Guild Wars 2

I’ve been working towards the bifrost for quite some time now and started the journey by completing everything but the precursor first.

A year later, I finished the gifts and now I’m after the legend. What’s the preferred method of getting one? I’ve done the mystic forge only to be left empty handed and only a few silver. I saved my gold but it felt like the legend kept going up in price faster than I was making.

So should I save over a year or try my hand at the forge when I can?

Yes you should thats the best answer I can give

I feel like that’s the proverbial carrot on a stick approach.

The mystic forge will probably drive you crazy, so I would suggest saving up money.
That being said, if you were gonna MF for any precursor it would be the legend because it is so overwhelmingly expensive – possibly the most expensive item in the game other than pre-built legendaries and perhaps 1 or 2 very rare festive skins

It’s a bit late for my recommendation, which would be to save for the precursor while getting everything else.

One thing which might help is to periodically go through your bank, your materials tab and all your characters and have a really hard look at what you can sell, or salvage for materials you can sell.

I don’t consider myself a pack rat by any means, but when I did that I found I was hanging onto a lot of stuff ‘just in case’ which realistically I’d never use. Even if it doesn’t sell for much on it’s own it adds up.

I’ve been selling every and all T1-6 mats I’ve been salvaging about once a week. Such a long uphill battle that I’m tempted to gamble it all away. Lol, maybe I’ll get lucky… maybe.

I’ve pulled a dozen pres in the last week, two of them being the legend, and I still don’t recommend the Forge, save your gold and buy it.

I think I might just run dungeons/PvP for tokens and get the staff and then mystic forge those. All while saving gold. That seems like a win win situation to me.