Guild Wars 2

So has it has been said that a whole new tier of crafting mats will be introduced with crafting moving up to 500, and some of them will be things you can only harvest once a day, however, I have a couple of questions about this…

What about the rest and what about T6 mats? T6 are required for a crap load of things already and are not easy to come. You can grind but with MF out the window the chances for these mats to drop off a specific creature have been pretty much killed off. You can gamble hoping the mat you need will drop from bags, mf, etc. Or you can buy them for outrageous prices on the TP, which is going bananas right now.

So, if getting from 400-500 is going to require you use your T6 mats and then the T7 mats will be used to finally craft things like Legendary Precursors and Ascended gear will we see an increase in T6 mats drop rate? Also as said above, so much is required to craft T6, for example two gifts for a legendary not to mention all the Unique Exotics, so how is this not going to cause a complete meltdown in the TP like we currently see with Legendary items and precursors unless something is changes in regards to how reglarly T6 mats drop (either lowering the level they drop or increasing the odds)? Could we possibly finally see T6 mats regularly dropping from creatures level 76-80 instead of it almost 98% of the time being T5? Will it shift from T5 and sometimes T6 to now T6 and sometimes T7?

Also, if T5-T6 mats current drop from creatures level 76-80 where are these T7 mats going to drop from? No new zones are being added. No new creatures, dungeons, fractals, etc…I can’t imagine you’d throw another tier of mats in with the current specific creatures that are the few 81+ in the game. You already see if this is the case it will be the same problem we have now with Earth Eles, Drakes, Ice Colossus, etc trying desperately to farm. Where do you guys think T7 are going to come from?

i think they mentioned before that t7 materials can only be crafted from t6 materials.

let me go and find that quote …

here it is:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

and …
“New Crafting Material Rewards”
- new crafting materials!
- rewards!

“We’ll also add a new set of account-bound crafting materials to the game.”
- new set of crafting materials!
- account bound!

“You’ll receive these materials as guaranteed rewards once per day per unique location for completing content within a category of gameplay in Guild Wars 2.”
- guaranteed rewards!
- once per day per unique location!

“For example, capturing camps, towers, and keeps in WvW will earn you these crafting materials. In the Living World, you can earn them for killing giant world bosses, defeating dungeons, completing jumping puzzles, completing mini-dungeons, finishing some types of guild missions, capturing temples in Orr, and other activities.”
- WvW: capture camps, towers, keeps
- PvE: dragons, world bosses, dungeons, jumping puzzles, mini-dungeons, guild missions, temples, etc

wait, i think this one is what you are looking for:

“Crafting Taken to 500!”

“At 500, crafters will be able to craft ascended weapons and armor. Once you reach 500, a new tier of crafting materials will be available to you; this new tier of materials will be made by combining lower tier materials.”
- 500 to craft ascended
- new tier at 500 crafting
- combine lower tier to make new tier

“This new tier of crafting material, along with the new guaranteed material rewards mentioned earlier and some other materials we’ll introduce will be used to craft ascended weapons, armor, and more.”
- we need both types to craft ascended. one type from daily rewards, and the other type from combining lower tiers.

hmmm seems like much grind.

Thanks Deimos Tel Arin! I completely missed this quote. Does seem like a LOT of grinding and a lot of making sure you sign in every single day in order to farm nodes that only spawn once every 24 hours and are account spawns not character.

This also means that somehow some way T6 are going to have to be easier to get otherwise the T6 mats are going to be ridiculous on the TP and you’re going to have to make some tough choices on what you want to use T6 mats for since almost anything good requires a crap load. Ugh.

I recall an article which mentioned “exotic t6” which will be different from normal t6… so there might not be a strain on current t6 mats after all.

Could be another tier to lodestones, and not to totems/blood etc.

In any case, the t6 for a legendary are not too difficult to come by. Gambling clovers gives you a ton and laurel bags give you plenty too.