Guild Wars 2

I don’t like the implication that they’ve held us virtually hostage from environmental content until we voluntarily comply to a basic material sink.

I pay my 10% seller’s tax in-game at the TP. Where are our characters’ in-game taxes going, messieurs développants?

A better option would be to introduce an alchemical aging station where players can pay an eccentric asura to artifically age lower tier wood for a reasonably small fee and or other mats. Just as an example, similar to gem transmogrification and mystic forge promotion.

What you are asking is not going to happen. It is like asking gold/silver/copper ore, to be made into ingots that could actually be made into currency.

It is what it is.

Huh?

What you suggest will never happen already happens on multiple fronts lol. In fact you can turn any mats into currency…

They also added a sink with the statue already. They can obviously do it again and I suspect they will keep adding similar content to keep the market from flooding. I only suggest a sink that tricks players into feeling rewarded economically and encourages progress instead of giving up – rather than holding us hostage for an environmental feature the designers CHOSE to destroy lol.

I have no clue where you’re coming from, Field Marshal :/ Then again you sound like someone that’s given up entirely, like those I mentioned.

EDIT: I just realized you may have been suggesting actually crafting coins at a station… ignoring the fact that, again, all mats can be sold, it provides a realism problem: counterfeiting. Whereas aging wood is common practise IRL, realistic and again, already happens. In fact, aging wood mats makes a lot more sense than turning one type of gemstone into a completely different mineral which you can presently do at a jeweler’s station.

What I request is less of a stretch for developers than what they’re doing at present lol.

The “TAX” is a posting fee. The other “TAX” is a handling fee. They are not going to let you Trans up common mats that are deposited everywhere.

I guess I did not communicate very well, when describing that this makes about as much sense as gold ingot to gold coin. Great idea. Just not going to happen. Would make rare items, not so rare.

I wrote a big thoughtful reply and apology for being a bit rude. I see where you’re coming from now. But I made a typo and hit backspace so my browser decided I wanted to go back a page and my post got deleted. My main points to respond for anyone who’s reading:

• 250 of one tier doesn’t have to return 250 of the next tier
• at half efficiency, assuming a fee and/or ruined mats (ie 125 softwood for 250 green wood), it’s still twice as expensive to do the exchange. Think binary. 2 stacks of T1 for 1 stack of T2. 4 Stacks of T1 for one stack of T3… 32 stacks of T1 for 1 stack of T6. Why would one waste money? Because:
• Some players don’t use the TP, and some players like to hang out indefinitely in low level areas (think of the appeal of Pre-Searing). It gives these players a sense of doing it buy themselves while doing the other things they love. The can improve their crafting, RP, and equip themselves with higher level weapons and armour for more work, more mats – an excellent option for those who can’t farm orr, and also an excellent sink for low level mats.
• The market won’t be affected because, obviously, the people who do this will be using the mats… its not at all profitable to upgrade to T6 to sell T6 mats.

Not pretending I have a great fix, I might be missing something, but current promotion is useless because it’s not profitable for rich players, and not possible for poor players lol.

Also, if anyone’s worried about crafted items flooding the market… crafted rares are not profitable even if you salvage for ectos. The money it takes out of the market in mats more than accounts for the crafted goods entering the market. Even assuming no one uses what they craft personally.

Also, I apologize again, not only for being rude but making myself a bit of a hypocrite by forgetting to explain fully where I was coming from <3