Guild Wars 2

Some recent suggestions about gear stats reminded me of an older suggestion. I don’t feel like finding it, so I thought I’d rehash it here.

I don’t think it would be a serious difficulty to implement, though I admit I don’t know exactly how they designed crafting recipies. It seems they left a lot of room to alter combinations, though, to produce whatever it is they want.

So the idea is this, you have four slots and a bunch of materials. If you associate materials with specific stats you can put three fine mats and a constructed mat together to get an inscription or rune for exactly the stat combination you want. Some stats would end up being left out, but there are probably ways around that, if they wanted.

I think this option should not become available until items have three stats to begin with, but it would vastly expand the options available, and if these options were only available through crafting it would vastly expand the desire for crafted gear over other options.

This also would not necessarily detract from any current recipes, since all current recipes rely on a single fine mat type, and all recipes under this design would require three different fine mat types. As such they can easily coexist.