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Guild Wars 2's Most Underrated Currencies: Guide to Earning Gold and Progress!
This video highlights underestimated currencies in Guild Wars 2 and how to use them efficiently to obtain gold and progress in the game. It covers spirit shards, imperial favors, Soto currencies, essences, and Tyrian defense seals, explaining how to maximize their value through crafting, trading, and conversion.
1. 💰 Introduction to Underestimated Currencies in Guild Wars 2
- ✅ Guild Wars 2 has a large number of currencies that can be confusing for new players.
- ✅ The video focuses on underestimated currencies that can be used to obtain gold and progress in the game.
00:00 - 00:53
1. 💰 Introduction to Underestimated Currencies in Guild Wars 2
- ✅ Guild Wars 2 has a large number of currencies that can be confusing for new players.
- ✅ The video focuses on underestimated currencies that can be used to obtain gold and progress in the game.
00:54 - 03:43
2. 👻 Spirit Shards: How to Turn Them into Gold
- ✅ Spirit shards are often considered useless, but they can be valuable.
- ⚠️ Avoid selling weapons or pendants directly for spirit shards, as they are not profitable.
- ✅ Transmuting lower-tier materials into higher-tier materials in the Mystic Forge can be tedious and not very profitable.
- ✅ The best way to use spirit shards is to create legendary weapons, especially generation 3, which require hundreds of spirit shards and offer a large profit.
| Activity | Spirit Shards Used | Gold Gain |
|---|---|---|
| Gen 3 Legendary Crafting | 300 (approx.) | 600 gold (approx.) |
| Aetheric Anchor | 400 | 1000 gold (approx.) |
03:44 - 06:19
3. 🐉 Imperial Favors: Obtaining and Using Efficiently
- ✅ Imperial favors are obtained by completing activities in End of Dragons.
- ✅ More imperial favors can be obtained by consuming rites.
- ✅ Creating generation 3 legendary precursors is a good way to use imperial favors and spirit shards.
- ✅ To create precursors, you need to talk to Leas to get the recipes and with an NPC in the Minister's Spring to get Jade Empress Blessings.
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| Crafting Profession | Artificer, Hunter, or Weaponsmith (level 500) |
| Materials | Daily crafting materials, hydrocatalytic reagents (from research notes), and Jade Empress Blessings. |
06:20 - 09:09
4. ✨ Soto Currencies: Secrets of the Obscure, Static Charges, Specks of Stardust and Their Uses
- ✅ Soto currencies (Secrets of the Obscure, Static Charges, Specks of Stardust, and Calcified Exhalations) can be transformed into Cerus Concentrate, Stormforged, and Stormeye weapons.
- ✅ These currencies are obtained from metas in the Soto maps.
- ✅ Small amounts of currencies can be exchanged for a large one by talking to faction vendors in each map.
- ✅ Each weapon created offers around 8 gold profit.
| Map | Weapon |
|---|---|
| Inner Nayos | Cerus Concentrate |
| Amnytas | Stormforged |
| Darelago | Stormeye |
✅ These weapons are bought because they can be used to obtain vendor tokens and because the designs are attractive.
09:10 - 10:59
5. 🔄 Essences: Conversion and Multiple Uses
- ✅ Essences are obtained by completing convergences and rifts.
- ✅ They can be transformed into motivations to sell for gold.
- ✅ By unlocking the Astro Ward mastery, you can talk to Gar Lorclaw in the Wizard's Vault to exchange essences for other currencies.
| Currency | Use |
|---|---|
| Soto Currencies | Legendary crafting or selling for gold |
| Imperial Favors | Precursor crafting |
| Trophy Shipments | Obtaining materials to sell for gold |
11:00 - 14:23
6. 🛡️ Tyrian Defense Seals: The Best Way to Obtain Valuable Materials
- ✅ Tyrian defense seals are obtained by completing dragon response missions or through essences and the Dragonstorm meta.
- ✅ They can be exchanged with a defense seal vendor for special boxes containing valuable materials.
- ✅ The scribe's supply box is currently the best option, but it is important to check Fast Farming Community to see if this has changed.
- ✅ You can also obtain Tyrian defense seals from other currencies such as elegiac mosaics, treasure hunt kits, hatchet chilies, eternal ice shards, prismite crystals, and bone skin ritual vials.
| Currency | How to Obtain |
|---|---|
| Elegiac Mosaics | Gen 2 Legendaries (Path of Fire) |
| Eternal Ice Shards | Strikes |
| Prismite Crystals | DRM |
✅ Everything is interconnected in a cycle where essences are used to obtain imperial favors, which are used to create generation 3 legendaries. When you no longer need imperial favors, you can use the essences to obtain Tyrian defense seals, which are used to obtain materials to create legendary weapons.