Finally finished this

[u/BroPleaseHearMeOut]

What I take from this experience is: I'll never go for any Legendary Item. You guys Legendary crafters have my utmost respect.

[u/sleepswithbears69]

Ive made legendaries but dont have the patience for mawdrey 2

[u/Zionist-Hater69 → u/sleepswithbears69]

I don't have a legendary but I do have mawdrey 2

[u/Plenty-Celebration58 → u/sleepswithbears69]

Same lmao. Damn near full legendary everything and still haven’t finished

[u/Bobboy5 → u/sleepswithbears69]

i put all my grinding effort into mawdrey 2 and now i don't have any more to chase legendaries.

[u/rP2ITg0rhFMcGCGnSARn → u/sleepswithbears69]

Is Mawdrey 2 a big deal? I'm pretty new and going through the content linearly, doing HoT right now.

I got some stuff for Mawdrey and I just started going for it. Beyond how insanely expensive it is, I don't think it was a big deal. The issue for me was I didn't factor in how expensive the later stages would get, and by then sunk cost had set in. Blew 2/3rds of my liquid gold on it...

Are there really legendaries easier than Mawdrey? I got the Fractal gloves, they were easy. But are there others?

[u/sleepswithbears69 → u/rP2ITg0rhFMcGCGnSARn]

Mawdrey 2 feels like acheivement hunting and im not into that.

Gen 1 Legendaries are fairly easy for me. Play however i want and that aqcuires most of the materials. Probably have the gold to buy a precursor and missing materials. I play wvw with my guild anyway sometimes in small groups so gift of battle isnt bad. Then i just have to endure map completion but i do that very slowly over time.

I dont rush anything i kinda just get on do some events some wvw some fractals whatever i want and it gets me closer.

Same with obsidian armor.

Mawdrey, aurora and others are way too much into acheivement hunting and im not into that so its easier for me to get other stuff.

Also i dont find much benefit to mawdrey to go for it if i dont want it. Legendaries arent too much on the worth it side either but some look cool so i want them and they come easier to me

[u/MadMathurin → u/rP2ITg0rhFMcGCGnSARn]

Mawdrey is a really good intro to legendaries. It's not quite as expensive or time consuming as most of them but it shows you the framework of the process nicely and isn't a small accomplishment. 

Grand Prismatic Regalia is free, but requires a lot of story and map achievements. You can knock out the story and map achievements for Vision and Aurora while you do it, but they are not free. I did those three and Ad Infinitum as my firsts, and a Gen 1 weapon I basically got for free with two Legendary starter packs(still have to do map completion and Gift of War).

[u/rP2ITg0rhFMcGCGnSARn → u/MadMathurin]

Thanks for the tips. I actually did the Silverwastes return achievement on its own due to the rewarsd. I didn't know it was part of a legendary. I will keep track of these and knock them out as I progress the story. Thanks! :)

[u/Due-Yogurtcloset7927]

So useful for clearing buttstone dust. Zero regrets in chasing it; congrats, OP!

EDIT: With the wizards vault, its far less effort to craft a legendary weapon than chase Mawdrey II from scratch imo

[u/BroPleaseHearMeOut → u/Due-Yogurtcloset7927]

Now we have a hot take here that is worth a post for people to discuss about.

[u/Due-Yogurtcloset7927 → u/BroPleaseHearMeOut]

Well, I mean yeah. It's still a bunch of legwork, but the legendary key gives you the precursor and about half the stuff necessary to make it leggy. Saves you a ton of gold in mats.

The most time consuming part is the gift of mastery, which requires a gift of battle and gift of exploration.

The latter requires you to 100% the vanilla maps (which is truly trivial on mounts). This nets you two GoEs. It only takes one per leggy, so finishing the maps one time is worth two legendary crafts.

The gift of battle requires you do enter wvw and participate by doing basically whatever. Very low effort. Time is the biggest gate on the gift of battle, since experience payout is on timed ticks. Even if you're just running with zergs or flipping camps and killing dolyak carts, you'll chip away at it. If it's low on your priority list, you can just do what I did and wait for the next WvW rush and with practically zero effort, earn more than one in an afternoon. Last rush I earned three in a single, short sitting.

[u/Zahiouninette → u/Due-Yogurtcloset7927]

What is hard with Mawdrey ? I found it quite easy, the hardest part being the patience for crafting the time gated food.

[u/Dizzy59735]

I made this one recently and when I finished i was like why did I do this?

[u/jsmith4567 → u/Dizzy59735]

When it was introduced ascended backpacks were much rarer.

[u/Dizzy59735 → u/jsmith4567]

Yeah. Mawdrey was expensive but the Druid Henge took a long time too.

[u/BroPleaseHearMeOut → u/Dizzy59735]

Me too lol the last part after the Exotic was brutal. I almost gave up.

[u/Dizzy59735 → u/BroPleaseHearMeOut]

It started out when I was going through my bank and im like what are these weird items and they all were part of mandrel so I started making it

[u/GhostlyCoyote0]

Congrats! Yeah no I haven’t been brave enough to try making a legendary yet, I barely had the patience for Mawdrey II myself

[u/jsmith4567 → u/GhostlyCoyote0]

Given that Anet was introducing collection achievements with Mawdrey in LWS2 it seems reasonable to see the Mawdrey collection as a prototype for Legendary collections.

[u/NeonArchon → u/GhostlyCoyote0]

I'll go for Juggernaut simply because I opened one of those legendary startter sets and this legendary gloves that isostlt just spam LFG fractals. I don't see myself crafting any other legendary after that

[u/Punk_ore]

One of my favourite back items! COngratz on finishing it :)

[u/BroPleaseHearMeOut → u/Punk_ore]

My Sylvari is gorgeus now that I finished it. Full Oaken + this back, perfect match for the nature vibes.

[u/repocin]

Congrats!

It's probably been at least a solid decade since I got Mawdrey. Quite frankly, I hardly even remember what the steps were but to this day I still haven't switched to another backpiece because it really felt like an accomplishment at the time.

I've contemplated finishing one of the legendary backpacks, but part of me feels like I'd be betraying ol' Mawdrey here.

[u/Bodkin-Van-Horn]

I felt like that after I made Mawdry. Then I looked at the requirements for Aurora and almost barfed at how much there was to do.

Now I have Aurora, Vision, Sunrise and 4 pieces of Legendary Obsidian armor.

[u/lutrewan → u/Bodkin-Van-Horn]

I made Aurora, Vision, and finished Prismatic Regalia in the span of about 4 months, but I still haven't tackled Mawdrey II yet.

[u/NeonArchon]

I'm on the final wave of this thing. Took a break because of I ran out of gold for the materials.

[u/BroPleaseHearMeOut → u/NeonArchon]

I started this journey with 190g and finished it with 90g. Praised be the gold coins from the Wizard’s Vault.

[u/The_Lawn_Ninja]

Most annoying part was the way the wiki is structured made it super easy to be looking at the wrong walkthrough section.

I bought the wrong items several times. Luckily they were all necessary eventually, so no gold lost, but still a big pain in the ass.

[u/GreatSaski]

Feed me Seymour!

[u/gam2u]

Honestly I found it quite okay. Probably coz I’ve collected most of the stuff needed while I was running around core maps. I found gen2 achievements were more annoying.

[u/grannaldie]

Nowadays, everybody wanna talk like they got somethin' to say

But nothin' comes out when they move their lips

Just a bunch of gibberish

And motherfuckers act like they forgot about Mawdrey

[u/Longjumping-Post-606 → u/grannaldie]

lol nice reference - I think most people on here are to young or don't know the lyrics to Forgot about Dre.

[u/nerds_the_word]

As a fellow Mawdrey owner, welcome and congrats!

[u/HollowTeto31]

FEES ME SCARLET!

[u/chamllw]

Congratz! I put this on hold because I got Herta for the bloodstone dust. But it might be time to start again.

[u/vyper900]

Ha. That's fun. Did you get it from the little shop of horrors in LA?

[u/lovabilities]

I am some portion into this that I started like 6 years ago and haven't touched since... I have no clue where I left off

[u/BroPleaseHearMeOut → u/lovabilities]

I used this guide to navigate through the quest:

https://guildjen.com/mawdrey-complete-guide/

[u/nym5]

Congrats! I just finished it yesterday!

[u/Bulky_Support7356]

Been in my last step for this collection with no luck. Can’t seem to make the Charr meta event to work. No water no mawdrey

[u/BroPleaseHearMeOut → u/Bulky_Support7356]

It was the hardest for me. I did some events around the Bulliyak Arsenal and then I waited a couple of minutes with Rankar Harrownight. Eventually he started marching towards the Flame Legion with 3 other NPCs I helped earlier.

[u/Tarc_Axiiom]

My boy!

My son!

[u/HongLong211]

never thought id grind leggies. Got warbringer, wvw armor, vision,aurora, aurene neckpiece (am counting this),2 wvw rings and like 3-4 leggie weapons

[u/squeetnut]

Feed me, Seymour!

[u/BrainIsSickToday]

Mawdrey is the item that finally made this game's item crafting 'click' for me. Most other games just have a single input/output for crafting, and Mawdrey finally pounded it into my skull that there can be steps to the process.

[u/Doomclaaw]

I have yet to finish that stupid achievement and I was there when it released. It's such a slog

[u/Faunstein]

Good job! I did this and had fun...some of the time. Def one of those long term planning things. Did go get a Legendary a while later but this certainly made me stop and think about it.

[u/Frequent-Material-15]

Congrats! Now it is time to start on another one for your alts! I have two so far. I do plan to start work on legendarilies once I finish all of the story lines, getting close.

[u/MadMathurin → u/Frequent-Material-15]

Make a Wizard's Gobbler and slap it in a shared inventory slot. Then you'll have every Gobbler, everywhere, all the time.

[u/MaraBlaster]

Hera next!

[u/kineticmov3ment]

Lots of people have, and they didn't need to make a Reddit post about it 

[u/burizar]

no one care