How to Make Open World Legendary Armor in Guild Wars 2 (Obsidian Armor Guide)

[@MuklukYoutube]

Details I accidentally glossed over: - You will need the "Obsidian Armor Crafting" mastery (under the astral ward section under SotO masteries) - You may need to buy the "legendary obsidian armor" recipe from Lyhr if you are making it yourself (7th tab on vendor, it's 50 silver) Here is a link to the full text guide for those who prefer it: guildjen.com/legendary-armor-guide-open-world/ Guide to other Legendary Armors: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2LVZItmhryNjdU Guide to Research Notes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoOQdap4bd-ImLs Guide to Upgrading Rifts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqaYgqCsnbetpqs Guide to Convergences: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpLCoJptmZagnbM Guide to Parking Alts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6vJgICoZaaKfLc Wiki Page: wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Obsidian_armor 0:00 Intro 0:57 What is Tier 1 and Tier 2 2:30 Prov tokens 2:50 Mystic Clovers 3:05 Gift of Condensed Might or Magic 3:35 Gift of Research 4:46 Amalgamated Kryptis Essences 5:24 Eldritch Scroll 5:30 Obsidian Shards 5:50 Cube of Stabilized Dark Energy 6:24 Gift of Stormy Skies 8:55 Arcanum of Astral Armor Guide to Parking Alts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6vJgICoZaaKfLc

[@EyesOfGehenna]

One thing that I heard is that Convergences drop a lot more essences than you get from Rift Hunting. Can you confirm this? I've never done Convergences and at this time I'm not sure if I even want to craft these legendary sets because I have no idea what the tier 2 looks like and I already have the legendary armor sets from WvW. It kinda sucks that Anet is keeping the highest tier a secret. The t1 are ok-ish but not something I'm going crazy over and at this point, if I would want to go on this journey at all, it's just for the skins.

[@LordHizen]

11:44 *sipping coffee* im not crazy, my mom says im special

[@ekkophantom]

Tier1 under 3hours Tier2 under 2hrs lets goo😂

[@GW2Pseudo]

I hear the tannins in coffee stain your teeth. ❤

[@MrDob2009]

Pfffff Nahhhhh you are not special.... You are VERY special !!!!!

[@Reaper0123]

Crafting ALL of the Legendary Armour pieces. Mukluk;"No one is THAT crazy, right?" Hizen; "Done."

[@riddlesphinxx]

The venom with which you said “you will have earned the PERMISSION to PURCHASE” was hilarious

[@Darkz.-]

Wow. That‘s quality Armor.

[@bowenmadden6122]

...I can't say "thanks" until it's mine 😭

[@bobiboulon]

Thanks!

[@DarkPoring11]

Thank you so much. Take a look.

[@NeuroticPwa]

Thanks!

[@MoranaPetrusic]

I loved those 3 npcs showing it off all saying Thanks! At the same time 😂

[@HarleyMaebry]

Didn’t expect a Chip cameo, but I love that he made it in!

[@Jimbr16]

I love that you say Archipelago both ways just to trigger people and then silence them.

[@Jacksontruman92]

Good luck to all the folks trying to get this armor! I’m just going to watch from the side in my raid armor, giving yall moral grind support.”

[@silvithril]

I wonder if people who strive for being a completionist would grind out all aspects of this legendary armour to add to their armoury and tell the tale of their ordeal. Hizen excluded.

[@greencaptain2783]

My brain melted from all of those things to make single pair of boots.

[@6idangle]

Yea not for me

[@mangoman93]

Why did I watch this guide? I already have a set of obsidian armor. There's just something about that charming voice....

[@kaltaron1284]

My favourite way to get Obisdian Shards is still the Temple of Balthazar in Straits of Devastation because they cost only 2.1k Karma and nothing else.

[@snakeman830]

Cheapest way (but also slowest) is actually mining them from the ore synthesizers in the PoF and EoD guild halls.

[@ZombiesAteMyChannel]

You can also buy them in bulk from HoT vendors. They cost less karma in exchange for also needing a HoT currency.

[@Cross_111]

Agreed If you need them in massive amounts AAAND you have a lot of karma….thats the way to do it 😊

[@kaltaron1284]

@@snakeman830 Good point. That way they accumulate passively over time.

[@kaltaron1284]

@@ZombiesAteMyChannel I know but that means you need map currency. Balthazar is only karma and nothing else.

[@Tybal65]

I have all 3 sets and the essence grind is the least grindy part. Do weekly convergences and get the 6 hour buff, then grind out your weekly rifts with motivations with the buff active. Join a rift hunt train on top of that if you're looking to knock this shit out more quickly. It's easy if you can afford motivations, even if you can't, doing weeklies already puts you ahead of the grind. For T1 armor, you don't nearly need as much t2/t3 essence as you think than t1. So be prepared to grind t1 rifts a bit more. The real struggle is doing the same 3 (boring) metas for months every day (on top of eating orbs for currencies and doing unsual coin run in skywatch achipelago) and grinding out map comp 3*18 times is also agonizing even with markers, but it's probably more manageable if you're just going for 1 set. I was a little let down at first by the lack of bling, but then I realized I can mix and match the pieces with other normal skins because they're easy to work with for not having shinny effects. I still hope T2 armors shine the living soul out of me though.

[@chrishenderson9184]

You're doing the Lord's Work, Mukluk. Thank you.

[@KamilDrakari]

I think Lhyr needs an intervention for his ecto addiction

[@daydev2599]

People who actually use his "services" need it more, though.

[@Estarile]

So thinks the people who writes the wiki.

[@Eisinas]

Yeah, ecto gambling is addictive AF

[@pransis]

Lhyr even scammed me into buying one (or two) of his services. Didn't know I could do it myself.

[@ItsNaberius]

The glow around the "Legendary" in the thumbnail really makes it pop, great choice Oh video is also amazing, been waiting for this

[@YouTubeChillZone]

Thank you Muk ! Now I know 100% that I'll never try to do this set this process is somehow even more boring than the previous sets xDDDDDD

[@thovarisk8699]

MAN FINALLY!! been waiting for this guide!! thanks papa muk

[@StormCloudGenerator]

I have just found out about open world legendary armour. Returning after a long hiatus. Maximum excitement! Thank you!

[@R.senals_Arsenal]

A well made guide! Makes me almost miss making these... almost. 😂 The timestamps was a nice touch. So was the highlighting, I never learned how to do that so would zoom in. 😅 Only things I'd add is that people will need to buy the recipes for all the Gifts of T6 Mats to make Condensed Gifts if they've never made a Leggie beforehand. Also emphasis to NEVER BUY anything from Lyhr (unless you have to) as it just feeds his Ecto gambling habit and empties your pockets of valuable Ectos!! As of this date I have just 3 Amalgamated Kryptis Essence to go to make my final piece of Leggie Armor for a full set of 18. Yes, I am one of those madmen!! 😹

[@swarnendusikdar4776]

"One down 5to go or 17 to go if you are making all three sets. But no one is that crazy right..... Holy f**k.. " This got me. 🤣 Our Lord will always exceed everyone's expectations.

[@arkanaloth2617]

Excellent vid!!... I do plan on crafting all 3 weights of leggy obsidian (eventually) but starting with light armor. I tried raiding, done a few and they're fun but I don't like it enough to grind it for legendary armor. I *BARELY* tolerate wvw for a gift of battle so grinding it for legendary armor would be about as much fun for me as a root canal. as for PVP... I've been playing since headstart and I honestly couldn't tell you what the PVP lobby even looks like. Never been there. SO I was content to have Ascended armor and call it done so I was *very* happy about the introduction of an open world set which is the content I enjoy most.

[@kaltaron1284]

You don't have to actually do that many raids for the armour. The most annoying part is Gorseval who you have to kill 5 times. (In seperate weeks.) The rest you need to do only once or can use cleared instances. Although getting Cairn's achievement can take a few tries. Everything else can be done without raiding even the Legendary Insights. (Challenge mode strikes)

[@YouTubeChillZone]

Raids has no grind, you just clear all the wings one day a week and come back only after a week when there is a reset, so in practice you only need 6 days in 6 weeks rest is time waiting for raids reset

[@cattysplat]

Considering clearing PvP and WvW reward tracks first time is the cheapest way to get your hands on mystic clovers, definitely worth doing atleast until all the first time tracks are done. Look out for future PvP and WvW event weeks to make it fast.

[@Ham68229]

Awesome video Mukluk. I'll be that crazy one doing all sets. LOL

[@Nitragon]

Was waiting for this one -- thanks!

[@endoplasma]

Great video man, I was hesitant before buying the astral ward armors from Lyhr, the achievement says it needs 'heavy' even though I am crafting light. Cheers!

[@markgavrilenko8603]

I suspect Lyhr does ecto gambling, and we just feed his sickness

[@Dragases11]

Awesome video great job Muk

[@happylittleteas2328]

Thank you for your hard work on this guide. Long term project definitely.

[@Danderson-pr4vj]

The Convergence method is the best 'low-effort' way to farm Kryptis Essences: In ADDITION to the event rewards, there is a WEEKLY repeatable reward for doing 3 of them which totals exactly enough essences to craft 3 amalgs. If you do each convergence DAILY, there is a reward chest that gives you even more. Bottom line: 3+ amalgs for 1.5-2 hours of popular content spread over 3 days every week, and this content rarely fails anymore.

[@LightriverArt]

The materials are fairly light compared to weapons and trinkets. It's basically do the metas and open chests for one half. Do the convergences and rift hunting for the other half. And complete the maps on a couple of characters, which you can do while getting more of the materials you need. Then it's just getting Provisioner tokens and some clovers over time from wherever.

[@Beriorn]

If you're having trouble with the Essences, make sure to get the Rift and Convergence Mastery masteries. The first is the one you get from completing the mastery before getting the one you need to craft Obsidian Armor, and the second is the final one you get in the Inner Nayos mastery track. The former you need anyway, and the latter is a must have if you regularly play Convergences. They are a major source of Essences, and they have several repeatable Achievements that give you even more. Speaking of, Convergences are a great source for fighting Champion level enemies if you need to beat them for your weekly rewards, and the final boss is a Legendary in case you need to beat one of those for an event.

[@sirdocc6735]

wow, im here within the first minute. O.O Hello muk! LOVE your content!!!

[@thalandor46]

8:36 Demons. Demons name these things.

[@SciFiMangaGamesAnime]

Be careful while crafting essences. Its easy to craft purified essence instead of ordinary, because it requires mystic clovers (which can confuse you into thinking that it is a legendary component - it is not, you need those (for now) only for exotic skins). Again, purified for exotic skins, non purified for legendary armor. Good luck!

[@Razaek]

I'd sooner just pay a "trusted" person to do all this for me. Geeeezzz so much work.

[@EarlOfLemongrabb]

I went in thinking “oh yeah, i’ll do a legendary armour this time” honestly fuck it. I’m going back to weapons

[@GodSenpi]

Use hardstock or overflow trading company services if you’ll do that. Services are charge in mythic coins, thousands of them

[@graphicsblacksmith]

Me. I'm that crazy. Made all three full sets and glad to be done with SoTo (for now.) Anyway, I always enjoy watching these vids to remind me of the journey I went through to make them. Now, back to debating whether I should go for any (or all three) of the teir 2 sets if they look any good.

[@R.senals_Arsenal]

I spent a good long time swapping armors, salvaging Ascendeds, finally using all my leggie runes, fixing my wardrobe and colors, and I have to say, the ONLY armor set I actually used for its appearance was the medium. The light and heavy I just covered with other skins or outfits.

[@just_a_sushi]

How long did it take you for one set?

[@graphicsblacksmith]

@@just_a_sushi I did it as the content was being released at the time but I spent about a year for all three sets so far one set I would say a couple months if you go hard. Just have the wiki page up with the list to use as a checklist of what you got done.

[@just_a_sushi]

@@graphicsblacksmith that... Sounds reasonable, I hope you don't mean 25hrs per day type of hard xD

[@graphicsblacksmith]

@@just_a_sushi no, I think i was doing 4-6 hrs a day, depending on when I had to leave for work. Its probably a little easier now due to the many ways of getting the required map and rift currencies.

[@odin13th76]

It may feel like a grind to get it but it really isnt since its just doing stuff you'd normally do. Dont rush it just take your time and itll be done before you know it. Some tips though dont use lyhr more then needed, i mean why waste ectos for something you can do yourself. For mapping amnytas use a new character if you got one because then you dont have to wait for events to open up areas to get a lantern. For great hall poi you normally need 5 ppl to start lyhr's chain to open the door but if you use lady e's blish hud map marker add on shows you a path that goes under the island to get it. For the poi where you need to turn off isgarrens ward you can get it easy by going to the door set north of that poi. Once your done with new characters for amnytas and have to light lanterns then save the lyhr event chain one last then after getting it for the completion go to guild hall/relog and you should aone back hin there 90% of the time to get it again to start a fresh run. Haven't tested for skywatch yet if new toon is faster or the lanterns but that map is easy eitherway. Do convergence daily and you'll make about 6 of the amalgamated kryptis things a week and its more fun then rift hunting for hours. Alternatively you could just do the weekly rift hunts the t1,t2,t3 per weekly map (but id still prefer convergence to that) While doing the metas try to get at least 1 greater arcane chest and whatever easy shrine fox thing thats nearby. Like skywatch meta at the end, at the wizard gate theres one shrine nearby then greater arcane in the chest room, then do the other fox shrine on ur way out of the tower to the left. All in all its pretty easy and respects your time. Just switch things around as you complete things. Like i only play about 2-3 hours a day and only used the metas to get the map currency and the meta chest to get the other item. And now that i have enough for 18 sets i dont do those metas anymore which gives me more time to do other things like. Just take your time, no need to burn out trying to complete it in a month lol.

[@mateusznawrot8941]

Nice guide thanks

[@DaosIures]

For those fearing the absurd amount of rifts/convergences required to do the whole set, I suggest that you pay attention to the Weekly Rift Hunting and the Weekly Convergences achievements (Achievement tab > SoTo > "Convergences" and "Weekly Rift Hunting"). Completing these will give you some bonus chests such as a "Kryptis Convergence Extraction" chest and a "Kryptis Rift Extraction" chest, which will reduce the amount of Rifts/Convergences you need to do since they contain essences (2 types of essences for rifts, and the 3 types of essences for the convergences). Basically 3 Convergences each week, and 30 rifts (5 per map on 6 different maps) aswell, some of which can be done during the wait for meta events (Auric Basin during this week, so if like me you tend to do the octovine almost everyday, during the ~10 minutes waiting time you can do some rifts). Also I might have missed it, but I'm not sure if you mentioned that a level 500 armor crafter (Tailor, Leatherworker or Armorsmith depending on the wanted armor's weight class) is required ? But I suppose it's the same for the other legendary armors. Anyway, thank you for this great video, good luck everyone for your 18 pieces, and good luck Mukluk for your 17 ones !

[@IAmPhase]

To use simple numbers, doing one Convergence every day gets you all of the essence needed for an armor set in 3 months (2 weeks for a single piece). If you only do 3 per week it should take 6 months. This involves ZERO Rift Hunting at all. If you do more Convergences than 1 per day or also do Rift Hunting on top of this you can get it done even faster.

[@ENGRtube]

The biggest kick in the nuts about this whole grind is needing 12 Amalgamated Rift Rssences to then need Purified Essence to unlock the collection!!! OMGGGGG after this armor I am never stepping foot in SOTO or doing another Rift again...

[@DR-db4jw]

A parking guide to garner things over time toward this would be really appreciated. I'm a returning player, so this probably shouldn't even remotely be my goal given I've completed none of the expansions. But that sounds like the perfect opportunity to accumulate over time while I fill in the rest.

[@MuklukYoutube]

This video has the section of where I park characters: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6vJgICoZaaKfLc

[@DR-db4jw]

Are all the spots necessary to feed in or are there specifics best suited to getting the right loot.

[@cypherdk85]

Note for obsidian shards. In Straights of Devastation there will sometimes be a vendor that sells obsidian shards for karma.

[@embreis2257]

yeah, it's the one setting up shop when you cleanse the temple of Balthazar

[@lnfinitesimaI]

I crafted heavy raid armor (which I enjoyed), but I'm slowly working on medium obsidian now. My timezone and schedule unfortunately makes it no longer viable for me to find consistent raid squads. Much faster/easier (less fun, unfortunately) to jump into a few convergences every week. Props to everyone who crafts more than one set of these though. My mind would probably melt from the metas and lantern lighting.

[@Skaos91]

love the hizen cameo :D

[@MageSkeleton]

it really feels like your better off just making ascended gear, and multiple copies. Would be neat if someone did a video comparing whether it's better to do Ascended gear or just do legendary gear. i would imagine the legendary gear would realistically only be worth doing if you have more than two characters you wish to fully equip that share the same stuff. For example, right now i'm enjoying the Necromancer and the Ranger. While i also like the Mesmur and the Theif i don't normally play them except "meme builds." Necromancer uses Staff Scepter and Focus/Torch. Ranger uses Longbow and Axe/Axe. i can get ascended jewelry from Fractals and other sources. Making legendary gear may not be worth my time unless i'm completely bored.

[@cattysplat]

When people say GW2 has no endgame, give them this shopping list and tell them to have fun.

[@MJ-en5hi]

As a novice, casual PvE player. I've made two legendary things so far (aurora & a rune - for the relic). This doesn't seem like nearly as much work now that I'm familiar with the basic process. But I still can't imagine just having enough gold/mats lying around to do a whole set.. or THREE Thanks for the video!

[@Taevarth]

same...gold is always the bane of my existence in this game. kinda feels like the only people who realistically are making thousands are people who dump hundreds of dollars into buying stuff such as bank/craft storage expansions and all that. ive been doing t4 fractals and strikes, which makes me SOME money, but it ends up taking all of my energy/time to do that, i cant imagine doing other things

[@Halak014]

yee, Lord Hizen doing it 3h after patch was a bit demoralizing.... for Anet :D

[@davesmith3009]

Loved the video (and the asides) but the soundtrack had my heart racing with anticipatory dread. I don't know if I will ever start the legendary journey now...

[@pseudoponcho]

One set is in my bank. With my ledgendary pistol and dagger or warhorn. I just love it when the graph on efficiency spikes :P

[@thegamingworld100]

Thanks for the guide! I will stick to the WvW method, this looks very tedious D:

[@T1p2]

Honestly... the biggest hurdle (for me at least) is the 3600+ ectos required to craft the Kryptis Essences and Mystic Clovers *(I refuse to feed Lhyr's addiction lol). Still... I am working on set 2 already, so it's not that much of an obstacle I suppose

[@cattysplat]

Yep, the inflation on rare and ecto prices is massive, from both the increased demand and the raw gold being dumped into the economy by wizard vault.

[@LeahCrawford-u6r]

The venom with which you said “you will have earned the PERMISSION to PURCHASE” was hilarious

[@Cosmicllama64]

Is it just me or is this kinda nuts if you want 6 pieces (i.e. a matching set of skins)? Why do we need to map complete maps 6x for this? FFS... so I have to play through these things multiple times just to get a piece of armor?

[@deviliciouspanda2430]

Completed the legendary medium armor inc suffused skins…. My tip for you … do the metas a few times the week and do the armor piece by piece instead like me all at once … it was depressing, not fun and exhausting

[@PrincessOfMeat]

After coming back to the game after years, I got 2 of these pieces in about a week and a half... and those two pieces convinced me to learn to raid to get the other 4 armor slots.

[@BorderFreak]

Just a heads up bare minimum it will take like 4 weeks to finish those pieces and thats full clearing all the wings

[@abyssion8]

Oh, that explains why I had so many static charges. I put all my alts in Skywatch.

[@chicho32]

My ascended boots are looking even cooler now!

[@CrowStorm38]

oh man, i understand this is all for hardcore long term players and all. But man every time i watch one of these guides i feel like i'm running in place. I play for several hours a day for a couple months now after a multi-year break and even ascended gear feels like a major investment meanwhile people out there salvaging it like it's nothing. crazy crazy lol

[@blackmagick77]

This is going to take years... GW5 will be out by the time I get all of this

[@Ywhre]

They really overcomplicated these recipes for no reason, didn't they...

[@bunbukuchagama346]

They did. That's why they called it legendary

[@RS-cz4oq]

​@@bunbukuchagama346They should change the name from legendary to 'timesink' or 'tedious' armor lol. Still going to do it but that would be more accurate.

[@andresarrieta1455]

Yeah, that's basically GW2 in a nutshell

[@kumwagen]

personally I see it as a grand adventure, you just gotta not think that you have to complete it quickly

​@@kumwagen Agreed. If they were easy to make I wouldn't get that immense dopamine boost when I finish a legendary item. Making them is one optional part of the endgame

[@sog242]

Ok, so I am buying SotO today and this will be... the ... project. oh my lord.

[@vDeadbolt]

Apparently the reason why theres an upcharge of ectos for Lhyr's services is because it fuels his ecto gambling addiction.

[@MrsHjort]

Me, reading the ingredient list and remembering that I salvaged the rift hunter armor 😱 Me, replaying the story episode, not getting the armor agan, finding out that it's in a WvW reward track 😫 Me, realizing that it's only an achievement that is needed and I don't have to spend time in WvW 😅

[@unnamed2737]

As someone who loves playing pve, wvw and pvp, simultaneously, I never have enough time invested in one path to shoot for legendary. Just ain’t possible. 😭

[@9shadeZz2]

I love the idea behind having more ways of unlocking legendary armor, but I really do wish ANet would start getting rid of all these overcomplicated currencies, materials and crafting systems. In my opinion it would do the game a huge favour of slowly but surely reworking all of these into more simple and easy to understand currencies. I am a player since Guild Wars 1, and whenever I return to GW2 for a while I just instantly get overwhelmed. Sadly, I am not overwhelmed by the amount of new stuff to do, but by the amount of different new currencies introduced to the game.

[@YouTubeChillZone]

This will never happen because their goal has always been to complicate everything so that the player will have to buy gold for gems from the Item shop. When you compare GW 2 to the business model of mobile games, everything becomes clear ☠️

[@9shadeZz2]

I understand what you say, however I don't fully support that argument. Other games also have cosmetic stores and make a lot of money with them, but they don't need to frustrate players with overcomplicated currencies. Also, you can't even throw money at your screen in the case of GW2 and unlock everything that way. An example would be some of the time-gated currencies or achievements linked to some legendaries. IDK, in my opinion all this does is frustrate new and returning players, and I don't see why a frustrated player would be extra willing to spend money on gems compared to someone who is having fun playing.@@KZbinChillZone

[@EarlOfLemongrabb]

Thats nuts. So you’re saying you have to do map completion on SOTO for each of the maps, every time for each piece of the set?

[@Lothkru]

It's ridiculous how expensive they made the OW legos. I don't do PvE much but I'd rather spend time on raids than doing this, they look better and are waaaay cheaper D: haha (I get mine through PvP and WvW)

[@MadTawnyOwlet]

Now that the full version of the armour is out... 1:08 Is pretty damn close (minus the wings, those are an optional addition via the gem store) 💀

[@ironaikau8236]

the Lyhr memes were the best, already did 2 sets so not sure why i watched this to the end.

[@ahmedelshahat24]

that is very long Journey lol :D i love the raids Armor was easier to Finish the 3 sets there :D

[@pransis]

Raids armor is easier, but will probably take longer due to the longer time gate for the LI. This is one is basically grind grind grind, everyday. For the record I created the medium obsidian set even though I already have the full raid set just because I want the skin. There were times when I was grinding too much I was almost falling asleep while doing the Convergences. I'm just glad its over now, oh wait I've already started working on the T2 Obsidian Armor 😂

[@x-kon9672]

Thanks!

[@MuklukYoutube]

You're welcome, thank you!

[@ardentflame]

debating if I wanna go for this or the envoy armor (heavy) which looks 10x better but id have to learn raids whereas this seems solo-able, its a gamble on whether the rest of the tiers for these armors will actually look good or not.

[@mimijackson9206]

Can u please go over how many alts you have and where to park them all. Ty

[@kaldaris6185]

I already have 2 pieces crafted but still watched this video to see if there were any tips to do it faster. i didn't know... there wasn't 😢

[@changounchained2648]

So, everyone seems to gloss over the tiers of Obsidian Leggy armor specifics. Will you have to go through tier 1 to get to tier 2 or will you be able to make teir 2 directly? I want to have to avoid building 2 or more sets of medium leggy armor to get the features that I want; as does everyone. TY 🙂

[@firby7341]

yay another bunch of legendary items i will never craft

[@GKCanman]

I was planning on doing all the pieces until i realized how many rifts i would need to do. 3000 of the red kryptis essence for each piece. With the convergence and motivation buff you get a little over 50 per t1. That's 60 almost 60 t1 rifts. Smell that? Smells like a MMO grind.

[@karabean]

Come join us crazies in WvW, it's a bit of a grind too, but everyday is different and you don't need research notes. Did I mention I hate research notes? 😂

[@odin13th76]

The grind isn't that bad, just do convergence daily no need to rift hunt for hours. You'll make about 6 amalgamated kryptis just from convergence a week. It's by far the easiest mmo grind I've done. Just take your time with it, the grind only turns to burn out if you try to finish it as fast as possible.

[@GKCanman]

@@karabean Research notes aren't too bad. I typically do them with cheap mithril jewelry. There's definitely a wrong way to do it which is the problem.

[@ihappy1]

Completing a convergence with the mastery bonuses and choosing the red essence from the choice chest got me about 300 essence per convergence, plus getting the bonus items from the repeatable quests in convergences can add more. My highest was about 500 red essences from one convergence. I followed some weekly rift hunting but only focused on the maps where I haven't done the 3 tiers of rifts yet for the achievement. Took me about 2 weeks of not super intense play, I didn't rift hunt or do a convergence every night, to get enough for a piece. It's a grind sure, but it's not too bad, the worst part is all of the might and magic materials for me

[@YouTubeChillZone]

Rifts are the stupidest way to give players something to do all this achieves is to scare away most people

[@daelnelbel]

Lhyr charging 10 ectos for everything is kinda funny because that makes me think his Facet of Emotion has a gambling problem, or the Facet of Logic is trying to do drop research on the ecto gambling methods, or both

[@nathanielnizard2163]

Compared to legendary trinkets it's almost only a sink. The medium armor looks great.

[@laurapiacentinicasarin8205]

What on Tyrian is Lyhr doing with all that ecto??!!

[@desel8737]

try mystic crafting in blish hud

[@chester1882]

12:18 At what point do these references to each other become comparable to writing dis-poetry about each other Muk?

[@Raymorend]

Lets put different ingredients for PvE armor from different maps and events of the open world to revitalize the content! No, lets put the same event on the 6 different maps and make the farm them for eternity to complete just one set! P.S. and make the items account bound, so you cant just skip it a little with gold.

[@lcZahark]

The amount of ectoplasm is ridiculous.

[@animewanderer41]

Yeah, it’s wild. Doing Tarir and Palawadan every day makes it go pretty fast

[@Zinkrus]

I have a problem.. you see my original goal was to caft 1 set in at least 3 months time because of the amount of grind needed.. so my problem is, that I cannot stop myself once I started. I got my full heavy set in 27 days of grinding... and now I am almost done with the light set in almost the same amount of time as the heavy 😅

[@wasd2413]

I didn’t even know it was possible to do it that fast lmao

[@Zinkrus]

@@wasd2413 I didn't either until I grinded for it 😅

[@TheATOMICGOBLIN]

Dang I only play one character/profession (Ele) . Did not realize stats were the same as ascended lol.

[@vik2051]

Ive made 1 leg weapon and it was painful the thought of getting a full set of armor is just beyond me. They really should make this easier to make IMO.

[@corvuscorax9028]

well it's called legendary for some reason if it's was easy it will be called exotic or ascended

[@vik2051]

​@@corvuscorax9028 At the very least make it more transparent in-game on how to make them, where the materials drop, sure you can use the wiki but it becomes a lot of back and forth. Also getting the legendaries will be fun to do in GW3 if everyone has to do it all over again :P

[@Mars-1995]

I really don't like the visuals of the light armor. Will we be able to craft tier 2 directly when it releases?

[@Tukotaga2024]

ok i'm gonna get 1 item and see how I feel. as a 3 month of playtime player this task feels monumental so bit by bit :D those research notes can just stick it 😅

[@R.senals_Arsenal]

Best looking one I got was either Medium chest or pants, just saying.

[@YouTubeChillZone]

I have been playing this game on and off for 11 years and still I think that they put too much grind for this armor in places that only make the player suffer instead of satisfaction. Maybe it will be less irritating for you because you are new, but for us veterans it is very irritating when they always tell you to do the same thing instead of giving you something creative

[@Tukotaga2024]

it is very grindy I noticed that. Basing alot how I feel after getting one. If not Ima just sit happy in ascended and live with it. but ill give it a go, hope they simplify. getting one feels like an achievement, but doing the same thing 6 times, even if slightly less the other 5 times.. feels like its gonna be bad@@KZbinChillZone

[@Seriousbomb54]

first the alcoholic miyani now ectogambler lyhr. what addicction witll the next one have? janthir wilds gonna tell us.

[@grimonce]

The 250 luck stack is a joke... I play since release and I'm just doing the spvp armor... well that's the mode I play the most since it's the one I don't need to keep up with meta in. Just click the queue, enjoy the profit. Winning or losing doesn't matter, the lower rank you are the faster you will find a match :)

[@elocfreidon]

If people rather pay the Lyhr ecto cost instead of just level up crafting themselves, they deserve the extra charge.

[@Apoz]

I wish I didn't have to do 30 chak eggs for raid gear. I'd rather do 50 dhuum/qtp2 cm's :(

[@Visaerion]

6:46 Anyone elsed caught the Inner Mayonaise. instead of Inner Nayos? Good pun there. 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂

[@jench78]

are these generally easier to achieve than raid armor?

[@corinbrown4239]

The most onerous part to me so far has been ectos. I've got basically everything else I need but have only got enough ectos for like 3 amalgamated essences (i salvage every piece of rare or exotic i get with silver fed salvageomatic)... Anyone with tips on getting them faster?

[@megs1911]

I still wanted to hear the "back to Lhyr!" somewhere :c

[@javier6483]

Ain't nobody got time for that

[@ocultusguild]

Lyhr must be swimming in ectos by now.

[@KaseyWynne]

I am, in fact, that crazy, and got all 18 pieces on day one of the second inner nayos drop. Worth it!