PvP Legendary Armor Crafting Guide

Introduction

GW2 has 3 sets of legendary armors and one of them comes from PvP. In this step-by-step guide you'll learn how to craft the Legendary Glorious Hero's Armor.

While sPvP uses a different stat template and legendary armor is not helping you out in any way there, it's immensely useful for every other area of the game. Legendary armor incentivizes PvE/WvW players to try their luck in PvP while also making it easier for PvP players to jump straight into any other area of the game.

Legendaries are convenience items first and foremost. They're stored in your account wardrobe shared across all characters. Their stats can be changed for free any time out of combat, upgrades can be removed freely and transmuting new skins onto them is free.

We'll need 4 components to make a piece of armor:

• A piece of Ascended PvP gear you seek to upgrade to Legendary.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Timegating

PvP Legendary Armor progression is tied to PvP League Ticket acquisition, you can only get 100 of these per season and need 300 for a full set, meaning 3 Conquest seasons. During active seasons there's no other timegating mechanism, you could even grind out all 100 in the first week.

Accountbound Materials

Before we properly get into the crafting details let's talk about all the things you'll need to earn from PvP in order to craft your desired set of armor.

• - comes from the final reward chest of the Glorious Reward Track.

• PvP League Ticket - final reward of every non-repeatable League Reward Chest, earned through playing ranked games.

• Ascended Shard of Glory - final reward of every League Reward Chest, earned through playing ranked games.

Universal currencies that are not strictly tied to PvP but can be acquired there too:

• - guaranteed drop from various loot boxes and the final reward chest of several reward tracks.

• - minimum of 150. Found in Rank-Up Chests and most loot boxes that come from PvP Reward Tracks. Alternatively use on a level 80 character to earn shards instead of levels.

• - contained in the final reward chest of many reward tracks, especially non-repeatable ones.

• - guaranteed drop from salvaging Ascended Armor and Weapons using an , random drop from salvaging other Ascended gear. You can buy the tool from the Laurel merchant in Heart of the Mists.

Step 1: Ascended Precursor

Now that you have the 3 gifts all that's left is to buy the piece of Ascended PvP gear you want to upgrade to Legendary.

Any of the following Ascended sets can be upgraded to Legendary tier:

• Ardent Glorious - sold by the Ascended Armor League Vendor.

• Mistforged Glorious Hero - requires PvP rank 100 or higher and the previous purchase of an Ardent Glorious piece of the same slot.

• Glorious Hero - comes from the purchased from Lambdin the Latish in HotM with PvP Tournament Vouchers awarded to the members of the top 4 teams in Monthly Automated Tournaments.

We're going to focus on the Ardent Glorious variant as that's the easiest to obtain. Look for the Ascended Armor League Vendor at the Market waypoint in Heart of the Mists, near the Trading Post and Laurel Merchant. Talk to him and open the first tab.

The cost for individual pieces is the following:

Head, Shoulder, Glove, Boots	Chest	Leg
150 Ascended Shard of Glory	400 Ascended Shard of Glory	200 Ascended Shard of Glory
250	250	250
3 Grandmaster Marks	4 Grandmaster Marks	4 Grandmaster Marks
2 Gold	2 Gold	2 Gold

As you can see the cost of Head, Shoulder, Glove and Boot armor is the same.

The type of Grandmaster Mark depends on the armor class:

• Heavy armor:

• Medium armor:

• Light armor:

You can get Grandmaster Marks from the following sources:

• which is the final reward for the Persimmon, Amaranth and Byzantium League Reward Chests. Cap: 3 per season.

• s which is a WvW currency, you can turn in 10 for a Box.

Step 2: PvP Components

Stay in Heart of the Mists where you've bought the armor and grab the rest of the necessary materials too so you don't have to come back several times during the crafting process.

Open the 5th tab of the Ascended Armor League Vendor and purchase:

• - cost: 30 PvP League Ticket

• - cost: 20 PvP League Ticket

• - cost: 400 Ascended Shard of Glory

• - cost: 100

• - cost: 1000 regular

Step 3: Crafting

Let's head over to the crafting station (or the Trading Post) because you're going to have to craft a couple of gift.

For this step 400 skill is required in one of the following crafting disciplines: Artificer, Huntsman, Weaponsmith.

You're eventually going to make a and but each of these is made up of 4 lesser gifts.

Gift of Condensed Magic

You're going to have to create a Gift of Blood, Venom, Totems and Dust through crafting.

100	100	100	100
250	250	250	250
50	50	50	50
50	50	50	50

Keep these for later

Gift of Condensed Might

Create a Gift of Bones, Claws, Fangs and Scales through crafting, just like the previous step.

100	100	100	100
250	250	250	250
50	50	50	50
50	50	50	50

Keep these too for later.

Cube of Stabilized Dark Energy

Making a Cube of Stabilized Dark Energy requires:

• 500 crafting skill in one of the following disciplines: Artificer, Armorsmith, Weaponsmith, Huntsman, Tailor, Leatherworker.

• 1 - guaranteed drop from salvaging Ascended Armor and Weapons using an , random drop from salvaging other Ascended gear. You can buy the tool from the Laurel merchant in Heart of the Mists.

• 75 - salvaged from Ascended Rings and Trinkets, could also be bought from the Trading Post.

• The recipe is learned automatically at skill 500.

Step 4: Mystic Forge

You're close to assembling your Legendary now, but first we must take a quick detour and buy some stuff from Miyani who's found next to the Mystic Forge.

Miyani

Purchase the following:

Gift of Competitive Prosperity

The first gift is the true Gold sink part of the crafting.

• 1 - comes from the final reward chest of the Glorious Reward Track. Select this track while playing ranked PvP to gradually progress towards it while also gathering other accountbound currencies you'll need later. could speed up the process.

• 15 - the Glorious Hero Reward Track's final chest drops this too if you want to farm it, but non-repeatable reward tracks offer the highest quantity of this item.

• 1 - created in the Mystic Forge from smaller gifts requiring crafting materials.

• 1 - created in the Mystic Forge from smaller gifts requiring crafting materials

Gift of Competitive Prowess

This comes from a mix of accountbound currencies, Ascended salvaging and Trading Post purchases.

• - costs 30 PvP League Tickets, purchased from the Ascended Armor League Vendor in Heart of the Mists.

• - costs 50 s, purchased from Miyani near the Mystic Forge.

• 50 - found in various PvP reward chests and the monthly login reward chest (if you chose the Legendary Crafting Material Chest).

• 1 - crafted item.

Combine these components in the Mystic Forge to create a . You're halfway there now!

Gift of Competitive Dedication

The final gift, created mostly from PvP currencies.

• - costs 20 PvP League Tickets, purchased from the Ascended Armor League Vendor in Heart of the Mists.

• - costs 100 s, purchased from Miyani near the Mystic Forge.

• - costs 400 Ascended Shard of Glory which you can earn from the final reward of every League Reward Chest while playing ranked PvP. The Star's purchased from the Ascended Armor League Vendor in HotM.

• - costs 1000 regular which comes from daily PvP achievements and reward tracks but could also be purchased from the League Vendor for PvP League Tickets or the Trading Post. The Jar's sold by the League Vendor.

Combine these components in the Mystic Forge yet again to create a . You're 75% done!

• Crafting, but this one's going to cost you some gold not to mention the additional account currencies.