Guild Wars 2

Does Zomorro think I have years to keep getting the mats needed to try for clovers? Don’t know how many batches of ten of stuff I’ve blown and not one clover yet.

Faeyd.5094:

Does Zomorro think I have years to keep getting the mats needed to try for clovers? Don’t know how many batches of ten of stuff I’ve blown and not one clover yet.

Don’t do the 10 recipe if you are looking for a specific item.
You are minimizing your attempts and thus are ten times as likely to be subject to unwanted returns.

I have tried the 10-recipe several times in the hope of getting T6-mats.. all I get i clovers -.-
I wish I could sell them.

No way round it for legendaries right?

Faeyd.5094:

No way round it for legendaries right?

Just buy the legendary directly on the tp, no clovers involved.

Wanze.8410:

Faeyd.5094:

No way round it for legendaries right?

Just buy the legendary directly on the tp, no clovers involved.

Yes please!!! Spend about $400 dollars real world cash into gems, and convert to gold. It drops the exchange rate for gems, and everybody wins

Or you can go do sPvP for an assured drop (with the correct reward track)…

Though you’ll need to finish said tracks completely to get them, at least they’re assured.

Faeyd.5094:

Does Zomorro think I have years to keep getting the mats needed to try for clovers? Don’t know how many batches of ten of stuff I’ve blown and not one clover yet.

I wish I had your problem…. I smelted like 200 ectoes away into the mystic toilet trying to get Materials. I didn’t even CARE what kind I got. All I wanted was materials. Instead I ended up with like 90 clovers I’ll never use b/c I don’t ever plan to make a legendary … (atleast not until they make precursors buildable like Moa Chick was)

I also find it incredibly stupid that in the time it took me to save up that many ectos, I could now just work a minimum wage job and cash-shop the gold to buy a legendary if I wanted one. WTF happened to the exchange rate in this game? It shoulda capped at 5g. Anet doesn’t understand what a “fantasy economy” should look like and it’s really broken all immersion the game could have had.

1. the 10-clover recipe is good if you’re lucky; the 1-clover recipe will have less variance, so you’ll generally get closer to average on your way to 77 clovers
2. using clover forging to get T6 mats is horribly inefficient; you are far better off selling the ecto you’d use and buying what you need on the TP
3. The gold:gem exchange rate works both ways. A low rate is good for cheapskates like me who don’t want to spend cash. A high rate is better for people who don’t have much time to play, because they get more gold for their dollar/euro. A high rate also serves to discourage gold sellers, because the competition with legit gold is steeper.

When I was making my legendary I only did the 10 clover recipe 9 times to get them all. Although I now have three left over clovers since I wasn’t expecting clovers in the last shot