Guild Wars 2

So I’m working on Glint’s Bastion, so I need this shield. I’ve found out what items I need. What I want to know is, how do I unlock this collection? I have the masteries to speak to Itzel, Exalted and Nuhock vendors and I have the tokens, but they wont sell me the bits because I don’t have the machined shield collection unlocked.

Thanks in advance.

You need to pick up the Plated Shield to unlock the collection for the Machined Shield. The vendor for Plated weapons is at the end of the Dragon’s Stand event chain, so you’ll need to play that the whole way through. Buying a Plated weapon costs 100 of each of the three zone currencies (150 for two-handed weapons), plus two Reclaimed Metal Plates (three for two-handed weapons).

Reclaimed Metal Plates are found by salvaging Reclaimed weapons. Blue and Green Reclaimed weapons will only give Plates very very rarely. Rare Reclaimed weapons (found most commonly in chests throughout HoT zones) are guaranteed to give a Reclaimed Metal Plate.

That’s what I was afraid of. I’ll need about 30g to get the reclaimed plates. I hear the drop rate is too low to even bother about any less than rare weapons which I don’t have right now but was hoping to buy part of the collection and unlock it so that the backing will be in my loot table for noxious pods.

Oh well, I guess I’d better start farming thanks anyway.

If you want to avoid buy orders, consider doing some runs through Tangled Depths to find and open chests there. From the zone entrance (with Updrafts and Lean) I can get up to the Flax farm for a Flax harvest and two chests, glide across the Ogre valley using ledges to get two more Splendid Chests at the crashed airship, then down to a final small chest in between the airship and Flax farm. That’s five chests and a bunch of Flax in a little over five minutes.

There’s plenty of other chests in the zone, I think there’s close to thirty overall, so finding a series of them you can comfortably run to every day might help you get what you want without needing the TP. And if you can run it on more than one character a day, all the better.