Guild Wars 2

It would help a lot if the upcoming forge changes will include allowing exotic weapons bought with WvW badges to be forged. That should keep the prices in check again.

For a reality check: you’d still need about 10k badges for only 10 to 15 tries at the forge but since so many people have surplus earned WvW badges it could work.

I’m in favor of your suggestion to allow WvW gear to be forged and to allow recovery of upgrades from any soulbound equipment. However, I doubt this will have any noticeable impact on the market supply of precursors.

badge and karma items should be forgeable and salvageable, but I think it’s foolish to think they would affect the precursor price in the least bit. 10 attempts is nothing – maybe 1/10 chance at a precursor, and 10k badges is a LOT.

If I with my mere level 180 have 10k badges (I do and have used quite a few already), what would the guy with level five thousand have that I met the other day? I think the impact will be noticeable enough to make the market slightly more healthy. Radical ideas will never be accepted anyway; this is simply an idea to take some of the pressure from the prices, not cure them completely.

Buttercup.5871:

If I with my mere level 180 have 10k badges (I do and have used quite a few already), what would the guy with level five thousand have that I met the other day? I think the impact will be noticeable enough to make the market slightly more healthy. Radical ideas will never be accepted anyway; this is simply an idea to take some of the pressure from the prices, not cure them completely.

But even reducing the pressure from the prices is at least something. Back in the day when this issue occurred for the first time Anet took a small step to handle the control on this. Untill April 15th patch everything seemed fine for many of us. I myself bought my precursor at a reasonable price. I got my legendary after hard 3 months of work. But atm I see my friends struggle big time so yeah wtf?

They can give us a near-free precursor chest at the beginning of Living Story Season 2, similar to how a loooot of people got precursors from the Karka Queen chest. (Or so I heard… I never got to tap the Queen in time…)

Or atleast be able to salvage wvw/karma gear for ecto’s.

Terrorsquad.2349:

Or atleast be able to salvage wvw/karma gear for ecto’s.

I would not push it that far. In your proposal of salvaging karma gear, t2, t3 and t4 cloth will drop to negligible values which the devs obviously did not intend.

Gotta take one step at a time. My proposal is for the forging of WvW weapons bought with earned badges only. It’s only purpose is to alleviate the harsh prices of precursors and to give some value to WvW badges, similar to the way dungeon tokens have value. It’s side effects will be a slight decrease of the ecto and sigil prices, which is already bad enough (but very manageable).