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- We can already prepare for some of the most time and resource incentive components of the new Obsidian Legendary Armor, which can be gained through playing mostly Secrets of the Obscure content.
This time around you will not have to Raid, engage in World vs World, or PvP to obtain your own set of armor. Instead, you can get one by farming Rifts, Meta Events, and a few other things in the Skywatch Archipelago, Amnytas, and a few of the other SotO zones.
Instead of going over the list of ingredients per component, I tried bundling them all together and give you the best ways on how to obtain a lot of them without even having to farm!
If you want to prepare for your first set of Legendary Armor, you won't need to roll for Mystic Clovers in the Mystic Forge, or buy them from the vendors. Instead, I'll show you how by playing casually and frequently, all of these hard to get materials will take care of themselves.
The same goes for items such as Cases of Captured Lightning, Pouches of Stardust, Amalgamated and Purified Kryptis Essences, etc.
In preparation of this guide, I've made a few other video guides that are already released, which will be linked in the pinned comment. I'm also working on a few extra videos with material specific farms, so that you can get a set by spending minimal gold!
0:47 Base Breakdown
1:44 Astral Ward Armor
2:32 Mystic Clovers
4:15 Spirit Shards
5:35 Gift of Craftsmanship (Provisioner Tokens)
6:25 Gift of Research (Research Notes)
8:15 Daily Meta Events
9:02 Fractals
9:52 jRift Farming (Amalgamated Kryptis Essences)
11:23 Globs of Ectoplasm
12:32 Different Gifts (material sinks)
13:59 Blish HUD
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Obsidian Armor: wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Obsidian_armor
Research Notes: th-cam.com/video/_oFVE1Kw7sA/w-d-xo.html
Spirit Shards: th-cam.com/video/fdMaB55qLYw/w-d-xo.html
Optimal Rift Farming: th-cam.com/video/PoMpJmZyHEI/w-d-xo.html
Provisioner Tokens: th-cam.com/video/dnfT3_VZhFY/w-d-xo.html
T5/T6 Claw Farming: th-cam.com/video/3QyxJHQ3dx0/w-d-xo.html
T5/T6 Venom Farming: th-cam.com/video/voDDHbSICsw/w-d-xo.html
I think for provisioner - if you can buy just these:
Lions arch for mystic forge stone
Black citadel for obsidian shard
2 a day is 60 per month and we have 6 months to release. Plenty of time.
Appreciate this guide, I avoided legendarys for so many years and just started getting around to it and crafted about 6 so far and this new set was scary as well but now it feels like with the amount of time I have to obtain it this isn’t so bad
Happy to hear that! It is a big hurdle, but such a huge quality of life.
Any build will become a possibility with the stat swapping :)
Solid advise on ectos. I'm lightyears away from collecting most of the materials, but already have almost all the ectos from salvaging (been playing for a couple months).
TY for making a guide easily digestible for a beginner like myself!
Glad the guide can help :) Getting ahead of the ectos is always a good thing with these crafts, as they might swing up or down in price depending on availability/people wanting to make the new armor. That way you're not bound to the Trading Post prices.
YES! Thank you so much! I've been wanting Legendary Armor guides since I found your channel.
10:46 all weekly rifts done, except Tangled Depths, I feel you man
For the amalgamated kryptis essence the wiki lists the number of ectos needed to craft one. Which is only 50 ectos so 600 for a fulll set. If you buy from the vendor instead of crafting it costs 10 ectos more. So you save ectos by crafitng yourself with a level 400 crafter
It's 12 per piece not for the set. On top of that you will need several purified to buy the Astral ward armor.
Seems to have been the case with a lot of things in game for a long time; crafting is cheaper, I guess because some people will pay more for convenience to buy it straight off the TP. Which is confusing for a lot of items which are simple and easy to craft...
@@WordsOfTheTeacher im sure alot of people (myself included) dont have level 500 crafting in all the crafting professions and thus cannot craft alot of things... which is part of the reason ive never tried making legendary items... all requires crafting...
You need a total of 78 amalgamated for one full set, so 3900 ectos:/
You are insanely good at explaining things in a simple and friendly way, it genuinely feels nice to just listen to what you say, top tier video, well done Phandrel
Thank you, really appreciate the kind words :)
huge video. you are appreciated man. you took my demoralization and turned it into motivation.
Great to hear!
Fantastic guide, thank you very much for this!
Got bored with rifts after the first 20.
Yeah, they're ok for what you need to do the story/skyscale, but fuck doing that for months to get a legendary.
@@ianashmore9910well, its a legendary -_-
In the next two quarterly patches they’re adding new types of rifts: legendary bosses and instanced content like Dragonstorm. That said…legendaries take grinding. Like, this video just kinda skips over the fact that doing everything that they say you should do daily, for 3 months, is a huge amount of time. Farming gold through more difficult content like fractals and raids is going to be more time-efficient for players who are able to do that, which is why that’s the method that most players with lots of legendaries will use instead of doing everything themselves.
I like it more than grinding say pvp matches for example
If you are a raider, or pvper then this Leg armorset is not for you. Maybe Wvw players will like this though because they love to grind.
Whoa I had no idea about that Ember Bay Unbound Magic tip. Thank you!
Thanks to you I am beginning my legendary journey in 3, 2, 1... Thank you so much!
Awesome! And good luck! It will seem daunting at times, but trust me, the whole pay off is more than worth it, let alone the gear you acquire :)
One thing to add is that Convergence Rifts will be coming (instanced content with legendary kryptis bosses) and will probably give you more essences than what is done now.
Really hoping this is the case...would make this grind feel way better...
@@fullmetalathlete Also hope they drop the other Tier essence- its terrible to use all essences to create motivations- and then have to re-farm lower Tiers to continue to build motivations.
Then anet is a liar then since they told us that this armor is purely open world and doesnt require raid type difficulty
@@Dark_Wizard_of_Mu I dont believe this is a lie. Legendary rifts arent required (as of yet) they simply are a tool to quicken the process.
@@andrewmarceau422 Why will anet add that if there's already Raid armor which is quicker to get.
Great video! I know it's not updated for the latest release, but it is helpful to see everything laid out like this. I never ever thought I'd ever be able to get legendary gear, so I have to admit this is pretty exciting! Back when this was first released, I didn't think that I could do the rift farming to get what you need. I actually think it won't be as hard as people were originally freaking out about on reddit. The convergences is giving a lot each time you do it and the weekly rifts are good too. I'll definitely go check out your provisioner token video. I need to really start working on those ones for sure.
So glad to hear that! I will most likely make an updated one right before the next update so everyone has the latest info to craft the armor :)
And you're totally right! Weekly Rifts + Convergences will take you pretty far. If you casually do a few of them every week, you'll rack up more essences than you might realize.
nem sabia q estava vindo uma legendaria nova, se bem q nem tenho a expansão
thanks for the video
Thanks for this. I've been doing Convergences daily ( sometimes a few times a day since I love them ) and I'm... kinda drowning in essences already after 100+ wins. There is a little gold from them too, which is nice, so right now I'm trying to build the 12 Amalgamated Kryptis Essences per piece and the bottleneck is definitely the ecto.
To mitigate my lack of ecto, I've been taking the slew of T5 mats I have such as mithril, elder wood, silk, etc and some of the cheapest T5 fine mats ( claws, fangs, scales ), working them up into krait shells ( L80 rare shields ) or masquerade leggings ( L80 rare legs ) and then salvaging them in bulk with master kits I bought for karma in Lake Doric ( Cin Fursarai at the Lakeside Bazaar gets a lot of business from me ). This can be just from mats that have built up from salvaging blues/greens/yellows from regular play and it's a way to convert "useless mats" into free ecto with a little karma spent on the kits ( I'm all out of Mystic Forge Stones for the 250 use kits but they work too of course ).
Many thanks for the videos on how to convert volatile magic and unbound magic into T5/6 fine materials; those were incredibly helpful and it helped me liquidate those old season 3/4 mats into something useful!
Thanks! and awesome to read! You seem to have found a good routine that works to generate the materials you need.
If you ever need a change of pace, you could try and amass treasure chests from certains and metas. I made a video about those as well, with the expected loot per map around 3:25, should you be interested (th-cam.com/video/mnTRhKgy854/w-d-xo.html ).
D.U.D.E.🤯 thanks so much 😮 Dankeschön ❤
very cool guide, I won't be making obsidian armor since raid armor is a lot less of a hassle to actually get given you play raids which I do
For t6 trophies and long term income of clovers you can also do drizzlewood. Just park alt there and buy 10 keys daily, then donate materials (check fast farm), voila, yyou are getting gold, materials and clovers. Slowly but steadily with minimal time investment.
Not sure the math is right, or perhaps i misread the wiki. I've been reading the recipe as a per slot calculation, which would imply you would need 6 Gift of Expertise to make an armor set. If that's true, you need 18k Essence of Despair for that alone.
One other note is that the Gift of "Map Name" would also need 6 each for a full armor set. You get one from the first map completion, and you can get more by lighting all the laterns in the map (which is a repeatable achievement) rewarding the Chest of the Obscure.
On a positive note, even with the higher amounts of essences needed if the recipe is per slot... you would have enough for 1.5 armor sets if you do the weekly focus rifts with motivations in hand and full mastery.
Would love to see your guide on salvaging unidentified gears
Spending 60 astral acclaim on one clover only makes sense if you have emptied the vault of the 6 pt gold bags. It's costs about 4g to mystic forge a clover, on average. Or, equivalent to 4 bags (24 astral acclaim). It then makes more sense to prioritize the 90 bags of gold rather than the mystic clovers. Also applies for the mystic coins. You'll get way more value or of the mystic coins than the clovers.
TLDR: empty the vault of mystic coins and bags of gold before purchasing clovers.
They just posted special effects on this leg armor...Gorgeous.
I just saw the trailer as well! I know it's underwhelming for some, but I am a fan of them.
So I'll definitely unlock whatever needs unlocking.
My experience with crafting legendary armor is to craft the clovers first because of the extra materials you get. It sucks to farm or buy all the materials and then gamble for clovers and found that you could have saved gold
also,about selling t6 mats etc b4 the armour is released,the price will blow out of the water the closer the release comes so any gains now would be stripped if you need to buy t6 or other mats on release.also the ember bay bags have a chance of clovers as a drop (2)
Very true! I am currently focusing most of my farming on those types of materials, and will be for the coming weeks. So I don't mind selling them as I get them, granted that I already have the rune(s) unlocked.
thx to the unintended subtitles i now need to see my dr about 'astral warts'
Haha, I really should start uploading my script so TH-cam stops inventing new diseases.
11:27 The wiki is listing the crafting recipe costs, idk why but anet put an npc in the wizards tower that sells you all of the crafted components for the armor for their crafting costs+10 ecto. idk for ppl who dont want to lvl crafters?
oh thats good then.. leveling crafting is tedious and annoying and i still dont have a level 500 crafter... the highest i got was 400 tailoring then gave up... fuck crafting....
This isn't all that is required for the armor. This list does not include the essence, ecto, and research notes being used to make Motivations. If you aren't using motivations you will have to do up to 25 rifts just to get one stack of Despair. If you aren't using your own motivations and leeching off of others, you are looking at about 500 rifts between all three Rift tiers for each piece!
I have spent almost 2000 ecto so far to get all the astral ward set and make the first set of gifts for only a single piece. Motivations is the death knell of this farm.
I agree with "Motivations" being ridiculous and absurd. Hell, i don't even mind the clovers, but this....
The 12 amalgamated essences for 600 ecto is not an error. The crafting recipe uses 50 ecto. The vendor takes 60. It is 10 ecto cheaper to craft each essence! Or, 720 ecto cheaper over a full set.
Indeed! and thanks for pointing it out! For some reason that escaped my mind when I recorded my voice over.
as for the essences of luck, since we need to wait anyways: the lunar new years festival awards TONS of luck, really worth farming too
Ty
I geuss the 500SS will get me some gems! ty mate!
This seems like it will still take longer and be more expensive than any other way pf getting legendary armor. I think this armor will be the pinnacle of achievement for a player. Even if someone doesnt like competitive or raids, its still objectively easier and less time and gold to do other routes than this. Seems more of a prestigious thing than another legendary armor set. That medium armor looks tough though.
I could imagine a lot of people who have the Medium Raid armor would be willing to go through the effort for a new look :P
I do hope they're animated in some way or form, like the raid armors
perfected envog with its visual effect is still best for me
I love the visuals of the Envoy armor as well! I kinda hope we get something cool with the Open World armor too.
I really wish they made the "open world" legendary armor not just bound to SOTO stuff... Would be awesome if they split up the armor so 1/4 is a huge grind from each expansion.
The final update will introduce a second tier to the armour, which is rumoured to be like the Aurene variants. So I hope those will have us go back to all the other areas.
That would be awesome!@@phandrel
Thank you for this video! ♥ A question, if I may. I'm working on my light legendary obsidian armor and I'm at a point of buying Astral Ward armor. Is it just for the achievement or the item itself is important? Because if it's just for the achievement of having the whole set (all 6 skins), then I can buy medium or heavy, right? If it's not for the armor pieces itself, then I won't need the whole spare exotic Astral Ward gear when I'm done with legendary. I can have the whole set of exotic Astral Ward armor in other weights, right?
As far as we know, you are absolutely correct. The wiki currently states that you need to complete to collections (there's still 1 set that will be released), which will let you purchase the "Arcanum of Astral Armor" for 1 Lesser Vision Crystal per piece. They also mention in each specific collection that you can select whatever weight you prefer.
So, unless ANet pulls a fast one (which I doubt, because the tiered releases were also done in a way to help us prepare), you should be more than fine selecting another weight set. If you want absolute certainty, you could postpone the actual purchases until the update, which is in 40 days, and keep the mats in your bank ready.
Thank you so much!@@phandrel
NOTE: at 14:48 the Magic Warped Packet is highlighted- but you'd need to purchase the BUNDLE for the mats required. @Phandrel- can you explain why Ember Bay is better than the other vendors? Wiki Shows its more expensive q/gold- but far less in resources, and doesnt appear to differentiate the mats received based on location.
Yeah thanks for pointing that out! I added an arrow in the other video, there's sadly little I can change on this one.
As why Ember Bay specifically, you can check the drop rates here: fast.farming-community.eu/conversions/unbound-magic
Basically, the Budnles contain Trophies and a possibility for Mystic Clovers, whilst the packets are mainly wood/cloth/ore. On top of that, the Ember Bay one costs you 40 silver + 1250 UM, while the others might be lower in UM (500), but they cost 1 gold each.
@@phandrel Thanks for the breakdown on cost! As someone that has both gold and resources- I'd rather bang out the most bundles- and not worry as much of the cost- but more for the results. Great videos BTW, just found your channel- and have been watching bunches of them!
@@andrewmarceau422 Thank you!
If you complete 4 rifts a day with motivations, you'll have enough essence for the legendary armour when it comes out
~34 essence per rift x 4 rifts = 136 essence
136 essence a day x 270 days = 36,720 essence. More than enough
This is a great point!
I was hoping the leggy PVE armour would include all aspects of the PVE world, not just the new xpac. Very disappointing. They had a real opportunity to included older content and make money by adding components from other xpacs. Instead we get rift hunting until our eyes bleed.
i hoped for that too, but wasn't surprised that it wasn't the case tho. Every new legendary released to date has always required content from whatever expansion or LS was active at the moment it was released.
What they should have done, is to incorporate the Kryptis invasion in the existing map metas. For example, you are doing Tequatl then suddenly Kryptis began to spawn massive portals or maybe corrupting the Tequatl making it stronger.
If they were to stick to having to hunt rifts, it would be nice if they would add rifts to other continents and make it a global event. That way we can hunt rifts while doing other content AND players that are new and working their way through the game can build up comps to get their leggy armor so they have a lot of the grind out of the way when they hit endgame.
I mean there's a chance this won't be the one and only legendary pve set. And if they add more in the future it would be redundant for them all to include all of pve, this is meant to be a selling point for this expansion
Hm, something I am not understanding with this new Legendary Armor set. How do we pick the final weight class of the armor itself? With WvW and Raid legendary armor, we upgrade a precursor that is the armor piece/weight class of the Legendary Armor piece we want, but with this set, the "precursor" item is generic.
I assume that'll become clear either with the next update, or the one that introduces the armor.
It wouldn't surprise me we have to buy the armor instead of crafting it. But that's speculation of course.
Theres a few routes they could possibly go:
1. Purchase from Lyhr
2. Throw mats into the mystic forge and get a armor box that lets you choose the weight and class
3. Craft at a crafting table and you pick which items you want to craft based on the mats you have
I was interested In this armor because what GW1 vet would not want Obby armor but then I seen the Research note requirement honestly I would rather just keep grinding WvW for legendary armor. I have every crafting mastery done and really have no interest in crafting stuff to salvage them anyways glad there is a open world option but no thanks.
As a longtime GW player I can't resist going for the Obsidian Armor either, but I feel you. Research Notes are technically a smart idea for the Economy (from ANet's Perspective), but the implementation for the player isn't as much fun...
Pretty disappointed to see how negative everyone is being in the comments. Every legendary has a cost, why are people surprised this one is higher? Great video man, keep up the good work
I think it's because of the cost/value they offer. The commitment is brutal, but the pay off is ever so sweet.
I don't mind people voicing their opinions though, as long as my guides reach the people who would like some guidance :)
Very true. Personally, I am gonna get this set as quick as I can because it looks absolutely amazing@@phandrel
Because the effort is disproportionately large.
I'm surprised that people prefer this method rather than just playing any other mode and doing a lege set there.
The bulk of the difficulty is dealing with the gimmick of rifts and the mental anguish that comes with sometimes forcibly marrying yourself to them for countless hours. People like challenging grinds, but it's clear that rift grinding is not the fun challenge people want to compromise on.
@@TH-camChillZone because raiding is gate kept by the elitist raiding community, wvw is massively time gated to almost half a year with the weekly pips and pvp is just an overall bad experience with the toxic players and low population.
Thank god the PvE medium armor leggy is better looking than the Raid one. I chose the right class when picking the ascended gear after completing my first legendary set.
Couldn't agree more! I already have the Raid Medium Armor, but I'm inclined to start with the Medium Obsidian just for the skin as well.
gw2 wiki so confusing on there, it says 12 Amalgamated Kryptis Essence cost 250 essences of despair, but that's actually only for 1 Amalgamated Kryptis Essence... so you actually need 12*250... for one peice!? jheeez... maybe they got that wrong
That's the brutal cost Legendary Armor, I'm afraid. You'll need 12 amalgamated essences, which is 3k essences of despair per piece. So you'll need 18k essences of despair for a full set of armor.
If you use kryptis Motivations on the rifts and do the weekly hunts, you get there rather fast though 😉
I've made several legendaries but I am confused about the precursor here. When I review the wiki, the precursor does not appear to have a weight class, it appears to be the same exact piece for light, medium, and heavy armor. How is it differentiated as a particular weight when it's created in the mystic forge?
We don't know exactly what the precursor will look like, except that we needed to unlock the armor collections, and that it'll cost a Lesser Vision Crystal. So my best guess is that we'll just select which piece/weight when spending that vision crystal.
@@phandrel So it hasn't been released yet. That makes sense. My next question, I've heard several people say the legendary armor will be released in the next big update, but when I look at the update schedule it says "Obsidian Legendary Armor Tier 1," what's the difference between tier 1 and tier 2?
@@artrayus3 Tier 1 will be legendary armor for all intents and purposes. Tier 2 will be an optional unlock (to improve the skin most likely), with a scavenger hunt like the Aurene weapon variants :)
@@phandrel So help! Thank you!
How is easy, cheap and fast it will to craft/get it for 3-5 alts?
Legendary Armor won't be cheap or fast, per say. This guide is a casual approach to acquiring all the necessary materials. Knowing what to save and what can be sold goes a long way.
With regards to alts, Legendary Armor is party of the Legendary Armory. You only need to unlock it once and can use it on all the apppropriate classes :) So you'll only need 1 set of Medium, and you can equip it on Ranger/Thief/Engineer, without even needing to save the set in your bank.
When will those recipies be available on Efficency, so I can track my progress?
I'm afraid that it'll be most likely when the update actually hits and the API is re-enabled.
So either the day of the update, or anytime in the week thereafter.
damn, excel it is, then...@@phandrel
There is one thing i still dont understand, and its about Gift of Stormy SKies/Astral Ward. I need a stormy skies/pice? IT means if i want to make all the 3 sets i have to lvl up 18 characters for 18x map complet in SOTO maps? All the other stuff is just fine, but to unlock character slots/lvlup diferent characters or lvlup+complete and delete it just seems unfair. I hope im wrong about this one and I misunderstood something.
You can (re)explore the map on characters that already finished their map completion :)
You might've already noticed lanterns that you can light, if you light all of them you get another one of those map gifts.
It's not fun at all
Legendary items should be obtainable by doing lots of different things, not by doing the same thing lots of times...
I remember the title “God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals” from gw1, it was fun...
250 Essence of luck per item is crazy a lot. Also 600 ecto. Raid armor is way easier to aquire.
sure if only the raid community didnt gate keep..
@@bl1tzcraftthere are soooo many training and new player friendly communities....
@@LegeFleson eu?because rarely see one on NA,unless i looking outside of ingame lfg,like discord then yes there are plenty of friendly raid group for new people,i once got recruited for static group,but due to different time zone i have to bail
@@bl1tzcraft start your own. if you don't have a tag ask for someone with one.
>scariest thing first
>Mystic Clovers
Idk about you but that 3000 T1 rift essence PER SINGLE PIECE of a set is scarying me much more. Especially considering I need another howevermanythefuck just to craft T2 and T3 motivations
In terms of workload, very true! But I've had a lot of people in the past telling me Mystic Clovers were a huge roadblock.
@@phandrel if you're a PvP or WvW player you just get them randomly without even noticing. They are also not even that expensive, especially nowadays. You're probably spending more money on T2 and or T3 motivations than on mystic clovers. Especially if you only need a very minor amount of them
@@anonymousbloke1 That's good to know, since they daily rework I've been spending considerably less time in WvW. Although I am running out of Gifts of Battle, so I'll be grinding out some reward tracks soon.
The great thing for new players with the new armor is that they can get the 60 clovers with astral acclaim by the time the update hits.
thank god i got my envoy armor years ago. not doing it again regardless of the workload.
little bit lost
so like i alredy got the 2 sets...... but i think i used them
is this problem would i need to buy them again or i just need to unlock them
hmm i got also to do some other achivments to carry on with this
hmmm it so confusing
i mean
so at the end i collect all those items and throw it the mystic forge? i didnt get the end part
beacous i was suppos to go with the wvw set but randomlly switch it du to tikets ,,,, and i discoverd this 1 now
so i was collecting the gift of battle so far and the set pice
so this abit confusing to me
i didnt get the part with the set thoe if u understand me i understood how to get allll the items u menton but at the end what i do with it ;toss it to mystic forge with some set item?[for sure ill view it again] just late now......
but thanks alot!
beacous im 20 times more ready for this set then wvw beacous i dont have power for the tikets lol
Thanks! The armors (oneiros, astral ward, etc) need to be unlocked. You don't need to keep them, the achievement is the only thing that matters. When the next update goes live, we'll be able to buy an item for a lesser vision crystal that will function as the precursor, which we need to combine with the other 3 final components.
The armors use Gifts of Craftmanship, not Gifts of Battle. You can get them with provisioner tokens, of which you can get 10 cheap ones per day. That would still give you enough time to get enough of them by the time the next update hits 😀
@@phandrel thanks alot,it worryd me ,and btw it changed my moood lol
Yesterday i was little bit sad about it ,i have just 2,5 k tikets ,someone said it might take 20 weeks or so lol ,i was like ughhhhh😂😂😂😂🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼🤡i asked u another question in the tokens video,i could start working on the progress leter on today,so im abit sittin reAl good now lol ,🥰🥰🥰🥰👍👍please tell me when u can on those recpies i am atm from my phone ,and i think i need spaicle weapons recpie 🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼duno but great method ,when i bough them in soto lol just for the first achivments lets say i needed 30 and not 300 and it was pain looool 🫨🫨🥰🫶🫶
@@evelynn2790 replied in the other thread too :) You don't need a recipe, you'll have to use the discovery tab the first time, then they get added to your list :)
your mouse how did you do that
Do you mean the visibility? If so, you can go to options and under general options (first tab) there should be a setting called "Cursor Contrast". Mine is set to Low.
Man i really want this armor but even watching this video im so stressed out about how much there is to do i don't even know which step to start with...its just so many different things and I still haven't even finished the lw stories to get into the zones for some of that farming...my brain cant handle it...they need to make these processes simpler...i dont mind doing the volume of work, but the steps being so complex and confusing just completely puts me off even starting ..
I feel you. I promise that every next piece you make, it'll become easier, though. The work will be the same, but you'll know what to do and when.
A great first step is squeezing a few rifts in every few days. That will get you the essences, which you'll need regardless.
By the time that becomes manageable, you'll notice you'll have gained a lot of exp (spirit shards) and karma (obsidian shards) as well.
I know what you feel bro first time i craft my legendary i was confused too,but after a while i got the hang of it its actually super simple,my advice focus on sub group of base material and how to get them,because once you got all base material the rest of the step just gonna converting that base material thru craft/forge or talk to npc
@@joyboy6067 thanks man...I really want this set so I just gotta get to the grind on it...
It is a marthon not a sprint,...play the parts you enjoy chip away at the grindy parts,...it will be that much more rewarding when you get it.
I don't get it... Gift of the Astral Ward is made of map completion mats. But you get one of each. And you need 6 Gift of the Astral Ward... so what? We need to finish the map from scratch 6 times on 6 characters just like map completion for the Tyria/Maguma/EoD legendaries?
Yep, that's the idea. Overall, it goes much faster than other maps due to it mainly being Points of Interest though. But it does get repetitive.
This seems undoable for new player, where would I store all those materials?
It'll take some creativity, but you can condense some of the materials by already crafting the next component.
T1, 2 and 3 essences into Amalgamated Essences for example.
You'll most likely also need to use some bank space, and if worst comes to worst, create an alt, equip some bags, and you can use them as a mule.
Thank you!@@phandrel
less whelmed lol
I couldn't resist 😆
Damn I can't see myself going for this armor with all of these absurdly high requirements. Fair play Anet though, it makes sense to be much harder to get compared to raid/pvp/wvw
If it feels overwhelming, simply farm some rifts for now. That'll be one of the best starts you can get and a lot of the other items will take care of themselves.
Whenever you can squeeze in a meta in Amnytas and Skywatch Archipelago, and you'll be halfway there before you know it :)
The material lists aren't that high. Most of it can be done just by playing passively or farming specific game modes like fractals. The only things that are really going to be a pain to get are the gifts of craftsmanship due to provisioner tokens limitations, and the rift currency. That's the tradeoff with this set though. Takes more time to get, but you don't need to do any other game mode to get it. It's fully pve
What seems overwhelming in my opinion is the ectos and essences of luck to be honest. Do you need 600 ectos and 250 essences per piece ? Map completion also seems odd unless I got it wrong. Do you need to 100% the maps for each piece ?
@@iSeeSoundsShow you just buy the ectos if needed. yes its expensive but legendaries are like 1k gold+ each. Essence of luck is super easy as you can convert low tier essences into higher tiers, you'd get this for free simply by salving the gear you get while rift hunting, or atleast a decent chunk of it. And the rest you get from gear from doing meta events like octovine. Also this gives ectos too so you dont need to buy any, you end up having excess and selling them off.
Map completion is a
research notes for gift of craftmanship is too excessive?
Yeah, those are a rough one. ANet seemingly wants to involve them in all high tier crafting processes, so we're kinda stuck with them for now.
@@phandrel yeah I've been trying to make legendary armor for a while and I keep giving up because of that timegate. I started trying to get pvp legendary armor recently but I really hate pvp. I wanted to do raid armor, but I don't have enough time to commit to training my rotations so open world seems like my best bet, however I need to have a ton of crafting materials that are really annoying to get sadly. So I guess I just have to deal with it :p
@@Kringerel Yeah, whatever path you choose, when it comes to legendaries there will always be some form of commitment. Once you get your first set, the other 2 feel less pressing to unlock imho.
Still a solid 2-3 months before we get the update though, so no need to feel rushed yet.
This is a lot of farming, for a filthy casual like me this will take a couple of years to farm.
Hopefully they implement more ways to farm Rift Essence in the upcoming releases. I also wouldn't mind a more reasonable way to acquire Research Notes....
If you chop it up in bits and pieces it will feel more manageable.
Speaking for myself, but making my second legendary after the first one, went about 2x as fast. I think it has a lot to do with getting used to the process, what to keep, what can be sold, etc.
@@DjNaste research notes are easy, i just make like 5k potions and go afk for a few minutes and come back with 15k notes.
@@MyNameIsSalo sure, but don't you think it would be nice if you could get them from actually playing the game? I don't see why they can't just be like every other map currency and be rewarded for doing events/achievements
Yep. Raid armor seems like it is way, way cheaper.
This is the problem with modern games. Its not even out yet and people have made guides for it lol
Yeah rifts are little annoying but the prospect to get legendary makes it a necessary thing
It is more than worth it imo, from that point onwards every single build will become a possibility at the click of a button.
@@phandrel yeah indeed and add I like to experiment this will save me a fortune🤣
Unobtainable... stupid expensive...and time consuming!!!
its legendary set ofc its time consuming
No, no, no... I totally disagree that Mystic scam is the better option. After getting 20 mystic clover from my stack of mystic coins, I will never go back to this option again. I definitely prefer a more expensive method, but one that gives me a 100% guarantee.
I've had lucky and unlucky streaks with the forge. Astral Acclaim is nice if you have a limited gold supply though.
@@phandrelIt's nice that this video appeared today, because earlier I was going through the list of needed materials and comparing them with what I already have.
For the first gift, I only need a provisioner tokens, all the rest is waiting.
For the second one, I only need all the essences, I'm currently earning gold from them. :D
On the third one, I have to concentrate properly, because I only have some residual amounts.
I don't understand the fourth gift at all. I'll have to listen to what you said about him calmly when I get home from work. 😊
You can play wvw and select the reward tracks for the armor, you receive cloves every completion, by the time the armor can be completed you should have all necessary clovers
@@jcbj7 Yes, I know, but I don't have time to waste on WvW. In the same amount of time I have to waste on the reward track on WvW, I am able to get materials for multiple clovers that I would have earned if I was dying of boredom on WvW.
In addition, I have already prepared clovers for at least one full armor.
@@vanhohenheim9083 same, I only did WvW to get the rewards for Vision, and havent touched it since. idk how people do it, but WvW is like that last resort option for loot you're looking for.
Just play WvW.
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while i agree i just dont think its worth the risk to gamble for clovers. ive been burned by them so many times. once i went 100 MC deep without a single clover. at least now its 100% and around the same odds as the gamble, yes the gamble has better odds than the cost of the straight up clover but i dont think its worth the risk.
Lol hell not wasting all that time just for f. leg armor hell not,waste of f time for nothing
Cry about it more
Nobody forces you and ofc you shouldn't if you don't find it worth the effort. I myself am going to get at least some pve (and maybe some WvW) leggy pieces because they definitely are worth it for me
@@north_borne lol cry about what because i don't want to waste time lol
@ good luck to y
technically all legendaries are a waste of time, as you'd need to make like 40 sets of ascended gear to equal the investment of a single legendary. And there isnt even 40 gear stats so you can have access to all possible stats much cheaper.
Legendary grind is there because without it, people run out of content to do.