Guild Wars 2

Currently, a certain level of crafted goods draws exclusively on one tier of material. In my case, since I reached the skill level of 400, I am always out of tier 5 & 6 material for level 80 stuff, while tier 1-4 materials keep piling up senselessly.

I love the lower-level maps and will not leave them just for farming mithril, oricalcum, ancient bones, most powerful blood or the other high-level stuff. But I also cannot pass by a resource node without harvesting it, or an enemy without testing my skill against it.

So I would like to suggest that some new armor recipes with skill level 400 and resultant level 80 are added to the game: A copper-ornamented mithril axe, for instance, that draws on a mixture of tiers for crafting. Or a coat “Allerleihrauh” like in the German Brother Grimm’s tale, where the heroine wears a coat made of all kinds of leather and fur. From coarse leather squares up to the best refined stuff available.

This gives people a reason to visit lower-level areas and use the stuff they earn there. Just throwing it into the mystic forge for promotion devalues the stuff and seriously goes against my grain. And I don’t want to have to sell the stuff in stacks of 250 just to get rid of it, either.

Higher level gear is more valuable because the materials are harder to get. If you are unwilling to go out and find the mats, you are always free to buy them. Also, you can get three random tier 6 fine mats every day as long as you’re doing your dailies.

You can also convert lower level materials to higher level ones via the Mystic Forge. Whether it’s worth it or not is up to you.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge#Materials

As I stated above, I know of promotion recipies. I also am not too cheap to get the materials I want. But with the exception of cooking, which draws on all levels of available materials for all levels of resultant foods, it is “Tier 1 material gets Tier 1 useful stuff”. Since Tier X material is linked to Level A-B maps, visiting those maps gets you mostly Tier X material.

But in the current system, I can only use Tier Z materials for the stuff I need. There is a opportunity wasted. If you only get Tier Z materials from Tier Z maps, why should you visit maps that do not yield what you need? Therefore my suggestion for crafting recipies besides cooking that draw on all available tiers of material. This would free players from Orr or Frostgorge Sound for aqiring all their needed materials.

And no, I am not cheap and I know how to use my stuff. I am happily running around with Temple Armor that was transmuted to the skin of the craftable Shadow armor because I like it.

But still the fact remains that high-level crafting only requires highest-level materials. This very strong stratification system does not seem in step with the “play as you want” principle.

If you’re tired of Tier 1-4 mats building up on you, you can always mail them to me!

-Wulfgar Bjornegarde

I was actually hoping I could use all that fine stuff for myself, without needing to “promote” it … If my guildmates don’t need the stuff anymore, I will send you an email.