Guild Wars 2

The new “revelry starcake food” is OK food for general purpose but 1 problem is already now appearing;

Saffron! – This is one of the ingredients you need, and you need 50 to make just 2 cakes.
It already increased 15-20 times its original value making the starcake very expensive to make.

Saffron is only farmed in Malchors and Cursed, so very little supply is available.

This new food is nice.. However paying 50s++ per 30 minutes on it? Not so much.

I hope we will get better sources of saffron or else this food will stay too high in price to have any value.

People weren’t farming saffron because it had very few uses. Now that it does, people will start getting it along with their Omnoms and whatnot.

The recipe was only just added. let the market settle down.

Also available in EBG, in addition to Malchor’s and Cursed Shore.

The recipe also need 40 zhaitaffy, crystalline dust and cakes. So this food will never be able to “settle much lower with farmers going for saffron”

Keep in mind… I’m not complaining hugely about it. I wont use the food myself as I do mostly PVP, but I do feel bad for the peps that rly want to use it but cant afford 20-40 silver+ for every 30 minutes.

If they lowered it to fx 20 zhaitaffy and 10 saffron per time instead of 50/50 that would make it more balanced IMO, still expensive… but more realistic price.

How do you get this anyways?

you can get it by buying the rich dragon coffers from the TP. It was (my guess) forgotten in the RNG list for those coffees and didn’t drop. Arenanet was so nice to send it to anyone who had bought the coffers to make up for their mistake,

I do agree that less (10-20) saffron would have been enough… it’s a nice buff but since most ppl frown upon celestial for a lot of reasons (not max dmg capable, a jack of al trades but master of none etc.) it’s overpriced.

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The recipe also need 40 zhaitaffy, crystalline dust and cakes. So this food will never be able to “settle much lower with farmers going for saffron”

Keep in mind… I’m not complaining hugely about it. I wont use the food myself as I do mostly PVP, but I do feel bad for the peps that rly want to use it but cant afford 20-40 silver+ for every 30 minutes.

If they lowered it to fx 20 zhaitaffy and 10 saffron per time instead of 50/50 that would make it more balanced IMO, still expensive… but more realistic price.

There is so much candy in the economy right now, and it’s so easy to get for yourself that it’s not a limiting factor. Also the fact that crystalline dust is now obtained by salvaging ectos means the price per pile is steadily (slowly) dropping.

Granted, over the course of the year, candy prices will raise. But then Dragon Bash will be around for another month to replenish the market. And, by next year, the saffron and dust will have much higher supplies than they do now.

By, “wait for the market to settle”, I didn’t mean a few weeks.

The dust already settled alot lower and there’s so many things to use it for that I dont expect it to drop “much lower”

Saffron in higher supply? Maybe so, but much more demand because of this food and the huge ammount you need.

Sure… The price will settle.. Its just not going to settle low enough to be worthwhile.

Sometimes I wonder what is wrong with the anet devs. First the carrots, now the saffrons. Can you guys seriously stop pulling this kitten off.