Legendary Crafting
https://gw2efficiency.com/crafting/calculator/30703-Sunrise
Right now, assuming you had absolutely 0 mats, you would save about 600 gold through crafting Sunrise over buying it. Since I know you have at least 1 mat on that page, you will save more than that though if you crafted it yourself.
To answer your other question, yes if you buy the precursor you can still craft the legendary by creating the 3 gifts and then throwing it all in the MF
I always suggest that people ask themselves about what they really want from the process before they start.
- If you mostly care about costs, I strongly recommend saving gold for the precursor. It’s nearly always cheaper if you include your time & patience, and not just your gold.
- If you care mostly about doing stuff to more-or-less earn your precursor, then do the collection, regardless of cost.
People who try to save money by “grinding” the collections always seem to be frustrated and cranky and don’t seem to enjoy themsleves much.
The 600 gold difference is for the actual legendary; it comes from using your own karma, gifts of exploration, etc.
There isn’t any substantive savings by collecting Dawn versus buying it. The precursor runs 600-700g on the TP and 600-700g in do-it-yourself mats, so there’s no savings from collecting it, if you use custom offers to purchase. (e.g. you can sell your 700g worth of mats to get 595g, which you can use to put in a 600g offer — that’s a wash within the estimation process).
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(edited by Illconceived Was Na.9781)
A few days ago I decided to start the collection for crafting sunrise, turns out it’s a massive grind for materials… I was wondering if is it faster farm the gold to buy the weapon from the TP? If I buy the precursor will I be able to craft the legendary even if my collection is incomplete? Ty for the answers.
My way of saving up for legendary crafting is to do the collections, as I do the activities for the collections I also farm materials a little each day, things that I can sell, like hard wood. I play content that I enjoy, and that also yields mats and gold. I built nevermore first. It took me a year after playing the game to make it, mostly because I was starting the game from scratch and I had to achieve almost every mastery to make it. Since I built nevermore a couple of months ago I have made meteorlogicus, and now I have moved on to building Kraitkin currently. I started playing this game a year ago in September, you can make these things fairly fast if you make it a priority. I would look at what it is you need, sell mats that don’t go into making your leg, and slowly buy those that do.
There isn’t any substantive savings by collecting Dawn versus buying it. The precursor runs 600-700g on the TP and 600-700g in do-it-yourself mats, so there’s no savings from collecting it, if you use custom offers to purchase. (e.g. you can sell your 700g worth of mats to get 595g, which you can use to put in a 600g offer — that’s a wash within the estimation process).
You can save from 176g to 285g crafting it yourself but around 160g of that comes from making your own deldrimor steel which means 90 days of time gating unless you already have the mithrillium.