How To Craft Your Legendary Weapon - Guild Wars 2 Guide (Gen 3)

Generation 3 Legendary Weapons

This is a long-term crafting guide for Generation 3 legendary weapons in Guild Wars 2. Legendary weapons have the same stats as ascended weapons, but you can change their stats outside combat and recover replaced sigils or infusions instead of destroying them. They also have unique appearances and effects, with optional achievements that let you change their themes to those of other Elder Dragons.

Before You Start

• Choose a weapon that suits your characters or builds—or simply one you like the look of.
• Treat the project as a long-term goal. You can buy materials and rush the process, or gather them gradually while playing.
• Check the GW2 Wiki’s Gen 3 weapon pages before crafting, since requirements vary by weapon. You can also preview skins in the in-game bank’s dressing room.

The Four Main Components

A Gen 3 legendary requires:

• Draconic Tribute
• Gift of Jade Mastery
• A weapon-specific precursor
• A weapon-specific legendary gift

Key Materials and Where to Get Them

Gift of Jade Mastery

• Jade Runestones come from Canthan treasure chests and some Heroes’ Choice Chests. They can also be bought on the Trading Post.
• Chunks of Pure Jade can be mined, especially in Dragon’s End, or bought.
• Ancient Ambergris comes from fishing-related activities and a Seitung Province Heroes’ Choice Chest. Buying it is an alternative to farming.
• Blessings of the Jade Empress require Jade Statuettes from meta events and Imperial Favors from Canthan events. Jade Statuettes are also available on the Trading Post.
• Gifts for the four Canthan maps come from map completion. To get additional copies, light all Jade Lanterns in a zone.
• Antique Summoning Stones are available in limited weekly quantities from Lavis in Arborstone. The guide recommends collecting the inexpensive weekly allotment.

Draconic Tribute

The Draconic Tribute requires 38 Mystic Clovers, five Amalgamated Draconic Lodestones, and gifts of condensed might and magic.

The condensed gifts are made from the eight gifts associated with claws, scales, bones, fangs, blood, venom, totems, and dust. These account-bound gifts require an appropriate crafting discipline. Mystic Clovers can come from login rewards, vendors, or crafting; Lodestones can be bought or crafted.

Weapon-Specific Legendary Gift

The weapon-specific gift includes a Poem for the chosen weapon. Materials vary by weapon and may require a component made with a particular crafting discipline.

The example rifle also requires a sheet of premium paper, Lamplighter’s Badges, and Tales of Adventure. Other components include:

• 100 Mystic Runestones, available from Miyani for 100 gold.
• A Gift of Research, made with Thermocatalytic Reagents, Hydrocatalytic Reagents purchased with research notes, and exotic Essence of Luck. A level-one Artificer can combine lower-tier luck.
• A Gift of Glory, made with Shards of Glory.
• A Gift of Battle, earned from a World vs. World reward track.
• A Gift of War, made with Memories of Battle.
• A Cube of Stabilized Dark Energy, which requires a Ball of Dark Energy salvaged from ascended equipment and Stabilizing Matrices. Fractals are a main source of the matrices.

Combine the Gifts of Battle, Glory, and War with the cube to make the Gift of the Mists. Then combine that gift with the research gift, runestones, and weapon poem.

Getting the Precursor and Finishing

A precursor can rarely drop while exploring, but the practical options are to buy one, craft one, or claim the free Gen 3 precursor earned through Season of the Dragons. The free choice is available once.

Visit Lavis outside the Crystal Cave in Seitung to get precursor recipes or claim the free precursor. Put the precursor and completed gifts into the Mystic Forge to create the legendary.

Once unlocked, the weapon enters the legendary armory and can be used by eligible characters across build templates. You can then pursue the optional variant skins.

Take advantage of the weekly Antique Summoning Stones, save useful materials as you go, and check each weapon’s exact recipe before spending resources.

Creator and Sources

• Mukluk — guide host and creator.
• GW2 Wiki — ingredient and recipe reference.
• The guide also points viewers to Mukluk’s guides for Generation 1 and 2 legendaries, Mystic Clovers, Research Notes, World vs. World, and Season of the Dragons.