Guild Wars 2

With the advent of ‘crafting’ for existing precursors, I’m curious if (after HOT launches) players still intend to use Exotics in the MF to try for them or whether they will be salvaging them now for materials instead?

As I suspect most players will be aiming to create one of the new legendaries when they are released, there could be a total lack of existing pre-cursors and legendaries coming to market once HOT arrives and I’m wondering whether now might be a good time to purchase one.

Thoughts?

existing precursors will still drop from mobs, I assume so. The counter-argument is why buy when you can practically create one unless you are sitting on a pile of gold, and that is a counter-weight that would drive down the cost. Plus, when people agree to go through the mystic forge gamble, they must really want that precusor for themselves and not for trading on TP because there is no promise of sure profit. It’s tricky business to predict since HoT comes with so many economic variable. The TP precusor price will probably converge at the cost of the effort of making one, whatever that might be. If you’re making one of the cheaper legendary, like shield, focus, mace, i guess it doesn’t make any difference.

People will still mystic forge them, just at a lower rate. I do mystic forging of rares and account bound dungeon exotics to try for new skins or a chance for something good to sell and got a precursor once that way.

It will depend on what will be the crafting/questing needed for precursor. The market will adapt. For exemple.

If the new method to get Twilight is not very fun and take around 200 hours to craft, then I doudt that much people will do it and I guess the market will stay the same. People will probably still prefer to grind gold for 100-200 hours in the content of their choice than grinding 200 hours of the unfun precursor crafting.

If the new method to get the Energizer take around 20 hours to complete and it’s fun, then most people will prefer to do that. The Energizer will probably drop around 100 Gold. The price of rare won’t go really lower anyway because of Ectos, so my guess is that nobody will try to get that precursor because the price of the rare won’t go don’t enough.

quaniesan.8497:

existing precursors will still drop from mobs, I assume so. Plus, when people agree to go through the mystic forge gamble, they must really want that precusor for themselves and not for trading on TP because there is no promise of sure profit.

My guess would be though that the vast majority of current precursors are coming through forging and not random drops. Bear in mind that (aside from the incredibly rare chance of the one you are after dropping from a mob) the only to way to currently ensure you get the precursor you want is through forging.