Guild Wars 2

After changing my legendary goals and aspirations and priorities many times, I’ve finally settled on making howler for my necromancer/ranger. I have enough gold saved up from my previous legendary attempts to buy howl outright (and be pretty much broke after that, and I still have 2/3rds of the T6 mats left to buy) but I know I can save a lot of money by placing a lower buy order on howl.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/29184

Looking on Spidy, I noticed that in May, the items buy orders were at around 360-380 gold which is so so cheap, and sell orders were around 460 gold or so. But then, on June 7th, the item had a massive increase in price to buy order of up to 550 gold and sell orders up to 640 gold, which is a very significant decrease. In the past few weeks since then, the item appears to have stabilized at buy order of 470 gold or so and sell orders at around 550g, but I have no idea why the price spiked so much that day, other than the idea that June 7th was a Saturday and everyone decided to finish howler that day..

Anyway, why did this happen? I’m not saying that its a bad thing, but I want to understand the big picture before I spend a lot of gold/time on acquiring my precursor. Do you guys think that there is any chance that the price could drop to where it was before the June 7th spike, at least in the very near future?

Also on a semi-related note, I’m curious about next week’s patch in regard to precursors. Although this is a bit of a stretch, I remember seeing info on reddit that showed the existence of datamined journal entries for seeking precursors. While its probably not going to happen, there could be some sort of precursor obtaining method introduced next week, even though that most likely will not happen. But still, in just the extreme off-chance that it will happen, would it be smart to refrain from placing buy orders for howl until we know for sure about the details of S2 and its rewards?

The datamined precursor entries were revealed 7 months ago. You can see them here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1qha6v/chat_codes_the_nightmares_within/

This was before they shelved the new legendaries/precursor crafting plans. There is no justification to expect anything substantial to come out in the patch next week.

Do not waste your time banking everything on the precursor when you have everything else to stockpile.

In fact, it is a lot safer to get all your ectoplasm and T6 mats first.

If Anet indeed comes out with precursor crafting next week, then T6 mats will rise substantially because legendaries will now be easily attainable by everyone.

Vol.7601:

The datamined precursor entries were revealed 7 months ago. You can see them here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1qha6v/chat_codes_the_nightmares_within/

This was before they shelved the new legendaries/precursor crafting plans. There is no justification to expect anything substantial to come out in the patch next week.

Do not waste your time banking everything on the precursor when you have everything else to stockpile.

In fact, it is a lot safer to get all your ectoplasm and T6 mats first.

If Anet indeed comes out with precursor crafting next week, then T6 mats will rise substantially because legendaries will now be easily attainable by everyone.

Okay, thanks for your response. My thought process was to get the precursor first because T6 mats will still drop every so often no matter what from champ bags and heavy loot bags ect, even after the precursor, but I guess that doesn’t make much difference in the long run because I can just sell any extra that appear after the gift of fortune is done. I have like 320ish ecto now so I’m good on that.

And I didn’t know that those plans were shelved, so yeah. I only thought it was possible because of the journal updates that will happen next week, so I thought there could be a link between the two, but I didn’t know they were scrapped. Anyway thanks for the advice, I’ll get T6 first and save the precursor for last. Do you think it’ll be cheaper in a few weeks? I probably need only another 2 or 3 weeks to get the gold to finish everything, especially since I’m promoting/selling all the charged cores/lodes from the weapon I wanted originally.