WvW & PVP Legendary Gear, Items & Weapons

[HULK THE SUPER SAIYAN.2609]

Hi in all fairness there is a significant portion of WvW & PVP only players who do not enjoy crafting etc. and I believe more prospect players who would play GW2 if there was a way for participation in only WvW  and PVP to earn legendary gear, items & weapons without any crafting skills. Please balance out the game play access to gear and items.

Thank You

Dr Charles Bronder

[Yakuzai.6593]

pvp legendary armory is already the easiest and cheapest way to go.

Its literally "just play pvp" - while doing so, you generate automatically mystic clovers from reward tracks and the only limiting factor are "ascended shards" which you also automatically get from every ranked season. 

The only craft aspect, is crafting those "gift of x" things but ... wow just take 30 min, watch a guide on how to lvl up craftmanship and craft it xD.

Rest is all throwing into mystic toilet and the magic happens on its own 😛 

 

Now you could say that you dont even want all this stuff with materials and so, just buying leggy stuff directly with a special currency, but dont tell me that you never play pve.... why else do u want legendary stuff in the first place? In pvp you can play anything you want anyways, easily switchting between, dps, tank, supp. Another direct way to get instantly legendary weapons is the tournament of legends i belive, winner can choose any legendary weapon. But Yes WvW is different ...

 

But yeah, a few more leggy stuff would be nice - i think we can expect that. I mean they made another step towards this goal by bringing leggy amu to pvp, who knows more items are maybe to come 

Edited June 8, 2021 by Yakuzai.6593

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

Do prospective Guild Wars 2 players really research the exact method of acquiring Legendary gear before playing the game? 

[Danikat.8537]

Do you mean legendary weapons specifically?

 

Because WvW and PvP armour, backpacks and trinkets are already made without crafting. The gifts they require are created in the Mystic Forge, which is just a matter of double clicking the necessary components to add them to the Forge and then clicking the button to combine them - it can be done by any character and does not require any crafting skills, levelling up or anything like that.

 

Retracted, because it turns out some of the gifts are crafted, others are made in the Mystic Forge.

 

(Having said that levelling crafting in this game is also relatively quick and simple compared to a lot of MMOs. It's mostly a matter of having the materials or gold to buy them, if you've got that you can level a craft in a couple of hours, possibly even less, and the crafting itself is just a matter of picking what you want from the list and clicking confirm, there's no chance of failure or mini game you have to play to complete it or anything like that.)

 

2 hours ago, Inculpatus cedo.9234 said:

Do prospective Guild Wars 2 players really research the exact method of acquiring Legendary gear before playing the game? 

It wouldn't surprise me if some do. I know some people will look into what's required to reach the maximum level and/or top tier equipment before starting a new MMO because they've had a bad experience with a previous game and don't want to find themselves faced with another endless grind to try to meet requirements.

 

Although in that case I assume they'd find out that ascended has the same stats as legendary and is much easier to acquire, and that even ascended isn't required for most things and can't be used at all in sPvP.

Edited June 8, 2021 by Danikat.8537

[Dawdler.8521]

In WvW you can arrive at a random camp with 5 random friendlies there to cap it. 

 

At least 4 will have legendaries.

[Manasa Devi.7958]

7 minutes ago, Danikat.8537 said:

Do you mean legendary weapons specifically?

 

Because WvW and PvP armour, backpacks and trinkets are already made without crafting. The gifts they require are created in the Mystic Forge, which is just a matter of double clicking the necessary components to add them to the Forge and then clicking the button to combine them - it can be done by any character and does not require any crafting skills, levelling up or anything like that.

 

You need an armor/weapon crafting skill at 500 to craft a Cube of Dark Energy, and a weapon crafting skill at 400 to craft the 8 trophy gifts .(Gift of Bones, Claws, Totems, etc.) They may be the same skill so 1 weapon crafting skill at 500 will do.

 

Of course, it takes such an ungodly amount of time to get a full armor in WvW without any crafting, you might as well craft for an hour or so to shave months off the complete process.

Edited June 8, 2021 by Manasa Devi.7958

[Danikat.8537]

4 minutes ago, Manasa Devi.7958 said:

You need an armor/weapon crafting skill at 500 to craft a Cube of Dark Energy, and a weapon crafting skill at 400 to craft the 8 trophy gifts .(Gift of Bones, Claws, Totems, etc.) They may be the same skill so 1 weapon crafting skill at 500 will do.

 

Of course, it takes such an ungodly amount of time to get a full armor in WvW without any crafting, you might as well craft for an hour or so to shave months off the complete process.

Oh that's weird. I'm sure I remember making them in the mystic forge, but clearly my memory is wrong. I double checked on the Wiki when posting that, but I must have only looked at the higher level recipes; the Gift of Prosperity and Gifts of Condensed Might and Magic are made in the Mystic Forge. It's weird that it changes part way through the process.

 

Ok so it does require crafting, but even so I don't think it's a big commitment to level crafting in this game, especially compared to everything requires to make legendary armour. In other MMOs I've played crafting is a big commitment, there's a lot of time gating (as in it will take you months or even years to fully level it) it requires the same skill points or whatever as combat skills so for a while you're going to be making your character weaker by learning it and crafting anything useful is very expensive, with no guarantee it will succeed. In a lot of games I don't bother because it's not worth the hassle but in GW2 I've been able to level every craft except scribe, and I only gave up on that one because my guilds didn't need another scribe and I don't need it myself.

[Manasa Devi.7958]

18 minutes ago, Danikat.8537 said:

Oh that's weird. I'm sure I remember making them in the mystic forge, but clearly my memory is wrong. I double checked on the Wiki when posting that, but I must have only looked at the higher level recipes; the Gift of Prosperity and Gifts of Condensed Might and Magic are made in the Mystic Forge. It's weird that it changes part way through the process.

 

Yeah, it is weird, and I can sympathize with your confusion. A month or 2 ago when I last crafted the condensed might and magic gifts, I tried to mystic forge the constituent gifts and didn't understand why it didn't work. Turns out, my artificer had the 8 recipes unlocked and I must've used them dozens of times. Completely slipped my mind apparently. 

Edited June 8, 2021 by Manasa Devi.7958

[Veprovina.4876]

I woudl appreciate a vendor that i can sell my Emblems to for skirmish tickets - up to the weekly maximum of course, no more. A more active way of obtaining them for people who fight a lot but don't necesarily have time to spend 40 hours in WvW waiting for the chests to fill up. I don't understand why this isn't a thing already.

 

Other than that, what little crafting there is, is really not that bad. You do need to craft gifts, cubes of dark energy and grandmaster marks (if you want to be done with them before the game servers shut down), but other than that, WvW legendaries are pretty straightforward - if a bit impossible for people who have a life.

[frareanselm.1925]

For me account bound 2nd gen legendaries is a huge mistake, I hate crafting and farming materials. If I earn the gold playing pvp and wvw why the hell cant I buy one???

[Junkpile.7439]

Give free legendary every thousand wvw rank

[Infusion.7149]

2 hours ago, frareanselm.1925 said:

For me account bound 2nd gen legendaries is a huge mistake, I hate crafting and farming materials. If I earn the gold playing pvp and wvw why the hell cant I buy one???

Neither can someone playing PvE, so this has nothing to do with WvW/PvP.

 

For me, that's partly why I made the ones that require effort (Nevermore, Astralaria, Chuka & Champawat , working on HOPE) , because they are not just "swipe credit card" items.

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Given that grandmaster mark shards still exist and aren't for a luxury item (legendaries are a luxury), good luck with this suggestion. Crafting isn't particularly hard.

 

Even God of WvW hasn't had a legendary box.

Edited June 8, 2021 by Infusion.7149

[frareanselm.1925]

35 minutes ago, Infusion.7149 said:

Neither can someone playing PvE, so this has nothing to do with WvW/PvP.

 

For me, that's partly why I made the ones that require effort (Nevermore, Astralaria, Chuka & Champawat , working on HOPE) , because they are not just "swipe credit card" items.

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Given that grandmaster mark shards still exist and aren't for a luxury item (legendaries are a luxury), good luck with this suggestion. Crafting isn't particularly hard.

 

Even God of WvW hasn't had a legendary box.

Yeah I feel that anet dont want people buy legends with credit cash. They should disable gems to gold. Because ingame earned gold is as valuable and requires high effort like crafting. An the amount of money that crafters would sell them would be fair.

[DeanBB.4268]

7 minutes ago, frareanselm.1925 said:

They should disable gems to gold. 

No, they shouldn't. It is a revenue generator for Anet, and fights the gold sellers. Plus the opposite would be lost as well, gold to gems. Whose gems do you think are being bought, anyway?

 

Besides, how does it affect one person if another buys gold via gems? Even if they bought a legendary, how would that negatively affect another? (not trying to start up the P2W arguments again...)