Guild Wars 2

I don’t know how it didn’t cross my mind until now…
The Ascended quality products got introduced into the game because they were harder than exotics to get, and as the trinkets, necklaces and earrings came to be, and so the laurels! A currency that the only way to gain access to enough of it, was by doing the daily quest for a month.

In the recent Log-in reward system upgrade, laurels are given for free…
All you have to do to get ascended stuff is log-in for a month and voila! You got your self an ascended.
Why would you even bother to hunt or buy an exotic trinket, if in a month an ascended will be given to you by doing nothing…

Laurels -> 3 t6 mats. 20 laurels would be 60 t6 mats… it costs ~3-5g to craft up an exotic trinket.

Why get exotic, because it’s cheaper.

Rings are cheaper with exotics. Just do some daily runs, you get one ring easy.

Exotics are faster, though.

And so we see why Jewelcrafting 500 won’t be a thing for a long time. =P

Fractal runners will laugh at this topic