Guild Wars 2

IOW, 2 claws, 2 fangs, 2 vials of blood, etc. Not 1 claw and 1 fangs, etc. Mobs in the Guildwars universe only ever have one claw or fang, etc.?

I love to craft. But like many others I find it to be a pain in the neck because of the relative scarcity of the fine crafting ingredients needed for virtually everything. I’m often forced to stay in a zone I’ve totally completed and outleveled just so I can stay and farm the needed fine crafting ingredients in order to keep my crafting anywhere near my character’s level. Which then snowballs. I go into the next level already several levels above the zone minimum. But of course then I have to stay there longer than I want in order to accumulate ingredients for that level of crafting. So onto the next zone even more overleveled than the last and on and on.

Or perhaps there should be a vendor where you can trade one fine crafting ingredient for several of the lesser tier of that ingredient (make the stuff you get from these exchanges soulbound if you’re concerned people will do this with their old stuff then flood the market). And please don’t just say to use the TP. Laws of supply and demand will often make a lesser tier of a crafting ingredient (when you have less gold to spend at the TP) more expensive than a higher tier.

That is actually not a bad idea, what freaks me out is when they drop weapons and armor- I always feel O-O
where are the claws, hide and blood?
Apart from the fact that it is annoying from a crafter’s perspective it just makes no sense.

Yes I know you don’t want to hear it but just gather everything you come across in any zone, sell it and buy what you need, this has freed me immensely and I now love crafting.