Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,

As title says, I need some advices about starting my first Legendary.
I’m playing Elementalists, mainly using Daggers, sometimes Staff when WvW/dungeon, and rarely Scepter. Also, since I’m serving in the army, I have only 2-3 days of playing for every two weeks.

My questions are:
1) Cant choose which Legendary to craft; The Bifrost (rainbows aren’t my thing…), Meteorlogicus (as I said, rarely use scepter) or Incinerator (but having only 1 kinda looks weird no…?).

2) Does 2-3 days of farming materials is enough?

3) What’s your material rate of drop? worth it?

Thats all for now.

lmao 2-3 days??? youre in for a shock im afraid, id say honest gameplay it would take about 500 hours to get a legendary granted it is your first one.

1. If you can’t decide on which legendary to get, start with the generic steps that all legendaries require. Things like map completion, 500 badges of honor, clovers, t6 mats 1.1 mil karma etc.

2. 2-3 days of farming? For what exactly? Just to get my t6 mats, a friend and I farmed moldy bags in orr pent camp (before the nerf) for 2-3 weeks straight and he gave me all his mats he collected. Together we made 700g (the cost of the precursor) and the required amount of t6 mats for the gift of fortune.

3. I’m not really sure what you’re asking here.

I will say that making Bifrost (or any legendary) took months of hard work.
If you’re expecting it to take days, you better be prepared to whip out the credit card.

A lot of discussion on legendary making takes place in the crafting sub-forum here, so if you haven’t already you should check that out for some hints and tips.

I’m coming towards the end of the crafting journey for mine (Incinerator – I too am an ele) after I was lucky enough to get a precursor from the forge back during Wintersday and I’ve been plugging away it ever since. I usual play for 3-4 hours a day, more at weekends if I’m at home and I’ll admit to having struggled with the tier 6 mat collection the most. In particular the stacks of tier 6 mats you need for the gifts of might and magic – this is probably because I’m too easily distracted by other things to be a dedicated mat farmer for very long.

Things like the dungeon tokens and WvW badges which I thought would take me ages were actually pretty quick, the clovers weren’t too bad either as I had large reserves of unspent karma – ectos are ectos – pray to the god of RNG for luck or get out there and farm the cash to buy them. If going for Incinerator lodestones are also a farming challenge, cores are easier to come by but you will use precious tier 6 dust converting them to lodestones so in the end I found it easier to farm cash and buy them.

Making the clovers I got about 30-40 of each tier 6 mat by the end – maybe a few more as I can’t remember how many I had before I started. This leaves you over 200 of each to find through farming or buying of the TP.

Basically it won’t be quick if you plan to farm all the mats or the money to buy them yourself with only 2-3 days a week – but then for a legendary it probably shouldn’t be. Good luck with which ever one you end up going for – it has been a slog but I do think I will be proud of my achievement for all the effot that went into it in the end.

wefal.8426:

2) Does 2-3 days of farming materials is enough?

Try 2-3 months even longer for a casual player.
Maybe you should attempt crafting a high level exotic first? like Vision of the mists, Aether or one of the other expensive ones.

2-3 days is enough it will just be a long journey, hell its a long journey anyway i would do what Markus suggested go for a high level exotic, Vision sells for a lot so if you could make a few of these in the fraction of the time it takes to do the legendary then you could possibly buy the legendary sooner than farming it, depending on luck etc ofcourse too.