Guild Wars 2

Is there a reason Apothecary items need to be crafted by the ridiculously priced passion flowers?

The item doesn’t have better stats than other gear, and I get the price is probably driven up because it is used for infusions, so why can’t apothecary use ANOTHER crafting material? This simply just reduces the amount of stat combinations players can use to test new builds.

Passion flowers are so insanely priced because of two things:

1. The extremely low drop rate.
2. The extremely high numbers required to make things with them.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Passion flowers are so insanely priced because of two things:

1. The extremely low drop rate.
2. The extremely high numbers required to make things with them.

Yes I am aware of that, but it makes no sense why apothecary items need to be crafted using passion flowers….the stat isn’t better than other stat combinations (i.e. more stats)