Guild Wars 2

Mind you, I expect this thread to get flamed to death within minutes:

Ascended crafting. Seriously. Specifically the account bound bits that all go into making Vision Crystals. The numbers of mats required vs the rate to get them is ok if you are only planning on making a set or two for a couple characters. But, in what I’m sure is a unique case like mine, where we are talking about more than just 1 of every class (15 80s across 2 accounts) and worse, wanting the stats of some asc weapons, but the skins of others (why healing stat get white/gold?) getting 500 of 3 different materials, to include one specifically from a form of game play that I despise (meta bosses), even farming just for the skins to put over exotic stats (seriously, healing?) for a couple characters turns these things into a grinder more boring than making my legendary ever was.

Frankly, best solution i have to offer is unbind that mess, and make it where people can sell either the raw material, or the refined bricks/ingots/stars. I’d happily buy dragonite (my personal bane) off those people who run meta bosses to the exclusion of almost all other content, and I’m sure some of them would love to buy empyreal bits off me when i finally get back to what i love and rebuild my stash. /rage

Having dragonite/empyreal drop at higher rates (gotta admit, i’ve never had issues getting bloostone dust as it is thrown at me whilst getting the others) would probably result is unusual amounts of vitriol about lazy and w/e, and I highly doubt there are any plans to ever reduce the cost of those mats in the involved recipes (before the gem store crafting mat expansions, 1 full stack of said ascended mats was only half what you needed to make any 1 item).

Please let me return to what i like (dungeons) and use the gold i make to buy it off someone else who is doing what they like (meta bosses), or let me choose what color the item i make comes out to be (why with the white/gold epicness going to healing?)

yet another example of a problem that would just go away for everyone if every instance of soul binding was replaced with account binding.

imsoenthused.1634:

yet another example of a problem that would just go away for everyone if every instance of soul binding was replaced with account binding.

actually account binding isn’t going to help me here… these materials are already account bound, and need to be unbound entirely for what i think is my “best shot” idea to work lol

with this unbound it`s not a good idea , but all ascended items acc it`s great idea .We should be able even change armor from heavy to medium etc.

Inimicus.7162:

imsoenthused.1634:

yet another example of a problem that would just go away for everyone if every instance of soul binding was replaced with account binding.

actually account binding isn’t going to help me here… these materials are already account bound, and need to be unbound entirely for what i think is my “best shot” idea to work lol

I was referring to the end product(ie the ascended item), not the materials. I’d have no problem with the materials being completely unbound, but I’m sure someone can probably tell us why that’s a bad idea.

imsoenthused.1634:

Inimicus.7162:

imsoenthused.1634:

yet another example of a problem that would just go away for everyone if every instance of soul binding was replaced with account binding.

actually account binding isn’t going to help me here… these materials are already account bound, and need to be unbound entirely for what i think is my “best shot” idea to work lol

I was referring to the end product(ie the ascended item), not the materials. I’d have no problem with the materials being completely unbound, but I’m sure someone can probably tell us why that’s a bad idea.

I hope they could, though my thought is that making the bound items easier to aquire would ease some of the pain that makes us want soulbound to vanish all together lol