Q:
Change Mystic Forge like craft station
WvW players have been asking for something that would allow us to make Sup Siege faster/easier for some time. So far there hasn’t really been any answer on how this might be done. I am all for anything that makes for less clicks at the mystic toilet.
I think it’s partly because ANet doesn’t want it to be “too easy” to use the forge. They like the idea that a lot of labor is required, because that stabilizes prices — not everyone is willing to save a few silver by promoting cores to lodes.
Recipes for mystic forge? Hell yes.
There is so much built in inefficiency in even the simplest things to slow people down and waste their time.
At least I hope its on purpose as the other option is probably worse.
There is so much built in inefficiency in even the simplest things to slow people down and waste their time.
At least I hope its on purpose as the other option is probably worse.
Slow us down? yes. Waste our time? no. The goal is to ensure that item promotion isn’t “too efficient”, which slows down the speed at which Tx-1 prices influence Tx prices (e.g T5 cores to T6 lodes).
Put another way, economic reasons trump quality-of-life game play, the same as it does in other situations — a necessary evil in a massively multiplayer environment.