Guild Wars 2: Legendary Armour Stock Take

Ok so I just hit 72 Amalgamated Kryptis Essences which always appeared to be the biggest part of the grind to me. So it’s stock take time, I have 31 days if I wanted to get Obsidian Armour day one of the next patch, would be nice but probably won’t quite happen. I still haven’t even decided which weight class to go for. My main has been Engineer since the beginning but Ranger and Thief are some of my least played alts, I also have about five ascended armour sets for medium armour, where as I play all my light armour alts at various times, but from the teasor I like the appearence of the heavy armour the most and I regularly play my Guardian and Revenant alts, on the flip side the raid legendary armour I like best is also the heavy one. Anyway stock take!

Primary Component	Secondary Component	Amount / Progress	Notes
Gift of Mighty/Magical Prosperity	Gift of Craftsmanship	6/6	I have plenty of Provisioner Tokens even after crafting the Legendary Sigil
	Mystic Clovers	1/54	This is one of the places where crafting the Legendary Sigil hit me. There will be presumably 20 more clovers in the next refresh of the Astral Armoury, So I need to get 33 clovers.
	Gift of Condensed Might/Magic	0/6	This was 2/6 and nearly up to 4/6 but again the Legendary Rune.
	Gift of Research	3/6	I have about half the research notes I need and am aproaching my 4th stack of luck.
Gift of Expertise	Amalgamated Kryptis Essences	72/72	Months of work but done!
	Eldritch Scroll	6/6	I did have a period of low spirit shards but I think the Aurene Sword varients were to blame.
	Obsidian Shards	300/300	Technically I haven’t converted the currencies but I have an abundence of currencies I can convert into shards.
	Cube of Stabilized Dark Energy	6/6	Strictly again I don’t have them but I will just salvage an ascended armour set of the weight I decide on.
Gift of Stormy Skies	Gift of the Astral Ward	0/6	I need to do some more map completions. 2/6 on Skywatch 1/6 on Amnytas As for the currencies I have plenty of them all except for Unusual Coins, I need to go alt parking.
	Case of Captured Lightning	11/30	I do have enough spare Static Charges that I could buy another 6 but if I’m going to have to do the metas then it’s not much trouble to do one more.
	Pouch of Stardust	8/30	The only one I don’t have spare map currency for. Prior to convergences I did try and do the metas but convergences seemed to take priority for me.
	Clot of Congealed Screams	12/30	I feel like I should prioritise this one incase the meta gets extended. I have enough gasps to buy another 8 though if it comes to it.
Arcanum of Astral Armor	Astral Armour	All six are on 3/4	Completely up to date, just need the final items. Really hoping they don’t take Amalgamated Kryptis Essences…

February 11th Update

I am really sick of waiting for Lyhr to open a door.

Nearly everything is done now, I still need just under 300 unusual coins, and then 10-14 of the 250 map currency/meta reward items. I should have everything ready for the patch day, though it’s unrealistic to imagine I’d be able to complete the whole of the legendary armour on the first day, what with 6 map completions and whatever the new armour’s requirements are, though I do have six spare amalgated kryptis essences just in case. The end is in sight!

February 26th Update

Ok, unusual coins done, cases of captured lightning done, clots of congealed screams done… Two pouches of stardust to go, though I have 2000 pinches of stardust. As I said before, I doubt I’ll be able to complete the six map completions and unlock the pre-cursors in a day, if I do then I will exchange the star dust. Following the preview of the armour I’ve decided to go with medium, I think it looks the best and it just feels right.

Guild Wars 2: Legendary Rune

I wonder, how many Legendary Runes will be made today…?

I wonder what could have possessed me to make a legendary rune all of a sudden?

I feel like it was probably worth it… hopefully worth it.

In other news I am very close to having done what I would like to think is the grindiest part of the legendary armour, I am up to 66 out of 72 Amalgamted Kryptis Essences. I will do a stock take of where I am when I get to 72, although I did just use up the gifts of might and magic that I had ready, that might set me back a bit!

2024 Games Played

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

I like to think Majora thought, “I’m in danger!”

I usually play Super Metroid on New Year’s Eve but I did a 100% run not that long ago so I decided to break with tradition. I had recently become aware of a mod for Majora’s Mask 3DS which fixed a lot of the issues I had with the 3DS version (plus better textures), so I gave it a try. I would say it’s the best version of the game, all the quality of life from the 3DS with proper Zora swimming, Deku Scrub water hopping, etc. This morphed into a 100% run, most of my Majora runs have been near 100%, though I had never collected all the heart pieces before. Anyway, still a fantastic game and my favourite Zelda game.

Snowboard Kids

I didn’t buy the special 3 board out of principle.

I finally managed to find a cable to get my N64 to work with modern TVs, Majora’s Mask seems to have ignited a desire to replay that era of games in me. I definitely think there was an element of rose tinted glasses but I still love Snowboard Kids, let me just call the computer a cheating bastard, the other racers will only target you and I swear they speed up, even racing flawlessly with Tommy on the starboard they can keep up. I think Quicksand Valley took me the longest to come 1st in, I don’t want to know how many times I was 1st for most of the three laps to then get slaughtered on the final stretch of lap 3. I do wish it had more levels, I should really give the sequel a try.

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon

Now they’d make for great Yugioh cards…

Honestly, I can believe just how much of the game I remembered, the only bit I was hazy on and was a bit unsure on was the section between the third and fourth dungeons. I had a lot of fun even if the camera and controls are a bit clunky. I do wish I could go back in time though and tell my younger self about the special moves in the impact battles. I collected all the fortune dolls for the first time (I’m sensing this might be a very completionist year). There’s still a lot I don’t understand about this game but I enjoy the humour, and it’s another game that has a sequel I haven’t played.

The Walkign Dead

Fomar will remember that.

I played the third and fourth seasons, it’d been a long time since I played the first two but I don’t think it mattered. I also couldn’t carry forward all my choices but I don’t think it actually mattered that much the game compensated by letting me choose some past decisions. I had fun with it for the most part, the combat sections in the final season were seldom fun. Narratively I enjoyed it besides some hiccups – e.g. I had always supported David and Gabe, and always rejected Kate which made the stuff with David in episode five really seem out of character.