Guild Wars 2

Currently there are numerous ways to promote materials to a higher tier. This is all good and happy, but there is no way to downgrade them as well. This provides some problems when coupled with the facts that A) high level characters now receive high level loot even in low level zones and B ) a lot of recipes still require low level loot as favored, making the prices go up as there just isn’t high supply of these (example, silver doubloons, some teirs of wood, pristine snowflakes, et al.)

Of course, we would have the ratio be poorer than the upgrade ratio in reverse.

I would rather ANET not play with the market more than they already do .

Silver doubloons are highly valued due to their inclusion in Vial of Quintessence, while gold doubloons serve no purpose at all

Snowflakes are highly valued because they’re only available 1 month out of twelve. Their current supply is all there is until the end of the year.

Tiers of wood are not tied to character level, you can simply go hunt them in the level appropriate zones.

None of your examples are valid.

snowflakes are only valued if they are pristine. flawless, even though higher teir, are not. your same example with gold doubloons. the lesser doubloons and snowflakes are somewhat valued because they can be upgraded via forge, nothing more. the upper levels are not valued because they serve no purpose AND can’t be downgraded. The wood, while there is still a method of gathering those (and if you wanted to get creative, silver doubloons despite being level 20 item..) you won’t get any through salvaging, since your items are going to yield t5 and 6.

Having a way to upgrade items and not downgrade items artificially values lower tier items.