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Lunar New Year prizes - Legendary Essence of Luck


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So, this might be a dumb question, but I'm a bit confused... I'm looking at the Lunar New Year prizes, the miniatures and such, and everything seems to require a bunch of Legendary Essence of Luck. It looks like this can't be crafted (why?) and the only way to get it is by chance from opening lucky envelopes. So if I want one of the miniatures, I basically have to just open a load of envelopes and hope to get some? Is there another way? That just seems kind of shifty... 

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3 weeklies should be easy to do. The 4th weekly ... depending on when and how often you play. (I usually get the 4th one es well.) With the added minis there is a bit more pressure to do the last weekly as well + going for the other sources. Especially for new players that might need the skins from the previous annuals.

I guess it would have been better to offer the minis for exotic essences while giving the legendary ones another use. (I know people complained that there was no use anymore if they maxed out their magic find based on luck.) Or a salvage option to split them into smaller ones.

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Not a stupid question OP.  I was confused as well.  You can choose to get legendary essences from the Shining Aureate weapon chest https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shining_Aureate_Weapon_Chest

This will get you one weiner dog or one tortoiseshell cat lol.  It's nice that they're putting them to use but it was a little disappointing that I can't have my mini today, and since the essences aren't craftable for whatever reason.  

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Ah. Totally forgot about that. Thanks for mentioning it again, Farohna. Then it won't be too hard for new players. Just more stuff to decide between. And in the end ... after a few years  ... everything is possible. I will finish the weapon sets from that chest in 4 days or so. Then I can only use it for the essences (making the minis easy).

Long-term they still will need an option for the leftover essences for people that completed everything. (Well ... at least there is still Drooburt.) Making them salvageable could be an option that would not devalue them ... if they were still hard to obtain. (= no recipe to combine/craft them back into thee legendary one. Only 1-way salvaging into the smaller ones.) Exotic ones already have a good variety of  uses.

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16 hours ago, hornedchick.6841 said:

So, this might be a dumb question, but I'm a bit confused... I'm looking at the Lunar New Year prizes, the miniatures and such, and everything seems to require a bunch of Legendary Essence of Luck. It looks like this can't be crafted (why?) and the only way to get it is by chance from opening lucky envelopes. So if I want one of the miniatures, I basically have to just open a load of envelopes and hope to get some? Is there another way? That just seems kind of shifty... 

if yer an old vet you have tons i mean TONS of that worthelss stuff. this is a way to get something for it.

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I wasn't sure I'd be able to get enough for the two minis until I found out the Shining Aureate Weapon chest gives 8 of them. 

I know they also come from the weekly achievements, but it's unlikely I'll be able to play enough across each different week to get the weekly achievement multiple times. I can probably do it this week but after that I'm not sure. But I should be able to manage the dailies on 8 days (I already had 2 days carried over from last year).

 

13 hours ago, Kelly.7019 said:

if yer an old vet you have tons i mean TONS of that worthelss stuff. this is a way to get something for it.

If you mean equipment pieces that doesn't help because legendary essences of luck only come from salvaging exotic helms, and then apparently it's very rare. You also can't upgrade the lower tier essences to legendary.

Also I've been playing since launch but I haven't maxed out my magic find, so when I don't need something I salvage it and use the luck right away.

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