Guild Wars 2

I read the update notes and I was confused at a little something:

• For the next two weeks, every Black Lion Chest will include an additional reward: Boost Enchantment Powder.
  • One armor, strength, speed, or rejuvenation booster can be converted to an Enchanted Combat Booster. This booster allows the player to choose from an armor, strength, speed, or rejuvenation buff.
  • One experience, gathering, crafting, or magic find booster (or two karma boosters) can be converted to an Enchanted Reward Booster. This booster allows the player to choose from an experience, gathering, crafting, magic find, or karma buff.

So basically, unless there’s a double typo in the update notes, you put in 4 boosters (or 5 in the case of karma), and get 1 booster that is equal to just one of the boosters you put in?

It says you choose from, e.g., experience, gathering, crafting, magic find, OR karma buff. Meaning you just get one.

Doesn’t this seem odd? One would think it’d be akin to the Birthday Booster which gives a single buff for multiple gains (experience, wxp, gold find, magic find, and karma find iirc) for an extended period of time. Even if the booster is one hour (standard length), it feels weird that you’d put all those in just to get one buff when you can hold onto them – not spend any time or money with Black Lion Keys – and get more variety of buffs when wanting to use them.

Or am I just misunderstanding something here?

You can take one booster, and turn it into another.

There’s an or in those lists of items…

One booster of ‘a’ or ‘b’ or ‘c’ or 2 of ‘d’ can be converted into ‘x.’

Not a+b+c+2*d = x

Sounds more like functionality that lets you convert useless boosters to something else you might find more useful. For example, if you have tonnes of experience boosters wished they were crafting boosters instead (because you love crafting so much), you can convert them.

I could be wrong…

One experience, gathering, crafting, or magic find booster (or two karma boosters) can be converted to an Enchanted Reward Booster. This booster allows the player to choose from an experience, gathering, crafting, magic find, or karma buff.

Or, not and. It is just a way to exchange one booster for another. If you have, say, Crafting Boosters you don’t use, and would rather have Magic Find Booster, you can exchange it with this consumable.

Ah, for some reason I read and in the first lines. Hah. Silly me. >.>

Still doesn’t make a lot of sense to .. buy gems to convert something you typically buy with gems…? I would have been way happier had they just introduced speed boosters in the gem store. I don’t have any since I stopped buying BL keys. And I don’t get enough of the ones I can change into speed in order to justify buying anything like this. Oh well.. more monies stays in muh bank.