Guild Wars 2

Globs of Ecto now up and over 37 silver each
Vial of Potent blood over 28 silver a pop.

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This game is becoming unplayable, want to farm for a level 80 armour set… you cant, nothing drops

Buy the materials on the TP instead?

30 Ectos (in tailoring at least)
30 Tier 6 (again tailoring)

That’s 20 gold before the other materials (which I admit can be discovered a little easier).

Game rolling down the no loot slide

That happens when you add a huge grind to the game which they did with the Lost Shore patch. If recipes require 10 times as much mats as they should those mats become incredibly expensive.

It’s interesting to see where the games goes if it stay this way. Crafting becomes even more unviable. Nobody will craft exotic weapons anymore, safe for the odd destroyer or corrupted weapon. People will have to primarily rely on dungeon tokens to get their gear.
Precursor supply will also go down because people will think twice before throwing potential ectos into the forge.

A full exotic set with just one weapon ist 60 ectos. Worst case is 4 weapons which would be 75 ectos at currently 38s. That is 28g50s.
Now add in some gossamer and ori + 50 T6 mats + 25 T6 orbs.
In case of blood and rubys we are at 50*28s = ~14g and 25*12s = ~3g.
96 gossamer for light armor is another 3.5g.
So with weapons we surpass the 50g mark.

That is a rediculous amount of money for a new player who just reached 80, and cannot afford magic find gear, as it requires those mats aswell.

I would rather have top-tier gear acquisition be gradual than have everyone reach level 80 and be able to buy everything they want with the money they picked up on the way. If it were like that, many players would stop playing after reaching level 80.

With increased rare drops from the recent patch, and new ways to acquire them (Fractals of the Mists and Southsun Cove), ectos and tier 6 materials are easier to get than ever. They’re simply more expensive on the trading post because of the new surge of people trying to craft legendary weapons (because of increased precursor supply), and the surge of people trying to craft ascended accessories.

DevonPaul.7495:

Globs of Ecto now up and over 37 silver each
Vial of Potent blood over 28 silver a pop.

……..

This game is becoming unplayable, want to farm for a level 80 armour set… you cant, nothing drops

Buy the materials on the TP instead?

30 Ectos (in tailoring at least)
30 Tier 6 (again tailoring)

That’s 20 gold before the other materials (which I admit can be discovered a little easier).

Game rolling down the no loot slide

Increase in prices of Globe of Ectoplasm waas intended, they already said that. In Guild Wars 1 they were the most expensive material and their price in Guild Wars 2 (15-25 silver) was just a joke. Bots made everything too cheap.

You guys were just used to cheap gold seller prices. Thats all.

All those prices you see now, are those which were intended from the release. And where they should be.

I would like to see a citation for that.

Anthile.8493:

I would like to see a citation for that.

Sec I will find it

HERE you go: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/76101-2012-11-26-reddit-ama-discussion-thread/

This is a reply from John Smith, ArenaNet’s economist:

We did expect the change in price of Ectos and it was intended. Bots had artificially suppressed the prices of many high end items making late game farming for legitimate players less effective than we wanted. With the fractal dungeon we introduce available ways to earn Ectos and other high end items for use or profit to keep the price from going up too fast.