Guild Wars 2

ANet had said that they would bring about precursor crafting by the end of the year. I know the ascended armor crafting is out, but what exactly is the status on precursor crafting?

IIRC Anet stated precursor crafting will NOT come out this year.

Wow what the hell? So its changed again?

Precursor crafting should have been more of a priority than ascended armor.

morrolan.9608:

Precursor crafting should have been more of a priority than ascended armor.

To be quite honest I wouldn’t hold my breath on precursor crafting coming anytime near soon. The dev response from another necro’d thread (scroll down) on precursors made it seem like any real action was a long way out.

Precursor crafting should have been ascended weapon crafting to be honest. Maybe 5 deldrimore handles & blades with 5 vision crystals for precursor dagger, etc.

AmadeoKristoff.5493:

Wow what the hell? So its changed again?

I don’t think it ever was supposed to come out this year.

Obtena.7952:

AmadeoKristoff.5493:

Wow what the hell? So its changed again?

I don’t think it ever was supposed to come out this year.

Back in June they said it would come out this year, but months ago (I forget which one) a dev said that if someone from the “looking ahead” blogpost didn’t make it this year it would be the new legendary and precursor crafting.

I believe it has been pushed back to early next year, but don’t quote me on that.

I would need to see the quotation but IIRC, it was not a definite statement of “we are putting in precursor crafting this year”. To their credit, ascended weapons might be part of that crafting scheme for all we know.

Don’t hold your breath.

I don’t recall Precursor Crafting EVER being mentioned with any potential release time span (certainly NEVER “by the end of the year”). These kinds of post are how misinformation and claims of breaking promises get proliferated among players.

Beyond the release announcements that come out about a week before an update, ALL comments made by Devs on future features are ALWAYS accompanied by “we are working toward…..” or “We hope to have X ready by Y date”.

The only place this kind of “ANET PROMISED US….”, exaggerations are worse than here are in chat (usually in LA). I’ve seen some seriously twisted logic and claims made there (and I don’t think all of them were trolling).

BTW, if the small amount of leaked info on Precursor “crafting” can be assumed to be valid, it’s going to be closer to Legendary “crafting” than actual crafting at a crafting station (Mystic Forge based), so it really has very little relation to extending the actual crafting disciplines to 500 or Ascended gear.

@Brother Grimm
The following blog post did in fact say that there would be a specific way to build precursors in 2013:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

The exact quote under “Legendary Gear and Precursors”
“We aren’t quite ready to go into all the details here, but what I can say is you will see a specific way to build precursor items on your way to a legendary. On top of this, you’ll also see new legendary weapons and new types of legendary gear in 2013. Building your precursor will require a large amount of the new crafting material rewards listed above, 500 in crafting, and likely a combination of other items earned for completing more specific content in the game.”

This obviously hasn’t happened yet, and in another forum post Anet stated that it wasn’t likely to happen this year after all. The second part of that section however has happened, as was necessary with the release of ascended weapons:

“In addition, we’ll also improve the functionality of legendaries, allowing you to set their stats when out of combat to any stat combo available, so you don’t need to transmute stat changes for legendaries. Legendary gear will remain with the same tier of stats as ascended gear and will not be made more powerful than other gear, it will simply be slightly more convenient since it will no longer need transmutations to change stats.”

They’ve mostly kept their word (and the also gave warning about some things not making it in too). Though I’m still a bit worried about precursor crafting. Logic (or at least wishful thinking) makes me think that it would crash the leg/precursor market because the prices are way too high, but JS has stated that they don’t want precursor crafting to effect the current market. Which means, while a sure thing, it will be expensive as heck (most likely 500g+) and most likely time gated.

My only real disappointment came from the new skills/traits part. Yes, we’re all getting 2 new heal skills, but I was really hoping for something more (please chooseable weapon skills) and for some new traits.

I would be happy to see them make crafted precursors account bound, while still allowing the ones that drop to be sellable.

Obtena.7952:

I would need to see the quotation but IIRC, it was not a definite statement of “we are putting in precursor crafting this year”. To their credit, ascended weapons might be part of that crafting scheme for all we know.

Brother Grimm.5176:

I don’t recall Precursor Crafting EVER being mentioned with any potential release time span (certainly NEVER “by the end of the year”). These kinds of post are how misinformation and claims of breaking promises get proliferated among players.

Obtena.7952:

I don’t think it ever was supposed to come out this year.

Jump to 13m24s if the url doesnt carry on with the video arguments.

MAGIKS BEING MADE HERE.

Now seriously, can we get a word from colin on this matter? since we’re already 1/3 on december and a sign of precursor crafting is still nowhere to be seen.

ArenaNet are kidding us…
They said it would be implemented by 2013, and now they say that will not do anything until January 21… THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!