Guild Wars 2

The current price on lower tier materials, those such as linen, being pretty much scratching-at-the-wall levels of insane, I would like to suggest that A.net adds recipes to the Mystic Forge to demote materials.

For example, 50 t5 cloth + 1 t4 cloth + 5 t4 dust + 1 philo stone = 60-120 t4 cloth (numbers are purely for the example).

This would go a long way to allowing players without much interest in either playing in lower level zones, or spending vast quantities of money on common-quality crafting materials, reasonable access to these materials and recipes that use them (consider the cost of simply levelling Tailoring to 400, let alone 500, at the current prices).

The drawback is that this will also hit the prices of other materials such as gold ore etc. that do not have similar market demand, and make them worth less, but this seems like it’s an acceptable price to pay.

I’d like to see them just change it so you only need 3 scraps of linen to make the bolt, same with the soft wood logs. Such ridiculous prices on those two low tier items

Populating the lower-level zone was one of the points. I don’t think a demotion system of common mats will work out well. Then, it’d just be a farm fest for lower tiered dust, which is harder to come by than wools, cottons, and linen (since these can be salvaged from low level armors/salvageables).

3 scraps of linen equal one bolt and half a bolt? I don’t think that makes sense.

Now I see people are complaining about linen… I guess silks are next? Wait, many players are already complaining about silks. What else is there to complain about? That ignorant players are vendoring low-level light armors instead of salvaging ’em for wools, cottons, and linens?

Halcyon.5340:

Populating the lower-level zone was one of the points. I don’t think a demotion system of common mats will work out well. Then, it’d just be a farm fest for lower tiered dust, which is harder to come by than wools, cottons, and linen (since these can be salvaged from low level armors/salvageables).

3 scraps of linen equal one bolt and half a bolt? I don’t think that makes sense.

Now I see people are complaining about linen… I guess silks are next? Wait, many players are already complaining about silks. What else is there to complain about? That ignorant players are vendoring low-level light armors instead of salvaging ’em for wools, cottons, and linens?

You could blame the extremely slow and clunky trading post interface for that. The time you spend selling low level armour and weapons for 3s, you could’ve made as much killing stuff and getting fine crafting mats that sell with much less hassle.