Guild Wars 2

So I have never stopped playing this game but after the Hero points came out with the exp, i never really did them. I am lvl 68 and I am thinking about going after the shining blade legendary. I have the money and all the materials done i just dont have all the hero points, levels and the abilities unlocked. Doing these mastery points are a pain in the kitten having to restart the quests and stories just to unlock acheivement points is an absoute pain in the ass but as far as i know there is no way to get around it right? So if i need to re go through this all should i just start at number one and do it? How would you all proceed since most of you are probably lvl 186 anyways?

Honestly, you are insanely far behind. HOT Legendary weapons require the following to be done.

- You need at least 1 level 80 (which is required to start work on Mastery Points)
- You need to have done the first chapter of Heart of Thorns Story to unlock Mastery Tracks on the account.
- You need have 19 Tyrian Mastery points to complete the Legendary Crafting Track
- You’ll need to have fully leveled Weaponsmith Crafting (there are guides on how to cost efficiently level, but its still an expensive process)

All that is just to unlock the ability to get the recipe from Hobbs.

To actually “start” crafting for this particular weapon, you’ll need access to a Living Story season 3 map (which you should have if you’ve logged in since the last patch). This gives you access to key things you’ll need for all steps of the crafting process….
- Unbound Magic (you’re gonna need a LOT of this)…
- …. to buy Tributes, which you use to craft Shards.

With all the item specific stuff out of the way, you’ll need a metric kitten of Tier 5 mats in order to craft the 3 Swords that will eventually result in the Precursor sword “Save the Queen”. Again… I can not understate how much you’ll need. Something in the order of 12k mithril ore, and another 12k in elder wood logs, 6.7k T5 fine mats, and leather for the inscription.

The next step is to craft the legendary gifts needed to promote it to its Legendary form.

Tyria:
- Complete map Exploration of ALL of Core Tyria on a single Character. This means everything that existed on game launch, and specifically excludes Drytop, Silverwaste, Southsun, Heart of Thorns, and anything from Living World chapters. This gives you 2 “Gift of Exploration”, and is the primary item you need for ALL legendary weapons.

From Heart of Maguuma Maps (from the expansion), you need to complete Map exploration of each of the 4 maps. This will give you a gift item from each map, which combine into an intermediate item needed for a later step. Unlike Core Tyria, these can be done on different characters for each map area.

You’ll also need to complete the main Heart of Thorns Mastery Tracks- Gliding, Itzel, Exalted, and Nuchoch. You will NEED to do this, as it unlocks a set of items you purchase from vendors to create another intermediate gift item.

On top of this, you’ll also have to spend a minimum of 6-8 hours in World vs World doing the Gift of Battle reward track. This is also a Primary item for legendary weapons, and is unavoidable due it being account bound. There are also 2 types tokens needed that are obtained from sPvP and WvW (shards of glory and memories of battle), however both of these can be bought of the TP.

For HOT weapons you’ll also need items from Fractals of the Mist. Stabilizing Matrices can be bought off the TP, and they’re pretty expensive; but you can get them from daily fractal chests and from salvage process you’ll have to do for Ball of Darkenergy. The ball of dark energy can ONLY be obtained by salvaging Ascended gear (and is account bound)…. with the only guaranteed drop from weapons or armor (trinkets are low chance). You could “technically” do this without ever stepping in a fractal, but why waste 3 laurels when you can go into the Fractal lobby and talk to one of the Vendors.

Head spinning yet? Theres still more to go.

You’ll need to do each HOT map meta multiple times to get items from the map specific nodes (airship cargo, chak cache, exalted chests, and noxious pods) to get map specific materials. These combine to create Crystalline Ingots for the Gift Maguuma. Crystalline Ore tends to be the biggest pain in butt, since the only safe time to gather them is on a successful Dragonstand meta (most estimates put it around 6 trips to gather enough). You’ll also need Amalgamated Gemstones, which are actually cheaper to buy off the TP as long as they’re less then 2.3g each.

If you’ve managed to get this far, you STILL have a couple more problems. The mystic Tribute you need to make requires a LOT of materials. You “can” collect them yourself, but it’ll take months due to a blind spot in the drop methods of mid tier fine mats (bloods/fangs/etc). Depending on how long you’ve been playing, most people have minor stock piles gathered passively over the course of the last couple of years. if you don’t have that, you’ll have to turn to the TP to find them…. and it’ll be VERY expensive.

Second problem is Mystic Clovers and Mystic Coins. Mystic coins are generated by the daily login rewards, and can be traded. However, due to the fixed rate they come in at, this has caused their price to steadily to increase over time. For HOT weapons you need minimum of 250 coins, which takes a full year to get on login rewards alone. For Mystic Clovers, you have 2 choices….. either craft them (which takes another 250 mystic coins), or try to get them through WvW and PvP reward tracks. The latter is time consuming, but still way faster then waiting on mystic coins from login rewards. At 1g per coin, buying them is not that bad proposition if you do things that generate decent gold.

The typical gold value of a HOT legendary is 2500-2700g in tradable materials. This doesn’t account for everything, due to how some items are obtained… but can be considered a “minimum” cost estimate to make these weapons.

and after all of that, I only just now realized you meant 67 master points rather then level 67….. in which case, half the stuff I wrote down isn’t relevant.

Ok…. so heres the quick and dirty on mastery points. You only need to do certain ones for Legendary crafting. Since you have access to LS3 maps, I HIGHLY recommend you do them to get the easy mastery points and MP achievements, and shove all of that into Leyline Gliding first, Itzel poison mastery second, and Nuhoch wallows if don’t already have them. These are the mobility mastery unlocks need to traverse all areas of the HOT Jungle, so you can get the various Mastery point challenges, hero points, and other map complete stuff. This makes getting the other mastery point/achievement stuff massively easier to fill out the tracks, so you can get the vendor stuff needed for Legendary crafting.

Ancient magics and Raid aren’t required for completion. However, Ancient magics have mobility skills that are needed for LS3 maps, and are worth taking since they have excess MP you can gain to put toward the main tracks.