this is such good advice - something that I also realized recently like after 3 years of playing lololol I was doing map completion while helping a new player friend, and I realized that the heart vendor from the later maps (like sparkly etc) actually had some exclusive armor skins. back when I played initially, I'd complete the heart n ignore the vendor completely cuz I was hoarding karma for "just in case" and I thought the vendors just sell bad foods like the ones on starter maps. needless to say - I was wrong. now my goal is to revisit the heart vendor I completed on my new map completion chara to buy whatever skin I dont have, then from now on every heart I complete, must check what they sell after. it is Fashion Wars 2 time!! 😂😂
Personally, I don't like the vast majority of shop items and they're such a limited selection that I don't bother looking at them. If you want some really cool weapon skins for free (which is always nice) then head to the trading post with about 50 gold minimum and go down to skins and weapon skins. From there, you'll see a plethora of styles and sets with special effects, visual appearances, and overall higher quality than most of the weapons you get in the shop. Of course, this requires you to buy the game instead of playing on a trial, but if you're looking at the shop, you'll have already gotten the game.
The shattered weapon skins released along with SoTo are very nice too! And majority are 30 - 50 silver! I had the Modnir staff many years ago when I was a new player :)
I just did the Caladbolg "Questline" and discovered that I like that aspect of gameplay, kind of like a scavenger hunt, so I'll probably go after those 3 weapons that have the same style of acquisition. That Entropy is a must have for me as well, thanks for making this video!
And those 3 are exotics i think beserkers stats... caladbolg weapons are free stats ascended weapons... personaly i like the caladbolg skins and the fact that they are easy and cheap to get... so much i made a caladbolg on about 20 chars. And i kinda liked the ending of HoT
Can you make the actual weapon on more than one character? I know you can change the form with unbound magic, but I can have all of my characters with an actual weapon, not just the skin? @@H.S.D.81
Important note for anyone who does the Caladbolg stuff - you don't have to decide on one of the skins, instead you can exchange one Caladbolg version for another at the guy once you get the item. It costs a bit, don't remember what exactly, but you can switch through all the available versions of Caladbolg and therefore unlock all skins before settling on the one that you actually want to use.
Very nice video concept! I would love if you would continue this with armor and backpieces, also you could do medium and high price categories for those who don’t really care about the gold but more about the fashion!
One of my favorite sets are the weapons that look like the guardian summons, if you get all the skins you'll get a special back item. Also the ones that look like the elementalist conjured weapons are nice.
Damn, Al'ir'aska went up a lot after the land-spear announcement. 2 of my favorite cheap skins you can buy from the TP is 'Gate of heaven' (Greatsword, ~1g on TP) and 'Crucible' (Sword, ~90s on TP), the reason I like them so much is because they have a sheath when stowed. For that extra realism.
5:23 i recommend doing legendary bounties for these - someone is always doing a run over and over, sometimes hours at a time. With that said, you only get the chest once a day from each boss but still get drops, except for the three headed dragon for some reason which always has its chest spawn
Loved this video, and your other one on armor skins. A good tip I came across was you can tick the filter in BLTC for "locked" items, which will filter out any you've already unlocked. Really handy for finding new weapons, armor, dyes, mini's etc.
Good advice. I suggest that players who are going to do map completion now, or sometime in the future, don’t buy items from the trading post until after you have finished the map completion and purchased all of the items that you don’t have skins unlocked for, from the heart vendors for karma. Just buy the cheapest version to unlock the skins and then after you finish map completion, you will know what skins are acquired from other ways. Buying skins from heart vendors for karma will save you lots of gold in the long run.
3:22 *lesser vision crystal* not everyone needs to be lv500 armorsmith/tailor/leatherworker to get this. you can either simply buy it from Lyhr in SOTO, the wizard's tower or with a bit of luck it drops from six different bags/containers. e.g. the bags you get by exchanging bloodstone dust/empyreal fragments/dragonite ore via the daily converter
I would NEVER recommend buying something from Lyhr. You pay him ectos so you dont need to level crafting (which is mostly cheaper than the ecto tax) and you will need the crafting level later anyway
personally one of the best greatsword skins is in soto its Strength of the Unseen super easy collection and has a similar feel to the legendary gen 2 greatsword with a very djin art style and draw effect
Can you please do a tier list of best looking Legendary Weapons based on your opinion? :D Would love to hear that. Also great video, keep up the good work my guy
Good showcase, but I think it calls for more part 2, 3, 4.... There are so many so pretty cheap weapons. :D Funny coincidence. Just 2 hours ago I have done Maws Meta and got the Forged Staff dropped. Never knew it existed even through I play for since ~8 years.😂
Actually I have thought about trying streaming. Not sure when I would be starting and what exactly I would do on stream, but I think it would be fun to play and discuss things with viewers
HI can you tell me if you get the same items for expansions from steam and games website? Does the games website have bonus items? like level up to 80 and inventor add-on? does the steam site not have them? I would like to play the game on steam just for piece on mind. was thinking about getting the ELDER DRAGON SAGA-COMPLETE COLLECTION and Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure™ Expansion when on sale. both items cost the same price without sales. Thank you.
Hard to tell since it changes but at 3:40 shoulder: Heavy Houndskin Mantle legs: Heavy corsair leggings boots: Luminous Heavy Greaves hands: Foefire Wraps chest: Barbaric Coat back: Forest Archer Cape
@@minor_2nd Thanks! Unfortunate I gotta wait. I thought there used to be an item which made you unlock a skin of choice, but I can't find it anymore:( For now I put the approximate date for next years lunar event in my agenda:P
Much harder to find weapons that actually look like you could fight with them. And be more likely to hurt your opponent than yourself. Bows are particularly bad, only a few would propel an arrow.
feedback: please dont show your face... its cringe.. im here for the info not your face.. sorry to be very rude to you. its just very annoying when content creators think they look sooo good so that we must see their face on our screens
this is such good advice - something that I also realized recently like after 3 years of playing lololol I was doing map completion while helping a new player friend, and I realized that the heart vendor from the later maps (like sparkly etc) actually had some exclusive armor skins. back when I played initially, I'd complete the heart n ignore the vendor completely cuz I was hoarding karma for "just in case" and I thought the vendors just sell bad foods like the ones on starter maps. needless to say - I was wrong. now my goal is to revisit the heart vendor I completed on my new map completion chara to buy whatever skin I dont have, then from now on every heart I complete, must check what they sell after.
it is Fashion Wars 2 time!! 😂😂
My favorite of these Karma armors is the Light Stately set. I was completing Sparkfly Fen and got excited collecting all 6 pieces.
I've been doing the same for map comp and checking if I don't have any skins or collectibles.
Fun fact about Cobalt... it works as a light source in dark places... places so dark you can't see your char
Yeah, gonna start that collection from the weapon design contest... thanks Evan.
Personally, I don't like the vast majority of shop items and they're such a limited selection that I don't bother looking at them. If you want some really cool weapon skins for free (which is always nice) then head to the trading post with about 50 gold minimum and go down to skins and weapon skins. From there, you'll see a plethora of styles and sets with special effects, visual appearances, and overall higher quality than most of the weapons you get in the shop. Of course, this requires you to buy the game instead of playing on a trial, but if you're looking at the shop, you'll have already gotten the game.
The shattered weapon skins released along with SoTo are very nice too! And majority are 30 - 50 silver! I had the Modnir staff many years ago when I was a new player :)
I just did the Caladbolg "Questline" and discovered that I like that aspect of gameplay, kind of like a scavenger hunt, so I'll probably go after those 3 weapons that have the same style of acquisition. That Entropy is a must have for me as well, thanks for making this video!
The 3 weapons in question have achievements very similar to the Caladbolg achievement! It’s just lest costly!
And those 3 are exotics i think beserkers stats... caladbolg weapons are free stats ascended weapons...
personaly i like the caladbolg skins and the fact that they are easy and cheap to get... so much i made a caladbolg on about 20 chars.
And i kinda liked the ending of HoT
Can you make the actual weapon on more than one character? I know you can change the form with unbound magic, but I can have all of my characters with an actual weapon, not just the skin? @@H.S.D.81
Important note for anyone who does the Caladbolg stuff - you don't have to decide on one of the skins, instead you can exchange one Caladbolg version for another at the guy once you get the item. It costs a bit, don't remember what exactly, but you can switch through all the available versions of Caladbolg and therefore unlock all skins before settling on the one that you actually want to use.
Very nice video concept! I would love if you would continue this with armor and backpieces, also you could do medium and high price categories for those who don’t really care about the gold but more about the fashion!
One of my favorite sets are the weapons that look like the guardian summons, if you get all the skins you'll get a special back item. Also the ones that look like the elementalist conjured weapons are nice.
small one you missed for guns is the charrzooka. absolutely HUGE gun for a small amount of silver on trading post
Because the barrel drags in the dirt even when carried by a Norn. Thing jams every third use.
big gun = big dmg. math checks out@@CorwynGC
Damn, Al'ir'aska went up a lot after the land-spear announcement.
2 of my favorite cheap skins you can buy from the TP is 'Gate of heaven' (Greatsword, ~1g on TP) and 'Crucible' (Sword, ~90s on TP), the reason I like them so much is because they have a sheath when stowed. For that extra realism.
5:23 i recommend doing legendary bounties for these - someone is always doing a run over and over, sometimes hours at a time. With that said, you only get the chest once a day from each boss but still get drops, except for the three headed dragon for some reason which always has its chest spawn
Loved this video, and your other one on armor skins. A good tip I came across was you can tick the filter in BLTC for "locked" items, which will filter out any you've already unlocked. Really handy for finding new weapons, armor, dyes, mini's etc.
appreciate the guide, had no clue some of those existed and the only gamemode i'm playing is fashion wars so those will come in handy
Good advice. I suggest that players who are going to do map completion now, or sometime in the future, don’t buy items from the trading post until after you have finished the map completion and purchased all of the items that you don’t have skins unlocked for, from the heart vendors for karma. Just buy the cheapest version to unlock the skins and then after you finish map completion, you will know what skins are acquired from other ways. Buying skins from heart vendors for karma will save you lots of gold in the long run.
thank you so much, im kinda new on the game and this help me a lot to get cool skins, wonder if u have a similar video for armors?
yes actually I have been working on one, should be coming up soon!
13 years later and my warrior girl still rocks that ebon hawk sword
Kobalt was my first skin on my guardian indeed, until I formed me an own weapon. 😂
Im pretty sure they did a design a weapon in GW1 too, pretty cool to see them do it in this one as well
I like to see them do it again, it's such a great idea. I'm sure there are many artists that would love the opportunity
3:22 *lesser vision crystal* not everyone needs to be lv500 armorsmith/tailor/leatherworker to get this. you can either simply buy it from Lyhr in SOTO, the wizard's tower or with a bit of luck it drops from six different bags/containers. e.g. the bags you get by exchanging bloodstone dust/empyreal fragments/dragonite ore via the daily converter
I would NEVER recommend buying something from Lyhr. You pay him ectos so you dont need to level crafting (which is mostly cheaper than the ecto tax) and you will need the crafting level later anyway
Can you do a video like this for armor skins?
yeah, already added that to my list of future videos!
I love the focus skin from Butcher's Block, still one of the best early skins in the game.
personally one of the best greatsword skins is in soto its Strength of the Unseen super easy collection and has a similar feel to the legendary gen 2 greatsword with a very djin art style and draw effect
Super helpful, Ill definitely check out some of these! Didn't even know about cultural weapons...
I recognize Malon Mart to close the video, good music choice from a similarly legendary game.
I just got a bunch of shimmering aurora skins off the trading post, expensive but they look great.
What armor skins are you using in the video?? They're excellent
Can you please do a tier list of best looking Legendary Weapons based on your opinion? :D Would love to hear that. Also great video, keep up the good work my guy
Long time player but somehow I missed some of these, especially many of the Modniir skins!
The ebonguard crossbow is one of personal fav
And then there are the "Manifest" weapons in EoD ... each of the five weapon skins is in my top 5 for the weapon form
Hi, what's the name of the last weapon skin ? Two hands with a glowing orb in between ?
Good showcase, but I think it calls for more part 2, 3, 4.... There are so many so pretty cheap weapons. :D
Funny coincidence. Just 2 hours ago I have done Maws Meta and got the Forged Staff dropped. Never knew it existed even through I play for since ~8 years.😂
I think I'll definitely have to make a part 2 since people seemed to really like this video idea!
Hey Man, I love your content. Have you considered streaming? I'd love listening to some lore stream (or story) of yours ;)
Actually I have thought about trying streaming. Not sure when I would be starting and what exactly I would do on stream, but I think it would be fun to play and discuss things with viewers
HI can you tell me if you get the same items for expansions from steam and games website? Does the games website have bonus items? like level up to 80 and inventor add-on? does the steam site not have them?
I would like to play the game on steam just for piece on mind. was thinking about getting the ELDER DRAGON SAGA-COMPLETE COLLECTION and Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure™ Expansion when on sale. both items cost the same price without sales. Thank you.
nice! wait a similar videos for armor sets ;)
Will you be doing a piece on Armor Skins?
yup, planning on doing that some time soon
Actually I even reskinned my Gen1 GS to these because I got sick and tired of so many common looks.
do one for armor pieces now :)
Entropy feels like almost a legendary
there is also a holy version called Genesis, just a bit more expensive though wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Genesis
Can you tell us what is that armor on the female of this video?
Hard to tell since it changes but at 3:40
shoulder: Heavy Houndskin Mantle
legs: Heavy corsair leggings
boots: Luminous Heavy Greaves
hands: Foefire Wraps
chest: Barbaric Coat
back: Forest Archer Cape
@@blackalphadragon96Thank you,that is exactly what I wanted to know.
1:38 what helmet skin is that?:o
It's from lunar new years, got added last time as reward from the annual achievement. Can get it again next year
@@minor_2nd Thanks! Unfortunate I gotta wait. I thought there used to be an item which made you unlock a skin of choice, but I can't find it anymore:(
For now I put the approximate date for next years lunar event in my agenda:P
this game looks like elder scrolls on crack, i love it
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Much harder to find weapons that actually look like you could fight with them. And be more likely to hurt your opponent than yourself. Bows are particularly bad, only a few would propel an arrow.
and still no good mace skin
feedback: please dont show your face... its cringe.. im here for the info not your face.. sorry to be very rude to you. its just very annoying when content creators think they look sooo good so that we must see their face on our screens