Guild Wars 2

So I’m fairly new to this game, and wanted to craft the Zintl Claymore (Cobalt Antique) and I got my crafting to 500, and was able to buy everything but the Vision Crystal. Any help on obtaining this? I searched all around google, no results, so might as well try here. Thanks. I have everything BUT the vision crystal

The Vision Crystal requires an Augur’s Stone for 20 spirit shards from Miyani at the Mystic Forge in Lion’s Arch, and then 3 other ingredients which can be easily obtained throughout the game.

For these 3 ingredients, I recommend you do events in the Silverwastes for a little while, as you will get all 3 from there (mainly from champion bags and chests, so perhaps a chest farm map is best). Each Brick requires 100 dust/fragments/ores, which means 500 of each (which sounds like a lot, but it does flow in quickly).

You will also get Obsidian Shards from a Silverwastes chest farm, which helps in turning the ingredients into bricks.

To find a chest farm map, it is easiest to open up the “Looking For Group” panel in “Open World Content”, and looking for someone posting a “chest farm” or the abbreviated “sw cf”.

Here’s a tip for what Zalladi said- see if you can find a guild that farms SW regularly. Even better— find a guild that is SW-only. If the guild is large enough, there should constantly be a chest farm going on. Each bag will give you bloodstone/empyreal and the chests themselves will give you TONS of dragonite/empyreal, especially dragonite. Chests will also sometimes drop obsidian shards, which are needed for the ingots. The champ bags will also occasionally drop spirit shards.

As for farming the shovels needed to find the chests, run around SW and tag as many events as possible, especially tier 1 defense events. I’ve found those have a far higher chance for shovels.

Look on LFG for something like “bring shovels” or “choo choo”, as well as “chest train/farm” or “cf”. Assuming you got a bunch of shovels from event farming, you can get a lot of champ bags. If enough people decide to follow you, you can start a chest train and let them do the digging.

You also get a vision crystal on the last day of your daily log-in rewards table if you select the Ascended Crafting Material option. Otherwise, yeah the posts above are right. SW would be your best bet to get all the materials. The only thing that might hold you back is the Obsidian Shards but if the Temple of Balthazar is uncontested and you have a decent amount of Karma, you can get those from Tactician Deathstrider @ the temple.

Agreed about the SW. The only reason why I do not use up more of my obsidian is having to buy mats from a master crafter all the time.