@title. Recently started playing again and slowly working up to full ascended, the living story maps seem to be the fastest way to get the backs for now. Are all three similar in the rate in which you aquire the required currencies or is there one map I should specifically focus on? I need zerkers, if it makes any difference.
Posted Dec 23, 2016, 2:21 AM UTC
Get member berries in bitterfrost.
'member when they gave more unbound magic?
oooooo I 'member
Ya but they are still much faster to farm than rubies or wood, and scale with characters really well.
Yeah, I was just joking around.
70g for quiver of a thousand arrows, no time gates. This is the first one I made due to extreme laziness.
Wings of Ascension is basically free ascended. Takes about 90 ranked pvp games but alongside this you also get a near full asc set with any stats, 95~ gold, 97 transmutation charges and a few full PvP tracks.
90 ranked games is entirely dependent on your pvp skill and the matches you get though. (just pointing out for the op)
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It's free but time consuming because of the 3 ranked games per day achievement :/
That's for the legendary, no achievements needed for the ascended precursor because you just buy the components with tickets
If you played fractals before you left and have fractal relics around, making a Prototype Fractal Capacitor is extremely cheap (~1800 relics and very little of anything else). They don't come in a lot of stats, but they do come in Zerk. There's also a whole slew of ascended backpacks you can just throw gold at to craft and get instantly.
If those options don't appeal to you, the Icebrood Horn backpack from Bitterfrost Frontier is going to be the fastest. That map is unique because the harvesting is limited by character rather than by account. A berry run gets you about 50 berries, so it's 8 characters run through the map to get one (which can be separate characters all in one day, or one character over 8 days, or anywhere in between). u/Wraithpro is right, though, that you might look at the skins associated with each and have that influence your decision if it's something you care about.
Bloodstone Fen is probably the slowest, but you can change the Stats on it whenever you want. Bitterfrost Frontier is probably the fastest, but the backpack is meh. Ember Bae is a good backpiece at a decent rate of currency, best looking imo.
Also, the backpieces have all available stats, if I can remember correctly.
All stats available sounds about right, wasn't 100% sure so figured I might as well mention it. Bloodstone Fen is a pain to navigate so prolly gonna go for Ember Bay then.
Thanks!
keep in mind that if you can do pvp then you can get 50 of any of the 3 currencies by having the corresponding map reward track active.
you will also get a nice collection of the currencies from map completion and completing the story for each map.
50 of any of the 3 currencies
100* for BFF
Once you have fully upgraded the gliding mastery track, Bloodstone fen is actually quite pleasant, as you can get to any point of the map really quickly. As opposed to Bitterfrost, where the North East portion requires having a potion that costs Winterberries, and the South Eastern hot springs are a bit far away from any waypoint.
Bloodstone is probably the area in the game where you can spend the most time gliding. And have the easiest access to aerial currents / shrooms to get back in the air once you land.
Certainly looked that way to me, but I just unlocked lean techniques, so quite far off from that point
I understand your opinion then. Bloodstone without advanced gliding must suck. Ley line is also really nice to have unlocked.
It's probably worth doing the mawdrey line, tbh. Getting the consumer helps a lot too.
As much as I love Mawdrey, it is very expensive to make compared to the others and is extremely limited on stat options. You can get two other Bloodstone consumers you can get in HoT and LWS3 so it's not the most ideal option.
I wasn't aware of the ls3 one, and herta is pretty bad in terms of what you get for 250 dust unless you're playing auric basin all the time and the buff and aurilium is valuable. Stats are fine because he wants zerkers.
If you want to use ls3 imo do berries and farm the loop in multiple characters. Shouldn't take more than a few days at most for about 10 to 15 mins per character per day
Bitterfrot's waaay faster than both Bloodstone Fen & Ember Bay. If you collect all the berries in the forest it should be about 50-60 per run. You can do this with multiple characters and get your backpiece in one day if you have the time and enough char with access to the map. The backpiece is 400 so you'll need 4 chars and one day or 2 n 2.
4 x 50 = 200
4 x 60 = 240
not including the magic cost.
You would need at least 7-8 chars to get it in one day if you have the magic already. More if you don't have spare magic
Got (only) 2 capped chars, so seems like we've got a winner, berry runs it is. Much appreciated!
If you have only 2 chars then Ember Bay might be faster. But you will have to play on the map, do all events, harvest nodes etc.
True, but from what I've seen berry runs are a 20 minute thing, and that sounds a lot more appealing atm considering family obligations around this time.
Yeah, with limited time berry much better for you then.
if you do all hearts and buy them form there as well as harvest all nodes you should be getting about 75 per run (my lowest run collection so far while doing all of this), obviously this adds a little more time on to the run but it helps speed it up in days needed
75x2 = 150
150x2 = 300
3rd day you get the back plus some extra magic (think you miss calculated your 2n2)