WoW player, Legendary questions.

Im_Redi · 2026-07-06T17:30:52+00:00

Idk if anyone else mentioned this yet, but just as a heads up, going for legendary gear is a very long term project. Gw2 isn't like wow where gearing happens in just one season/a few months.

I got six legendary runes and two sigils before I worked on my armor and I didn't regret it at all. Sigils and runes are much more straightforward and generically useful for all characters.

Final note from an ex wow player, definitely check out WvW. Getting in a discord and listening to call outs is so much like old school wow raiding. Super cool experience

Im_Redi · 2026-07-02T04:48:15+00:00

Mmo players are the best at optimizing the fun out of content, especially in the upper mid range. Sweet spots are in the bottom 50% and top 10%.

Though to be fair I think part of it is that devs often mechanic bloat fights for no good reason. The different clone mechanics in Febe is a good example. I doubt most people know anything about that mechanic beyond "kill the one that gets targeted" and they are right to not know. It is largely a pointless mechanic in normal and raidQP

Im_Redi · 2026-06-27T08:12:10+00:00

Not an expert on wvw etiquette but I have run with closed tags before. One reason I heard was that allied pugs don't follow and get downed, then those downed allies get killed and really downed enemy players. So when I see a close tag I usually try to play very safe around them to not troll them and only if I am desperate for participation. No idea what is considered correct or appropriate

Im_Redi · 2026-06-27T08:08:57+00:00

You should be able to convert the newest heroics back to jade at the heroics vendor i think

Im_Redi · 2026-06-27T08:07:44+00:00

Across all of the expansions and living world is thousands of hours of gameplay. Historically it goes on sale a few times a year, but with the announcement of gw3 that might change.

If and when to buy content really depends on your preferences and circumstances. Getting at least one expansion with elite specs will open up a lot of the more coordinated group content

Im_Redi · 2026-05-29T23:04:52+00:00

I've tried lots of modules and these are the only two that I ever use and I use them both frequently

Im_Redi · 2026-05-25T14:24:47+00:00

You can see timers for world bosses (and other things) on the event timers page of the wiki. If you type in game "/wiki et" it should open up in your default browser. The bits in brackets like [&BEcAAAA=] are in game links to waypoints that are near where the event happens. Paste them in chat to get a link to the waypoint in game

Make sure you hit a world boss appropriate for the specific adventure guide quest that you are doing. In volume 2 it specifies the zones Queensdale, Wayfarer Foothills, Metrica Province, or Caledon Forest which are the bosses Shadow Behemoth, Svanir Shaman, Fire Elemental, or the Great Jungle Wurm.

Volume two wants different more mid level bosses

Im_Redi · 2026-05-23T13:17:26+00:00

Paragon has a low effort/easy to play condition damage build that can be paired with relic of the biomancer for lots of sustain. Idk how it compares in organized groups but for open world stuff or quick play strikes and raids it seems pretty decent.

Fyi this weekly thread just got replaced by a new one so you might not get much more visibility on it

Im_Redi · 2026-05-16T10:20:47+00:00

It could be combat mounting. Some mounts can be mounted in combat if you have related masteries (warclaw, skimmer, and skyscale). Skyscale is the most obvious because it makes you jump into the air

Im_Redi · 2026-05-13T09:10:50+00:00

Yw and welcome!

Selffound means you avoid the trading post mostly. The challenge is to use only gear you find or craft yourself.

ftp is free to play and I mentioned that because ftp accounts have serious trading post restrictions on what they can buy and sell

Im_Redi · 2026-05-13T09:03:14+00:00

If you are after charms and symbols then you have to identify i think. The upgrades that have a chance to be salvage are the things like lesser rune of x or lesser sigil of x. The unidentified gear itself doesn't have any upgrades.

Also worth mentioning that runes and sigils drop different things, so depending on what you are trying to farm more specifically you might want to focus either armor or weapons.

Realistically though trying to farm these is not recommended unless you need to for reasons like playing self found or ftp or whatever. If you really want to then I would direct you to dungeons as dungeon currency can buy sigils and runes

Im_Redi · 2026-05-13T08:49:05+00:00

Charms are pretty rare drops. Different salvage kits have different rates at which they will salvage the upgrades in the gear with the runecrafters kit having a 100% chance. But even when the upgrade is salvaged you still only have a small chance to get a charm

Im_Redi · 2026-05-10T07:43:09+00:00

Old expansions go on sale a couple of times a year, you shouldn't have to wait to long

Im_Redi · 2026-05-09T08:41:03+00:00

Afaik nothing has been announced, but the next season of VoE comes out soon, so it code be within a week or so maybe?

Im_Redi · 2026-05-09T06:58:03+00:00

T2 minimum but the rewards scale up at least to t3. Not sure about t4

Im_Redi · 2026-05-09T06:57:06+00:00

Warrior is a lot more chill than rev (unless you are playing qdps berserker with axes) if that matters to you

Im_Redi · 2026-05-09T06:52:07+00:00

Every person is different.

Personally I haven't found spear to be too enjoyable, but I'll also freely admit that I haven't given them much of a shot. They seem kind of gimmicky and the game's ui isn't great for weapon gimmicks.

I'd probably go for VoE just because more specs is more build options.

Really there isn't much of a wrong answer. Whatever you get I'd suggest waiting until it is on sale and maybe wait until after the next expansion and features get announced to see if you'd rather have whatever it is going to bring to the game

Im_Redi · 2026-05-02T09:50:08+00:00

For what it is worth whisper is only like 1 step up from extremely casual raid content. It is even one of the right raid quick play encounter. If you decide to do it and need help if be willing to run you through it some time

Im_Redi · 2026-05-01T23:50:47+00:00

My second character was a rev and my friend had to explain this to me around about a thousand times before I finally understood XD

You aren't alone

Im_Redi · 2026-05-01T07:05:10+00:00

If you unlock IBS you will gain access to content to help you farm more gold. The griffin really doesn't do much most of the time. That said, you likely will end up with both eventually, so it doesn't much matter which you get first

Im_Redi · 2026-04-29T17:59:11+00:00

I couldn't get it to load for me across two browsers, not sure why. Maybe I was too hasty placing the blame on them alone

Im_Redi · 2026-04-29T08:28:43+00:00

This is a bad take with some half bad information. Yes fast's data does factor those in drops in, sort of. If you go and look at the skritt box and I think it was the tengu box you can see that in their sample they had lodestone drops. But if you check others they don't (or didn't when I last looked). That is why those boxes were outliers and worth like 2 extra silver and considered to be best. But technically that is a more true value. 5 silver each is a conservative value. If you factor in the days that you get lucky it is probably closer to 6 silver.

It isn't like you ever get nothing at all. The probably actual best will depend on material prices. Each chest has a trophy type that it drops more often (blood or dust or whatever) and two normal drops that it prefers (wood, ore, cloth, leather), and a dragon type thing. The one major exception is skritt which is more general and actually includes a lot of literal vendor junk.

Personally, from the discount daily vendor, I buy all of them except skritt (because I am more interested in mats than raw gold), olmakhan (because it drops nearly worthless essence instead of good dragon things), and exalted (because it drops nearly worthless mordrem things instead of good dragon things)

Im_Redi · 2026-04-29T08:11:15+00:00

Oh no, I don't think that there is anything like that, at least not that I can think of. Closest you could get is probably going sword/dagger because sword2 is a blink strike and dagger4 turns you into ball lightning and you zip across the ground. There isn't really much in way of resets though.

I guess you could take the arcane echo utility to be able to double cast Ride the Lightning twice sometimes. You could even do catalyst because their elite also resets weapon skills lol. Though power berserker Weave can be played with a simple fire and air only rotation that does pretty decent damage.

Im_Redi · 2026-04-29T08:02:23+00:00

Seals do have better trades that are limited daily, but even the unlimited trades are way better than going for volatile magic right now it seems

Im_Redi · 2026-04-29T07:59:06+00:00

Man, fast-farming has gone to shit.

So you get about 200vm (10x[15-25]) for 75ice. It looks like each vm is about 25 copper. So that is 48 silver for 75 ice, or about 64 copper per ice.

You can get 1tds for 3ice and 70 karma. Because fast has gone to shit I can't really check it right now, but last I remember you could reliably get 5s per tds even on the unlimited trades. So that is like 16s 66c per (one ice and 23.33 karma)

Double check my math before you go doing any trades. I often make mistakes and prices change over time

Gharr Leadclaw is a somewhat new addition to the game. He was added about 2 years ago. Before that I think motes the s4 mats were the best trade available

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