Guild Wars 2

Greetings,
I’m looking for a medium term (maybe 3 month) investment and think about the precursor for the torch legendary Rodgort. My thoughts:

- In my view Rodgort is a super nice legendary. I even consider building the legendary
- I’ve never seen Rodgort ingame but I can imagine that people who build their first legendary (mostly a two handed) are going for nice one handed legendaries next
- Rodgort precursor is one of the last (non underwater) precursor you can buy for about 100 gold. Other one handed precursors are already near the price of two handed precursors (e.g. axe precursor is 425 gold)
- There are only 14 Rodgort precursors listed at tp. I think most of them come from random drops. Throwing torches into mf would be silly, because the greatsword gamble is much more profitable. Thus supply is very limited

I think there is a huge potential for increased prices. But of course there are risks too. The prices could stay the same or even drop if Anet patches the precursor mechanics.
What do you think? Any suggestions? Thank in advance

I suggest you go for Storm instead. It’s only 50g more and the Meteorologicus skin right now looks OK. If they make any further changes it’s value will skyrocket.

Before the March patch we saw the buy orders go up to 200g (and the sell orders were 250-280). So right now we know the price is underpriced since there are buyers willing to pay more.

And unlike the torch precursor, many classes can actually use the sceptre (guards, eles and necros all use it reasonably)

disclaimer: I have two Storms in my bank and looking to buy a 3rd. April patch is soon and the price will go up shortly.

Thx Vol, I’ll consider your suggestion. At the moment the price of the sceptre precursor is just above my planed investement. Are there any states that Anet plans to change the Meteorologicus skin?

Arenanet hasn’t said anything about changing those skins, and if they did, the precursor wouldn’t be so cheap. But I think it’s obvious that they are going to upgrade these legendaries considering they did the other half back in February. I have a good feeling we’ll get it done before September.

I have the Torch legendary. You can hit me whenever if you want to see it ingame.

I think that if you are going to wait three months, then its a terible investment – if they haven’t made some announcements about progress on the precursor scavenget hunt in another 3 months they’re going to have not-at-all virtual torches and tridents surrounding their offices in the hands of an angry mob… and once there IS word of a precurrsor scavener hunter tangibly inbound, the market for them is going to implode.

@Nike: Of course I think about scavenger hunt. But I doupt we’ll have any news soon. We’ll see… And who knows if the effort will be less than farming (cof, orr, dragons, …) some 100 gold? Of course it remains a risky investment…