GW2 Guide to making Ascended Dwayna and Grenth Backpieces

dulfy 50 Comments Dec 11, 2013

A guide to make the Ascended Shadow of Grenth and Light of Dwayna backpieces released with Wintersday 2013.

Light of Dwayna

You can purchase the recipe on the Trading Post or acquire it as a rare drop from the Wintersday gifts. The recipe requires Leatherwork, Armorsmith or Tailor 500 and you cannot craft it without the recipe.

Preview code: [&AgFGwQAA] – Ingame pics modeled by Fayt Proteggere of Blackgate
The backpiece doesn’t come with stats by default but you can click to select one. This is a one time selection only and you cannot change the stats ever again.

Light of Dwayna

Recipe	Raw Materials
1 Vision Crystal	500 Pile of Bloodstone Dust 500 Dragonite Ore 500 Empyreal Fragment 30 Obsidian Shard 150 Thermocatalytic Reagent (2 gold 25 silver) 20 Skill points
50 Icy Runestones	50 Gold
15 Bolts of Damask	600 Wool Scrap 300 Cotton Scrap 600 Linen Scrap 4500 Silk Scrap 15 Glob of Ectoplasm 375 Spool of Gossamer Thread (2 gold 40 silver)
7 Charged Lodestone	14 Charged Core 7 Bottle of Elonian Wine 7 Pile of Crystalline Dust 7 Crystal

Vision Crystal

Crafted by Artificer/Huntsman/Weaponsmith/Leatherwork/Armorsmith/Tailor at 500.

Recipe	Raw Materials
5 Bloodstone Brick 5 Dragonite Ingot 5 Empyreal Star 1 Angur’s Stone	500 Pile of Bloodstone Dust 500 Dragonite Ore 500 Empyreal Fragment 30 Obsidian Shard 150 Thermocatalytic Reagent 20 Skill points

Bloodstone Brick is refined from Bloodstone Dust using the following recipe (Artificer/Huntsman/Weaponsmith/Leatherwork/Armorsmith/Tailor 450)

100 Pile of Bloodstone Dust – Champion bags
2 Obsidian Shard – Purchased for laurels, karma, fractal relics
10 Thermocatalytic Reagent – 10 for 15 silver purchased from Master crafters

Dragonite Ingot is refined from Dragonite Ore with the following recipe: Artificer/Huntsman/Weaponsmith/Leatherwork/Armorsmith/Tailor 450)

100 Dragonite Ore – World boss chests/WvW Lords
2 Obsidian Shard – Purchased for laurels, karma, fractal relics
10 Thermocatalytic Reagent – 10 for 15 silver purchased from Master crafters

Empyreal Star is refined from Empyreal Fragment with the following recipe

100 Empyreal Fragment – Dungeons/Fractals
2 Obsidian Shard – Purchased for laurels, karma, fractal relics
10 Thermocatalytic Reagent – 10 for 15 silver purchased from Master crafters

Angur’s Stone is purchased for 20 skill points from Miyani near Lion’s Arch Mystic Forge.

Icy Runestone

These are purchased from Rojan the Penitent in Frostgorge Sound (around Earthshaker Basion) after Claw of Jormag is defeated. They cost 1 gold each, totaling 50 gold.

Bolts of Damask

Each bolt of Damask uses the following recipe to make (Leatherwork/Armorsmith/Tailor 450)

Recipe	Raw Materials
20 Bolt of Wool 10 Bolt of Cotton 20 Bolt of Linen 1 Spool of Silk Weaving Thread	40 Wool Scrap 20 Cotton Scrap 40 Linen Scrap 300 Silk Scrap 1 Glob of Ectoplasm 25 Spool of Gossamer Thread

Bolt of Wool, Cotton, Linen are all refined from their individual scraps but Spool of Silk Weaving Thread is made from the following recipe (Tailor/Armorsmith/Leatherwork 450). This product is time gated (can only one once per day) which makes production of Bolts of Damask is also time gated (but you can purchase it on the trading post).

100 Bolt of Silk – Refined from silk scraps
1 Glob of Ectoplasm
25 Spool of Gossamer Thread – purchased from Master Crafter (10 for 6 silver 40 copper)

Charged Lodestone

Looted from enemies/chests or made from Charged Cores with the following recipe

Recipe

2 Charged Core
1 Bottle of Elonian Wine – Purchased from Miyani for 25 silver
1 Pile of Crystalline Dust
1 Crystal – Purchased from Miyani – 5 for 3 skillpoints

Shadow of Grenth

Preview code: [&AgFHwQAA] – Ingame pics modeled by Wraith Kahju
The backpiece doesn’t come with stats by default but you can click to select one. This is a one time selection only and you cannot change the stats ever again.