Guild Wars 2

This is my opinion, but i believe it would facilitate our “quality of life” as you devs like to call it, if there was just a little more “foresight” on the amount of mats required for exchanging.

100 Dragonite Ores = 1 Dragonite Ingot, then 5 Ingots for a Vision Crystal.
(5 × 100 = 500 Dragonite Ores for a Vision Crystal)
This is an example of good foresight. I can stock up to 250 Ores, so i never go over, and i refine them as I go into Ingots until I reach my goal of 5 for the Vision Crystal.

1000 Candy Corn = 1 Candy Corn Cob, then 20 Cobs = the mini.
(20 × 1000 = 20000 Candy Corn for the mini)
This is an example of no foresight. I can only stock up to 250 Candy Corn in my mats bank, therefore I need to stock up 3 extra different stacks in my bank slots(for a total of 4) until i reach 1000 to exchange them into 1 Candy Corn Cob.

How this should have been:
100 Candy Corn = 1 Candy Corn Cob, then 200 Cobs = the mini.
(200 × 100 = 20000 Candy Corn for the mini)
This comes down to the exact same amount of Corn(also add a 0 behind any item requiring Cobs such as weapons) as the above, with the exception that I can exchange into a Cob every 100 Corns and thus I can stock up to 250 Corns in my bank easily.

You could even make it 250 Corns = 1 Cob then 80 Cobs = the mini.
(80 × 250 = 20000 Candy Corn for the mini)

If your stack cannot go above 250, please dont as us to exchange more than that to store the finish product. Instead, increase the other side’s requirement.

Edit: As Eroiqua posted below, you cannot order more than 250 Corns at a time on the Trading Post, so we need 4 orders per Cob.

Just my 2 cents. Thank you.

It gets worse when you consider buying the mats off the TP for one of the recipes. If I want to buy the base candy corn and convert it into cobs myself, I need to buy 10000 candy corn…but the max order I can put is in 250. I need to place 40 orders on the TP to buy 10000 pieces. Then I need 10000 skulls or nougats or teeth. Another 40 orders.

We’ve definitely been tricked, not treated.