danitheqt

Alright, i kept selling the exotics i got back last time, and invested the returns directly into new materials (im def. not gonna stop after throwing in 1,5k gold).
Got lucky!

Im too lazy to write it down, so i just made a pic of my statistics this time.
(Ye i know, some excel sheet wouldve looked prettier, but writing it down by hand is easier and quicker ).

V means Versuche, which is german and stands for Tries (= rares thrown into the mf).
Exos is selfexplaining i guess.
The next-to-last cell shows the amount of rares that i got from the mf (which i threw back into it).
A smiley indicates a precursor .



So ye, overall ive thrown like 35k rares into the MF - and i still cant give any advise or recommendation wheter to buy that damn thing or gamble.

Here's the rares needed for each precursor:

• Dusk: took me ~ 3.550 rares
  
• Dawn  ~ 50 rares
  
• Legend  ~ 950rares
  
• Spark  ~ 780 rares
  
• Zap  ~ 330 rares
  
• Legend  ~ 3.200 rares
  
• Legend  ~ 1.500 rares
  
• Colossus  ~ 400 rares
  
• Lover  ~ 2.450 rares
  
• Spark  ~ 8.900 rares (ive used 8200 GS rares without any precursor, then swapped to daggers)
  
• Colossus  ~ 280 rares
  
• Legend  ~ 2.400 rares
  
• Spark ~ 11.900 rares (mainly staves before i switched to daggers)
  
• Legend ~ 600 rares
  
• Spark ~ 400 rares

Ridiculous variance.
I really hope the announced precursor scavenger hunt will be implemented soon... prices atm are a joke. How can sth that is totally random make up half (or even more, depending) of what is needed for making a legendary?? (not to mention the clovers part...)

Decide for yourself if you want to take the risk or buy it off the TP. You can either lose everything or get a pretty penny :\. GL

Nomad Touch, on 02 April 2013 - 07:23 AM, said:

It's your good right to belive whatever you think is accurate. (2k rares for a pre would be a nice profit btw )

dzanikken, on 02 April 2013 - 01:29 PM, said:

Well, although this is offtopic: started playing pve 2months after release (was doing pvp only before). i kept farming ac and cof and bought all helloween skins i could get whenever i had enough money (~15-20g/ea). Made quite some money by selling them later. I then kept crafting highend exotics, also yielded a good profit (some weaps still do). All you have to do is run through the whole map to grind skillpoints on some chars and then craft weaps (volcanus for 100g+profit, all the foefire weapons.. good time ^^). Then i crafted twilight and sold it for 3k+ gold.
Afterwards i started gambling cause i didnt know what to do with all the money. And ye, thats when i started posting here. =)

Alright, some more news from me regarding precursors.

First of all, i know i said im not gonna gamle again, ever. But ai.. i was making my legendary staff and just needed the precursor, so i thought i'd gamble one last time.
Turned out to be a terrible mistake. To be honest - i thought ill just gamble a lil bit til i get that precursor and not post the results here, cause (at least thats what i had thought) the number of tries wouldnt be too big. Turned out it was. Therefore i decided to post these results, cause they affect my former dropchance significally.

Alright, here we go:

10.305 lvl 80 rare staves. (counting in the ones i got back)
509 exotics
0 precursors.

I can hardly believe it. After wasting roughly 1500g, i gathered all gold i had left and bought the legend off the tp for ~600g.
2100g for a precursor.. i actually wanted to craft another legendary afterwards, but hey - i got bad luck and kinda "burned a whole legendary" in the mystic forge.

I dont know if im just extremely unlucky - or if the real dropchance of precursors is really lower than i had thought, and i was just beeing lucky with my last 25k rares.
Just thought i'd share this, for others to keep in mind. My recommendation would be - dont gamble if you're afraid of losing tons of money. If i were to make another legendary, i'd probably just wait for anet to do sth, even tho that might take a while.. fk that :\.
GL tho to everyone who's still trying his or her luck!

Could someone who got it make a quick vid showing the bow in action?