Guild Wars 2

I understand that Cooking wasn’t as epic as the Chef trainer warned us about before we picked up the profession. I understand that we need to scour the world for ingredients to craft hundreds of different dishes.

But Black Peppercorn off the vendor? It makes no sense for such a low-level item.

If you were not aware, Black Peppercorn is used with Packet of Salt to create, you guessed it, Pile of Salt and Pepper. A level 0 recipe. Used with two more level 0 recipes (and, granted, several higher level recipes as well). But currently, Black Peppercorn is selling for 28c each. It can otherwise only be found randomly from Herb Bushes (sometimes you get Garlic), which is itself a random gathering node (Onions/Carrots/etc could show up there instead).

Some bottlenecks simply don’t make sense. Salt is in infinite supply, butter is in every bag, but pepper? Almost worth its weight in gold.

P.S. Vanilla Beans are also ridiculous, but whatever.

Where da oranges at? BRING EM OUT, BRING EM OUT! Seriously though, can you please bring um out Arena net, im crying. :/

People were using karma goods for good experience and karma>gold conversion. I don’t mind so much having to forage for most goods, but salt and pepper is used in quite a bit of recipes. Maybe they could put it back as karma and make the sell price low. The experience aspect is pretty limited being a level 0 recipe.

Pebber has been removed from vendors and added to the herbing loot table, afaik.

Yeah, as usual, people who didn’t rush on day 1 and exploit get the shaft because of knee-jerk corrections.