Guild Wars 2

Buying a variety of ingredients from karma vendors at renown hearts is a pain, and is unfairly singling out one profession: chefs.

Any other crafting profession can buy everything they need from the trading post or the profession master, but chefs have to travel and fight their way to the ends of the earth to get some ingredients.

Here’s my suggestion to make this less of a hassle without allowing free trade of karma items or further diluting the drop/node pool:

Once you have completed a renown heart on a map, and have purchased the item once from that specific karma vendor, you can pay a one-time fee of 10 times the normal karma price to add the item to a karma vendor in Lion’s Arch (I don’t care whether you pay the price to the renown heart vendor or the LA vendor).

An example of how this would work:

I want a faster/easier/less expensive/less time-consuming way to buy a cooking ingredient from a far-off renown heart vendor. So, I make sure that I have that vendor’s renown heart completed. I buy the ingredient from that vendor for its normal karma price…say 35 karma. Then, I have an option to have that ingredient stocked by the Lion’s Arch vendor for a one-time fee of 350 karma. Once I pay the 350 karma, I can go to Lion’s Arch and buy the ingredient from that vendor for 35 karma.

If this makes the ingredient too convenient for some people, the price of the unlock could be 20+ times the original karma price, or the unlock price could increase with the difficulty of the area of the original vendor. This way the unlock price for an ingredient sold at a renown heart in a level 60 area would be far greater than the unlock price for an ingredient available in a starter area.

This is a very interesting idea which I’d love to see implemented, but I’m not sure how hard it would be to actually script it.

Thanks for the support! I wouldn’t think it would be that difficult. It’s certainly less complex than the trading post. It’s also a very common feature in many games, so we know that it’s feasible.