I didn't think to add this during video creation, so I'm going to add it here. If you have trouble getting certain achievements done (for example: not enough people to do a boss kill you need even though its open world) look under achievements -> daily -> daily living world season 3. There will be a zone with dailies in it so it will be higher trafficed. The day I write this it is daily ember bay, so it is a lot easier to get stuff done in ember bay today due to all the people there. Hope this helps!
Have to say Mukluk ,you have helped so much with getting some of these achievements started! I got the one from Bloodstone fen , I noticed how little I was actually missing. ( just did the Lake Doric one today)
The Legendary Armory has made these grinds so much more worth it. That being said, these grinds just solidify my notion that going for all the mounts is the first step.
@@RecklessFables yep, the skyscale is a bit annoying to get (not that much nowadays, since there are the returns achieves that give 250 from each map currency that you need for the skyscale) but once you get it, it changes your open world experience by a LOT. It is so much easier/less annoying to traverse the world with the skyscale holy crap.
You know what really sucks? I"m like 99% sure I didn't pick up the coin at the end, but I've done it with the help of a friendly mesmer once. This was before I had all my gliding masteries and barely started the game. These 2 people literally held my hand through it all and the mes kept helping me when I couldn't make it on my own. This was one of my most shocking experiences in an MMO ever. Kind of sad how that helpfulness in OW goes away in so many game modes.
Because of this JP I have a heart condition! But the rewinder, 12 cans of Stella, a spliff, some blow, heroin & a bottle of Jack tis possible. Just lol JK the rewinder is the saviour for this one! Good luck mate.
@@KaisXenaree Yes I did! It was my first legendary trinket and I had so much fun that I started Vision right after, and then Conflux, and then Prismatic Champion's Regalia and I'm currently working on Aurene's Bite and Legendary Runes (1/7 already). By the six Gods, I hadn't realise how much I achieved in a year!! Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention!
@@ViviLouF This. I needed those damned masks. So I sat down today and did it, Taco made it a little easier, at least with the puzzle part. I got really frustrated and just walked away for a while, moving the toon every half hour or so. About 6 hours total, 15 deaths per foot of advancement or so, but I got it. Yes it takes time, yes it's annoying as hell, but my god, did I feel good when I finished.
My major additional tip: If you’re having a hard time doing the LW3 achievements, there is a LW3 Daily achievement section that rotates maps. Wait until that map is the one you need and the population will be much greater than normal
I finished my aurora today and I really enjoyed the whole process to get it :) I followed your step by step guide throughout my journey and really appreciate the work you put in this video. Thanks a lot! I can still proudly say: "I have a life!" :D
For lake doric reward track, don't choose the wrong chest at the end as I did or you'll have to do it all again 😅 there are two similarly worded chests
AND: Now with the Seasons of the Dragons achievement that gives you a legendary amulet at the end, the Season 3 zones are much more alive than they've never been. This makes doing the bosses in the various zones SO much more easier and actually doable for zones like Bloodstone Fen, a zone that was practically a ghost town. Now is the most optimal time to do Aurora and Vision!
We who have lost everything and will be coming back as new players appreciate all these guides Mukluk on how to get gold, get the best gear with minimal effort and steady playing. Bravo Global Icon Bravo Sir.........
I finished Aurora today and I just wanted to say thank you so much for the guide! The tip with crafting the Xunlai Ingots while working on the first step was such a lifesaver... well, goldsaver! 🤭
The rewind device is pretty awesome. I am a terrible jumper. Even with it though I gave up on this puzzle about half way through. I saw this awesome mesmer advertising in chat. Actually he has a hoard of mesmer characters stationed all around the puzzle check points and the chest - so professional - and just ports you sequentially. You barely even see any lava up close its all done from the rim on top. UP/DOWN/UP So worth it for me.
Thanks for the guide, Mukluk! I'll add, for those that are a little lukewarm on doing WvW for the Reward Track, I personally found "Flashpoint", "Out of the Shadows" and "Rising Flames" masteries to be pretty easy to finish off so I'd advise checking how close you are to getting those complete before jumping into WvW - it might save you a few dozen hours farming there. I found that "The Head of the Snake" (Lake Doric), "A Crack in the Ice" (Bitterfrost Frontier) and "One Path Ends" (Siren's Landing) Masteries to take longer to finish and might be worth the 4 to 8 hours of grinding WvW on each one in order to finish their Reward Tracks.
These videos on the accessories really helped me to demystify these grinds, they are way more doable than I thought (even though they are very time-consuming). I think I'll start doing one achiev a day until I get that "precursor" done.
Another side note: For the Draconis Mons "A Henge Away from Home" achievement you literaly need to do 3 other collections to even unlock it. The Druid Stone - 7 items Awakening the Druid Stone - 14 items Sprouting the Druid Stone - 21 items Wich means, to do the "A Henge Away from Home" achievement you need to collect/deliver 74 items. God damn this is so much fkin work... especialy since i haven't even done "The Druid Stone" achievement yet ^^
Just a little hint for people who don't like the Dragon's Stand meta or don't have time for it: There are three Blighting Pods that spawn regardless of meta completion. Their exact spots vary, but they will generally be towards the end of the lanes, one each. Since you only need one Crystalline Ore for this, you can use a mount or other sneaky method and just open any one of these on any Dragon's Stand map. Opening a pod is guaranteed to drop you at least one ore and there you go.
Another awesome guide for me to actualy follow in some years when i get the time and the materials to do the item. Thanks Muk, for always thinking in the future
do the draconis mons hearts every day - and get all 5 of the shards each day. You'll need 16*5=80 of them (as stated in the video). You don't have to progress anything else if you don't have time - just keep the fragments to make druid runestones. If you have only a few minutes online in a day (e.g. real life requirements), just buy the single fragment at the draconis mons mariner's landing Supplymaster Hanjo - just requires 1000 UM and no time investment. I just finished aurora last night and this was the biggest stumbling block/time gate. Everything else was just plugging away a little each day.
How is getting 1000 unbound magic faster than completing a heart? I'd say time investment to get 1000 UM is order of magnitude larger that to complete just one heart.
important note: xunlai ingots are NOT timegated, rather the mithrillium is. it's 50 mithril ingots, relatively cheap and used in many set 2 legendarys and ascended weapons and armours. make 1 at every opportunity.
If you REALLY don't wanna do chalice a second time (bc... understandable), get all of the other items for gleam of sentience required, get every coin except for the ones in the JP, complete the jp up until you get all the required coins. Then use a handy dandy portable mystic forge (the permanent, account bound once used one can be made by following this recipe / bought off the tp: wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge_Conduit_(container) and the single use one can be crafted / bought: wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge_Node) Throw all of your converters into it, unlock the big boy converter and Aurora achievements, and continue on with the jp! It's a big work around but if you're horrible at or hate jps, chalice is one of (if not THE) worst imo, so it's worth it to avoid doing it a second time. Plus if you don't have the portable MF I think it's pretty handy and worth having! I love having it for DW because I can throw all my medallions into it and hopefully get an amalgamated :D
I just had two of my IRL friends come back to the game to play through LS 3-5 and POF as we've all taken a break from GW2. I had decided this was going to be my goal and your video was perfect timing. Thanks! Found your channel last night and I've already subbed and been enjoying your gw2 content!
I just want to thank you, i got my aurora today, and only because of your video, it made me feel like i can do it and followed your video step by step and just today i finally got my Aurora. What a LEGEND YOU ARE. BEST GUIDES OUT THERE. i will follow all your videos for the rest of my legendary items journey. next is vision then wvw trinkets and armor. Thank you for all your help kind sir 🙏🏻
Done Vision before starting on Aurora, and looking back, it seema that Aurora have easier steps if compared to Vision (apart from the 16 days time gated Druid stones), i believe this arises where LS4 achievement required for getting the mastery is actually way more than LS3 (LS3 around 20ish, LS4 have up to 38, and this cannot be skipped using wvw, yes the Jahai Bluffs) There are basically only 2 issues (minor) with Aurora, which is the druid stone and the Chalice of Tears (which i done 4 times, during : LS3 Ember bay release, return of ember bay, getting the gleam of sentience, and for aurora master) apart from that, aurora is pretty easier compared to Vision (3000 kalkratoric ore, unskippable Jahai bluffs mastery, funerary incense(for this i do not have a problem due to pre LS4 release, we just grind bounty hunting in Crystal Desert)
I just want to thank you Muk for this awesome guide! I just recently got full ascended and thanks to the Seasons of Dragons achievement started working on Aurora as my first legendary item (maybe except the Prismatic Regalia, depends which will be quicker). I must say that I thought the grind will be much worse. I am so far enjoying all the steps (yes, including the Wayfarer's Henge, maybe except the hearts-16-days-in-a-row part) and I really appreciate that it gave me a reason to spend some time in the maps that I would normally just rush through - especially Draconis Mons, which I hated at first, but kinda started to like it. I even enjoyed both jumping puzzles - Chalice of Tears and Searing Ascent (with TACO tho, don't understand how someone is able to do it without it). TLDR: Thanks for the guide, I might soon have my first legendary because of it :)
Quick update: a bit by bit, I just finished the Aurora II: Empowering collection and all that stands between me and my first legendary is a Gift of Battle, which I'm starting to work towards. Just want to encourage all of you, who think you don't have enough time for all this - I really don't play very often, once a week for a couple of hours with my friends, few times a week for a couple of minutes to do dailes, nothing extra, and yet I managed to get this far. Don't give up guys, get yourselves your very own Aurora! :)
Great guide, and what I’m finding is that even if the zone you’re in isn’t the Season 3 daily zone, it’s still got quite a bit of traffic because a lot of people are working on Aurora.
Popping in, in 2024. Still a very useful guide! Slowly worming my way through the Mastery achievements, and dreading the inevitable money/material sink that is the gift crafting. But itll be worth it, i hope. Thanks for the guide Mukluk ❤
Xunlai Electrum Ingot is not timegated itself, but one of the components is. Be sure to be dilligent with your four daily craftings to avoid such situations!
True, I leveled jeweler specifically for this purpose. Imagine my surprise, when I was able to craft 2 Xunlai Ingots at once :D Only then I realized it's actually the Lump of Mithrillium that's making it time-gated. Well, at least I have a jeweler now.
@@ClerifyGames I personally havent ran into a bot as the map is huge. Once you get to lvl 80 you will never run into one. TO many great things to do with parties to have bots ruin it for ya. And ive not ran into bots in pvp myself. There are a few types of pvp modes. I say get to lvl 80 and get the main quest out the way. get some mounts and explore the game and then when ur ready for pvp..dont pvp lol get gear for pvp first. Its takes about a month or 2 of daily logging and grinding to get the gear and then after you have gear try your hand in pvp.
Made Aurora a couple years back, and it was pretty time consuming, especially with the time gated collections and achievements. I paid a couple of mesmers handsomely for porting me around that dreadful JP 😂 twice! Have to say that Vision was considerably easier. Thanks to pvp/wvw reward tracks, you can get the required corsair armor pieces without having to actually fully finish story achivements. If you only want one of them, again,.I found Vision easier to get than Aurora.
I did chalice of tears 3 times during this process and actually got really good at it...I still get Vietnam style flash backs from my first run at it which took a while as It was new and I had no Mesmer. Once you know the Path I did it on my ranger number 2 and 3 with very little issues besides the general random fall here and there which getting back to that point was no real effort. All in all looking back this was quite a fun process and really gives some purpose to playing the game and previous meta events which was great.
Thanks for the guide man. Both this and several other guides you've made have indeed helped me a lot too, on many things, like the creation of my home instance, and to find items i need too ^w^!
I know i commented this on the ascension backpack quide but i did this trinket already but because mukluk does so good videos i desided to watch this 😁 keep it going mukluk
I watched this also and quickly leveled up jewelcrafting for the same reason. But I get to 400 and I don't see a daily cooldown anymore. I crafted two of em right off to test it. Did they remove it? It's Dec 13, 2023 but I can't find anything on google about it. The GW2wiki page doesn't mention the time gate either.
Wished I saw this before working on Aurora, I got stuck on getting that druid backpack as my last achievement, and didn’t start pre grinding for it at the start l. …so I watch the video for Vision and saw that too had a few day grind to it. So I work on both, and now I’m the happy owner of both Vision and Aurora
With the coming story achievements, the maps will likely be fairly populated again for a time. It will be a good chance to work on a lot of these collections.
@@Cuiva you know it's funny you comment on this now, I got the achievement last week when doing the "return to..." achievement and didn't even try to do it... well thanks for the tip anyway
By the time I was down to just the wvw items I had actually finished the draconic mons achievements, and was 2 away from some of the other zone achievements - so check how close you are before diving into wvw because you might accidentally be closer than you think.
Lamo, i remember the staff and shield from Lake Doric when I was doing it. I didn't have enough karma to buy them lol. I went to Dragonfall to farm karma :p
I was crafting Xunlai while doing druid stone achivo. just finish druid stone and all the first collection yesterday. what I'd suggest is that a lot of Aurora achievements tie to events in lwss3 maps which can be empty, so plan for it, look at the lwss3 daily and go to the daily map to do the collection. Because there will always be more people on the daily map and it makes the whole collection much easier. For the items that need you to finish story masteries, I ended up doing it all. I feel like the achievements are much easier compared to lwss4 for Vision except the Siren's landing one but WvW is also another choice to get it. Ps. f*ck the RNG in the collection. SOme items took me more than a week lol. I understand why a lot of people hate it and they get rid of it for the Vision collection lol
It's a relief you can skip meta achieves with PVP/WvW. Was really disappointed when working on Vision when you couldn't do that in jahai. Ironically though, doing the Elegy collection was really great. And I didn't realize how good the story for it was until I played through it again (I was hammering through for skyscale on round 1). Also I'm super poor and have the precursors for like 3 legendaries, but not the cash to convert them >.
This guide is litteraly coming when I'm done with Aurora: Awakening (OR NOT), the bad thing is I have to wait 13 days cause of the Druid Stone achievement line... Also "It's supposed to take time" when I done it in 3 days including the Guizmo to unlock xD
cannot believe i already did gleam of sentience just because i didnt want the ore the fragments and the dust in my inventory ....i still remember chalice of tears .....lots of tears
Everything was chugging along till we got to 8:45 Forging Time! and I gotta say after crafting The Shining Blade I am all tapped out of those resources sir :c
Anybody watching this here is a tip: For the mastery/reward track items, check how many more achivements you need first. I completed the houndskin mantle reward track, then the next day U completed the mastery randomly while progressing the Henge away from home achi chain, so I wasted a full reward track completion...
I like the Legendaries for their appearance - I'm a casual gamer so I don't need the switching function. So I was very sad when all the Legendary trinkets had the appearance of these floating balls. When the first one came out, I thought "that's ok, the next trinket will have something different from floating balls so maybe I'll like that one." But nope, one after the other they were all floating balls. And the 2nd and 3rd were very strange and not clear what they were supposed to be from a distance. 😥
Thanks for this guide! It was really helpful. I just managed to get Aurora within 3 weeks. Doing all the achievements was actually the most enjoyable part for me. (I can't stand WvW) Now on to Vision....
You should start with the Crystalized Suet. It can takes more than a week (more than Draconis mon part) of daily chest run (only 5 attempts a day) to get if you are unlucky.
My god, I did 3 100% tyria map completition 1 100% PoF completition, 5 legendary weapons 2 legendary armor pieces, mounts and stuff but this scares me, seems so slow to achieve :S Btw thanks, the guide is amazing.
Thanks once again for the tutorial Mukluk. I'm aiming for this leggy after grinding Vision with your tutorial aswell. One question: are the "skins" achivements retroactive? Let's stay I start working on the Wayfarer's Henge now that I don't still have the Aurora: awakening Achivemente unlocked. If I get it done before unlocking it, will it count once I manage to unlock, or will I have to repeat it once again? (same would apply for Bloodstone Crown and all those rewards from PvP-WvW)? Thanks again for all your work!
Pff it is a lot, but I have 2 weeks holiday and the Draconis Mons ascended back I just completed yesterday. And Aurora is useble for all my charrs, so it is totally worth the time
Now seriously considering making the legendary accessories after the legendary armory patch. Turns out I've done like half the required achievement collections for Aurora anyway... Although, I've farmed the lws3 maps so much in the past for ascended accessories, I really don't want to go back for 250 of each mat 😩 I absolutely detest farming Ember Bay 😭
By doing the "long-step-pve-achievements" you get quite a lot of stuff that can be sold (Even unbound Magic), also in these days with mounts the farm is waaayyy shorter so don't give up.. you can make it!!
@@fernaxv farm? You mean like doing brainless stuff over and over for gold? Not for me, it's boring af. All my gold come from weekly raids and daily fractals (when I have time)
How in the world do I have all of these sentient things and not realize they could be put in the mystic forge for a single item? lol Now the sad reality that I could have had a lot of this done if I knew I needed to combine those items and start Aurora. lol
I opted to do the achievements for the hero ones only because I'm already close to completing them lol so it would be faster to do the achievements rather than the WvW track
I finally started Aurora this week. Overall not bad until I got to Draconis Mons. I'd seriously rather do chalice 16 times than have to do all 4 hearts 16 days in a row.
@@MuklukRUclips It's really easy if you start from the top and use position rewinder or ports. Normal path might be a bit much, but I still might consider it. I'm burned out on hearts from map completion. :P
I didn't think to add this during video creation, so I'm going to add it here. If you have trouble getting certain achievements done (for example: not enough people to do a boss kill you need even though its open world) look under achievements -> daily -> daily living world season 3. There will be a zone with dailies in it so it will be higher trafficed. The day I write this it is daily ember bay, so it is a lot easier to get stuff done in ember bay today due to all the people there.
Hope this helps!
You may want to pin/heart this for more visibility, it's a little buried in the comments!
@@jasonwolf7278 Done, thanks!
Have to say Mukluk ,you have helped so much with getting some of these achievements started! I got the one from Bloodstone fen , I noticed how little I was actually missing. ( just did the Lake Doric one today)
THAT is helpful. Trying to finish Siren's and no one ever around for 3 champions...frustrating.
Does this still work?
The Legendary Armory has made these grinds so much more worth it. That being said, these grinds just solidify my notion that going for all the mounts is the first step.
I agree my friend got the game a few months ago and now that he has all the mounts he loves it.
I just got my skyscale. I feel like I finished the game, LOL
@@RecklessFables yep, the skyscale is a bit annoying to get (not that much nowadays, since there are the returns achieves that give 250 from each map currency that you need for the skyscale) but once you get it, it changes your open world experience by a LOT. It is so much easier/less annoying to traverse the world with the skyscale holy crap.
Agreed. Good choice.
@@RecklessFables seriously though lol
i'm fine with it taking time, but that ember bay jumping puzzle is a horror movie
agree lol
With Taco and position rewinder it's pretty simple
If you have TacO, its significantly easier. Shows where and when to jump, etc. Still hard, but less tear-your-hair-out awful
You know what really sucks? I"m like 99% sure I didn't pick up the coin at the end, but I've done it with the help of a friendly mesmer once. This was before I had all my gliding masteries and barely started the game. These 2 people literally held my hand through it all and the mes kept helping me when I couldn't make it on my own. This was one of my most shocking experiences in an MMO ever. Kind of sad how that helpfulness in OW goes away in so many game modes.
Because of this JP I have a heart condition! But the rewinder, 12 cans of Stella, a spliff, some blow, heroin & a bottle of Jack tis possible. Just lol JK the rewinder is the saviour for this one! Good luck mate.
That's too much work for an item BUT i dont have a life, so im already half way there lol
Good luck fellow NoLife
@@bertoandon9681 fellow "father: you play all day long what are you gonna do with your life"
That’s too much work, I have a life, but I’m a glutton for punishment - also half way done 😂
1 year later, did you get it ? 🤣🤣🤣
I started working on it yesterday. No life either
@@KaisXenaree Yes I did! It was my first legendary trinket and I had so much fun that I started Vision right after, and then Conflux, and then Prismatic Champion's Regalia and I'm currently working on Aurene's Bite and Legendary Runes (1/7 already).
By the six Gods, I hadn't realise how much I achieved in a year!! Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention!
“You have to do Chalice of Tears”
“You have to do Chalice of Tears again”
This video has successfully discouraged me from getting Aurora xD.
With Taco and Position rewinder it's pretty easy. I don't know why people find it hard. Once you done it , it becomes easier and easier
@@ViviLouF I know, I just suck at both the jumping part and the puzzle part of jumping puzzle lol
@@notaseraf Then tryhard, never give up and you'll get it, that's how I do everything in video games lol
Or you can find a Mesmer 😆
@@ViviLouF This. I needed those damned masks. So I sat down today and did it, Taco made it a little easier, at least with the puzzle part. I got really frustrated and just walked away for a while, moving the toon every half hour or so. About 6 hours total, 15 deaths per foot of advancement or so, but I got it. Yes it takes time, yes it's annoying as hell, but my god, did I feel good when I finished.
My major additional tip: If you’re having a hard time doing the LW3 achievements, there is a LW3 Daily achievement section that rotates maps. Wait until that map is the one you need and the population will be much greater than normal
If you have commander Tag, people gather fast also , whatever the day ^^
Also ask to Guildmates if possible
thanks ^^
Start now doing it. since this Video so many ppl are on it 😀
@@ViviLouF Confirmed. If I want to see a boss dead, I just tag commander, maybe shout in chat. If it's the map meta I'll even set up LFG.
I finished my aurora today and I really enjoyed the whole process to get it :)
I followed your step by step guide throughout my journey and really appreciate the work you put in this video. Thanks a lot!
I can still proudly say: "I have a life!" :D
For lake doric reward track, don't choose the wrong chest at the end as I did or you'll have to do it all again 😅 there are two similarly worded chests
It is a lot of work for an item. But like any research paper, it's best done in bits. Not all at once like many people tend to do.
How was this comment listed two day ago when it was released a few hours ago?
@@ericcooke2661 I'm subscribed to Muk's twitch. Twitch subs and Patreon patrons get early access to new videos.
@@ericahess7508 Oh, none of my Patreon do that, they make an independent link.
Every legendary takes time. Not just this trinket.
@@hiimzdeny__2878 yup. They're not things you're gonna knock out in a day. They're multi-day projects.
AND:
Now with the Seasons of the Dragons achievement that gives you a legendary amulet at the end, the Season 3 zones are much more alive than they've never been. This makes doing the bosses in the various zones SO much more easier and actually doable for zones like Bloodstone Fen, a zone that was practically a ghost town. Now is the most optimal time to do Aurora and Vision!
Yep, mounts are also really helpful with that. Doing my aurora now and basically drakonis mons backpack is left to do
We who have lost everything and will be coming back as new players appreciate all these guides Mukluk on how to get gold, get the best gear with minimal effort and steady playing. Bravo Global Icon Bravo Sir.........
I finished Aurora today and I just wanted to say thank you so much for the guide! The tip with crafting the Xunlai Ingots while working on the first step was such a lifesaver... well, goldsaver! 🤭
The prototype rewinder made chalice of tears tollerable. I do not know how anyone does it without it or a mesmer.
Thank you for the tips!
Every time I saw someone with the combo, i keep asking myself "where do that skin come off ?" Finally got the answer, thank you !!
Hears "Chalice of Tears"
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Nope. Nope, nope, nope
yes yes yes, i ts fun ..
The rewind device is pretty awesome. I am a terrible jumper. Even with it though I gave up on this puzzle about half way through. I saw this awesome mesmer advertising in chat. Actually he has a hoard of mesmer characters stationed all around the puzzle check points and the chest - so professional - and just ports you sequentially. You barely even see any lava up close its all done from the rim on top. UP/DOWN/UP So worth it for me.
Thanks for the guide, Mukluk! I'll add, for those that are a little lukewarm on doing WvW for the Reward Track, I personally found "Flashpoint", "Out of the Shadows" and "Rising Flames" masteries to be pretty easy to finish off so I'd advise checking how close you are to getting those complete before jumping into WvW - it might save you a few dozen hours farming there.
I found that "The Head of the Snake" (Lake Doric), "A Crack in the Ice" (Bitterfrost Frontier) and "One Path Ends" (Siren's Landing) Masteries to take longer to finish and might be worth the 4 to 8 hours of grinding WvW on each one in order to finish their Reward Tracks.
These videos on the accessories really helped me to demystify these grinds, they are way more doable than I thought (even though they are very time-consuming). I think I'll start doing one achiev a day until I get that "precursor" done.
I love the "it doesn't sparkle it's just me" hahahahaha
everyone complaining about how long it all is, me only complaining about getting those mats.
Another side note: For the Draconis Mons "A Henge Away from Home" achievement you literaly need to do 3 other collections to even unlock it.
The Druid Stone - 7 items
Awakening the Druid Stone - 14 items
Sprouting the Druid Stone - 21 items
Wich means, to do the "A Henge Away from Home" achievement you need to collect/deliver 74 items.
God damn this is so much fkin work... especialy since i haven't even done "The Druid Stone" achievement yet ^^
Oh noooooooooooooooo I was ready to start later today with the 16 stones, but it seems I need to finish the other things before that!
@@Pike27 Yep.
Got Vision from your other video and now from this, Aurora part 1 is complete. This is super duper helpful! Thanks!
Just a little hint for people who don't like the Dragon's Stand meta or don't have time for it: There are three Blighting Pods that spawn regardless of meta completion. Their exact spots vary, but they will generally be towards the end of the lanes, one each. Since you only need one Crystalline Ore for this, you can use a mount or other sneaky method and just open any one of these on any Dragon's Stand map. Opening a pod is guaranteed to drop you at least one ore and there you go.
Another awesome guide for me to actualy follow in some years when i get the time and the materials to do the item. Thanks Muk, for always thinking in the future
I got you covered future Laura 😆
Did future Laura do the collections yet? I'm almost done with part 1. Need 60k more karma to buy the final Lake Doric piece!
@@MuklukRUclips AFTER A YEAR AND SOMETHING I FINALLY DID IT!!!! THANK YOU MUK!!!!!
do the draconis mons hearts every day - and get all 5 of the shards each day. You'll need 16*5=80 of them (as stated in the video). You don't have to progress anything else if you don't have time - just keep the fragments to make druid runestones. If you have only a few minutes online in a day (e.g. real life requirements), just buy the single fragment at the draconis mons mariner's landing Supplymaster Hanjo - just requires 1000 UM and no time investment. I just finished aurora last night and this was the biggest stumbling block/time gate. Everything else was just plugging away a little each day.
How is getting 1000 unbound magic faster than completing a heart?
I'd say time investment to get 1000 UM is order of magnitude larger that to complete just one heart.
important note: xunlai ingots are NOT timegated, rather the mithrillium is. it's 50 mithril ingots, relatively cheap and used in many set 2 legendarys and ascended weapons and armours. make 1 at every opportunity.
If you REALLY don't wanna do chalice a second time (bc... understandable), get all of the other items for gleam of sentience required, get every coin except for the ones in the JP, complete the jp up until you get all the required coins.
Then use a handy dandy portable mystic forge (the permanent, account bound once used one can be made by following this recipe / bought off the tp: wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge_Conduit_(container) and the single use one can be crafted / bought: wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge_Node)
Throw all of your converters into it, unlock the big boy converter and Aurora achievements, and continue on with the jp!
It's a big work around but if you're horrible at or hate jps, chalice is one of (if not THE) worst imo, so it's worth it to avoid doing it a second time. Plus if you don't have the portable MF I think it's pretty handy and worth having! I love having it for DW because I can throw all my medallions into it and hopefully get an amalgamated :D
I just had two of my IRL friends come back to the game to play through LS 3-5 and POF as we've all taken a break from GW2.
I had decided this was going to be my goal and your video was perfect timing. Thanks! Found your channel last night and I've already subbed and been enjoying your gw2 content!
I just want to thank you, i got my aurora today, and only because of your video, it made me feel like i can do it and followed your video step by step and just today i finally got my Aurora. What a LEGEND YOU ARE. BEST GUIDES OUT THERE. i will follow all your videos for the rest of my legendary items journey.
next is vision then wvw trinkets and armor. Thank you for all your help kind sir 🙏🏻
Even if you made this video 30 minutes long, I'd still watch it. Just means more Mukluk!
Done Vision before starting on Aurora, and looking back, it seema that Aurora have easier steps if compared to Vision (apart from the 16 days time gated Druid stones), i believe this arises where LS4 achievement required for getting the mastery is actually way more than LS3 (LS3 around 20ish, LS4 have up to 38, and this cannot be skipped using wvw, yes the Jahai Bluffs)
There are basically only 2 issues (minor) with Aurora, which is the druid stone and the Chalice of Tears (which i done 4 times, during : LS3 Ember bay release, return of ember bay, getting the gleam of sentience, and for aurora master) apart from that, aurora is pretty easier compared to Vision (3000 kalkratoric ore, unskippable Jahai bluffs mastery, funerary incense(for this i do not have a problem due to pre LS4 release, we just grind bounty hunting in Crystal Desert)
I just want to thank you Muk for this awesome guide! I just recently got full ascended and thanks to the Seasons of Dragons achievement started working on Aurora as my first legendary item (maybe except the Prismatic Regalia, depends which will be quicker). I must say that I thought the grind will be much worse. I am so far enjoying all the steps (yes, including the Wayfarer's Henge, maybe except the hearts-16-days-in-a-row part) and I really appreciate that it gave me a reason to spend some time in the maps that I would normally just rush through - especially Draconis Mons, which I hated at first, but kinda started to like it. I even enjoyed both jumping puzzles - Chalice of Tears and Searing Ascent (with TACO tho, don't understand how someone is able to do it without it).
TLDR: Thanks for the guide, I might soon have my first legendary because of it :)
Quick update: a bit by bit, I just finished the Aurora II: Empowering collection and all that stands between me and my first legendary is a Gift of Battle, which I'm starting to work towards. Just want to encourage all of you, who think you don't have enough time for all this - I really don't play very often, once a week for a couple of hours with my friends, few times a week for a couple of minutes to do dailes, nothing extra, and yet I managed to get this far. Don't give up guys, get yourselves your very own Aurora! :)
Final update: Aurora done, I've officially joined the Balls club. Feels amazing.
@@Cerauos007this is late but i just started Aurora and i appreciate your words of encouragement cz i have alot to go. And congrats on your Aurora 😊
Great guide, and what I’m finding is that even if the zone you’re in isn’t the Season 3 daily zone, it’s still got quite a bit of traffic because a lot of people are working on Aurora.
Popping in, in 2024. Still a very useful guide! Slowly worming my way through the Mastery achievements, and dreading the inevitable money/material sink that is the gift crafting.
But itll be worth it, i hope. Thanks for the guide Mukluk ❤
Was so happy when i realized i had done most of it without knowing :)
Amazing guide! I won't be starting this leggie super soon, but when I do I'm coming straight back tot his guide. Thanks Muk!
Xunlai Electrum Ingot is not timegated itself, but one of the components is. Be sure to be dilligent with your four daily craftings to avoid such situations!
True, I leveled jeweler specifically for this purpose. Imagine my surprise, when I was able to craft 2 Xunlai Ingots at once :D Only then I realized it's actually the Lump of Mithrillium that's making it time-gated. Well, at least I have a jeweler now.
guild wars has so much stuff you can do lol. This game is so good
I just started playing, and it's been great! Saw a bot in action today tho... do you guys noticed them a lot? I've heard they are a issue in PvP
@@ClerifyGames I personally havent ran into a bot as the map is huge. Once you get to lvl 80 you will never run into one. TO many great things to do with parties to have bots ruin it for ya. And ive not ran into bots in pvp myself. There are a few types of pvp modes. I say get to lvl 80 and get the main quest out the way. get some mounts and explore the game and then when ur ready for pvp..dont pvp lol get gear for pvp first. Its takes about a month or 2 of daily logging and grinding to get the gear and then after you have gear try your hand in pvp.
Made Aurora a couple years back, and it was pretty time consuming, especially with the time gated collections and achievements. I paid a couple of mesmers handsomely for porting me around that dreadful JP 😂 twice!
Have to say that Vision was considerably easier. Thanks to pvp/wvw reward tracks, you can get the required corsair armor pieces without having to actually fully finish story achivements.
If you only want one of them, again,.I found Vision easier to get than Aurora.
I came away with : There is a WvW track for that :
Not sure if possible, having the moving like button be clickable.
Love the vid.
I did chalice of tears 3 times during this process and actually got really good at it...I still get Vietnam style flash backs from my first run at it which took a while as It was new and I had no Mesmer. Once you know the Path I did it on my ranger number 2 and 3 with very little issues besides the general random fall here and there which getting back to that point was no real effort.
All in all looking back this was quite a fun process and really gives some purpose to playing the game and previous meta events which was great.
Great guide, Muk. Thanks for sharing, and for the points about getting those items on the PVP reward track instead.
Thanks for the guide man. Both this and several other guides you've made have indeed helped me a lot too, on many things, like the creation of my home instance, and to find items i need too ^w^!
I know i commented this on the ascension backpack quide but i did this trinket already but because mukluk does so good videos i desided to watch this 😁 keep it going mukluk
Just crafted mine. Thanks for the guide!
Thanks for the guide. Finally got it. Now time to enslave myself for Vision
Glad I rewatched this cause I had totally forgot about the xunlay ingots and their daily crafting limit. Need to add that to my daily routine.
I watched this also and quickly leveled up jewelcrafting for the same reason. But I get to 400 and I don't see a daily cooldown anymore. I crafted two of em right off to test it. Did they remove it? It's Dec 13, 2023 but I can't find anything on google about it. The GW2wiki page doesn't mention the time gate either.
Was just planning on doing it, great timing!
I just finished my aurora today!! Thank you for your guide it helped me so much!
Congrats! How long did it take you?
Wished I saw this before working on Aurora, I got stuck on getting that druid backpack as my last achievement, and didn’t start pre grinding for it at the start l. …so I watch the video for Vision and saw that too had a few day grind to it. So I work on both, and now I’m the happy owner of both Vision and Aurora
I am confused. This was just uploaded minutes ago but we have a comment from yesterday
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Ohhh.. Okay
*Me staring at dozens of XP boosters I never used*
I guess it's time to get into WvW. I only need to do two of the reward tracks.
Do it, you might even like it!
Thanks for the guide, I need to see how many of these tasks I already have and didn't even know it. :)
Just finished it and got the Aurora, ty once again Mr!
Thanks to this video i finished my aurora today. 😃🙏. Thanks muk!
thanks a TON for this video ^^ helped me alot! Greetings from Norway, have a nice Day/Night :D Thumbs up. Keep up the good work bud!
I know I'm late to the party but I just finished and I wanted to say thank you. This was a lot of help!
I love how u explain all the process broth
With the coming story achievements, the maps will likely be fairly populated again for a time. It will be a good chance to work on a lot of these collections.
your way of presenting is awesome and sweet. thank you :D
I have been 1 achievement away from the Bitterfrost's gloves and you are telling me I COULD JUST PVP THEM?!
GODAMN ICE BEAST AND ICE SPELL
YAP
I feel you man. Doing that "not getting frozen" solo achievement is hard af xD
for the "Not being frozen" Achivement, I just let Braham and Gorm fight the boss till all the minions were gone, then I went in and bonked him.
@@Cuiva you know it's funny you comment on this now, I got the achievement last week when doing the "return to..." achievement and didn't even try to do it...
well thanks for the tip anyway
By the time I was down to just the wvw items I had actually finished the draconic mons achievements, and was 2 away from some of the other zone achievements - so check how close you are before diving into wvw because you might accidentally be closer than you think.
You've convinced me to go for it
Lamo, i remember the staff and shield from Lake Doric when I was doing it. I didn't have enough karma to buy them lol. I went to Dragonfall to farm karma :p
I was crafting Xunlai while doing druid stone achivo. just finish druid stone and all the first collection yesterday. what I'd suggest is that a lot of Aurora achievements tie to events in lwss3 maps which can be empty, so plan for it, look at the lwss3 daily and go to the daily map to do the collection. Because there will always be more people on the daily map and it makes the whole collection much easier.
For the items that need you to finish story masteries, I ended up doing it all. I feel like the achievements are much easier compared to lwss4 for Vision except the Siren's landing one but WvW is also another choice to get it.
Ps. f*ck the RNG in the collection. SOme items took me more than a week lol. I understand why a lot of people hate it and they get rid of it for the Vision collection lol
Great guide. Thanks!
Great time to be doing this and vision with the free episodes coming out- more populated maps
Watching this again to reminisce my torment doing this
It's a relief you can skip meta achieves with PVP/WvW. Was really disappointed when working on Vision when you couldn't do that in jahai. Ironically though, doing the Elegy collection was really great. And I didn't realize how good the story for it was until I played through it again (I was hammering through for skyscale on round 1). Also I'm super poor and have the precursors for like 3 legendaries, but not the cash to convert them >.
This guide is litteraly coming when I'm done with Aurora: Awakening (OR NOT), the bad thing is I have to wait 13 days cause of the Druid Stone achievement line... Also "It's supposed to take time" when I done it in 3 days including the Guizmo to unlock xD
I feel that ._.
Time gates suck
Dude....u did all that in 3 days... That's incredible
@@Halalawi999 I just have free time and motivation to don't give up when I fix myself an objective, that's not that crazy
@@ViviLouF is it worse than skyscale tho?
@@xXMetalforever1994Xx Nope , I find it easier, even making all the Achievements for the 6 episodes cause I didn't done Reward Tracks
Lol now a vision video 😂
Thank you for the guide 😍
It's on my to do list, only a few more legendary guides to go!
oh lord, now i remember how much time i invested to get mine years ago ^^ daaaaang that was a pain in the ass
cannot believe i already did gleam of sentience just because i didnt want the ore the fragments and the dust in my inventory ....i still remember chalice of tears .....lots of tears
"slightly" hidden coins is the understatement of the century for the Mursaat Tokens.
This is too much time for one item, I have a life!
Okay, is my wife out of the room?
Right... Gonna work towards this bit by bit 🍻
Thank you Mr Muk!
I always get to this achievements and think: Hey, its doable! I think I can make it! And then I see the mystic tribute.
I am 6 min in this video and I already feel like I need to lay down for a couple of hours. Jeeeeeezzz
Thanks muk
helpful, thank you :)
Just finished mine, thanks to your guide! Thank you Mukluk!
Everything was chugging along till we got to 8:45 Forging Time! and I gotta say after crafting The Shining Blade I am all tapped out of those resources sir :c
Anybody watching this here is a tip: For the mastery/reward track items, check how many more achivements you need first. I completed the houndskin mantle reward track, then the next day U completed the mastery randomly while progressing the Henge away from home achi chain, so I wasted a full reward track completion...
I like the Legendaries for their appearance - I'm a casual gamer so I don't need the switching function. So I was very sad when all the Legendary trinkets had the appearance of these floating balls. When the first one came out, I thought "that's ok, the next trinket will have something different from floating balls so maybe I'll like that one." But nope, one after the other they were all floating balls. And the 2nd and 3rd were very strange and not clear what they were supposed to be from a distance. 😥
i subbed and hit like button :)) im sure this is useful to me so again Thanks :D
Thanks for this guide! It was really helpful.
I just managed to get Aurora within 3 weeks.
Doing all the achievements was actually the most enjoyable part for me. (I can't stand WvW)
Now on to Vision....
You should start with the Crystalized Suet. It can takes more than a week (more than Draconis mon part) of daily chest run (only 5 attempts a day) to get if you are unlucky.
My god, I did 3 100% tyria map completition 1 100% PoF completition, 5 legendary weapons 2 legendary armor pieces, mounts and stuff but this scares me, seems so slow to achieve :S Btw thanks, the guide is amazing.
Holy shit, i get burnt out just from the first 90% map completion. Not gonna even talk about mounts and all the stories...
I had fun doing this
Thanks once again for the tutorial Mukluk. I'm aiming for this leggy after grinding Vision with your tutorial aswell.
One question: are the "skins" achivements retroactive? Let's stay I start working on the Wayfarer's Henge now that I don't still have the Aurora: awakening Achivemente unlocked. If I get it done before unlocking it, will it count once I manage to unlock, or will I have to repeat it once again? (same would apply for Bloodstone Crown and all those rewards from PvP-WvW)?
Thanks again for all your work!
Yes, the skins are retroactive. It just checks to see if you have them.
Im damn close to end this collection :D i only need to pvp or wvw now \o/
Pff it is a lot, but I have 2 weeks holiday and the Draconis Mons ascended back I just completed yesterday. And Aurora is useble for all my charrs, so it is totally worth the time
I have no life and it's perfect ammount of work for me!
Now seriously considering making the legendary accessories after the legendary armory patch. Turns out I've done like half the required achievement collections for Aurora anyway... Although, I've farmed the lws3 maps so much in the past for ascended accessories, I really don't want to go back for 250 of each mat 😩 I absolutely detest farming Ember Bay 😭
Return achievements give a stack of each currency
@@fairoozzahin4414 Ooooh ty... Soz I don't pay attention to my RUclips notifs.. But that is good to know! :)
Just crafted legendary backpack. I need just 1k gold for Coalescence/Aurora (ignoring the achievements). Pretty expensive for my budget right now :c
By doing the "long-step-pve-achievements" you get quite a lot of stuff that can be sold (Even unbound Magic), also in these days with mounts the farm is waaayyy shorter so don't give up.. you can make it!!
@@fernaxv farm? You mean like doing brainless stuff over and over for gold? Not for me, it's boring af. All my gold come from weekly raids and daily fractals (when I have time)
Do a bunch of achievements and you are rewarded with a bill. Stupid game lol.
How in the world do I have all of these sentient things and not realize they could be put in the mystic forge for a single item? lol Now the sad reality that I could have had a lot of this done if I knew I needed to combine those items and start Aurora. lol
Hardest Part:
- JP 2:52 (Park Alt there, as you need it again @ 6:26)
- 20+ daily crafting (xunlai)
I opted to do the achievements for the hero ones only because I'm already close to completing them lol so it would be faster to do the achievements rather than the WvW track
Draconis mon back piece time gate is insane, currently on my fourth day.
I hope you have it now 💪🏼💪🏼
@@huuhiep0695 all good, got the full set now. Pretty happy working on the weapons.
@@justanotherchannel863 glad to hear that ^^
I finally started Aurora this week. Overall not bad until I got to Draconis Mons. I'd seriously rather do chalice 16 times than have to do all 4 hearts 16 days in a row.
I'm not saying I liked the hearts but 16 chalices?!?!
@@MuklukRUclips It's really easy if you start from the top and use position rewinder or ports. Normal path might be a bit much, but I still might consider it. I'm burned out on hearts from map completion. :P