Guide:How to make WvW Legendary Armor

Introduction

Acquiring WvW legendary armor can be a much more relaxed experience than the Raid and PvP alternatives since it is largely gained passively and doesn't require high intensity or personal skill. This does result in a fairly lengthy timegate (20 weeks), but can be sped up through active play around objectives.

This guide lists the requirements for a full set of legendary armor, but you can also craft each piece individually. In that case, just divide all of the requirements by 6. Keep in mind that the WvW Skirmish Ticket values are slightly different depending on which armor piece you're crafting.

There are two versions of WvW legendary armor. For basic legendary functionality you only need the Triumphant Hero's Armor, but there is also the Mistforged Triumphant Hero's Armor which has some extra effects on the armor skin along with some additional requirements and costs to acquire it. The difference is entirely visual, functionality is unchanged.

Crafting Materials

Like other legendaries, there are both tradeable and untradeable materials needed to craft the armor. The main timegate in the grind is WvW Skirmish Claim Tickets ("Tickets"). Many of the requirements will completely or partially be obtained during the grind for tickets. The following list shows every item needed to craft legendary armor and is color coded as follows:

• Red: Not obtained during ticket grind
• Yellow: Partially obtained during ticket grind
• Green: Entirely obtained during ticket grind

Tradable Materials

• 3000 Memory of Battle
  • Mistforged Variant - 6000 Memory of Battle
• 450 Stabilizing Matrix
• Various crafting materials (see Gift of War Prosperity)

Account Bound Materials

• 24 Grandmaster Armorsmith's/Leathersmith's/Tailor's Mark
• 6 Gift of Battle
• 6 Ball of Dark Energy
• 300 Obsidian Shard
• 3000 Badges of Honor
• 90 Mystic Clover
• 600 Spirit Shard
• 7880 Tickets
  • Mistforged Variant - 10500 Tickets
• 1500 Proof of Heroics

Precursor

Getting the precursor for WvW legendary armor can be confusing due to three similarly named sets that are all involved in the process. To break it down you'll need to get the Triumphant Armor set and your choice of either the Triumphant Hero's Armor or the Mistforged Triumphant Hero's Armor.

Triumphant Armor	Triumphant Hero's Armor	Mistforged Triumphant Hero's Armor
Exotic stat selectable	Ascended stat selectable	Ascended stat selectable
No unlock requirement	Requires Triumphant Armor unlocked to purchase	Requires Triumphant Hero's Armor unlocked to purchase
Required for Triumphant Hero's Armor	Required for Mistforged Triumphant Hero's Armor	Requires WvW rank 500
Unlocked through Triumphant Armor Reward Track	Purchased from Skirmish Supervisor	Purchased from Skirmish Supervisor
Basic armor skin	Elaborate armor skin	Elaborate armor skin
No special effects	No special effects	Blue glow on armor and tentacle effect on chest
Cannot be used as precursor	Can be used as precursor	Can be used as precursor

To start out you'll need to finish the Triumphant Armor Reward track once for each armor piece you want to unlock. Refer to the guide to rewards for information on speeding up reward track completion.

Next you need to purchase the Triumphant Hero's ascended armor from the Skirmish Supervisor. Make sure to buy the ascended version, since exotic can't be used as a precursor.

Triumphant Hero's Armor cost

• Requires Triumphant Armor to be unlocked from reward track
• Gloves – 175 Tickets, 3 Grandmaster Marks, 250 Memory of Battle
• Boots – 175 Tickets, 3 Grandmaster Marks, 250 Memory of Battle
• Shoulder – 175 Tickets, 3 Grandmaster Marks, 250 Memory of Battle
• Helm – 175 Tickets, 3 Grandmaster Marks, 250 Memory of Battle
• Legs – 260 Tickets, 4 Grandmaster Marks, 250 Memory of Battle
• Chest – 350 Tickets, 4 Grandmaster Marks, 250 Memory of Battle

You can craft your legendary armor with the Triumphant Hero's armor, but if you want the extra armor skins you can also unlock the Mistforged Triumphant Hero's armor from the Skirmish Supervisor and use those to craft legendary armor. Keep in mind that the chest is "Sublime Triumphant Hero's" instead of Mistforged.

Mistforged Triumphant Hero's Armor cost

• Gloves - 350 Tickets, 2 Gold coin, 500 Memory of Battle
• Boots - 350 Tickets, 2 Gold coin, 500 Memory of Battle
• Shoulder - 350 Tickets, 2 Gold, 500 Memory of Battle
• Helm - 350 Tickets, 2 Gold, 500 Memory of Battle
• Legs - 520 Tickets, 2 Gold coin, 500 Memory of Battle
• Chest - 700 Tickets, 3 Gold coin, 500 Memory of Battle

Gift of War Prowess

With the exception of the items needed for the Cube of Stabilized Dark Energy, these materials can all be gained through WvW gameplay. This is the main timegated part of crafting WvW legendary armor due to the WvW Skirmish Claim Tickets.

• 6 Legendary War Insight - via Legendary Commander War Razor
  • 6570 WvW Skirmish Claim Ticket
• 6 Eldritch Scroll - via Mystic Forge Attendant
  • 300 Spirit Shard
• 300 Obsidian Shard
• 6 Cube of Stabilized Dark Energy - via 500 crafting
  • 6 Ball of Dark Energy
  • 450 Stabilizing Matrix

Gift of War Dedication

All of the materials for this gift can be obtained through regular WvW gameplay and with the exception of memories can be purchased from Legendary Commander War Razor. This is the easiest gift to obtain, you'll most likely have every item needed by the time you finish the Gift of War Prowess with the possible exception of Memory of Battle. If you do need more memories you can just buy them from the trading post for gold. If you find yourself short on Spirit Shards make sure you're redeeming your Tomes of Knowledge. For a detailed guide for how to obtain all of these materials you can check out the guide to WvW rewards.

• 6 Certificate of Honor - via Legendary Commander War Razor
  • 3000 Badge of Honor
• 6 Certificate of Heroics - via Legendary Commander War Razor
  • 1500 Proof of Heroics
• 6 Glob of Condensed Spirit Energy - via Legendary Commander War Razor
  • 600 Spirit Shard
• 1500 Memory of Battle

Gift of War Prosperity

This is the material sink part of the legendary. The Gift of Condensed Might and Gift of Condensed Magic each require a large amount of crafting materials to be combined into four different gifts which are then combined into the condensed gifts. The best way to get these materials will be buying any you need from the trading post for gold. Check out our ways to earn gold guide if you need more gold to finish this.

You're also going to need mystic clovers. You can get these just by finishing reward tracks in WvW, but the gw2wiki has a great article here that explains other ways to acquire them.

Finally, the last components are the Gifts of Battle. Each gift requires completion of the Gift of Battle reward track in WvW. Check out the guide to WvW rewards for more information on the best way to maximize reward track progress.

Once you have all the components, throw them in the Mystic Forge and the Gift of War Prosperity is yours.

• 6 Gift of Battle
• 90 Mystic Clover
• 6 Gift of Condensed Might
  • 6 Gift of Claws
    • 600 Vicious Claw
    • 1500 Large Claw
    • 300 Sharp Claw
    • 300 Claw
  • 6 Gift of Scales
    • 600 Armored Scale
    • 1500 Large Scale
    • 300 Smooth Scale
    • 300 Scale
  • 6 Gift of Bones
    • 600 Ancient Bone
    • 1500 Large Bone
    • 300 Heavy Bone
    • 300 Bone
  • 6 Gift of Fangs
    • 600 Vicious Fang
    • 1500 Large Fang
    • 300 Sharp Fang
    • 300 Fang
• 6 Gift of Condensed Magic
  • 6 Gift of Blood
    • 600 Vial of Powerful Blood
    • 1500 Vial of Potent Blood
    • 300 Vial of Thick Blood
    • 300 Vial of Blood
  • 6 Gift of Venom
    • 600 Powerful Venom Sac
    • 1500 Potent Venom Sac
    • 300 Full Venom Sac
    • 300 Venom Sac
  • 6 Gift of Totems
    • 600 Elaborate Totem
    • 1500 Intricate Totem
    • 300 Engraved Totem
    • 300 Totem
  • 6 Gift of Dust
    • 600 Pile of Crystalline Dust
    • 1500 Pile of Incandescent Dust
    • 300 Pile of Luminous Dust
    • 300 Pile of Radiant Dust