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[GW2] after my farming blitz weekend for precursor crafting my goal is to use my free time to actually play some other games now, but discussion/planning within

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first off it's nice to see that tiers 3 and 4 (only HoT legendaries have a t4) are back to doing THINGS instead of literally just being a list of shit that you have to craft or buy

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this is what I had in mind when you described The Legendary Journey, not giving 250 mithril pistols to an npc and then giving 1000 bandit crests, 400 geodes, 100 karka shells, and other things to another npc

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I see that I'll need 10 total deldrimor ingots for the end of tier 3 but it looks like I AM done with spiritwood needs, so I can sell soft wood for sweet profit

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it's going to take me forever to get to that point anyway, though

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31 tasks, most of them either fractals or world bosses (which require a kind of sequence in most cases)

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I'm not sure if t3 is where the bugs/failed event requirements start or if that's t4

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I know there are some IN t4 but idk about t3, it seems to mostly just be beat this fractal, beat this world boss, buy from this karma vendor

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at this point forging the legendary itself is the easy part

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though I can't actually get maguuma map completion until they unlock the toxic bacon hero point 8T

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I can actually get all of the remaining crystalline ore I need by getting up to the last story mission on all of my espec'd characters, so I can avoid running the DS meta again

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I should also get a lot of leyline sparks this way but I haven't figured it up

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may be more fun/worthwhile than grinding all of the meta events for a million years

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/ugh doing anything challenging on Thief tho

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every other class I can manage, but THIEF

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also back to the mess that is t2

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it bugs me so much that the entire point of the collection is to forge an improved pistol frame (5 spiritwood), a precise barrel (5 deldrimor), and specialty forging tools (5 deldrimor) and

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you dON'T EVEN CRAFT WITH THEM

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like the idea here is literally learning how to BUILD A BETTER PISTOL than your first attempt

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you spend the whole collection MAKING THREE COMPONENTS OF A BETTER PISTOL that you can then forge with the salvaged item from the first attempt since that would, you know, ACTUALLY CREATE AN IMPROVED PISTOL

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but no

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you get the final recipe

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and it's

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a gemstone and some polish

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I make an improved pistol by combining a gemstone, polish, and the spirit of an item I salvaged

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while I have actual pistol parts made from actual ascended materials and knowledge I gathered from crafting masters

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sitting in my inventory

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I am SO IRRATIONALLY BOTHERED BY THIS

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Also with the current state of wood and dungeon nerfs

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I've realized that you get more money from chopping two soft wood yielding trees than from an entire dungeon path

Levi
I always knew selling mats was the key to riches

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it always has been, but right now we're just in a bubble where the demand for wood is absolutely ridiculous

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Oh hey our bonus mission slot actually paid off for once

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Trek with 30 locations in 20m, 500 favor

Levi
ez

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So we should be able to get 1100 favor this week