Guild Wars 2

They sell for 33-ish silver on the TP yet they take 5 piles of crystalline dust + Master tuning crystal to make…
= 7 Piles of crystalline Dust!

to buy 7 Crystaline dust would cost around 1g40s (current paket price)

Someone making a huge loss selling the Potent Crystals?

It’s the same for all top tier consumables except food.

That’s because they are drops from dungeons as well.

The price of products take longer to adjust than the price of raw materials.

This always happens in the wholesale business; especially with gasoline and food.

Clarification: you make 5 of them with that recipe. Not one. Now do your calculations again.

Buttercup is right. you get 5 potions, not 1.
for a couple months I have been making these by the 1000’s for 20+% profit.
1,000 ecto = 1,800 Crystalline Dust
300 Crystalline Dust = 300 Master Tuning Crystal
300 Master Tuning Crystal + 1,500 Crystalline Dust = 1,500 Potent Master Tuning Crystal
a month ago, 1,000 ecto cost 170g and costs 6.14g to salvage into dust (176 total)
a month ago, 1,500 Potent Master Tuning Crystal would sell for 247g (210g after tax)
34g profit = 19.3%, and all 1,500 would sell within 2 hours.
with ectos going up so much in price, and crystals being delayed in the price increase, for the past week it has cost more to make these than how much you sell them for. :*( the same is true for the other potent consumables (they all give 5… I remember the wiki being wrong for one of them).

Looks like an exploit… O.o Or no? Money from air or from TP?

no exploit. people are just lazy and prefer to buy them than make them themselves. or they don’t have the recipe (it no longer drops, and getting it from the TP costs like 10g). I’m not going to make them if I don’t get more for selling them than they are worth – so is everyone else that makes them.