Guild Wars 2

What was the rationale behind allowing all players, regardless of chosen crafting skill, to collect all materials? I feel like it would have been a much smarter idea and formed a much more robust economy to limit it to one node type. it would have forced them to buy the materials they couldn’t collect on the trading post and dramatically increased the value of the excess mats they had.

secondly, bots: Please for the love of god do something about them! along with the “issue” mentioned above bots are the force driving all prices to either near vendor or to the cost of the materials necessary to make said item. sure, you could raise the value of any given item by decreasing the drop rate, but this doesn’t really solve the problem because the ratio of items collected by bots to items collected by players would remain the same. if you made an item rare enough to raise its value somewhat it would bankrupt new players when they needed to buy it and no longer had any chance of looting it somewhere in the world. If something isn’t done about the bots then eventually the amount of any given item on the trading post will increase to such a point that regardless of the supposed rarity it will become nearly worthless.