Guild Wars 2

I hope the recipes for the gifts that seem to be mats for the permanent versions of the temporaries are wrong.

- Gift of Souls (Staff) : 1x Gift[s] of Knowledge 250x Orichalcum Ingot[s] 20x Glob[s] of Ectoplasm 100x Crystal Lodestone[s] Artificer 400

- Gift of Spiders (Bow): 1x Gift[s] of Ascalon 250x Orichalcum Ingot[s] 20x Glob[s] of Ectoplasm 100x Destroyer Lodestone[s] Huntsman 400

- Gift of the Moon (Shield): 1x Gift[s] of Thorns 250x Orichalcum Ingot[s] 20x Glob[s] of Ectoplasm 100x Corrupted Lodestone[s] Weaponsmith 400

Some have suggested that the gifts are to be combined with the corresponding temporary to make the permanent. If this is the case, a person would need to gather the mats within the time frame of the Halloween events. This is just absurd and Anet should post to clarify this.

Edit: Sorry forgot to include source:

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/news/842-official-update-notes-database-updates-including-new-skins/

does it seriously cost lodestones? i mean the temp weapons aside from staff arent even really that great. but 100x lodestones is like full t3 culture set cost territory

On my server’s TP ( Gate of Madness), for the crystal lodestones for the staff one would spend a little over 150g to buy all but 2 of the lodestones currently on TP. I haven’t fooled with any of the end game mats yet but seeing as this is a costly mat and seemly scarce, I can’t see the justification of needing that many for ONE gift.