Don't Waste Astral Acclaim! - GW2 Wizard's Vault For new Players

Earning and Spending Astral Acclaim

The video explains how to earn and spend Astral Acclaim in Guild Wars 2’s refreshed Wizard’s Vault, focusing on efficient daily and weekly objectives and the rewards that offer the best value.

Efficient Dailies and Weeklies

• Use the gear icon to choose whether objectives come from PvE, PvP, or WvW.
• To complete objectives faster, focus on a single game mode so you can make progress on several objectives at once.
• Choose the mode you find quickest and most enjoyable. The presenter prefers PvP.

High-Priority Rewards

• Bag of Gold: Provides 100 gold and is a flexible, broadly useful reward.
• Mystic Coins: Valuable because they can be sold or used for Mystic Clovers and legendary crafting.
• Bag Slot Expansion: A character-specific inventory upgrade that the presenter strongly recommends.
• Bag of Laurels: Laurels can be used to buy ascended trinkets and crafting materials, including valuable higher-tier materials.
• Legendary Weapon Starter Kit: Covers much of the work toward one of the season’s available Generation 1 legendary weapons. The presenter estimates it gets you about 85% of the way there. Remaining requirements may include a Gift of Battle and a Gift of Exploration. The kit can be kept or sold.

Worth Getting Later in the Season

• Mystic Clovers: Useful to stockpile, even if you are not crafting a legendary right away.
• Black Lion Mastery Coffer: Provides mastery experience for a chosen region, but does not grant mastery points. It may have no effect if you cannot progress that mastery.
• Build storage and build template expansions: Convenient account and character upgrades, but not top priorities.
• Metabolic and Utility Primers: Extend the duration of the relevant food or utility buff to 12 hours. They are useful for some players but are more situational.
• Ascended armor and weapons: Useful gear that can be moved between characters through the bank or shared inventory, though transferring it can be inconvenient.

Lower-Priority or Situational Rewards

• Lesser Essence of Gold: Adds a permanent 1% to gold find, but the presenter considers it modest value.
• Revival Orb: The presenter considers it too expensive for its limited usefulness, particularly because it cannot be used in some modes.
• Tomes of Knowledge: Most useful to players who need levels or Spirit Shards. The presenter already has max-level characters and gets plenty through play.
• Obsidian Shards: Needed for legendary crafting, but also readily obtainable with karma or through gameplay.
• Wizard’s Box of Crafting Materials: A possible choice if you have spare Astral Acclaim and no higher-priority purchases. The presenter is uncertain about its exact contents.
• Legendary Essence of Luck: Tied to the Lunar New Year event, but not presented as essential.

Featured gamer/source: Caffeinated Dad Gaming (the video’s presenter).