Guild Wars 2

So we’ve seen recent changes that have made farming cursed shore easier, bots have been significantly removed, market prices in general on all items are moving up, etc, etc. Additionally, we are now being rewarded on a daily and monthly basis a new currency that can be used to purchase some cool and exciting new items.

At the moment, the grind for any of the awesome (Mystic Forge or Craftable) recipes is pretty extensive and to buy these items outright ranges from 45g to 700g (excluding legendaries of course, which are 2k to 5k). The main issue here is just simply the RNG nature of some items and of course the time it takes to actually just sit there and farm out specific drops from groupings of mobs. ArenaNet has done some cool things to spread out the aquisition of T6 materials including node farms, moldy bags, 40xT6 mat for some explorable map completitions, etc. However, if you really want to get 250xT6 mat like a lot of recipes require, you either have to farm the gold out for it or farm the item from the mob that most commonly drops it.

My suggestion is as follows: Include in the daily reward, or even just event completition, 1 random tier equivalent material for the tier event you complete. For example, completing an event in cursed shores would give a T6 mat, completing an event in a 70 zone would yield T5, etc, etc. This would definitely increase the market’s share of these materials, but still force a significant investment of time to grind the material out etc (basically its a suggestion to aleviate some of the time to grind these items out, not to mention when you miss tagging mobs in zerg-fest world events, you won’t feel quite as screwed!).

I understand there is some heated debate about this, but TP prices are becoming quite insane – I put probably 30 hours/week into this game and am calculating crafting a legendary in 2-3 months let alone if I decide to pick up any cool side items like a wall of the mists (which is 1000 orc ore + a few more mats).

So again – events = chance to give +1 random T6 mat, make it happen ANET! <3