Guild Wars 2

Ardent Glorious Raiment from the Ascended Armor League Vendor, under the Central Tyrian and Maguuma Ascended Light Armor tab, has a gold cost of 3g while all other chest pieces cost 4g.

The league vendor has a couple of items priced oddly under the Miscellaneous tab. The Shard of Glory Converter costs 50 PvP League Tickets + 0 Shards of Glory, and 10 Shards of Glory costs 1 PvP League Ticket and 500 Shards of Glory.

In spvp, your stats are tied to 1 piece of gear that you select for spvp only (that item doesn’t travel with you into pve, and it automatically get reapplied when you reenter spvp). The only pve gear that matters are your weapons, and only because your first five skills are tied to the weapons you are wielding. The stats from your pve gear have no effect on spvp. In wvw pvp, your pve stats determine your wvw stats. However, it’d probably be better just to have an alternate weapon/armor set for wvw rather than a character dedicated to it.

You mostly only get laurels from the daily login rewards. You can get tomes from a variety of sources (daily login rewards, pvp/wvw reward tracks to name a couple), and while you can grind out xp for levels, you can’t grind out xp for more laurels. That’s my logic for deciding to get laurels.

Also, when all your alts are max levels, you don’t need tomes, but you can still use laurels.

The fabulous Lamarius reporting for duty!

I’m unable to purchase gems as well. Says it can’t validate my credit card. Paypal fails as well.

My guess is that there aren’t any true Halloween dynamic events in act 1, so you won’t bad able to get this achievement until a later act.

Oh I see what you mean. Well this is 100% pure non-sourced opinionated speculation, but it may be possible to get more gifts by exploring future expansion areas.
I find it weird that they have only one legendary weapon made using other legendary weapons. It better be freaking cool.

Another option: find a legendary weapon you’ll want, and start working towards that. Should keep you busy for a while

Gifts of Exploration are account bound, so I would assume that you could get additional ones on additional toons.
However, I believe you are also mistaken on the amount of Gifts of Exploration you need. You should only need one.
You do need other types of gifts though, a Gift of Mastery forged using a Gift of Exploration and a Gift of Battle, as well as a Gift of Fortune forged using a Gift of Magic and a Gift of Might.
Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Eternity

Sisho.5431:

There will be more guild upgrades added when they do the big guild update patch in the distant future. That is where it will be nice to already have the level 5 done and ready for new upgrades.

So basically, it’s just future-proofing the guild upgrade system. If you have other upgrades to purchase, I would spend my influence there first.

Teriel.6379:

Mystic Tube x 1 + Mystic Core x 1 + Mystic Essence x 1 + Mystic Casing x 1 = Mystic Forge Node this lets you use the mystic forge anywhere once.

Mystic Forge Node x 1 + Mystic Coins x 50 + Mystic Frame x 1 + Mystic Nexus x 1 = Mystic Forge Conduit same as node but not consumable

Everything is gained from the chest except the coins

Sounds like more work than it’s worth, since you can go to LA whenever you want for free.

Domination.4856:

You get it in the final zone, one of the heart sellers sell it to you. The aquatic helm I mean.

Could you help specify which vendor? I’m also assuming you’re talking about Frostgorge, since the other “final zone” doesn’t have hearts.