Guild Wars 2

There’s no point in crafting Tier 5 (mithril) jewels. :-(

Because you need to add a Glob of Ectoplasm per jewel, the items you make with them come out really expensive. At the same time, dropped/looted jewels and trinkets are sold for such low prices.

Result: Jewelers have no reason to craft mithril items both for the Trading Post (because we’ll have to sell them at a loss just to compete) and for themselves (because we’re better off just buying the cheap stuff).

I would like to suggest that Globs of Ectoplasm be removed from the recipes for tier 5 jewels. It’s really just that which makes it expensive. Doing so will allow prices of crafted tier 5 trinkets to drop and match those of looted trinkets of the same quality and level. Jewelers can more actively engage in trade.

I do admit that one side effect is that Globs of Ectoplasm become more plentiful as well, lowering their value.

Fellow players: What do you think? ANet: Please consider my suggestion.

Thank you.

Well you’re right about one thing. No point in crafting those Rare T5 rings and what not. So do what others have done before and Skip those and go straight to Exotics OR Ascended.
Besides if Anet Removed Ectos from the crafting table then anyone would be able to salvage those jewels for ecto thus creating a loophole. sorta.

Ecto is a T6 right? it shouldn’t be in a T5 recipe or salvage table in the first place, but my character likes the fact that they are so we’re at an impasse

Torqueblue basically has it. Because it’s easier to craft Jewelry than it is to craft other items (which are gated by Fine crafting materials), ANet needed to put in the Ecto requirement to prevent people from creating an infinite loop of salvaging high level Rare Jewelry for Ecto.

I understand the danger of making globs of ectos too accessible via too easily crafted T5 trinkets, but guarding against this by making an entire high-end tier of a crafting discipline worthless is equally ridiculous. :-(

Compare this to the crafting of armor and weapons- you can’t craft them cheaply enough just to break them down into ectos yet they remain something worth making. There’s a good market for them.

I don’t mind if the globs of ectoplasm were replaced by another material instead of just removed or if the recipes were modified to balance them out- but having Jewelers put ectos into them while providing easy to acquire and cheap loot alternatives is as good as not putting any 5th tier for Jewelcrafting in the game.

Rare jewelry’s price will come crashing down faster than the Age of Men if this happens.

having run into this issue lvling JC last night I kind of felt the same way. Until I looked at it from a different perspective regarding salvage then I realized that just changing it wont really fix anything. On the note of leveling. just buy the jewel off the TP and make the item. I was able to hit 400 and make a good 80s doing it that way for those last 10 levels.