Guild Wars 2

The extremely rare dungeon recipes for exotic jewelry are a license to print (or rather forge / mint gold) for those players who are lucky enough to find one. Effectively they’re an additional income.

Other MMOs do this differently. Why not take a page from Eve Online’s book – and have limited-run blueprints instead. These could be much more common drops, and would enable you to craft 1-5 items if you had the appropriate crafting level. Blueprints that couldn’t be used could be sold on the TP.

It’s always bugged me in Fantasy MMOs how gold and silver are used as currency yet their farmable forms are only used as mid level crafting mats. That said allowing players to mint gold would likely cause a major inflation spike and making it a super rare random drop would alienate a lot of casual players.

What I would like to see is counterfeiting in jewelcrafting where a counterfeit token can be made for silver and gold both with Fine, Master, and Rare, qualities and "laundered’ by some shady NPC in the Lion’s Arch sewers at a rate of .25 to 1, .50 to 1, and .75 to 1, respectively.