Guild Wars 2

Whatever happened to Crystalline Ore and Crystalline Ingots? They are part of the ascended materials, there is a spot for them in the material collections tab, yet they never made it in game, as far as I can tell.

I’m thinking they were supposed to be part of ascended jewelry, but for whatever reason, ascended jewelry crafting was not made available with the rest of ascended crafting. I am just curious as to whether or not we will see these materials ever enter into the game, along with new ascended recipes. Any one know whats going on with these items?

Probably as early as the next feature patch.

My guess is they are worried that adding the jeweler 500 would cause too much price increase in silver, gold, and platinum prices. T2-T5 leather and cloth were really low before ascended, then they space-rocketed. silver, gold, platinum are already nicely priced, so adding jeweler 500 would make them higher than they should be.
Personally, I bet everyone who would craft ascended trinkets already has ascended trinkets, so there wouldn’t be huge demand for the jeweler 500.
it would be nice if they went a different route: salvage ascended rings into crystalline ore.

Maybe it’s because they can’t think of anything that jeweler can really make, at least to the extent the armor and weapons can be made. A fair chunk of the population probably already has ascended trinkets or they plan to get them with laurels and save the cost of leveling to 500 then crafting the items.

I doubt that people that planned silk last moment “adjustments” to the damask recipe are worried about unbalancing anything.

Ye, ok, unbalancing.
But we’ve had those emply slots since when…may 2013?
I guess it’s time to have both cooking and jeweler at 500.

I’ve been thinking about it, and I am leaning more towards Astral Projections on this. They couldn’t think of anything to make. They already had all the trinkets available through fractals, so they don’t have much to more left for crafting. My guess was they wanted to phase in ascended, but were also wanted to have ascended as rewards for fractals, as an incentive to do them. I guess it kinda backfired for them, because now all our trinkets can be gotten through running fractals and as pointed out, there are MANY players who already have multiple full sets, and there really is no incentive to bring Jeweler to 500 for ascended trinkets. Plus it is FAR more profitable to farm fractals for relics, and a chance for a drop, then it would be to craft the trinkets you wanted.

The halloween auras for trinkets may have been an alpha test for some new Jeweler 500 stuff just like Mawdrey was an alpha test for a scavenger hunt type thing

Enko.6123:

The halloween auras for trinkets may have been an alpha test for some new Jeweler 500 stuff just like Mawdrey was an alpha test for a scavenger hunt type thing

That could be fun.

I’d actually be quite pleased if r500 Jeweler had some other ways to stand out, since as people have pointed out, given the crazy costs for Ascended crafting, it’s likely most players will just end up getting Ascended trinkets via the current methods rather than crafting their own.

There’s plenty of stuff to make with ascended jeweler. Ascended jewelry, infusions, even new stuff like ascended runes or sharpening stones. That would be something. The devs are only limited by their creativity. Hmmmm, well maybe we won’t see ascended jeweler any time soon.