Guild Wars 2

self disclosure: I have already made 5 stacks of inscriptions pre-patch

If you looked at the prices of t5 mats lately, they have dropped considerably in price to almost half what it was pre-patch. What this does is it makes rare inscriptions cheaper to craft.

Well why do you want to make rare inscriptions?

Mystic forge gambling of course!

Well why do you want to gamble?

New legendaries of course!

We know new legendaries (especially weapons) will come out over the next several months. Now just imagine if they released a set of new legendaries next week. That means new precursors.

Now we’ve had almost a year of GW2 and a lot of gold has been generated in this economy. I find it safe to assume that if there is a very popular new legendary, that precursor will have huge value simply because there is a lot of disposable income to go around. Some people who are very wealthy (like me) aren’t hoarding gold for current legendaries. We’re holding out for new ones, and we have a lot to spend. I could definitely see a new precursor eclipsing 800-900g.

There simply aren’t enough farmable mobs out there (in terms of high kill/hour) to have a good chance at a precursor. So it’s safe to say there will be very limited supply. People will then flock to the forge to gamble for it.

This is where the inscriptions come in. If you’re like me, you took advantage of cheap prices of inscriptions/t5 before the new legendaries get released. And now you are prepared to get a headstart on the forge to start gambling.

This of course ignores the fact that you will be able to craft pre-cursors with the introduction of the new legendaires. This will have some unknown effect.

It might be more cost effective to craft it once that is introduced. But if you are just looking to make money then the biggest winners (and losers) will always be found from gambling.

dont’ make inscription. Just stock in t5. But wait for it to hit rock button first.

When the rock button is I dont’ know. There is still a month for the event. If you bought the material now, instead of week down the line, you might regret you can pay better price.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

This of course ignores the fact that you will be able to craft pre-cursors with the introduction of the new legendaires. This will have some unknown effect.

It might be more cost effective to craft it once that is introduced. But if you are just looking to make money then the biggest winners (and losers) will always be found from gambling.

I’m confident that even with the crafting of precursors, or the scavenger hunt, the system will be designed so that players will still considering gambling/buying on tp as an alternative.

To make one alternative more expensive than another would disrupt the market for precursors

laokoko.7403:

dont’ make inscription. Just stock in t5. But wait for it to hit rock button first.

When the rock button is I dont’ know. There is still a month for the event. If you bought the material now, instead of week down the line, you might regret you can pay better price.

The reason why I mentioned inscriptions was just to save on bank space – one stack of inscriptions equals to 15 stacks of t5 materials, and doesn’t include the space occupied by mithril ores/ingots.

Interesting observation, I think that T5 must have dropped about 25% across the board since they dumped truckloads of mystic forge stones onto the public via AP rewards and people only need 3 weapons to scratch their lotto ticket instead of 4. What are your theories as to why its happening?

No, those have absolutely no relation. They’re dropping because of champ rewards + farming in DR.

I won’t make inscription just because I dont’ felt it is safe. Then again, I don’t have problem with bank space.

You never know what’s Anet going to do, the next legendary might be a trinket, and you might have precursor hunt for all item so you dont’ need to worry about precursor.

With this in mind, I really wish Anet would allow the TP to take in orders with 4 digits, meaning up to 9,999. That would save so much time when placing Buy Orders in bulk.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

With this in mind, I really wish Anet would allow the TP to take in orders with 4 digits, meaning up to 9,999. That would save so much time when placing Buy Orders in bulk.

If you want to buy inn bulk, 250 is currently the limit.
However, if you click the Place Order Button very quick a couple of times, you can actually place multiple stack orders before the price switches back to default and the amount to 1.

With this method, you can easily buy 8-10 stacks at once.

I am not sure, if that works also when you want to buy directly instead of placing orders because the price of each stack will increase but it definately works when placing a buy order.

Vol.5241:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

This of course ignores the fact that you will be able to craft pre-cursors with the introduction of the new legendaires. This will have some unknown effect.

It might be more cost effective to craft it once that is introduced. But if you are just looking to make money then the biggest winners (and losers) will always be found from gambling.

I’m confident that even with the crafting of precursors, or the scavenger hunt, the system will be designed so that players will still considering gambling/buying on tp as an alternative.

To make one alternative more expensive than another would disrupt the market for precursors

Given recent development, probably time gated to require 6+ months per precursor …

Khisanth.2948:

Given recent development, probably time gated to require 6+ months per precursor …

Minimum 150 laurels for sure and a 100g gold sink somewhere in there.

T5’s ehh?
I think most of us had already been doing this back during South Sun… Right?

If you were anything like me, your “Reserves” didn’t run out until about a week ago.

Brutal Arts.6307:

Khisanth.2948:

Given recent development, probably time gated to require 6+ months per precursor …

Minimum 150 laurels for sure and a 100g gold sink somewhere in there.

Well i hope so cause i have that. In all seriousness i hope it is not a terrible time-gated activity, but knowing how recent things have been unlocked i’m sure it will be.