Guild Wars 2

Manasa Devi.7958:

Gathering far less stuff through the exact same general play and selling it to make the gold you need to buy a precursor off the TP sounds like a better idea. I don’t see an upside in spending more time and resources.

The idea behind it is to discover the story behind it, if ANET is good at anything, they are good at intricate stories. Imagine all the backstory and characters in the game they needed to link together, NPC’s they needed to add to put more depth of story to the game.

Yes if you just want to buy the legendary weapons then do it and stop complaining, but from what I have seen so far with the 2 precursor collections that I have started, is that there is far more depth to the game than I initially thought. For a while I just thought The Moot was something of a joke weapon, but it turns out its a time honored Norn tradition. I find all of the little random facts your find everywhere about the legendarys pretty cool.

It also makes it feel like you are actually working towards something (at least for me). Rather than just farming for everything for money.

Different thought though: if you are looking to make money, buy the cheap yellow armor runes and mystic forge them. A 12g investment ususally gets me a 12g average profit over the investment. More if you are lucky enough to find more than one Supirior rune of Strengths (15g on averge) . Hoelbrak’s are another good one (at about 6g average). It’s a good way to farm for some gold, but its boring and can kill your wrists after 10 minutes of double clicking.