blackberry pie is good pie
Íts all about offer and demand….
Sadly, the ingredients used in most crafted items sell for more then the finished product because resources are so scarce. Crafting in GW2 was not developed to be what most players love about crafting.
Sadly, the ingredients used in most crafted items sell for more then the finished product because resources are so scarce. Crafting in GW2 was not developed to be what most players love about crafting.
It has more to do with the player-driven economy than ANet’s design failure. The raw materials are in high demand, both to make the items for personal use and for leveling up the crafting. The finished products on the TP, however, are in much less demand and in enormous supply.
Combined, it means that the majority of foods are impossible to sell at profit. Eventually enough people will realize it is cheaper to buy the item off the TP than make it themselves and the demand for the finished good will rise while supply drops.
This will probably take a year or two is my guess, and honestly, that’s being optimistic.
Sadly, the ingredients used in most crafted items sell for more then the finished product because resources are so scarce. Crafting in GW2 was not developed to be what most players love about crafting.
Combined, it means that the majority of foods are impossible to sell at profit. Eventually enough people will realize it is cheaper to buy the item off the TP than make it themselves and the demand for the finished good will rise while supply drops.
This will probably take a year or two is my guess, and honestly, that’s being optimistic.
Obviously, this all comes down to;
- supply: how prevalent the nodes are in the game-world and
- demand: how many pies are eaten.
I think there is a 250-unit buffer where people aren’t selling the components they collect because when they hit “deposit all collectibles” all of them disappear from their bags. When people fill those 250-units, they will dump a lot more stuff on the TP (either the few in their bags in excess of the 250 or the 250 whole from their collection-banks to renew the buffer). When these components hit the market, the crafting cost will drop, but by the same logic so will the price of the finished product (due to competition).
A lot of (written) cooking leveling guides use blackberry pie. Because of that, people spam it out like nothing and since it can’t be sold to npcs for anything, they dump it on the trading post without regard to its value as far as the materials went.
I agree, Blackberry Pies are amazing. I use them as an extremely cheap substitute for omnomberry pie because its marginally less effective for a fifth to a tenth of the cost.
That’s excactly the reason why crafting is totaly worthless in GW2. You can buy the item on TP for much cheaper than it would actually cost you to craft it… Sad days…
Because at higher levels, people will be using high end food. I’d rather use Omnomnomberry Pies with better stats than that at lvl 80.
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Combined, it means that the majority of foods are impossible to sell at profit. Eventually enough people will realize it is cheaper to buy the item off the TP than make it themselves and the demand for the finished good will rise while supply drops.
Except, for the most part, and especially with food, lower-end items are made for leveling, not use. The great majority of those who make those blackberry pies, for example, are making it for the crafting experience. As long as there are sub-400 crafting characters, there will be an excess of nearly all the lower-end items, basically making them all vendor trash. Except food items, since you can’t even vendor those, so people will either dump them on the TP for the 1 or 2 copper they can manage to get from someone else, or just destroy it.
If they’re so good and being sold at such a low price, then buy them yourself.
These really under-priced items are a result of players using crafting guides that tell them all to make a ton of the same item. They can’t sell any because supply greatly outweighs demand.
I leveled two Chefs to 400 without any guide, and I use all of the resulting consumables, aside from a few that sold for over 1s each. If more players would craft like that, the food market wouldn’t be in the rut it is now.
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If more players would craft like that, the food market wouldn’t be in the rut it is now.
I don’t think you can blame guides for the lack of demand of certain items. Lots of things are in too few other recipes. Look at all the high end stuff – everything needs lodestones and/or ectoplasms. Why not spread the necessary ingredients around, let us use other things? Unless frustrating and unnecessary bottlenecks are all part of the grand plan, ofc.
Its kind of sad to see the chef food going so cheap. Doesn’t bother me though, I buy them for WvW and sell my mats instead of crafting the food myself.