Guild Wars 2

Hi all

With all the marketing around the new expansion and time to actually play I was looking to get back into the game. I was a bit overwhelmed at first as I have played since first few months of release.

Im getting back into things but wanted to see if things were still the same for crafting legendaries and if people still ran dungeons regularly. I am out of practice but I think I’ll need to run Ascalon catacombs quite a bit for the armour for my Guardian. I think I either lost/used tokens since i still have 600+ from sorrows furnance for engineer gear, but no tears

Regarding the crafting my guild bank was empty, but one of my characters still had some of the gifts I think I needed. I was looking to create the rifle (Predator) and the Hammer (the Juggernaut)

This is what I have currently:
Gift of Knowledge, Metal, Wood, Forgeman, Exploration, Mastery
250 Silver Doubloons
78 Mystic Clovers
100 Icy Runestones
Superior Sigil of benevolence & Force
164 Mystic coins
157 Obsidian shards
392 Globs of ectoplasm
250 Orichalcum Ingots
250 Orrian Truffles
75 Vicious Fangs
105 Vicious Claws
80 Vials of Powerful Blood
130 Elaborate Totems
78 Armored Scales
93 Ancient Bones
115 Piles of Crystalline Dust
81 Powerful Venom Sacs

Most other things I only had a few of, so I assumed they either weren’t needed for the crafting process, or were rare. I only have about 30 gold at the moment so I just wondered what was the best procedure so far. I don’t remember farming for materials, I just kept what I picked up.

Any pointers would be appreciated.!

Welcome back!

Currently, legendaries are still acquired in the exact same method as with the release back in 2012. But with Heart of Thorns on October 23rd, a new method of acquiring the precursors for legendaries will be available through a new mastery track which lets each account earn every precursor once. Though the legendaries themselves will still involve some mystic forge crafting.

You can read this blog post here for the details on that.

As for dungeons, they are still very active and are run every minute through the LFG system, and with the daily gold rewards you receive from each path, it is quite a profitable method for acquiring gold quickly and efficiently.

To help with getting tier 6 materials, I recommend you spend some laurels on “Heavy Crafting Bags” which contain three random tier 6 materials each, which helps with a lot of the cost. With the new daily log in reward system, earning laurels is quite easy.

Thats good news, although I already used most of my gold to level crafting onmy engineer. I remember it being a lot cheaper to buy on the TP so I think I made a few mistakes. Not too bad, since it looks like Im a long way from any goals.

I think I will probably save up gold to buy the anomaly for my Mesmer and just keep going naturally till I have more gold saved up.

Im still feeling a bit too rusty to try out any dungeons again yet, might try a n00b friendly group first, or even story mode to gauge how dull my skills actually are.