Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to get the Pristine Shadow Claw, however I haven’t seen a Shadowscale yet. I’m hoping it’s not a typo for Smokescale?

Yeah I think it is a typo I had one drop from a smokescale for me earlier today.

Mine dropped from a smokescale. A veteran one, as a matter of fact, but I don’t know if that means anything. What is it for, anyway?

Thanks guys. It’s for the Reaper collection to build the ascended Greatsword.

Oh, there are class specific ascended weapons? Thats neat. Do you have a picture for it? I’m curious to see what it looks like. Also, how difficult is it to make? Is there a guide for it some where?

Yeah, sorry, I know. To many questions at once :p

All good. So if you go into your collections, there’s a specialization collection. The final reward is the ascended version of the GS you get for becoming an elite spec.

I’m actually wondering if there’s a good place to “farm” smokescales (and yes it is a confirmed typo)

Close to the rally point northwest to the noble ledges, west of the blighted tree. There are also a bunch around Teku Nuhoch in Tangled Depths.
Finally, one of the areas in Dragon’s Stand that only open up after a meta event has several veteran smokescales. If you are there already, you might want to kill them while opening pods.

There is a “nest” of smokescale close to the “drone adventure” (B.R.U.T.A.L)
you can find up to 6 smokescale at the same time wich is the best I’ve found yet.
And yes, the scale drop from smokescale with quite a low rate.
got mine from a standard mob after hours of smokescale farming.

Man, I guess I was lucky… The scale was the first thing I got after unlocking reaper other than the sword

I was lucky as well. Got mine drop from a Normal Smokescale in VB on the second HoT-day.

I got mine from a single random smokescale in the ruins of Verdant Brink.

I happened to get both the shadowscale claw and the saurian’s breath items from the same mob as well.

That was my good luck for the rest of the year, I guess.