop some scrap or complete black lion ticket. (1 black lion ticket = 10 scrap)
And with enough black lion ticket you can get skins at the seller in lion arch, those skin are usually really cool. And cost from 1 to 7 black lion ticket.
So it can take some time and RNG, but if you see a skin he would like for 1-3 ticket it’s possible to get it in 2weeks.
Not to be a spoilsport, but at the current estimated drop rate of 30% for a scrap, it’ll take approximately 30 hours of playing nothing but personal story non stop to get a single ticket. If fatigue doesn’t get him in those two weeks, insanity will most surely kick in.
I was looking around after the Wings of Dwayna link and thought maybe I would be able to craft him a cool exotic weapon? I have some spirit shards and other things saved up from before, do you think this could be doable?
Which brings me back to my question of how good his current equipment is. If he already has exotic, or better gear, the best you’ll do is gift him a cool skin (which granted, those MF recipes are all about).
Jormag’s Breath is another nice one for guardian, who use blue fire in their skills.
If you have lot of materials you can do it, but the price of those mistic forge weapons are up to 200+ gold cause they cost lot of materials.
Actually what are your gear and experience in dungeon? cause it’s possible to make that much gold in 2 weeks But you’ll need to run some dungeon.
And so the only think you need to do is find the skin you want, the price or recipe, and after we’ll see how you can get it for the lower time and effort possible.
He is higher level but doesn’t have exotic gear yet. On that note, I just discovered the focus Courage. It seems to be in my price range and I think that it’s design will be worth way more sentimental value than any 400g exotic off the Trading Post.
Lies! There’s a warhorn where you blow into the bottom of a chicken ffs!
Courage is a nice choice! Considering you most likely can make this one immediately, do look at the other ones at your leisure. Both of those i posted are also Mystic Forge recipes and very doable to gather in those two weeks, if you commit to it.
How rare are spirit shards? I have 75 right now and am wondering if I should save and buy Courage with gold or spend 50 of them on its materials and craft it
I can get the crystalline dust through TP or running AC in explorable mode, which is nice because I’m doing that anyway to get tears. I have 10+ mystic coins and can buy the rest. A bottle of Elonian wine is also pretty cheap, 25s. It really comes down to spirit shards, because it seems much cheaper to craft than buy as far as gold
How rare exactly, I can’ tell. They drop from enemies every so often. You also get 3 for doing your daily and they’re still in champion bags. You can probably still get quite a bit of them from farming the Silverwastes.
Another way of getting crystalline dust is salvaging ectoplasm, at an approximate rate of 2 per ecto. It’s probably not as effective, but if you have spare ecto…
But you’ll need to run some dungeon.