Is farming Pyrebrand a thing, or just bought from vendor?

MorallyBipolar · March 13

I've decided to jump on the meta bandwagon and set up a DK with Pyrebrand gear, but I don't like IA and don't have much currency from there. Does Pyrebrand drop from monsters in IA or is it only obtained by purchasing from the IA vendor?

TIA for help.

Erickson9610 · March 13

You can get uncurated (random w/ duplicates) coffers for Archival Fortunes, or curated (random w/o duplicates) coffers for slightly more Archival Fortunes.

You get a curated Class Set piece from defeating Marauders or Tho'at Replicanum. Odd numbered Arcs award body pieces, while even numbered Arcs award jewelry and weapons. You will always get Class Sets for your character's current Class first before you will start getting Class Sets for other Classes.

MorallyBipolar · March 13

Erickson9610 wrote: »

You can get uncurated (random w/ duplicates) coffers for Archival Fortunes, or curated (random w/o duplicates) coffers for slightly more Archival Fortunes.

You get a curated Class Set piece from defeating Marauders or Tho'at Replicanum. Odd numbered Arcs award body pieces, while even numbered Arcs award jewelry and weapons. You will always get Class Sets for your character's current Class first before you will start getting Class Sets for other Classes.

tyvm for info! That's what I needed to know.

FYI, the uncurated Class set pieces cost 2k IA currency, can't remember how much the curated cost, 20k? The curated boxes are purple gear, the uncurated is blue....for me the purple are just too expensive as I don't have any IA currency at this time and accidentally bought the curated boxes instead of the uncurated to start my Pyrebrand gear grind.

Renato90085 · March 13

MorallyBipolar wrote: »

Erickson9610 wrote: »

You can get uncurated (random w/ duplicates) coffers for Archival Fortunes, or curated (random w/o duplicates) coffers for slightly more Archival Fortunes.

You get a curated Class Set piece from defeating Marauders or Tho'at Replicanum. Odd numbered Arcs award body pieces, while even numbered Arcs award jewelry and weapons. You will always get Class Sets for your character's current Class first before you will start getting Class Sets for other Classes.

tyvm for info! That's what I needed to know.

FYI, the uncurated Class set pieces cost 2k IA currency, can't remember how much the curated cost, 20k? The curated boxes are purple gear, the uncurated is blue....for me the purple are just too expensive as I don't have any IA currency at this time and accidentally bought the curated boxes instead of the uncurated to start my Pyrebrand gear grind.

curated cost is 10k

playsforfun · March 13

Is there a difference in the stats of curated & uncurated or is it just one is blue & one is purple?

LunaFlora · March 13

playsforfun wrote: »

Is there a difference in the stats of curated & uncurated or is it just one is blue & one is purple?

the difference is that the Curated boxes are guaranteed to give you an item you have not Collected yet.
and uncurated give any random piece of the set

MorallyBipolar · March 13

playsforfun wrote: »

Is there a difference in the stats of curated & uncurated or is it just one is blue & one is purple?

Only difference I noticed was color quality. Both curated and uncurated are random traits and weights.

Radiate77 · March 13

The easiest strategy is to just clear the first 2 Arcs then reset, as odds and evens drop either weapons or armor.

You can do this solo with most PvE builds.

JaxontheUnfortunate · March 13

Also keep in mind if you haven’t already collected basalt blooded warrior you could get drops for that set as well from the is bosses/marauders.

El_Borracho · March 13

I looked at this before. If you are doing it just to buy the pieces, the uncrated is a better deal than curated. The frustration is the body pieces come in all 3 weights, so while it is easier to cover all the body pieces to make a 5 piece set, it could be mismatched in type (heavy, medium, light). Upside, Pyrebrand is more suited for PVP, where some mixing and matching is okay.