Guild Wars 2

As of now gems and jewel crafting have become almost worthless (in fact most crafts have). Jewel crafting has been hit the most. Now with all the new ascended gear not coming with a socket option, gems are no longer worth more than what the vender gives you for them. Only rubies hold value, that’s because people use them as cheap Divinity runes.

Here what I suggest. Allow Jewel crafting to make Infusions (the +5 stat +5 agony).
It shouldn’t be cheap. The recipes should also include the crystalline items found in frac.

EX: 10 Exquisite Ruby Orbs + 1 Shard of crystalline essence = Mighty infusion (+5 power +5 agony resist).

I think making items craftable through the mystic Forge is nice, but I don’t think items like these should come from the forge. You need to give some kind of love to professions… otherwise they’re useless means of leveling characters.

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it basically comes down to: Do you want crafting to be a truly viable source of gear or do you want all players to have the same access to rarer things in the game.

It does seem they are steering towards the latter rather than the former, with crafting being something barely above access to some skins compared to how it is in some games.