Guild Wars 2

Ahoy hoy. A couple of recent changes to the Black Lion Chests (BLC) have made them considerably more enjoyable, but have also brought new frustatrations. I’d be interested to hear what people thought of these ideas, and preferably what a Dev thinks.

1) Mystery Tonics – The change from chests giving a specific tonic to a generic tonic was fantastic – Highly more stackable. The ability to then turn generic tonics into specific tonics as needed was great icing on the cake. However, me and a few others havn’t been able to capitilise on the space so much – We still have 200~ specific tonics from the pre-BLC update. Would it be possible to have a recipe to turn specific tonics back into generic tonics 1:1 (Such as 4 Floater Tonics becoming 4 Mystery tonics). I realise this may be harder to do than I imagine because of the amounts of tonic types, and the combinations they could have in the forge. Perhaps an NPC of some sort? This will allow me to reclaim an entire Bank Tab.

2) Having seen the possible new entries to BLCs, being a permanent Banker,Black Lion NPC, Merchant and Infinite Tonics I’ve been converting some gold each night to see if I can acquire any of the above. And all of them are ridiculously rare it seems – while I appreciate them being very special , and thus shouldn’t be easily obtainable, would it be possible to create some Mystic Forge recipes to help the unlucky. Perhaps by putting 250 Mystery Tonics, A consumable Banker and a few other things, you could forge one of the permanent items. Mr Smith seems a bit hot on when it comes to the economy so I imagine he can see what rarer materials need a boost in popularity, and would make good suggestions for the recipe

This way people would still have to open hundreds of chests, but at least if they didn’t get one of the lucky items they could feel some progress had been made.

Thoughts? Feedback? Possible abuse from my peers?

TQQ

What exactly are tonics for anyways?

I think because they were in GW1. GW1 had an achievement for drinking a bunch of them, but that doesn’t seem to be present in GW2.

Personally I craft in the Moa.