Guild Wars 2

When I started this game, It floored me. Very beautiful. Impressive gameplay. The mesmer the best class to date in any mmo and will forever be my main on GW2.

So upon my return I notice people have a lot more legendaries now. I thought oh it’s because I was gone for a year. Nah. People have 5-6 Legendaries. I’m like how. How do people get this. Are they giving it out in Cereal boxes? I checked the Tyri-Os and the Orrian Risen Bran. Nothing. Not even in the cracker jack boxes. I even checked the mystic toilet to see if one was just sticking out of there.

Anywho, my question to those who have multi-legendaries.

How did you get that much gold or luck or whatever?

When I quit I was working on Bolt. I have almost all the materials to make it, and I had quit when Zap was like 340 gold? I check it now Zap is at the 1300-1400s. As many other precursors are. To me that’s insane. It basically got 4x harder for someone to get this. “Gold-wise” My luck is quite good but not THAT good apparently.

For the people who got it through gold:
Can you tell me how you did it. Routines and what not? If you don’t wanna share it feel free to just send it to me via PM. I know people say dungeons and stuff. But I’d like to have some very specific data to look at to see how people make gold like they do.

For the people who got it through luck:
It won’t help me much but it’s always cool to hear your stories.

People set aside 100g per month to buy a precursor within the last year you have been absent.

The new prices reflect that.

In some ways it’s easier to make money now than it was back then. But instead of coming back and thinking, must get a legendary, just get back into the game and play around and get some mats and gold and see what’s going on. People are farming foxfire clusters and making food. They’re farming Drytop and crafting clay pots. They’re running a range of dungeons.

No matter what you do, it’s going to be a long slog to get a legendary. So instead of making it THE focus of what you do, just work toward it slowly and see what happens.

A legendary is not the be all end all of this game. Making it so will mean when you get it you have nothing left to do.

A while back I looted Leaf of Kudzu off of Risen Grenth Priest, when I didn’t have any plans for legendaries. Figured “well ok why not”, grinded out 80% of the mats over the course of the next one-two months before I got lazy and bought the rest off the TP.

Then I bought the Minstrel precursor back when it was like 80g, did about half own grinding half TP buying and sold it off for major profit, some of which I used to buy the Hunter. It’s currently sitting in my bank while I again take my time casually gathering the stuff I need.

If you want to go the gold route: it’s pretty easy to get 30 to 50ish gold/day if you do full dungeon rotations (so AC all paths, CM 1+3 or all, TA up and forward, SE 1+3, CoE all, CoF 1+2, HotW 1) and sell the drops – if you get a good group it takes 2-3 hours tops, which isn’t enormous. You also get a bunch of skillpoints to use for either material promotion (T5 builds up pretty fast, and promoting them to T6 is that much saved from grinding/buying) or to use in various money-making schemes like crafting Mystic Forge weapons, siege blueprints upgrades or core -> lodestone promotion.

Then you can throw in some exploration and gathering to either use or sell the mats, or a nice little Orr run, or jump on the world boss rotation for sweet, delicious ectos.

Personally I enjoy putting in time and grinding stuff out on my own, so it takes me ages to get anything done, but I’ve friends who’ve crafted 3 legendaries since the beginning of the year just doing a hell of a lot dungeon running and some WvW for the karma.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I took the last 6 months off myself. Gotta say yeah, the current gold price on alot of things is very intimidating now. Although I have 4 legendaries account bound myself. My previous legendaries just came from playing the game.

For all my legendaries I purchased the precursors. I did have a precursor drop, but I crafted it and sold the legendary (quip). Most of my startup gold came from grinding whatever was considered the most beneficial at the time (boss chains, dungeons etc).

Before I quit 6 months back, I completely stripped my account of anything that was not account bound. I converted everything to gold and sent it all to my guild leader at the time. All I had when I returned was 8 characters with no armor or weapons, with the exception of my thief who I had a shortbow. I had some leftover dungeons tokens I forgot to transfer to gold and purchased a couple of pieces of dungeon armor. Its been two weeks now and Im back up to 200g in my account and a few hundred gold worth of materials etc. Somewhat starting from scratch, you can see it doesn’t take long to get on top of a precursor.

I play GW2 most nights. On an average night in the last two weeks, my time has been broken up approximately like this:

- 1 hour dungeon runs
- 1 hour BLK farm (storyline farming)
- 1 hour WvW
- Open world farming (pick a spot you think is good and farm the area)
- TP flipping

I find I don’t have tolerance to do any of these for a long time anymore. So by breaking up what I am doing regularly, it breaks up the monotony.