Guild Wars 2

Could you possibly add a new “Foxfire Logging Axe” into the gem store similar to the watchwork mining pick. I think this would be a great additional option and really would boost sales. It would make acquiring the foxfire we need a lot easier as well.

Wooo buy to win.

Walks into the sunset, the sunlight reflecting off tin hat

Ohh. And a sickle with a chance to… get toxic spore samples?

But I still say we need an azurite mining pick.

I don’t mind these kinds of tools. I just think they should be more expensive than the others so it doesn’t feel like… idk, a waste? To have bought the others.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Ohh. And a sickle with a chance to… get toxic spore samples?

But I still say we need an azurite mining pick.

I don’t mind these kinds of tools. I just think they should be more expensive than the others so it doesn’t feel like… idk, a waste? To have bought the others.

no.
the others should be “upgraded” to drop something.

Taygus.4571:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Ohh. And a sickle with a chance to… get toxic spore samples?

But I still say we need an azurite mining pick.

I don’t mind these kinds of tools. I just think they should be more expensive than the others so it doesn’t feel like… idk, a waste? To have bought the others.

no.
the others should be “upgraded” to drop something.

shrug

I always found it odd that after the watchwork mining pick, they didn’t come out with an infinite harvesting sickle that gives a chance at toxic spore samples – it made sense in a way to continue along that line.

I think foxfire clusters as extras would be way over the top. They’re like a guaranteed 60+ silver each. If there’s any extras to be gained, it should be in the price range of 1-4s. And in my opinion, Anet should have given us the option to swap our old infinite versions for newer ones (that have always cost the same, but now have additional benefits). I still have a bone pick and molten alliance mining pick before I bought the watchwork mining pick, and feel like I got the short straw because those other 2 don’t have the extra benefit of giving me extras, and therefore I don’t use those anymore, and it’s just a hassle having to put the watchwork mining pick in the bank and then hop over to other alts to use it.

The forum blow back from the watchwork pick seems to have halted any plans to add other mats on specific gathering tools.

And they still haven’t addressed it.

Esplen.3940:

And they still haven’t addressed it.

They haven’t addressed what? They re-released the Watchwork Mining Pick without any technical changes; I think that’s reasonable evidence that they don’t think it’s a problem that only one of the nine everlasting tools offers bonus materials and, more interestingly, that that material is in high enough demand to make a significant difference in number-of-uses until breaking even on the costs. (Most people still won’t break even any time soon, but anyone who bought one will earn back the costs much much faster than with any of the other e/l tools.)

Esplen.3940:

And they still haven’t addressed it.

They did, by not releasing anymore.

Neutering the pick would force an equally large blow back of players wanting gem refunds and can result in a massive spike in watchwork sprocket prices. I mine 3-4x the sprockets from 2 hours of play than I get from my sprocket node, all which I sell. Sprocket supply massively decreased since the introduction of blade back items and by cutting supply back 75-80%, getting them solely from personal sprocket nodes or random drops, I could see the price shoot over 10s easily if not much much higher. So that’s not going to happen.

We got their response.

Behellagh.1468:

Esplen.3940:

And they still haven’t addressed it.

They did, by not releasing anymore.

Neutering the pick would force an equally large blow back of players wanting gem refunds and can result in a massive spike in watchwork sprocket prices. I mine 3-4x the sprockets from 2 hours of play than I get from my sprocket node, all which I sell. Sprocket supply massively decreased since the introduction of blade back items and by cutting supply back 75-80%, getting them solely from personal sprocket nodes or random drops, I could see the price shoot over 10s easily if not much much higher. So that’s not going to happen.

We got their response.

Agreed I wrote about how they didn’t change the WMP (or provide a new, widespread source of sprockets), while Behellagh focused on how the subsequent tools didn’t share the “bonus” feature with the WMP.

We shouldn’t dismiss the above evidence as “no response,” even though they didn’t come with a signed statement by an ANet employee.