Guild Wars 2

Some of the powerful potions needs new recipes cause the current ones are too expensive. Almost all of them requires one tier 6 fine material or even two to make(excluding the tier 6 dust you need for all of them). These recipes award 10 potions upon crafting.

As you may know, you can buy one of the dungeon related potions for 1 dungeon token each. The cheapest dungeon potion is the dredge potion which costs about 18s to make. So 10/1 tokens = 18s/1.8s? This sounds reasonable. The price on the TP for 1 of these is 55s right now, which is a little low, but it’s probably that low because there is a chance of getting potions from chests. However, when you look at the flame legion potion, where it costs 55s to make 10 and you can buy 1 from TP for 1.40s only?! What is up with that? And don’t blame it on the CoF speed runs, as it was even cheaper before that. These potions should never cost more than one tier 6 material + dust and some cheap stuff.

Btw, I don’t even wanna talk about the Ice brood and Destroyer potions…….cause they require a rare crafting material!? They can be bought for 3.5s and 3s on TP while you can make 10 for about 2g? What is up with that? The lower tier recipes also require a lower tier of the rare material, which isn’t cheap either. Please do something about this.

Another thing is regarding the extended potions.
They should really have a 5% extra damage (15%) along with the 2 hour duration.
This shouldn’t really be a problem, TP wise, as they are account bound and for the whooping 400 token price, I think it’s quite fair.

Crafting in GW2 has never been particularly profitable, and it’s slowly being relegated to the role of money sink, same as in WoW.

Jewelcrafting, for example, is now almost completely useless, since ascended jewellery has better stats than crafted jewellery and doesn’t even have gem slots (so jewelcrafters can’t even make money by selling the gems).

It’s as if there’s no communication between the designers of the crafting system, the ones designing dungeon vendors, and the ones actually testing the game.

Yeah I have to agree with the Accountant.

Sure it would be great to see changes to the current crafting system and fine-tuning of existing recipes but I don’t see it happening.

Crafting in this game was really mostly a copy + paste from existing MMOs instead of being a system that actually suited the game.

The fact that they let your character max all crafts hurt this game a lot. No need to specialize means you have everyone being able to craft for themselves. Why buy what you can make?

SteepledHat.1345:

The fact that they let your character max all crafts hurt this game a lot. No need to specialize means you have everyone being able to craft for themselves.

Every game that allows players to have multiple characters effectively lets everyone have all crafts. The only difference is whether you need to log out and back in with a different character or not. GW2 is no different, it just gives you the option of having all your crafts on the same character and paying a fee to change your “active” crafts instead of logging into an alt.

The problem isn’t characters with multiple crafts, it’s the fact that identical items can be obtained from other (cheaper) sources.

SteepledHat.1345:

Why buy what you can make?

Why do people eat at restaurants? Why do people hire cleaners? Because it saves time. Doing something yourself (in GW2 as in real life) is nearly always cheaper if you value your time at zero. But most people don’t.

The real question is why buy something from another player (or even why bother to make it yourself) when you can get it (much cheaper) from dungeon vendors. And that is what the OP was talking about.