Guild Wars 2

I took a break from the game for a while, and the last time I was playing I was trying to build my first legendary (the Bifrost). I got my precursor and a few of the gifts, but much like last time I’m having trouble with the Gift of Fortune.

I’ve looked around online for advice on the best way to get T6 mats, but most of the info is outdated. Do any of you guys know what the best way to get them is? From what I can tell it’s still unreliable to farm them.

Also, what’s the best way to farm gold since dungeon gold was nerfed (I used to farm it almost exclusively from dungeon speed runs).

Laurels, if you don’t want to spend them on anything in particular, or the new map rewards. Mouse over the zone names and you’ll see what you get for doing events in that map.

For gold, that depends of what you want to do. Silverwastes, the Halloween labyrinth right now, farming wood and metal (via rich ore nodes). Those are the ones that I can stand in the way of farming things. Other than that, Auric Basin in HoT has a moderate amount of T6 wood and orichalcum ore, but if you just returned, I suppose you don’t have HoT (yet).
And I think there are still champ trains in Cursed Shore and Frostgorge Sound going, but you’ll need LFG to find them.

Oh, and if you are patient and haven’t account/soulbound your precursor yet, you should have the option to train precursor collections to get one for free (accountbound, but you don’t need gold). You could do the corresponding collection and sell the other precursor to buy the T6 mats off the TP.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I do have HoT. I haven’t bound my precursor yet, does it take long to get one for free?

I don’t know, I’m waiting for the HoT-specific ones, but those won’t come until we get the raids.
There are a few threads about precursor collections around, maybe someone in there knows the details. You could always wiki your precursor and see what it takes, whether you need to collect a lot of stuff or have most of it lying around.
And at least one of the collections is bugged (Twilight, I think) and can’t progress past tier 1 at the moment. The wiki probably has specifics on that.

There is no “best” way — it really depends on how you like to play. Personally, I always recommend doing whatever you like and then purchasing the mats from the TP (using custom buy orders). That’s mostly because I value my time and how much fun I’m having during that time over saving a few silver.

Other popular choices include:

• converting laurels via Heavy Crafting Bags
• farming champ bags (that drop them)
• Farming specific mats using specific farms, such as karka (southsun, for shells), skelk (southsun, for blood and poison), orr (for bones, poison), mad king lab (for bones, poison).
• Farming the most valuable (or least boring) of those paths, selling off what you don’t need to fund what you want.

Do the clovers first, since you need them anyways and should get some t6 from “failed” attempts.

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Do the clovers first, since you need them anyways and should get some t6 from “failed” attempts.

Yeah, I’ve done the clovers already and got a few T6 from it (lots of leather, sadly).