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GW2 Captain’s Council Commendations guide
Getting Captain’s Council Commendations
You need to make donations to receive Captain’s Council Commendations. Go to Miyani right by the Mystic Forge in Lion’s Arch and purchase a donation packaging for 1 silver and 4 copper
Now, you can throw 3 items + donation packaging into the mystic forge to get Captain’s Council Commendations.
Here is a list of the known recipes
| Stuff going in | Commendations |
| 10x Food/tuning crystal + 10x Food/tuning crystal + 10x Food/tuning crystal (if food <L60) | 1 |
| 10x Food/tuning crystal + 10x Food/tuning crystal + 10x Food/tuning crystal (if food = L60ish) | 2 |
| 10x Food/tuning crystal + 10x Food/tuning crystal + 10x Food/tuning crystal (if food L70+) | 3 |
| 5 bronze ingots + 5 iron ingots + 5 steel ingots | 2 |
| 5 copper ingots + 5 silver ingots + 5 gold ingots = 2 CCCs | 2 |
| 5 green wood planks + 5 soft wood planks + 5 seasoned wood planks | 2 |
| 5 hard wood planks + 5 elder wood planks + 5 ancient wood planks | 5 |
| 5 platinum ingots + 5 mithril ingots + 5 orichalcum ingots | 13 |
| 3 L70-80 basic weapons/armor | 3 |
| 3 L60-70 fine weapons/armor | 7 |
| 3 L70-80 fine weapons/armor | 8 |
| 3 L40 masterwork weapon/armor | 8 |
| 3 L70-80 masterwork weapons/armor | 12 |
| 3 L35-39 rare weapons/armor | 15-17 |
| 3 L40-49 rare weapons/armor | 17-30 |
| 3 L50-54 rare weapons/armor | 30 |
| 3 L55-59 rare weapons/armor | 40 |
| 3 L60-64 rare weapons/armor | 50 |
| 3 L65-69 rare weapons/armor | 70 |
| 3 L75-80 rare weapons/armor/armor | 140 |
| 3 L70-74 exotic weapons/armor | 550 |
| 3 L75-80 exotic weapons /armor | 600 |
| 3 L75-80 rare trinkets | 300 |
| 3 L80 exotic trinket (i.e. Candy Corn Orichalcum Amulets) | 2000 |
Stuff to purchase with Captain’s Council Commendations
Talk to Lionguard Lyns at the Grand Piazza where the Lion statue used to be. You will need to have some commendations first to unlock the vendor.
Black Lion Key – 285 Commendations
Harvesting Tools
| Items | Commendation Cost |
| Sturdy Cooper Tools (250 uses) | 4 for sickle, 2 for axe and pick |
| Sturdy Iron Tools (250 uses) | 9 for sickle, 5 for axe and pick |
| Study Steel Tools (250 uses) | 15 for sickle, 7 for axe and pick |
| Sturdy Darksteel Tools (250 uses) | 20 for sickle, 10 for axe and pick |
| Sturdy Mithril Tools (250 uses) | 27 for sickle, 13 for axe and pick |
| Sturdy Orichalcum Tools (250 uses) | 67 for sickle, 33 for axe and pick |
Salvage kits
| Items | Commendation Cost |
| Crude Salvage Kit (15 uses) | 1 |
| Disembler 3BEK Kit (250 uses, 10% for rare, 20% to recover upgrades) | 25 |
Lionguard weapons
(L40 ones have Power and Condition damage while the higher level ones have Power, Precision and Condition damage). All of them have sigils of Karka Slaying (10% damage vs Karka for the superior sigil)
Note that these weapons are not unique! Their models can be purchased for 9.8k karma each from the Lionguard cultural vendor just north of the WvW portals in Lion’s Arch
| Items | Commendation Cost |
| L40 rares | 25 |
| L60 rares | 40 |
| L80 rares | 80 |
| L80 exotics | 1300 |
Tips and tricks from readers
Here are some tips and tricks shared by readers on dulfy.net that you may find interesting. Feel free to add : )!
- Rare/exotic armor is generally less expensive on the TP than weaps, so it might be a good way to pick up some extra commendations. Level 70-75 exotics are generally less expensive than 80′s, and give almost as much back in commendations.. Nutshell is that, if you’re going to spend the coin to get commendations through donating, consider buying cheap lvl 70 exotics to donate in order to get a greater return. (grape_crush)
- You can also buy armor/weapons (but let’s use armor, it’s cheaper) from dungeon token vendors and use them to make commendations.Tip: If vendor offers rare level 80 armor, then you get 1.1 commendation for each token spent if it’s exotic armor, and 1.5 per token spent if it’s rare armor (Jaggens)
- If you are a Level 400 Jeweler or know someone who is you can create Candy Corn Orichalcum Amulets which only require 3 Exquisite Opal Jewels instead of 5 (instead it uses +150 Candy Corn). It’s the cheapest Level 80 exotic trinket.(Gahro on reddit)