Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone,

I’m almost at 100% world completion and have my precursor (zap), so I’m giving serious thought to this whole farming for a legendary business. I’ve taken a look at the requirements and my next priority will be the karma (got ~700k at the moment) and WvW rank 14 (rank 5 at the moment) and am wondering what the best route would be to get these two objectives done while also getting as many of the other materials farmed as possible at the same time. I’d also love to hear from my peers who have done the whole legendary farm thing regarding:

• pacing – how not to burn out and rage quit
• favourite farming spots or methods (even if it’sjust psychological)
• item farming rotation (e.g. karma for x hours, wvw for x hours, dungeons or fractals etc)
• how does the PvP reward track play into this (my assumption – not heavily)
• how the frack I’m going to level up Artificer to freaking 400 during all this since my Warrior is a weapon-smith, not a pansy!

I’m a fairly casual player, having time for maybe 17 hours a week at the absolute maximum (falling over summer naturally as the weather gets nicer and the wife begins demanding BBQs, however I’m not particularly daunted by the task ahead as I enjoy the game and getting Bolt would likely be the point where I’ve “completed” GW2.

Thanks!

PS Inb4 abandon ye all hope who enter here.

Be sure to do your Mystic Clovers first, since the “fails” will give you T6 materials at a pretty decent rate and will thus reduce the number you will need to acquire.

Do some of the quick dungeon paths every day for the gold. Use the gold to buy materials.

Farming specific uncommon materials is pretty pointless overall because the drop rates are so low. You are typically better off farming gold and buying the materials needed.

Enter the Edge of the Mists, usually there are karma trains there, and while you are getting karma you also get WvW ranks.

Here a list of stuff you can do to get your legendary.

- High Level Fractal : If you have a reward level of 50 and completing a level 40 you get the most Karma out of it, which is 9600. A level 40 can be done in about 1 hour with an average group.
- Dungeons : Won’t give you much Karma, but you will need much other stuff and the best way to get those are usually by buying them with Gold, and dungeon will give a good amount of this. Also, dungeon token is a really good way to get Ectos. (btw CoE is priceless to get the charged core and lodestone that you need for your Bolt).
- Edge of the Mists Train : In edge of the mist, you will usually find a zerg and Its a really good way to earn karma and level up some alts. Karma is directly good for your goal, alt is also a good thing to have. Several alts can help you a lot to get money or gathering stuff a bit each day. Don’t really like Edge of the Mists so i don’t really know if you can level up your WvW level in there.
- WvW Zerg : You can do several things in WvW. I prefer by far Zerg raiding or Roaming, but these are not the most efficient way to get some level (except if you have a good raiding team). A easier way is to get into a karma train (a huge zerg that flip tower and keep). For me its boring, but you gonna level up your rank and gain karma at a good rate.
- Daily : this seem weird, but daily are really good for a legendary. You get some mystic coin, but they aren’t that important, the best is the laurel that you can use to buy Tier 6 for you might and magic gift.

Here some advice from your specific question.
- Pacing? A journey to a legendary is a marathon not a sprint. For a regular player it gonna take about 3 months to get a legendary so take your time and don’t rush into it.
- Favourite farming spot? I really don’t like to farm. Don’t do a specific farm only to get a specific material for your legendary. Usually, you just gonna get tired of it and quit. You better to play area of the game that get you most reward and buy the things that you aint getting.
- Farming rotation? Do as you want, its a game don’t impose you a schedule.
- sPvP? It a lot better than it used to. But still not a efficient way to get rewards for a legendary. If you like sPvP, play it. But don’t go there is you only search for more ways to get the stuff you need.
- Artificer? Make an alt. Like i said, they are really useful (are they are fun to build in my case). gw2crafts.net is a really good website that give you all you need to craft your way to 400 or 500 if you want. Artificer is one of the easiest and cheapest profession to level up so its really not a big deal.

I am assuming you need WvWvW rank 14 for the badges of honor. However, WvW and EotM isn’t the only way to get the badges. I have a WvW rank of 6 and was still able to get my badges for Gift of Battle (or which ever one it is.) I found it easier to get them through AP reward chests. I am terrible at WvW and PvP. Run a bunch of JP’s, get slayers, and whatever achievments you can. WvW JP’s also net badges. Dungeon achievments are easiest, and net you a bunch of gold in the process. It helps if you are going to run dungeons to get gold anyway. Under level fractals are the best for karma, as stated above, just don’t forget to pop a karma booster if you can about midway through the last boss for maximum karma.

As far as farming goes, good luck. Placing buy orders are the way to go. Although fractals do drop the T6 mats, but not enough to make it worth while. I’ve been saving up my T5 mats and promoting them, but it does take Crystalline dust, which you need for Gift of Magic, so thats up to you.

Thanks guys for the super helpful replies! I had forgotten that mystic clover farming can also generate T6 mats so I’m glad that was pointed out. It sounds like a good idea would be to jump into mists for a karma train once I get world completion, and then do CoE and AC runs to get materials and badges I need. Cheers again!