Guild Wars 2

Instead of making us use the mystic forge to create ascended equipment, I think it would be a better idea to make ascended gear craft-able (just make the various forms of Mists Essence a crafting material, like Globs of Ectoplasm and lodestones). This would mean that crafting no longer becomes useless once you get to the point where you can afford to make ascended gear. Currently jewel-crafting is useless for high level fractal explorers, because they want ascended rings and amulets which can’t be crafted and can be made without any crafting ability (via the Mystic Forge). The same would become true for other crafting disciplines once ascended armor and weapons are added, assuming they are also made with the Mystic Forge.

You thought crafting was going to be useful ?

So, basically you want to craft endgame material because you don’t want to earn it like everyone else? I grow tired of this entitlement crap. If they do add it to crafting, I expect a hefty gold fee (Not bronze, not silver, not karma, not glory, not tokens) for demeaning it’s purpose.

Zeivu.3615:

So, basically you want to craft endgame material because you don’t want to earn it like everyone else? I grow tired of this entitlement crap. If they do add it to crafting, I expect a hefty gold fee (Not bronze, not silver, not karma, not glory, not tokens) for demeaning it’s purpose.

You completely misunderstand what I’m saying. I’m suggesting it still require all the same materials to craft (or equally difficult to acquire materials), but that it be done through crafting, rather than the mystic forge. Plus, I think you’re underestimating how much work it takes to max out a crafting discipline.