Pharus

Pharus is a light-themed legendary longbow crafted in the Mystic Forge.

What it looks like

Pharus is a light-themed longbow with an intricate design. While in use, it shifts into a mass of white light in the shape of a bow, complete with a bowstring of light. In its stowed state, the bow is solid, and marginally smaller as well as subtler in appearance.

Aura

• The wielder is wrapped in white-blue light.
• The wielder's right hand leaves a subtle blue trail while moving.

Draw/Stow Animation

• A cluster of light flashes around the wielder, coming from the ground up as if lightning strikes the earth.
• The light leaves a mark on the ground where it scorched the earth. The scorched area stays until the bow is stowed or weapons are swapped.

Footfalls

• White shimmering cracks of light are left on the ground.

Skill effects

• Default projectiles are replaced with arrows of white light.

Critical hits

• Critically hitting an enemy causes a tall vertical beam of light to appear on the enemy. This effect can only be seen by the player wielding Pharus. The beam leaves cracks in the ground identical to those from the footfalls, but there is no light shining out of them. Instead, smoke emerges from the…

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Scholars discovered Pharus in Siren's Reef.Dwayna's Reliquary is in Siren's Landing, not Siren's Reef. All attempts to store and catalog it have failed; if not carried by a hero, it reappears at Dwayna's Reliquary among the other artifacts.

What it takes

Combined in the Mystic Forge, from:

1 × Spero1 × Gift of Pharus1 × Mystic Tribute1 × Gift of Maguuma Mastery

Each of those breaks down further — often a long way. Track it in the tracker to see the whole list with what you already hold subtracted, and where each missing piece comes from.

Pharus on the Guild Wars 2 Wiki