Guild Wars 2

Mystic Forge recipes need to be introduced that allow folks with a surplus of one type of ascended crafting material to turn that into a type that they are lacking (with an appropriate loss ratio incorporated of course.)

Example: Don’t have enough Dragonite Ore?… but have more Bloodstone Dust and Empyreal Fragments than you know what to do with?… Combine the two you have along with some component(s) purchased (with skill points and/or coin) from Miyani and get a random, but smaller, quantity of the resource you’re lacking.

Some other relatively expensive components could be incorporated into these recipes as well such as Ecto, Crystalline Dust, Orichalcum, or others…

Something along this line is desperately needed to correct the imbalance of ascended crafting materials for a great many folks whose playstyle and/or playing times prevent them from accessing the content needed for acquiring certain materials.
Because ascended crafting materials are account bound, there is currently no feasible means by which players can address any imbalance in the 3 base materials. (Dragonite Ore, Bloodstone Dust, and Empyreal Fragments.)

yes please! The things I do in game doesn’t give me any dragonite ore whatsoever. Zerging temples in Orr and towers in WvW is not fun for me. I have thousands of bloodstone dust ad empyreal fragments and only about 29 dragonite ore. I was saving dragonite ore for last to craft my armor cause I dread having to join a zerg train going to temple to temple. I have so much of the other mats that it’s overtaking all of my storage! please let me convert them into dragonite ore.

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And we need a 100 more. This is a great suggestion, and we should let ourselves be heard. I’m always short on Crystalline Dust, that material hardly drops at all… yet you need it for a bazillion recipes. The number of recipes a material is used in, should be balanced by the availability of that material. And seeing as we are lacking a decent drop rate for this material, allow us to craft it with all those stacks of useless, unsellable ascended crafting materials.

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And we need a 100 more. This is a great suggestion, and we should let ourselves be heard. I’m always short on Crystalline Dust, that material hardly drops at all… yet you need it for a bazillion recipes. The number of recipes a material is used in, should be balanced by the availability of that material. And seeing as we are lacking a decent drop rate for this material, allow us to craft it with all those stacks of useless, unsellable ascended crafting materials.

While i agree that t6 dust doesnt seem to drop as much as other t6 mats, they adressed that with making ectos salvagable into dust.

The whole point of having three different Ascended materials is to force you to do multiple aspects of the game (whether you like it or not). I find it extremely unlikely for them to give you a way out considering “it’s working as intended.”

yeah it is a force players to do everything- I guess
For me it’s the Empyrial fragments. I delete dust and ore by the thousands but simply can’t get enough fragments.
You get around 15 for a full set of fractals and 2-4 from a jp little chest around the world. – and finally
20ish from a Dungeon. and lots it seems from WvW.

My usual daily process goes into killing World bosses and temples and pve world content like that- giving me plenty of dusts and ore.
But! I do also usually do a fractal set some jp’s and loot chests — just not enough from that pr. day.-
I guess I need to do wvw… tobad I’m on a low pop server- hence wvw does not really happen! and if it does we would be loosing not gaining anything.

That leaves me with doing some 4 dungeons on explorable – every bloody day- finding a group- doing the same paths (cause only some paths are done) again and again ad infinitum.. —- sigh