Guild Wars 2

I have only been playing GW2 for a couple of months, I checked the forums for this topic and I didn’t find anything in the topic history. And if I am misunderstanding the crafting system I welcome someone to set me straight.

I love crafting usable items. I used to play another MMO that had an interesting crafting system and I was looking forward to crafting on GW2 when I bought the game. I get the fact that lower level items do not create profit in the crafting system, and that most of the crafting system is an expensive useless proposition in order to be able to craft ascended gear and weapons. I have an idea that would make the crafting system a little more useful and fun, create interest in crafting just for the fun of doing it. It would be great if we had unique armor skins that could be discovered through the crafting process like we do for weapons. I really liked the leveling equipment that I made while topping off artificing. I like that it can be used for alts when I start leveling up new characters.

I know that anet makes money on selling armor skins through the gem store, and that adding unique skins that can only be made through crafting might seem like competition for the gem store, but I don’t think that would be necessarily true. People that do not like to craft won’t take it up just to make armor skins, and even if they did many of them would buy the gold to get the ingredients to make them. By having nice unique skins that are account bound, just like the leveling weapons that we can make, it adds a bit of prestige to crafting. It can also be an achievement to unlock all of the unique skins in all of the different armor classes.

The pretty backpacks are nice, I have two of them and I have only been playing since September. My first craft I had a little help from my credit card because I was impatient to top that off, and I don’t think I am alone in being willing to pull out my credit card to buy mats to craft. Perhaps more people would be willing to buy gems to craft if they saw shinies in it for their character. Just an idea