Guild Wars 2

Over the past year or so, my crafters have accumulated recipes for materials that are no longer produced in game. Others who enjoy crafting may be in the same boat. Quartz crystals, watchwork sprockets, pristine toxic spores).

I’d like to suggest to the powers that be, that crafting of these items shouldn’t stop due to lack of raw material. A method of finding new material should exist. At the moment, of the various items, the only thing that spawns is pristine toxic spores, and that rarely during events. We used to get several pristine toxic spores for an event, now we seem to get a maximum of one.

As often we require 25 to 250 of these items to make useful stuff, could someone in the game design department please assure us these won’t become orphaned recipes.

I’d suggest these materials be added to the node generator available for purchase with gems. That the price be cut to 400 gems, so people could buy it in game with the 5,000 achievement reward if they didn’t want to pay cash. The spawn rate should be no less than 25 per day, with a chance to get 75-100 for each type. This would assure crafting of year one items could continue perpetually without requiring older instances to be restarted.

The above is a request for action by development staff. The following is a suggestion, not a request. If possible, my suggestion would be that higher level nodes also spawn, not just for metals, but for wood. A single daily set of each node type would be helpful to any casual player.

The pristine toxic spores can till be gathered from seedlings in a large number of maps, not just available from events. Check http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Toxic_Seedling for a list of maps and specific areas within the maps. I know I’ve seen them in Kessex Hills and harvested them.

I believe you can still get quartz, sprockets, and spores. I still get sprockets and quartz regularly. I have the nodes in my home instance, and the watchwork pick which generates sprockets. While you may not have the nodes, or the gathering tools, you can still buy them on the TP as people are still producing them. Sprockets are actualy going up in price because of the limited source of supply, as are the others, but it’s still trickling in.

u can still buy them, they are not in short supply,