Guild Wars 2

First it was kite fortunes, then support tickets, now gauntlet entrance tickets.
When they first introduced the wooden and steel chests, I was excited to see one cause that meant I got a rare or exotic (or mist essence >.<). Now when I see one I have a split second of joy and then /sigh.
I’d understand if they were actually rare according to the definition and not just the terminology for the color of the item, but these items drop quite often. Please designate these types of items common rarity so I don’t feel like I’m being trolled when I see a wooden chests.

The chests were implemented to help bring attention to valuable items so they wouldn’t be missed. It’s important not to miss event items, ergo, the system is working as intended.

These are hardly important items. Loot will be picked as normal regardless, there’s no need to make these “special items” a rare category, and even worse is now seeing a bigger exotic chest spawn for a miserable recipe for the watchwork portal device. It doesn’t even have a vendor value and won’t sell on the TP for more than a few copper, so it’s hardly worth it imo.

Save these chests for rare weapons/armour/accessories that we’d normally receive as loot, and keep the special temporary items a masterwork or below type item, so as not to disappoint us when looting. I thoroughly agree with OP, it really is a big let-down.

Price on the TP doesn’t make an item any less (or more) rare.