Guild Wars 2

Maybe anet has animosity toward players, but it just seems like this wasn’t handled the best way. I’m talking about

Bloodstone Dust
Dragonite Ore
Empyreal Fragments

And the fact that, by now, no one has any inventory space for any of them. The way they work is quite simple: You need 100 of each of these materials to refine into one of their components.

The problem? You only have enough room for 250 in the bank before they start to clutter your inventory. And you get a lot of these materials. And you need a lot of these materials: 100 per refinement. 5 refinements per vision crystal.

So basically these three ingredients start clutter the inventory of all of your alts, so you have to cycle through all your alts to gather your ingredients together in order to start crafting. If you happen to be waiting for the market to stabilize before getting 500 in any crafting disciplines (coughmecough), then these just occupy inventory space and eat up bank space really quickly.

Would it have been too hard just to make it so refinements only required 10 dragonite ore, but only reward 3 or so from temples? 10 Bloodstone dust per brick, but only 1 or 2 per champion box? Right now, it feels like I’m being punished with shrinking bank space for not charging headlong into crafting (OW MY WALLET!).

I’m keeping my fingers crossed for that “collectibles to 500” gem store upgrade the data-miners dug up a month or so ago.