Guild Wars 2

I have 8 characters and about 14 level 400 crafts (did some a few times). But thing is, I have absolutely no use for sub-T6 materials. T5 materials aren’t so bad, you can always promote them, but its usually better to sell them. But it seems this game has no use for mats below this after a short period of time. Are these mats going to become completely useless and unsellable in the future?

No because there will always be new people and alts in this game. They are great for getting to 80 fast so they will never be worthless to the game as a whole.

If you have all the alts you need at level 80. The only real thing to do is hold them until bots get banned again. Then dump.

You’ll notice that T4 and I believe T3 items sell more than T5. This is because not as many people mid-level zones anymore. Ironically crafting has become more popular for leveling than exploring but still needs these same mats. That’s my theory as to why the prices for them are higher.

In my opinion, you should sell them on the trading post or hang onto them for easy crafting dailies and monthlies.

Its because If you “craft” your toon to lvl 80 and use lvl 80 MF Gear + lvl 80 MF+40%Money food, your returns are way higher on exploring than if you do it from lvl 2 on.

sostronk.8167:

I have 8 characters and about 14 level 400 crafts (did some a few times). But thing is, I have absolutely no use for sub-T6 materials. T5 materials aren’t so bad, you can always promote them, but its usually better to sell them. But it seems this game has no use for mats below this after a short period of time. Are these mats going to become completely useless and unsellable in the future?

t5 will never be useless.

T5 is used to make lvl 80 rares, which can be salvaged or put in the forge.

Crossplay.2067:

You’ll notice that T4 and I believe T3 items sell more than T5. This is because not as many people mid-level zones anymore.

I don’t know if it’s necessarily due to the progression of folks through the game now that it’s been out a while.

I’ve always had problems with T3 materials, and I generally collect my own for my crafting instead of buying them. There’s something about the progression from just normally playing the game that causes my characters to spend a lot of time in T1/T2 and in T5/T6, and not much time in the T3/T4 areas.

I’m not able to put my finger on it, but I think it’s related to the level scaling making the T2 areas viable long enough to get you to the point where you’re over-levelled by the time you’re ready to start the T3/T4 areas (assuming you’re an obsessive map completionist like me – I hate leaving them undone). It seems like you can’t get to T3 by doing one T1 followed by one T2 area, but if you do more than one T2 area, it pushes you past T3. And then the dungeons open up, and you blow right past T4.

The good news though is that it makes the T3 mats worth something if you need to pick up a little extra cash. And the level scaling allows you to still get some karma, money, and skill points while you’re gathering even if you’re level 80.

I doubt the game will ever be completely stagnant to the point where nothing thats not directly useful at level 80 will sell at all. It might slow down, but not stop completely.

And even if it somehow did, they wouldn’t be completely useless. At the very least the T2, T3, T4, and T5 mats would still be useful for making the uniquely skinned rare weapons (Bandit, Dredge, Ogre, Krait) which some level 80 players would still want to transmute for appearence, and to some degree the Rare crafted armor as well.