Guild Wars 2

This has more to do with the economy than crafting so I posted it here.

In the last couple of updates, the crafting recipes have used huge numbers of mats. I am guessing they are trying to make certain items worth more (like mushrooms, which are still worthless). Although there are other items, like rosemary and dill, which were one of the better priced ingredients and the new recipes caused them to skyrocket.

Considering the insane prices to make these foods, compared to their older equivalents, what is even the point to adding them?

I would like to see new recipes added that don’t use 25-50 stacks of 1 ingredient for 1 piece of food. And using ingredients that have been not even worth gathering (as the cost of the sickle use & TP fee outweigh the return). See lettuce or leeks for example.

I’m not sure what the intention was with the Flame & frost recipes, but they didn’t work. Mushroom is still low. The dragoncake one shows that they’re still trying these overly-expensive recipes. Please try putting 25 pieces of saffron thread on any piece of cake and tell me how it tastes.

Removing excess materials so there will be less of said item driving prices up. Whether this is good or not is subjective but making an item more expensive just for the sake of making it more expensive is rather silly.

Have you even seen the boosts that the Dragon’s Revelry Starcakes give? Come back after you’ve looked at one, then see if you can complain about the ingredient requirements being too high.

I saw the boosts before posting this.

The new recipes aren’t being used much, and seem like an attempted quick fix.

The only way prices will even out is if the recipes are still reasonably priced. It’ll take longer, but it’s better than putting work into something that 99% of players won’t bother with.