Craft 1 per day
I am going to go out on a limb and and assume that you are referring to Ascended crafting materials. These are time gated intentionally. If you don’t want to take the time to craft them out, you can purchase the refined item directly from the TP with gold that you have either farmed or bought with Gems.
The limit of 1 per day is to keep ascended crafting material valuable, not to somehow be a ‘marketing scheme’.
If it’s really that big of a problem for you, you can directly buy the ascended materials off the trading post, like Fatalyz mentioned.
I didn’t know that. I remember it being different, though my memory is probably wrong. Thank you.
Here’s an alternative for you:
- Buy what enough of the finished mats to fill your immediate needs.
- Start the time-gated crafting, every day — you can use your “filled wallet” to buy the required mats.
- If you’re clever on your buy offers for step 1, you can make clever sell offers of what you made in step 2 and end up coming close to breaking even; if you’re very clever, you can even profit slightly.
There are also things you can make with the ecto-refined mats that increase your margins, making it easier to break-even or profit.
In short: if you find the existence of “craft 1 per day” is too burdensome, you have alternatives. Pay extra to bypass the time-gate or pay it forward and recoup your costs later.
Yet another case of “I want it now!” conflicting with “ANet thinks gates are better for the game.” Fyi, “I want it now!” usually loses out in such conflicts. Don’t hold your breath.