Celeste and Allona enjoy a new gem store item and kit out their characters on the cheap! Thriftiness FTW!

Allona

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• AC Path 2. Crell joined us! It was fun and (mostly) painless. Except for the lag and disconnects. More on that later…
  
• Guild Missions with Wardens of Destiny. Well, mission … I caught the puzzle. Thankfully it was the one puzzle I had done before so I sorta knew what I was doing.
  
• Some zone completions with both my warrior, Tilde, and necro, Jerzzi. Mostly Queensdale.
  
• Got my ranger to 60 which means I finally could get the T2 Charr cultural. Which is actually awesome. And, because I’m a rock star, I bought the cheapest superior runes I could find — runes of the privateer. I LOVE THEM AND MY PARROT AND IDONTCURR WHAT ANYONE ELSE THINKS! (addendum: I forgot to mention that the major runes are over 5 times to cost of the superior for some reason.)
  

Celeste

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• World bosses rounds on my ranger continues!
  
• AC, CM, and almost TA story, harathi and queensdale completion on my guardian, meaning I went from lv32 to 50 in the past week.
  
• Ghosteater and more world bosses
  

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• “When it comes to humiliating your foes and jazzing up the battlefield, nothing compares to the brand-new Llama Finisher! Kill your enemies and summon up a dancing llama, complete with a disco floor and lightshow!â€
  
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  • Allona: This is possibly the most ludicrous and amazing thing ever! I think the idea for this must have come after a rockin’ anet staff party.
    
  
  
  
• There’s also a mini kitten for 400 gems and the Mad King’s Outfit for 700 gems, which are cool and all, but LLAMA FINISHER!
  

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-megaserver-rollout-is-complete-2/

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• “Our megaserver team will continue to monitor the performance of the technology on live and evaluate your feedback. We will continue to tweak and update the way the system works until it is providing even better megaservice!â€
  
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  • Allona: I don’t know why, but I am tickled pink by ‘megaservice’. Also, I am still pleased with the megaservers. I’ve heard about some not great experiences from a few people, but hopefully those are anomalies and will be fewer and fewer as time goes on.
    
  • Celeste: I’ve had a lot of issues with the megaserver. Most notably with disconnects. Terrible ones where when your game reconnects you’re in a separate instance and don’t get credit for the events you were participating in. Keep in mind that I’ve had a mostly positive experience with megaservers and being able to play with tons of people on maps that were typically empty on my home server.
    
  • Allona: Oh yeah! I guess I didn’t put the disconnects and poor performance down to the megaserver, but yeah … those are frustrating. It was the most difficult part of AC for sure.
    
  
  
  

(aka: all Celeste all the time)

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Mystic clovers are probably the best thing to start up with as you’ll get them done and then can focus on the item that is one of the hardest to get. Another thing to take into account is that you’ll get t6 mats from the mystic clover recipe so it makes sense to take care of that first.

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• Celeste: I ran through 44 obby shards to get 13 clovers unfortunately.
  

Getting those T6 mats can be tricky but I think the best way to go towards that goal is to amass as much gold as you possibly can. Best way: dungeons! AC 1+3, CoF 1+2, SE 1+3, and HoTW 1 to get started. Not to mention that you’ll need to run dungeons to get certain recipes for your legendary.

If dungeons/gold grabs aren’t your thing you can still do a number of other things in-game.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/21hqgo/the_best_way_to_get_t6_mats_right_now/cgd4zpb

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• Grenth final event
  
• Melandru beacon
  
• Champion farm
  
• Buy with laurels
  

You could also decide to grind on a few of the PvE farms for mats.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1p2dgc/guidet6_material_acquisition_guide_updated/ (nightsfrost) has a comprehensive list (though that may be slightly out of date)

Orr farming in cursed shore has come back in a big way with the megaserver / server merges.

Gift of Mastery Changes: you’ll need to be at least r14 in WvW to be able to buy it.

Another thing you could do is what Sam Holy Heart decided to do to help visually track his progress http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/24c7j2/visualized_legendary_progress/

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• Celeste: If nothing else it’s a pretty cool thing to show on your blog or twitter cover, self plugging… twitter.com/celeookie
  

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