Don’t pay the absurd price on the TP. Don’t give them your money.
Lady Luck is your only friend now. As the guy above said, do not use your money for Greatswords to throw into the Mystic Forge. The Mystic Forge is cruel and does not favor the players. Odds are against you, a thousand to one.
I’d recommend just continuing to open chests and hope to get it as a random drop until the Scavenger Hunt.
Helia – Stormbluff Isle – [MORD]
Have you got the rest of the materials you need to upgrade it to Twilight? I haven’t got anything like enough gold for a precursor yet (probably Kudzu for me, or maybe Dawn for my warrior) but I am just slowly gathering the rest of the stuff I need and then I’ll see what kind of state my finances are in when I have everything else ready – or if indeed I’ve been lucky and found a precursor somewhere. By then, the scavenger hunt or some other precursor-dropping event could have been implemented, hopefully. Even if I don’t get a drop myself, it would presumably drop the prices in the TP the way the Karka event did.
In the meantime, the weapon I have is just as good stat-wise (it’s another exotic), so I’m not losing out.
Good luck!
Laurelinde & Cookie/Beorna Bearheart
[TWG] – Gunnar’s Hold
Always remember Wheaton’s Law
so hard.