Guild Wars 2

Do you think putrid essence will every be worth anything? It’s a T5 rare mat, and yet its going for 50~60c, making it the blacksheep of rare mats. Compare that too all other T5 rare materials, lodestones, that go from 40s to 3.7g. Of course its because they’re used to make gifts or awesome looking weapons while essence is only good for runes. The question is, do you think there’s a good chance it will be used for a good recipe or semi uber weapon like the other t5 mats in the future?

I’m asking because I’m looking for a risky long term investment, and this is a rare yet cheap (near useless) material, and because I’m just curious about the future of this odd material.

I have 40g worth of putrid I’ve been holding for a few months now. I bought a ton when it was near vendor price.

It’s pretty much the safest investment you can make with a huge reward.

As you said again, it’s a t5 mat (or t6 perhaps?), and it’s rare quality. So if there suddenly were a huge demand for such an item, the demand rate would far outpace the supply rate.

Why do I think it’ll increase in value? Arenanet has shown that they are willing to make new recipes to adjust for supply. Remember back in release where we had an overabundance of some materials, like chocolate and butter? The same could happen, especially since piles is useless at the moment.

It is useful, you can make superior rune of the undead with it

Look what you did!

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/24335

It always kind of amazes me how little threads like this can effect the market.

I am inclined to believe this material will be useful for something eventually. As Vol pointd out Anet seems inclined to ‘manipulate’ the market by introducing/modifying recipes. It wouldn’t surprise me too much to see these used for future ascended gear in increments of 50-250. Of course if that happens these would shoot up to 50+ silver each pretty quick. Then again it might never happen and they just sit at under a silver forever.