GW2 Info

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EDIT: Updated link to the dragon timer, it now includes timers for low level events.

The group's basic information:
Vent info: cali2.nationvoice.com Port 3851
Server: Sanctum of Rall
Guild: A Jade Bucket in a Gazebo (post accountname.ID number for invites - look in contacts window)



Useful websites:
Orrmaps.com - has a database of maps for orichalcum, ancient wood, omnomberry, etc. spawns for the end game zones. Very useful to save time when you want to gather mats.

dulfy.net - useful gw2 information. Also has galleries of all known weapons, though it is not yet complete. Has misc information on special events and other stuff. Has galleries for some crafted armor and limited dungeon stuff as well.

guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/events.php?serverKey=119&langKey=en
This is the dragon timer for our server. Keeps track of spawn timers for the 3 world dragons. Now also keeps track of low level events with giant chests. All chests from these bosses are once per day per character rewards.

gw2armor.com - has galleries of all dungeon/random armor sets for all races/classes. Does not include crafted gear.

en.gw2skills.net/editor/ - most commonly used skill builder.

gw2lfg.com - group finding website since the game currently lacks a useful group finding utility. You can self invite (and play cross server - so your group finding pool is all of NA), which seems to be the norm for getting groups now.

gw2.mmorpg-life.com/interactive-maps/ - show all full map completion maps for every zone.

gw2dragons.com/dragons/ - keeps track of servers that have temples (in orr) open.

jsfiddle.net/KoxAlen/cCfTL/embedded/result/ - Checks servers for open/closed status on dungeons (CoF and CoE).

Dungeons:
Dungeons give 60 tokens for the first clear of the day for each path. This bonus is once per day per character. Subsequent runs will give reduced xp/money/karma/tokens. #of tokens is 20 for every run after the first.

Format will be: <Name> - <Level story mode/Level explorable mode> - Location (zone)

Ascalon Catacombs - 30/35 - Plains of Ashford
Caudecus Manor - 40/45 - Queensdale
Twilight Arbor - 50/55 - Caledon Forest
Sorrow's Furnace - 60/65 - Dredgehaunt Cliffs
Citadel of Flame - 70/75 - Fireheart Rise
Honor the Wave - 76/80 - Frostgorge Sound
Crucible of Eternity - 78/80 - Mount Maelstrom
Ruined City of Arah - 80/80 - Cursed Shore
Fractals of the Mists - na/any - Lion's Arch

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Red areas have groups of 4 herbs (mature or verdant) each. Blue area is the artichoke farm. And orange areas are generally where you can find some dynamic events. You mainly want to get vanilla, but other stuff sells decently. Full run of 12 herb patches takes ~5 minutes if you have swiftness up.

Mature herbs require at least a darksteel sickle, and verdant herbs require at least a mithril sickle. There are also only mithril spawns around the eastern herb area.



Mount Maelstrom is also good for daily completion. It has everything that you would need to dailies, except crafting/laural vendor. There is one area for daily healer in particular which I will mark on a new map with a yellow circle. Another good area for aquatic slayer I will mark with a pink circle. It does have more than 15 kill types, so finishing kill variety should not be a problem either. In particular, one DE respawns very quickly. It is a collection event, gather 15 roots (if only you around, 30 ish total if 2 people). Very easy/quick, and has a fast respawn. Its the orange circle above and to the left of the northern red area. (maybe edit the map later to mark it)

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Ascended gear
Currently there are 4 pieces available: Backpiece, amulet, and both rings. There are a few different ways to acquire ascended gear.

Infusion
Anet uses this term too loosely. There are 2 main uses for this term: the first is referring to the "infusion slot," which is an upgrade slot to get +5 agony resist and +5 whatever stat you choose. The second is referring to upgrading the item itself. Currently rings and backpieces can be upgraded (infused) via a mystic forge recipe. This upgrade gives the piece innate +5 agony resist, which allows a total of +10 agony resist from the item.

Supposedly upgrading a backpiece or ring will remove any infusion slot upgrade (source: wiki). So you should infuse (upgrade) before you put an infusion in (upgrade component).

The total agony resist possible is +35 +45. 10 from back, 10 from each ring, and 5 from amulet, and 5 from each accessory.

Backpiece
There is only one way to get an ascended backpiece; crafting via mystic forge. You either craft from scratch (requires a stack of t6 mats and 50 ectos) or use a "protype fractal capacitor." The latter is bought for 1350 fractal relics, and requires a gift of ascension (they replace t6 mats and ectos in the recipe). This brings the second option up to require 1850 fractal relics - which I think is pretty unreasonable. The exact recipe can be found on the wiki (slightly different mats for different stats desired), but you need 24 skill points + 1 vial of condensed mist, plus what is listed above.

Upgrading a back piece is expensive. Stack of ectos + glob of coagulated mist + gift of ascension. Gift is 500 tokens, glob of mist is a higher level fractal drop, or crafted from vials of condensed mist + ecto/mystic coin/fractal relic.

Rings
There are 3 ways to get ascended rings: buy via laurel vendor, buy via daily fractal tokens, drop from fractals (forgot what level they start dropping at). These can be infused as mentioned above. Recommended to buy via daily fractal tokens. Exact recipes for the upgrade components are on the wiki, but generally speaking you need vials of condensed mist/ectos/mystic coins/fractal relics.

Amulet
There is only one way to get an ascended amulet, buy via laurel vendor. The only ascended piece with a utility slot. Utility infusions are only good for non-fractal content (they don't have agony resist).

Accesories
Newly added with the guild missions patch. There are 2 ways to get them: laurels (40 + 50 ectos each) or guild mission commendations (12? commendations + 50 ectos).

Infusion upgrade components
These are the infusions that are put into the infusion slots. They are horribly expensive to make (and the only way to get them is to make them). You can buy lesser versions from the laurel vendor (but they don't have agony resistance), or from the vendor inside the fractals dungeon (only have agony resist, no stats - the cost is 75 relics each).

Depending which stat infusion you want, they either cost 250 passion fruit or 250 karka shells + 100 t6 mats + 50 philosopher stones + 20 mystic coins.

You'll most likely just buy the 75 relic +5 agony resist infusions becuase everything else is far too expensive for what you get.

Overall cost
Huge if you want it now, but manageable if you're patient. After you farm out enough laurels or daily tokens for rings/amulet. You still need to upgrade and slot them before you get ANY agony resist. You should use the fractal relic bought +5 agony resist (+5 stats is such a minor upgrade for the cost involved). You still need a sizeable number of ectos (300) to make an upgrade a backpiece, and a stack of t6 mats.

Is it worth buying a backpiece with fractal relics rather than crafting from scratch? I really don't think it is. The piece takes 1350 relics to avoid using a stack of t6 mats and 50 ectos. Assume the costs of t6 mats is ~30s (the most expensive t6 mat atm), then you would be spending 75g on the t6 mats. And ecots are ~39s each, which comes out to roughly 19.5g. You can alternatively buy 20 slot bags for 150 fractal relics, which if you do the math, that's 9 20-slot bags, which is 90g in cost. So overall you'd save ~5.5 gold in the best case scenario, though it will take a long time to get enough tokens for this, and the 500 required to infuse (upgrade) it. I think if you run fractals enough, you should get enough rares to salvage them yourself.

Though that math is still asuming you would have 75+ gold to spend in the first place. For most people it's pretty unreasonable to spend that much money on a single piece of gear, so save up your fractal relics for a backpiece.

EDIT:
Drop info
As mentioned above, there is a chance to drop ascended gear at/after fractal level 10. The final chest for the bonus fractal (Solid ocean fractal - Jade Maw boss), gives a daily chest with bonus tokens (15+, depending on reward level), a bag of coins (~2-3 silver), and on level 10+ you get a guaranteed pristine fractal relic (to buy non-infused rings) and a chance to drop an ascended ring. At higher levels (starting at 26), you no longer can get non-infused rings from the daily chest and only infused rings will drop. From my experience the drop rates is around 30-40%.

Table copied from wiki:


Bonus tokens and daily rewards
You can, once a day, get a daily "rewards chest." You get one of these chests by doing an even level fractal and completing the bonus Solid Ocean fractal (Jade Maw boss). The daily rewards chest is a 2nd, or bonus chest. It shows like the reward for the daily that gives laurels and jugs of liquid karma. You get an additional number of tokens, and other rewards (ascended rings, fractal weapon skins) if your fractal reward level is high enough.

There are also separate daily bonus for every 10 levels. This means that you can do a level 8 fractal, get a daily reward chest. And in the same day do a level 10 to get another daily chest. Levels 1-9, 10-19, 20-29, etc.

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Useful consumeable
wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Kyra_Sharptracker
Ash legion spy kits can be used during the Dredge Fractal to make it easier to open the doors.

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Exotic armor crafting costs
6 pieces heavy armor
-16 orichalcum bars (32 ore)
-38 bolts of gossamer (76 scraps)
-130 spools of gossamer thread
-30 ectos
-30 t6 mats

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You can make an Ascended Triforge Pendant in Mystic Forge as an alternative to Laurels. I'm not sure I'd want to though. Costs around 200g plus some skill points, assuming you buy the mats alone and make it.

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Random difficult to find orichalcum spawn in Malchor's Leap:

This point is under the temple of Lyssa. You get there from the south side of the temple. You walk through some risen wizards and past/near a veteran risen wizard. There's a hole in the wall that you have to jump through to get to the ore spawn.

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Malchors Leap Orichalcum Node
Location is near the jump puzzle at the northern edge of Malchor's Leap



Jump towards the vista as normal. There's 2 ways to do the vista, this one is similar to the one that has you jump up along the cliff to get higher.


Blue circle is where you jump from. Red circle is where you are aiming to land.


Another view of where you start the jump. Red circle is where you need to jump to again.

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Malchors Leap Jump Puzzle Orichalcum Node







There should be a tunnel after the initial jump down.









There should be an opening at the top of the last jump, the ori node is to the left of the exit of that opening.