Guild Wars 2

So.. as patch came yesterday jumped into Fractals of the Mists lobby and there new NPC called BLING-9009, where I noticed there is use for fractal research pages or completed journals. After completing legendary backpack Ad Infinitum in April, there was no use for pages or journals after completion, I had 7 completed fractal journals since it’s not needed and like 2-3 months ago I decide to delete them and every other 2 weeks completed another journal I just vendored it, there were clearly no information anywhere if to keep them or they will have any use in future, in total I had 11 completed fractal journals since finished backpack. Never missed single daily fractal since HoT came out.. just for curious: 11 journals is 308 pages which is 154 days of fractals every day where you get 2 pages per day, in short.. merchant have armor boxes/weapon boxes price range from 20-28 pages, if its matter of numbers.. i made myself damage by scraping journals/pages and lost opportunity to buy 15 ascended armor boxes where is average price for crafting like 83g per box where 15 of them is 1245g+-, I was searching for screens of bank but without luck, it’s exactly 6 months since finished backpack and deleted journals around 2 and half months ago . And I can only guess there is no way to ask for recovery of journals or pages or I should still have hope in my support ticket? (Sorry for any grammar mistakes, English isn’t my native language).

I feel your pain, and I’m probably sure a lot of other people do to. It happens to everyone. Just 2 days ago I sold off a living ton of matrices I had, and this patch drops and they increase in price by about 20-30g/ stack. At any rate, though, hindsight is 20/20, and imo, 2-3 months is a long time ago to have trashed your fractal books looking for a recovery.

But best of luck to you w/ support

I was able to get back 3 books I sold before I realised they were needed for ad infinitum. Support were able to find the transaction in my history and restore them to me, I hope they can in your case too.

Really reaching. Don’t expect much. :/

i think its fine,all mobs shoud get extra boon- return dmg for everyone in 2 m radius around.

Best would be an option at npc in fotm lobby, one time recovery for pages or journals only if they were vendored not destroyed. Still no repply on ticket (3rd day already).

Matthew.6403:

i made myself damage by scraping journals/pages and lost opportunity to buy 15 ascended armor boxes where is average price for crafting like 83g per box

Lucky you. The vendor price, when including matrixes, is double that so by not buying those boxes for pages you saved yourself over 1000 gold.
Seriously, at 15 boxes it is cheaper to craft them directly even if you have to level up all 3 crafts first.

Astralporing.1957:

Seriously, at 15 boxes it is cheaper to craft them directly even if you have to level up all 3 crafts first.

Unless you absolutely can’t stand crafting, in which case the vendor is ‘cheaper’ (for those of us measuring cost in more than one dimension besides ‘coin’).

It’s designed to be an option for non-crafters, not an alternative for those of us who craft.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It’s designed to be an option for non-crafters, not an alternative for those of us who craft.

Sort of. It’s there so Anet can tell non-crafters that they have an option now, and thus should stop complaining. It’s however also made so even those non-crafters would find that option unpleasant.
It’s not meant for more than a handful of people.

For everyone else, it’s definitely not a valid journal/pages sink.

Astralporing.1957:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It’s designed to be an option for non-crafters, not an alternative for those of us who craft.

Sort of. It’s there so Anet can tell non-crafters that they have an option now, and thus should stop complaining. It’s however also made so even those non-crafters would find that option unpleasant.
It’s not meant for more than a handful of people.

For everyone else, it’s definitely not a valid journal/pages sink.

It is not designed as a journal/pages sink; it’s an alternative to crafting for those who don’t craft. It is purposefully designed to leave crafting as the more economic choice.

You might not find it useful, but I know several people for whom this is a game changer.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It is not designed as a journal/pages sink; it’s an alternative to crafting for those who don’t craft. It is purposefully designed to leave crafting as the more economic choice.

My first response was to OP, who was treating losing his pages as an economic windfall and pointing out to him that it wasn’t.

So, you’re actually supporting my point even more.