Guild Wars 2

The Gift of Mastery is the only Legendary component that doesn’t require any Gold to obtain, just in-game dedication. It feels like a pretty big accomplishment to craft it, but you can’t show off that accomplishment in any way until you amass the ~700G to finish crafting a legendary. Some ideas for alternate uses for the Gift of Mastery:

Achievement/Title: Award a special title when the Gift of Mastery is crafted

Legendary Dyes: Allow a small handful of unique account bound dyes to be crafted with the Gift of Mastery, which grant special particle effects in addition to their colors. Even better would be the addition of a “Legendary Dye” slot unlocked on the dye panel for players who have crafted the Gift of Mastery, which accepts Legendary Dyes only (adding some sort of spell/particle effects to the armor in addition to the selected dyes). This would make it really fun to collect multiple Gifts of Mastery to get several different effects on one’s armor!

Unique Armor: Create new unique armor skins craftable only with the Gift of Mastery, but no additional major gold requirement.

The point, I think, for any additional use for the Gift of Mastery would be to keep the gold component low, or at least low in relation to Legendary Weapons. Perhaps something like Gift + 100 Icy Runestones + (2 relatively inexpensive items to determine the output dye/armor) would be reasonable.