Guild Wars 2

I’ve heard from a few people in game that it’s better to just buy the armor off of TP, but when I do the math it seems that it cost around 2.7-3 gold to craft a pair of zerker exotic heavy armor boots depending on current mat cost, but they cost around 3.3g for you to straight up buy them.

Maybe there is something I’m not accounting for? (not all that great at math)

I agree with the ‘better to just buy the armor off of TP’ … until you want rare or exotic

Based on the prices of all the mats for both crafting of the inscription needed and the other pieces you would be spending far more than simply buying them. Unless of course you want to take the time to go out of your way and farm all the mats you need, in which case it will be free

Turial.1293:

Based on the prices of all the mats for both crafting of the inscription needed and the other pieces you would be spending far more than simply buying them. Unless of course you want to take the time to go out of your way and farm all the mats you need, in which case it will be free

Kind of free. It costs time, and also means you aren’t getting any money from selling mats

It is always cheaper to craft them yourself.

If someone wants to make any profit by selling things they make they need to add 15% to their sale price.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/crafting/4?min_level=400&max_level=400

Edit: Just saw above post, ty.

This is why I was wondering if my math was off.

This is what I got when I added up the material cost. (just typed out simple stuff in notepad and copypasted)
(based on current TP prices)
Chest plate – 22s 4c

chest lining (spool) 64 copper each = 1s 92copper + gossamer(1) = 7s 65

Insig

ecto(5) = 1g 41s 95copper

gossamer(5) = 38s 25c

spool (20) = 12s 8c

Powerful blood (5) = 51s 5c

= 2 gold 76s 2c

If the ingredients costed 2g 76s 2c then the minimum selling price would have to be 3g 24s 72c for 0 profit. Adding just 15% would still result in a loss.

But then who is buying armor at that price? Time over money is always an issue, are you a player who farms and makes cash easily or do you play casually and let the mats come to you through exploration? By the time spent in an AC cash run you would prolly have 1-4g from the 3 runs taking a little over an hour, perhaps more if you are lucky. I make my point towards the thread title, it is far easier to just make the cash elsewhere and buy it if you are just looking for the armor fast rather than crafting it, and you could always save a little cash by buying the materials on TP and crafting it but it will still depend on how the market is when you buy the mats.

I made all my own armor and jewelery for my main, every piece, and I can tell you it was not worth it, ended up costing a pretty penny regardless. I much prefer to make my money from Orr or in dungeons, buy the armor I want on my alts and then I can just bring them anywhere I want instead of having to mess around with materials and the TP which saves me time which makes me more money as that time is used elsewhere. Time over money, which is more important?

I did my exotics from AC, I’d recommend doing the same. Afterwords, just from that I had enough gold from rewards to buy full MF exotics. 3 paths is about an hour. do 3 paths/ day (no dim rewards) get a piece. So ~6 days you have a full set. And plenty of time to run around doing other things during those 6 days.

Quiznos.4296:

I did my exotics from AC, I’d recommend doing the same. Afterwords, just from that I had enough gold from rewards to buy full MF exotics. 3 paths is about an hour. do 3 paths/ day (no dim rewards) get a piece. So ~6 days you have a full set. And plenty of time to run around doing other things during those 6 days.

That is assuming the AC armor has the stat combinations that you want. Doing all 3 paths in some other dungeon could take significantly longer. On the other hand I don’t thing full exotics is a necessity.

Khisanth.2948:

Quiznos.4296:

I did my exotics from AC, I’d recommend doing the same. Afterwords, just from that I had enough gold from rewards to buy full MF exotics. 3 paths is about an hour. do 3 paths/ day (no dim rewards) get a piece. So ~6 days you have a full set. And plenty of time to run around doing other things during those 6 days.

That is assuming the AC armor has the stat combinations that you want. Doing all 3 paths in some other dungeon could take significantly longer. On the other hand I don’t thing full exotics is a necessity.

But for a three path run of dungeons (or equivalent rewards worth of repeats in some dungeon's cases) it still won't take nay more than 2 hrs. For me, a guardian, AC was everything I wanted down to the rune. Also, keep in mind that dungeons have 3 dif stat sets each.

Well let’s try not to get into stats but yeah if you want specific stats then yes you will need to farm the dungeon that has what you want. Assuming the stats needed come from Arah well then buying them off the TP is a far better option than both crafting and dungeoning unless of course you wanted the looks but that is a different kettle of fish.

If you just mean any exotics then yeah AC set will most likely do you and chances are that is where you would be farming your gold anyway.