Players with multiple legendaries, how much time? (Not a bitter post, asking for science)

The best tip is to slowly work towards it, for the reason of simply not exhausting yourself trying to finish it. It actually is more rewarding if you play the game primarily and unconsciously working on your legendary. All you have to keep in mind is saving up your T6 mats, and gold. If you're lucky then you might get a precursor drop along the way. Not necessarily the one for the legendary you are trying to make but at least it could net you some gold to either buy the precursor you need or the rest of the T6 mats.

Other than that, WvW tokens, karma and dungeon tokens are all part of it. So do your research on which legendary you want to make and slowly build it up.

Precursor and T6 mats will take up the most time in making a legendary. Map completion might take a little, but the rest is fairly easy. Karma and WvW coins from Edge of the Mists.

Take your time and enjoy the game! :D

Took me about 6 months of daily play for each legendary I made so far, but I was doing many other things not just farming for legendary.

I have around 5700 hours on my account. In that time, I have made 7 legendaries (Twilight/Sunrise/Eternity/Rodgort/Juggernaut/Incinerator/Predator). The time it takes can really vary depending on what you are going for and how you go about getting it.

My very first legendary was Twilight. It took me around 4-5 months to make it and I was literally non stop grinding for it. At the time however, I had a lot of free time to work with. I wasn't employed during release and I wasn't taking any college courses (was trying to figure out what I wanted to do) so I had a lot of time to work with. During that time, I farmed literally everything that had any relation that was needed with twilight. I farmed TA almost daily trying to get Onyx Cores/Lodestones. I farmed cursed shore daily for T6 mats along with the random chance of getting a precursor. At the time, the only good thing that dungeons gave consistently was 2.4k karma per path per character. They did not give gold at the time.

The one thing that did make a difference eventually was I started trading stuff I didn't need, for stuff I needed to guild members. I started trading Molten/Corrupted lodestones for Onyx Lodestones to a couple of different people. Helping out the community for Fort Aspenwood also gave its perks. For a couple months, I ran an orichalcum location blog so people could know the locations. I asked for donations and got a lot of t6 mats and lodestones that way. Finally, buying the precursor was still one of the rough points. At the time, dusk wasn't at the crazy price it is at now. I bought my dusk for 300g. It was a long trek for my first legendary, but I learned what to work on first.

I learned that getting my map completion and gift of mastery done first was a good start. Getting mystic clovers done with first was also another plus since the result of not getting any clovers was a chance at getting t6 mats. By the time I had my clovers done, I had around 50-70 of each t6 mat.

One of the things I've always done for all my legendaries, was focus on my precursor last. Since worrying about a precursor can lead you to some really stupid choices cough toilet cough (however this can be a double edged sword since last night I just got 'The Legend' for my girlfriend via rngesus)

After twilight, I took a break and had fun running lots of dungeons. After about a month I found out I had around 1 mil karma. Enough to start another legendary. I made rodgort literally in two months.

I made sunrise two months later after accidentally getting a dawn from the forge. The only hard part was getting 100 charged lodestones. Combined sunrise and twilight together for eternity (back when it sucked and looked awful).

After that I took a long break on making legendaries. I started my career in the IT/Networking field and didn't have a lot of time to play for a while. I was averaging about 2-3 hours a night and 5 hours on the weekend. However, now that I've been in my line of work for a while. I've been able to play a lot more since I haven't had to go home and learn things for work. I now average around 5-6 during the work week.

One thing I have learned while having little time to play, was the ability to flip items on the trading post. I got good at it, was flipping the fused skins and mystic conduits. Flipped the grasping grinning shield back when it was 20g each and sold it when it jumped to 200g each (about 4 of them). I flipped exotic mini pets when they dropped to the 20-30g each and waiting for them to rise back to 100-200g each. In all, if I wasn't purchasing things in between this, I would have had around 3-4k gold.

So that is something you can learn if you don't have a lot of time and you have a decent amount of money (at least 100g). Learn to flip items on the trading post. Find out what you can buy for a low price and sell for a higher price (buy orders and sell orders). I literally made my juggernaut that way. I didn't have the time to farm for all of the materials, so I flipped fused skins and firebringers, along with the occasional jormags breath. As long as you are willing to learn how the economy works in Guild Wars 2, you can flip very easily.

Honestly, just hold onto everything you get. All the materials and stuff, they start adding up. Have fun and learn to save the stuff you need.

So basically. tl;dr version:

Work for the easy stuff first. Run the dungeon you need daily, but run other dungeons for fun that also give good loot. Don't worry about your precursor until the end since you might get lucky and get it from somewhere else. Ask friends and guild members for help. Find good people to run dungeons/fractals with. Don't grind yourself out.

The End.

@7Protons Also, If I may ask. What legendary are you going for?

Uhm my first one took forever, 7 months total. My second was much easier with only two months. I have 1500 hours played by now, owning two legendaries. I'm a casual player, somedays I don't even come online, so those 7 months include at least one or two full weeks not being online.

Best tip I can give you is to try flipping the tp. It doesn't require you to be online all the time except for putting things on the tp. For everything else, keep your T5 mats and transform them into T6, sell the rest you don't need.

Good luck

Taking away afk hours, I would estimate I have around 4-5k hours of actually playing, but obviously I'm not always aiming for a Legendary while playing. I would say perhaps 2-2.5k of those hours are actually spent with that sort of goal in mind.

2.5k/10 = around 250 hours per Legendary. That's absolutely not optimal as far as I know, you could shrink that down a lot more if you get a dedicated group to blitz you through some fast dungeons in the times you're available. If you're pushing for it then the time will fly by, but unfortunately staying on point for that long is a daunting task no matter how you look at it.

If, however, you were to just let items accumulate without aiming for the legendary, at your current rate of play, you should get decent progress over the next few months. I find that if you have accumulated stock sitting in your bank, it's a good motivator to get back out there and finish it off.

Unfortunately yes it can be a daunting grind. I started playing back in late January of 2013 and didn't really push for a legendary until like 5 months later. My early time spent I didn't keep my mats, I didn't knows you could deposit them (yeah I was a total scrub) etc etc. I've made two legendaries and thanks to the Mystic Toilet I'm working on my third. If you really want to make a legendary the easiest thing to do is to do daily fast dungeon paths every day to knockout some nice gold because that is the horrifying challenge. Gold gold gold. Unless you spend rl money on gems to gold conversion or unless you're a trading post master you might want to work on doing dungeon paths every so often. They're fast and always net 1.5g per path (most of the time after selling shiz)

Took me 3k hours and 8 lvl80 characters to get a precursor drop. Crafting legendary itself took half an hour.

I wasn't grinding for my Legendary, was working on it fairly casually. Took me 5 months. Getting precursor is the hardest part of making the legendary. I was lucky enough to get it via Toilet.

I've made four legendaries. The first was the hardest. Took me about 6 months of casual play, but it wasn't until I joined a group that did daily runs that I was really able to finish it in about 2 months. From there, I sold the second and that gave me a solid base for my 3rd and 4th. I made two in a 9 month period, and then my 3 and 4 within 2 months.

• Get a good group, find a guild, advertise. I know my guild is always advertising for recruits with an emphasis on speed runs. Should be pretty easy to find one.

• Make sure you're well geared with your dungeon characters (i.e. speed run gear, such as zerks, which sounds cliche, but if you want to earn money for a legendary, this is the most efficient way). If you only play for an hour, with a good group you can still make 5-6 gold, easy. Run a few more on weekends, you're looking at easy 50 gold a week.

• Quit selling mats, and buy t6 in small quantities if you want to spend your gold.

• If you stop thinking of it as a grind, it doesn't become one. Do things bit by bit. Whatever you want to that day. Map completion by pieces, enjoy seeing the world. Run EOTM for fun with a zerg (it drops gold, karma, t6, and lootz). Run dungeons with a guild and become friends.

• Do your clovers as you get karma/laurels and can get obi shards.

• Go for your precurser last. Once you have everything else, you just have ONE MORE THING, so it's easier to save for. By that point, you should have a steady flow of gold coming in and it really shouldn't take that long. Or you might be lucky with a drop.

3700h since beta. I made 2 legendaries: predator and frostfang. Advice : don't gamble, buy your precursor.

I've always been an avid player, devouring the story, exploring everything I could. When pve started to worn up, I set myself a new goal : crafting the predator for my engi. It kept me well occupied for a while, and lead me into learning how to farm/speedrun whatever could be.

When I finished my first pre, living story started. I enjoyed that content but I still kept speedrunning dungeons. I must mention I'm a hoarder : I keep everything I loot. So one day I figured out I had a stack of each T6 and a decent sum of gold (~900g). I decided to spend all that in Frostfang, which I crafted in 2 days.

Now I'm down to 200g with no T6. Time to keep venturing in gw2!

I "abused" prices on the TP a long time ago. Unofficial patch notes tipped me off that crafting was getting a jolt just before the first Wind Trader event. Made around 2k selling Mithril and level 40 (300 / 325) crafting mats over the course of a week. Also used some karma to smoosh up some random greens in the magic toilet to recycle for ecto, which was selling for a lot back then. Im not even sure any of that is worth money now. Ill never do it again tbh, not with wardrobe now.

I only have one legendary - took me about 6 months beginning to end without really focusing on it. I just played what I like to play and let the items accumulate.

With the standard dungeon tour (sans Arah) + Tequatl, 1 1/2 - 2 months per Legendary at current TP rates.

I think with a little bit more effort, I'm on track for an Incinerator in under a month this time round. Just gotta keep saving for the precursor. Once you have it, everything else is relatively easy to acquire as you can do them slowly.

depends, sometimes i took 4months + sometimes 2 weeks. i didnt have any rare drops at all, sometimes an entropy or a 1g-exo but nothing special. at the moment im sitting on 8 legendarys and a lot of highend exos like foefires, crossing, purpleglowing stuff, with 3k hours played in total but : i would have 11 legendarys on the counter if it would still count +5, i also sold like 3 or 4 other legendarys. on my account i crafted only 4, since im lacking the motivation to explore more ..... 3 were on an inactive friends account, 3 from other friends i gave some gold to craft it.

2 weeks, how is this possible ?! sick dedication, assuming you need ~2000g for a legendary, i learned to solo arah and some other dungeons, which gave me access to more than 150g+ per day. i ran 5-8 hrs a day, for 2 weeks, sent the money to a friend who crafted it for me. never again :D

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I'm currently sitting at 1.750 hours played with a really tiny amount of being afk. At first I didn't really plan to ever make a legendary because of the atrocious amount of time and gold needed. So back in December when prices of precursor were more moderate than they're now I decided to dump a lot of 'left over' gold into the mystic forge; I had just finished my ascended armor and Volcanus so there I had no long term goals at that time.

I dropped rare GS for around 50g into the toilet and got Dusk. That motivated me enough to make Twilight and I farmed in Orr like crazy via guesting and got my Twilight in the matter of a month, getting the pre nearly for free really helped.

After this I started to save up a lot of mats and other stuff needed for legendary while leveling up a ton of alts; I got 7 alts up to LV80 since I finished my Twilight in December. I also spent a shit ton of gold on them and could have probably made Sunrise right off the bat without making them. Fairly recently I decided to make Sunrise for my Charr guard because it fits the armor and colours so well, that was before the ridiculous raise of precursor prices. When Dawn cost 550g I decided to not buy it because I didn't think that the wardrobe update would shoot precursor prices out of the roof, I rather made some ascended weapons for my guard.

Altogether it took me around another months of actively farming for Sunrise and I battled for Dawn on the TP for around 4 hours via bids to finally get it, but I paid 850g for it. I had around 50% of the t6 mats needed and spent my left over laurels on them too, cleared my bank stuff and sold some investments to get the rest.

I do at least 3 dungeons a day, mostly the 8 fastest (CoF 1+2, AC 1+3, TA UP+FWD and SE 1+3) dungeons and 1-2 hours of farming temples or events in Orr (Cursed Shore). World bosses aren't really worth it anymore because you waste around 15 mins of waiting for each boss.

About 150 hours for each of my legendary's....I do a lot of WvW, bought the mats etc etc I have 4 legendary weapons so far :) Can be a chore at time buts well worth it

2100 hours and 5 Legendary weapons.

The first one was the toughest as I was obsessed about building one. I was inefficient with the process. However, the other 4 were easy in comparison to the first one. There is no one right way to make one, and each time will be different. You need luck or time management in order to make one in less than a year for your first one.

I got my precursors this way: 2 open world drop, 2 Mystic forge drop, and 1 purchased strait from Trading Post.

I got the gold from: Several TP investments, Event Drops, Dungeons, and farming.

When I was CoF farming, about 2 months.

Deadeye Farm 1 week

New Dungeon setup, 2 months

Speed runs dungeons, 1 month

Learning Tp flipping now: made 100g just to day, If i keep it up I hope for my 5th in 2 weeks.

I also have bought Wings of Dwayna (300g), 7 Bag slots, 4 bank tabs, 2 Personal Guild banks (150 slots) 4 gem store armors, 2 Name changes, 50+ Transmutation charges, Copper Fed and some others between those, also with 4 ascended weapons (I got luck with fotm drops a couple times so I didnt have to make alot) and 4 sets of Ascended armors

There are a number of players in my guild with over half a dozen legendaries. Most of them acquired them by two means:

1. Running dungeons daily, and using tokens to either craft jewelry recipes or buying exotic weapons to toss into the forge for precursors

2. PvBanking with the Trading Post

The best general suggestion I can give you is that you need to learn to be a hoarder. If you need gold, run dungeons. Do not randomly sell any crafting materials you obtain. They will occasionally spike in value, or will be important for you later on down the road. The best example of this is silk scrap. People used to literally vendor this shit away by the stack. I kept every single one I got and put it in a guild bank. I made hundreds of gold off ascended armor crafting when it launched for that reason.

So I guess if I could give another recommendation to compiling gold to craft multiple legendaries: invest in making a personal bank guild.