Guild Wars 2

Why is it that all discoveries for exotic crafting require 5 ectoplasm in order to get your crafting to 500?!

This is rediculous. Not every player, especially one like me who’s fairly new, has thousands of gold spare to get the required materials.

And farming does not work, because it’s not benficial to do so. The sheer amount of time required for the tiny that you reap in return completely takes any ‘fun’ out the game.

Because 500 crafting is supposed to be an expensive achievement?

Not every player is going to get 500.

I suggest you readjust your expectations since it’s fairly obvious you are not the type of player that lvl 500 crafting is tailored towards.

If you think lvl 500 is expensive due to a measley 5 ectos per discover, then I truly must wonder your reaction when you have to craft an ascended backpiece.

And obviously you do not know how farming works, otherwise you would know that it works and is the best gold generator in the game aside from TP. Heck, you don’t even have to farm to get 5 ectos. At a minimum you should be doing metaevents at reset for the guaranteed rare.

Ectos are probably the easiest item to farm outside of node materials. You have guaranteed drops of rare items from some meta events along with the boss chests that have high rare drop rates.

Just add a daily circuit of boss events to your routine and you’ll be rolling in ectos.