why do we have to wait days to charge quartz?

why do we have to wait days to charge quartz?

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Posted by: Powerbeard.5406

Powerbeard.5406

Q:

why do we have to wait days to charge quartz?

it’s pretty frustrating that not much is really separating me from a set of celestial gear other than a month of waiting.

why do we have to wait days to charge quartz?

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Posted by: nekretaal.6485

nekretaal.6485

Because they dumped millions and millions of quartz all at once during a festival.

If you old charge quartz easily, with crafting, then many people would have crafted tons of exotic weapons with them. At 24 copper each, quartz is by far the cheapest T6 mat.

This would have tanked the markets for t6 mats, exotic weapons, and precursors.

And the cheap quartz would have been burned quickly too, making it very expensive to craft celestial after a few months.

The way it is now, only people who want celestial craft celestial, so celestial is obtainable and the markets for everything else aren’t affected.

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Posted by: Powerbeard.5406

Powerbeard.5406

i can kinda see why they had that when celestial gear first came out. however, celestial gear seems pretty niche… and in addition to that, you can’t even sell any of the things you can craft with charged quartz other than grow lamps, so how could it possibly tank the market for t6 stuff any more?

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Posted by: Mystic.5934

Mystic.5934

Do you remember that bug people complained about where they would get charged quartz crystals instead of regular quartz crystals from the giant wintersday gifts?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Giant_Wintersday_Gift
then they patched it the next day:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-December-10-2013/first#post3357971
good times.
now I wish I knew about it before they patched it. a guildie of mine got like 300 charged quartz from it. not that he made celestial items; he just happened to open a lot of gifts and was annoyed he couldn’t sell the charged quartz.

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Posted by: Ashandar.2570

Ashandar.2570

I usually get one charged per day from the home instance node so I don’t bother with charging.

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Posted by: cranked.3812

cranked.3812

Because they dumped millions and millions of quartz all at once during a festival.

If you old charge quartz easily, with crafting, then many people would have crafted tons of exotic weapons with them. At 24 copper each, quartz is by far the cheapest T6 mat.

This would have tanked the markets for t6 mats, exotic weapons, and precursors.

And the cheap quartz would have been burned quickly too, making it very expensive to craft celestial after a few months.

The way it is now, only people who want celestial craft celestial, so celestial is obtainable and the markets for everything else aren’t affected.

This isn’t 2013 anymore, so stop using that tired excuse to defend the time gating on quartz. Take away the time gating and get rid of the account bound status of charged quartz so it can be sold. If the market is the super-most-awesomest-market-ever-created like all the people around here claim it to be, it will spike and settle in a couple days. Problem solved. Your welcome anet.

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Posted by: Esplen.3940

Esplen.3940

I usually get one charged per day from the home instance node so I don’t bother with charging.

Best possible loots from the Node are (in one strike):
1 Quartz Crystal
5 Quartz Crystal
1 Charged Quartz Crystal
Watchwork Sprockets (if using Watchwork Mining Pick)

And yes, you can loot all 4 in one strike.

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Posted by: Lord Kuru.3685

Lord Kuru.3685

Lack of content means they have to time gate you to keep you in the game.