[are fractals needed to craft gen 2 legendary weapons?]

i  have tried searching on wiki but just get lost.  I know fractals are needed for gen 1 weapons.  i don't enjoy fractals.  Is there a full list of components/currency needed to craft gen 2 weapons somewhere?  

[Getting legendary bosses to spawn in Silverwastes]

The first run was just randoms running/upgrading. The next two times were riba maps. I hope my post does remove the curse, the mastery points would be nice, thanks anyway for your comments

[Getting legendary bosses to spawn in Silverwastes]

Three rotations of getting forts to lvl 4 and no legendary bosses. I know I am just cursed. Any ideas on how to remove curses?

[Desert highlands race]

Reddit says wait time is 40 minutes?! Ok waiting......

[Desert highlands race]

Any tips on how to get this to spawn? Other races started within 10 minutes of me standing in the area. It has been 25 minutes and no NPC yet

[Motivation for doing “minor” map events?]

I feel like I am missing something. I am not talking about meta events but just the small/solo events. The reward is experience, karma and about 80 copper. Is there some other hidden reward I am missing? I started to do an event, realized it didn’t count towards heart credit so I left. Not worth my time for 80 copper

[Dragonfall]

There was a tag complaining about F ing soloers doing events. Implying that there would not be enough keys to open chests because the “soloers” were doing events off of tag. Is this really the case? I am currently working on Skyscale for my 6 th account and am one of the soloers. Getting 30 events is just easier for me if I do them alone.

[Hammer head poi in thunderhead]

Tried for the 5 th time walking up to the poi, finally got it

[Hammer head poi in thunderhead]

Lol hammer hoard poi

[Hammer head poi in thunderhead]

Didn’t we used to get this poi by doing the story? Has this changed?

[easier way to see if/when I can get onto a sw map]

is there an easier way to see how many people are in silverwastes? I got into squad but couldn't get onto the map because it was full. I had to just keep right clicking on a random person in squad and hope I could get in. this is a pain to do imo. I ended up having to change maps twice because the first person I used to travel to their map was on a 3rd instance. if I could see that there are 5 people in the queue ahead of me would be helpful. something like wvw queue.