Guild Wars 2

Please don’t make us forced to craft just to get the new armor. Make it non-account bound.

I don’t wanna be a crafter and I hate crafting.

Do we have to? That is pretty tough if the new armour is account bound … I thought we’d be able to sell/buy it on the TP. Sigh.

CrossedHorse.4261:

Do we have to? That is pretty tough if the new armour is account bound … I thought we’d be able to sell/buy it on the TP. Sigh.

Nope, you MUST be a 400 Armorsmith…

Wait for some people to craft and sell it on the TP…
Your crafts are never account bound (but the mats can).

Daecollo.9578:

CrossedHorse.4261:

Do we have to? That is pretty tough if the new armour is account bound … I thought we’d be able to sell/buy it on the TP. Sigh.

Nope, you MUST be a 400 Armorsmith…

Wow. That’s tough.

I would have thought that even if they didn’t make them tradeable on the TP they would at least have made them non-account bound so that people who are 400 armorsmiths (like myself) could craft them for other people. I’d happily do that over a course of days for others.

Riss.1536:

Wait for some people to craft and sell it on the TP…
Your crafts are never account bound (but the mats can).

You can’t sell it on the TP, is account bound when you craft it.

How can people craft it yet ? I thought the quartz or whatever were time gated…
And how do you know you can’t sell it ? You didn’t craft it…

Riss.1536:

How can people craft it yet ? I thought the quartz or whatever were time gated…
And how do you know you can’t sell it ? You didn’t craft it…

Its account bound on all the pictures. Nobody should be forced to craft to play a game IMO.

They must really want to limit how fast you can obtain gear now, or maybe it’s not intended. Would be funny if all future crafting (for end game) is account bound just to make it take longer.

If they’re going with the logic that the crystals are account bound and therefore, the gear should be, then legendaries should also be account bound.

Healix.5819:

They must really want to limit how fast you can obtain gear now, or maybe it’s not intended. Would be funny if all future crafting (for end game) is account bound just to make it take longer.

Bleh, going to play another game for awile… With all this news and the warrior updates its just not worth playing this year probably.

Nobody is forced to use bullkitten gear like celestial is.

Daecollo.9578:

Riss.1536:

How can people craft it yet ? I thought the quartz or whatever were time gated…
And how do you know you can’t sell it ? You didn’t craft it…

Its account bound on all the pictures. Nobody should be forced to craft to play a game IMO.

You aren’t. You are “forced” to craft it if you want one specific set of gear.

I’d rather not have to run AC for tokens for a legendary, but I certainly don’t think it is something “forced” on me.

If said gear was the only viable option in pve/w3, then I could see your point. Although it takes all of ten minutes to master a craft to 400.

Fenrir.3609:

Daecollo.9578:

Riss.1536:

How can people craft it yet ? I thought the quartz or whatever were time gated…
And how do you know you can’t sell it ? You didn’t craft it…

Its account bound on all the pictures. Nobody should be forced to craft to play a game IMO.

You aren’t. You are “forced” to craft it if you want one specific set of gear.

I’d rather not have to run AC for tokens for a legendary, but I certainly don’t think it is something “forced” on me.

If said gear was the only viable option in pve/w3, then I could see your point. Although it takes all of ten minutes to master a craft to 400.

Sorry but your point is invalid, the gear highly surpasses all gear choices for my hybrid style of gameplay and there is simply nothing that beats it, I will not even say what else I want to say for fear of being reported.

Being forced to craft is the reason I left SWTOR.

Celestial gear = very bad gear. Get it.

Legendary is just looks, this is stats.

Daecollo.9578:

Fenrir.3609:

Daecollo.9578:

Riss.1536:

How can people craft it yet ? I thought the quartz or whatever were time gated…
And how do you know you can’t sell it ? You didn’t craft it…

Its account bound on all the pictures. Nobody should be forced to craft to play a game IMO.

You aren’t. You are “forced” to craft it if you want one specific set of gear.

I’d rather not have to run AC for tokens for a legendary, but I certainly don’t think it is something “forced” on me.

If said gear was the only viable option in pve/w3, then I could see your point. Although it takes all of ten minutes to master a craft to 400.

Sorry but your point is invalid, the gear highly surpasses all gear choices for my hybrid style of gameplay and there is simply nothing that beats it, I will not even say what else I want to say for fear of being reported.

Being forced to craft is the reason I left SWTOR.

This gear is only extremely useful in specific builds that are focused on utilizing more than 4 stats.

As far as professions that can use it out of the box, it’s mainly Guardians and Elementalists, but other classes can trait specifically to use it. You don’t need this armor, just like you don’t need berserker gear. You really don’t [need it], you just might want it for a specific build.

it looks like every other exotic crafted gear. its account bound. takes 5 days to make a piece. It mostly class specific, otherwise decent mf gear.

I’m surprised to see in the pictures that it indeed appears to be account bound when crafted. Maybe if we’re really, really nice someone at ANet may consider changing that so that the industrious among us who wish to do so could try and turn a little profit?

Pwease?

Hi, Im trying to catch up. What is this celestial gear? Something pvp/wvw intended?

cesmode.4257:

Hi, Im trying to catch up. What is this celestial gear? Something pvp/wvw intended?

New crafted gear using quartz. It’s an “all stats” based gear. You can see them right here.

A) Charge crystals daily and mine nodes
B) Level armorsmithing
C) Takes a full month for all the crystals you need to make all the inscriptions so continue leveling armorsmithing
D) Craft away
E) Or if you don’t want to, don’t do it

VOLKON.1290:

cesmode.4257:

Hi, Im trying to catch up. What is this celestial gear? Something pvp/wvw intended?

New crafted gear using quartz. It’s an “all stats” based gear. You can see them right here.

And are people whining that this new gear is some how needed to be effective in PVP or some other part of the game?

cesmode.4257:

VOLKON.1290:

cesmode.4257:

Hi, Im trying to catch up. What is this celestial gear? Something pvp/wvw intended?

New crafted gear using quartz. It’s an “all stats” based gear. You can see them right here.

And are people whining that this new gear is some how needed to be effective in PVP or some other part of the game?

I’ve seen some strange arguments, like someone complaining that it was superior gear because it has slightly greater critical damage than berserker gear while ignoring things like math and the fact that reductions in other areas reduce damage. It’s great gear if you want a blend of damage and survivability, plus the added magic find may be a reflection on how ANet had mentioned changing the way MF would be distributed in the future.

You can hit 400 in under 1 hour… and at least something encourages crafting.

cesmode.4257:

And are people whining that this new gear is some how needed to be effective in PVP or some other part of the game?

It seems to be a good replacement for currently existing MF armor sets. Beyond that, it’s nothing great.

In case anyone wants to level up armorsmith quickly for the armors:

http://gw2crafts.net/armorcraft.html

It’ll cost you a little over 9g (with the posibility of recovering a little over 1g by selling the results) to go from 0 to 400 following that guide, assuming you don’t have any of the materials and buy them all from TP.

Um…… Pics show they are not account bound. But soulbound on use. Thus tradeable.
http://dulfy.net/2013/07/08/gw2-quartz-crystals-and-celestial-recipes-guide/

Can somone who has actually crafted it confirm that it is not account bound. Or someone post a picture of one of the armor sets using the code.

If it does show account bound in game. It might be a bug.

anzenketh.3759:

Um…… Pics show they are not account bound. But soulbound on use. Thus tradeable.
http://dulfy.net/2013/07/08/gw2-quartz-crystals-and-celestial-recipes-guide/

Can somone who has actually crafted it confirm that it is not account bound. Or someone post a picture of one of the armor sets using the code.

If it does show account bound in game. It might be a bug.

What are you looking at? Every picture there has “Account Bound” right above “Soulbound on Use”.

I don’t mind the crafting but what i don’t like is that if i want a full set of celestial armor it would take 40 days, what if i also want full celestial trinkets another 40 days what about 2 celestial weapons as well then thats 90 days way too long for me.

anzenketh.3759:

Um…… Pics show they are not account bound. But soulbound on use.

Look at the line just above “soulbound on use” in that pictures.

I was hoping to craft some celestial pieces and use them, but I can see that it takes 5 days to craft a single item and I can’t buy them from TP.

I just don’t understand the reasoning behind this , why would you make the new stat combination bound while it is crafted?

Somebody enlighten me because I am really confused, why are the new crafted items Account bound and are they ever going to get out of that state?

Please discuss this matter.

Astralporing.1957:

anzenketh.3759:

Um…… Pics show they are not account bound. But soulbound on use.

Look at the line just above “soulbound on use” in that pictures.

Oh I see… Um. Ya don’t like. Especially because the recipes will only be around for a limited of time. If there were other ways to get the recipe I would not care. This not only requires me to get 400 crafting but also if I don’t want to spend the 40s to switch around items all the time I have to get multiple characters to level 80. In a short period of time.

- Limited Time Content
- Requires 30 days
- Requires Crafting Mastery
- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.

LAWL.

Kitten! I just finished leveling tailoring on my husbands character. I don’t want to have to do it on mine too. FFS! I make the weapons, he makes the armor. Kitten it Anet! Make it sellable/tradeable!

I have 3 80s, I want the set for all three, too bad that won’t happen.

Daecollo.9578:

- Limited Time Content
- Requires 30 days
- Requires Crafting Mastery
- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.

LAWL.

‘Release it again’? As long as you get the meta achievement (crstyal node) and get the recipes (which you can collect and throw in your bank until you can use them), you can craft it as you produce the materials. It isn’t going away….

- Account Bound.
- 400 Armorsmith
- Only 1 Crystal per Day
- Need Recipe
- Very expensive.
- Only good on Elemetalist

lulz

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Daecollo.9578:

- Limited Time Content
- Requires 30 days
- Requires Crafting Mastery
- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.

LAWL.

‘Release it again’? As long as you get the meta achievement (crstyal node) and get the recipes (which you can collect and throw in your bank until you can use them), you can craft it as you produce the materials. It isn’t going away….

However new players after this event will NEVER be able to get the recipe or armor after the recipes are all sold out.

Now if there was a way to keep up the supply of recipes for example the vendors were available outside of the event area and there permanently this would be a non-issue.

Daecollo.9578:

- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.

Correction. Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will enjoy a clearly superior gear until they decide to release it again.

anzenketh.3759:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Daecollo.9578:

- Limited Time Content
- Requires 30 days
- Requires Crafting Mastery
- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.

LAWL.

‘Release it again’? As long as you get the meta achievement (crstyal node) and get the recipes (which you can collect and throw in your bank until you can use them), you can craft it as you produce the materials. It isn’t going away….

However new players after this event will NEVER be able to get the recipe or armor after the recipes are all sold out.

Now if there was a way to keep up the supply of recipes for example the vendors were available outside of the event area and there permanently this would be a non-issue.

The Mining node and Quartz arnt account/souldbound neither are the Recipes. Just like Halloween Items, new players will have to pay alittle more to get the gear.

I Did Halloween but didnt know about the Crossing, 3 months later I bought the Recipes and materials.

stof.9341:

Daecollo.9578:

- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.

Correction. Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will enjoy a clearly superior gear until they decide to release it again.

Corrected correction: Anyone who doesn’t get the recipes for this gear won’t have this gear available as an option if the Trading Post runs out of them (currently a little over a silver each) until they decide to release it again.

Faux.1937:

anzenketh.3759:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Daecollo.9578:

- Limited Time Content
- Requires 30 days
- Requires Crafting Mastery
- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.

LAWL.

‘Release it again’? As long as you get the meta achievement (crstyal node) and get the recipes (which you can collect and throw in your bank until you can use them), you can craft it as you produce the materials. It isn’t going away….

However new players after this event will NEVER be able to get the recipe or armor after the recipes are all sold out.

Now if there was a way to keep up the supply of recipes for example the vendors were available outside of the event area and there permanently this would be a non-issue.

The Mining node and Quartz arnt account/souldbound neither are the Recipes. Just like Halloween Items, new players will have to pay alittle more to get the gear.

I Did Halloween but didnt know about the Crossing, 3 months later I bought the Recipes and materials.

I’m sure there will be people that get duplicate copies and hang onto them for sale at a later time.

I’m assuming at this point, that the merchants with the boxes that hold the recipes will be gone (at least temporarily) come the end of the event. However, with the story chatter about ‘securing a trade agreement’ between LA and the Bazaar, I do foresee this as becoming a recurring ‘event’ sort of like Darkmoon Faire in WoW. Now, how often it recurs is the big question. If it’s a relatively common thing, then there won’t really be too much issue with the recipes being ‘rare’ or potentially unobtainable.

Faux.1937:

anzenketh.3759:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Daecollo.9578:

- Limited Time Content
- Requires 30 days
- Requires Crafting Mastery
- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.

LAWL.

‘Release it again’? As long as you get the meta achievement (crstyal node) and get the recipes (which you can collect and throw in your bank until you can use them), you can craft it as you produce the materials. It isn’t going away….

However new players after this event will NEVER be able to get the recipe or armor after the recipes are all sold out.

Now if there was a way to keep up the supply of recipes for example the vendors were available outside of the event area and there permanently this would be a non-issue.

The Mining node and Quartz arnt account/souldbound neither are the Recipes. Just like Halloween Items, new players will have to pay alittle more to get the gear.

I Did Halloween but didnt know about the Crossing, 3 months later I bought the Recipes and materials.

I am talking much further down the line. If they are not re-released I can see them eventually being sold out. I am aware that they will be available for a while.

However….. This Living story is easily repeatable with a few modifications and just smells market correction event all over it. I could see this event easily returning whenever a market correction is in order with modifications to what is needed.

I am also not worried for myself. But the new players and the players that miss out on the event.

I am sure ArenaNet will do the right thing. But I am apprehensive on the lack of knowing.

VOLKON.1290:

Corrected correction: Anyone who doesn’t get the recipes for this gear won’t have this gear available as an option if the Trading Post runs out of them (currently a little over a silver each) until they decide to release it again.

And they’ll be forced to use a superior stat set because of that. Life is hard :’(

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Faux.1937:

anzenketh.3759:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Daecollo.9578:

- Limited Time Content
- Requires 30 days
- Requires Crafting Mastery
- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.

LAWL.

‘Release it again’? As long as you get the meta achievement (crstyal node) and get the recipes (which you can collect and throw in your bank until you can use them), you can craft it as you produce the materials. It isn’t going away….

However new players after this event will NEVER be able to get the recipe or armor after the recipes are all sold out.

Now if there was a way to keep up the supply of recipes for example the vendors were available outside of the event area and there permanently this would be a non-issue.

The Mining node and Quartz arnt account/souldbound neither are the Recipes. Just like Halloween Items, new players will have to pay alittle more to get the gear.

I Did Halloween but didnt know about the Crossing, 3 months later I bought the Recipes and materials.

I’m sure there will be people that get duplicate copies and hang onto them for sale at a later time.

I’m assuming at this point, that the merchants with the boxes that hold the recipes will be gone (at least temporarily) come the end of the event. However, with the story chatter about ‘securing a trade agreement’ between LA and the Bazaar, I do foresee this as becoming a recurring ‘event’ sort of like Darkmoon Faire in WoW. Now, how often it recurs is the big question. If it’s a relatively common thing, then there won’t really be too much issue with the recipes being ‘rare’ or potentially unobtainable.

With all the mats Ive been saving up (now they are all gone QQ) Ive bought over 100 supply boxes, I have some recipes that I got more than 20 of, I have a full 18 slot bag of recipes. after I short them out I too will hang on to the extras, not to up the price on TP but for friends and Guildies.

I have over 70 recipes right now (yes many are multiples) and honestly Im trying to get another 100+ Supplies.

I know some ppl with x10 the extra mats as me, I cant imagine how many they have.

I think they will stay in the TP for a long while.

By then Anet will have (Hoping) more recipes and ascended armor.

stof.9341:

VOLKON.1290:

Corrected correction: Anyone who doesn’t get the recipes for this gear won’t have this gear available as an option if the Trading Post runs out of them (currently a little over a silver each) until they decide to release it again.

And they’ll be forced to use a superior stat set because of that. Life is hard :’(

Oh for goodness sake, the point isn’t about whether or not the gear is any use or not. The point is, the OP wants it. Doesn’t matter what YOU think about its superiority or not.

Because ArenaNet

Faux.1937:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Faux.1937:

anzenketh.3759:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Daecollo.9578:

- Limited Time Content
- Requires 30 days
- Requires Crafting Mastery
- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.

LAWL.

‘Release it again’? As long as you get the meta achievement (crstyal node) and get the recipes (which you can collect and throw in your bank until you can use them), you can craft it as you produce the materials. It isn’t going away….

However new players after this event will NEVER be able to get the recipe or armor after the recipes are all sold out.

Now if there was a way to keep up the supply of recipes for example the vendors were available outside of the event area and there permanently this would be a non-issue.

The Mining node and Quartz arnt account/souldbound neither are the Recipes. Just like Halloween Items, new players will have to pay alittle more to get the gear.

I Did Halloween but didnt know about the Crossing, 3 months later I bought the Recipes and materials.

I’m sure there will be people that get duplicate copies and hang onto them for sale at a later time.

I’m assuming at this point, that the merchants with the boxes that hold the recipes will be gone (at least temporarily) come the end of the event. However, with the story chatter about ‘securing a trade agreement’ between LA and the Bazaar, I do foresee this as becoming a recurring ‘event’ sort of like Darkmoon Faire in WoW. Now, how often it recurs is the big question. If it’s a relatively common thing, then there won’t really be too much issue with the recipes being ‘rare’ or potentially unobtainable.

With all the mats Ive been saving up (now they are all gone QQ) Ive bought over 100 supply boxes, I have some recipes that I got more than 20 of, I have a full 18 slot bag of recipes. after I short them out I too will hang on to the extras, not to up the price on TP but for friends and Guildies.

I have over 70 recipes right now (yes many are multiples) and honestly Im trying to get another 100+ Supplies.

I know some ppl with x10 the extra mats as me, I cant imagine how many they have.

I think they will stay in the TP for a long while.

By then Anet will have (Hoping) more recipes and ascended armor.

Well crap, I’m scrambling to gather materials so I can even buy the boxes. XD Hopefully I’ll have your golden luck (knew I should have worked on my lucky title in gw1!) because I need like 3 copies of all of them just for my use (my account, hubby’s account, son’s account)

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Faux.1937:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Faux.1937:

anzenketh.3759:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Daecollo.9578:

- Limited Time Content
- Requires 30 days
- Requires Crafting Mastery
- Anyone who doesn’t get it crafted will be subpar until they decide to release it again.

LAWL.

‘Release it again’? As long as you get the meta achievement (crstyal node) and get the recipes (which you can collect and throw in your bank until you can use them), you can craft it as you produce the materials. It isn’t going away….

However new players after this event will NEVER be able to get the recipe or armor after the recipes are all sold out.

Now if there was a way to keep up the supply of recipes for example the vendors were available outside of the event area and there permanently this would be a non-issue.

The Mining node and Quartz arnt account/souldbound neither are the Recipes. Just like Halloween Items, new players will have to pay alittle more to get the gear.

I Did Halloween but didnt know about the Crossing, 3 months later I bought the Recipes and materials.

I’m sure there will be people that get duplicate copies and hang onto them for sale at a later time.

I’m assuming at this point, that the merchants with the boxes that hold the recipes will be gone (at least temporarily) come the end of the event. However, with the story chatter about ‘securing a trade agreement’ between LA and the Bazaar, I do foresee this as becoming a recurring ‘event’ sort of like Darkmoon Faire in WoW. Now, how often it recurs is the big question. If it’s a relatively common thing, then there won’t really be too much issue with the recipes being ‘rare’ or potentially unobtainable.

With all the mats Ive been saving up (now they are all gone QQ) Ive bought over 100 supply boxes, I have some recipes that I got more than 20 of, I have a full 18 slot bag of recipes. after I short them out I too will hang on to the extras, not to up the price on TP but for friends and Guildies.

I have over 70 recipes right now (yes many are multiples) and honestly Im trying to get another 100+ Supplies.

I know some ppl with x10 the extra mats as me, I cant imagine how many they have.

I think they will stay in the TP for a long while.

By then Anet will have (Hoping) more recipes and ascended armor.

Well crap, I’m scrambling to gather materials so I can even buy the boxes. XD Hopefully I’ll have your golden luck (knew I should have worked on my lucky title in gw1!) because I need like 3 copies of all of them just for my use (my account, hubby’s account, son’s account)

I dont craft to level 80, I love saving all my stuff, never know when you will need it, I even save all Salvage materials for the dailies/monthlies I have 2 bank tabs just for materials and Salv goods.

It really comes in handing. I dont like to turn t1/2/3/4 into higher tier mats, they all kinda easy to get, if you salv lots of armors you will get the cotton, linen, wool etc… I salv weapons too on all my alts that I level, and I level them up by map completion, yes it may take a while but thats part of the fun, I have my 2 main level 80s the others are just to learn the other classes, to have fun and most of all, get all the mats/salv for my mains

I do understnad that +all stats armor is/sounds sweat! and 30% of the players that are playing 70% the time know its not he “best” gear and would rather have Zerk or Knights and they know when to dodge and when to attack.

But for the 70% of the players that only play 30% of the time, dont know all the tricks and mechanics of the mobs, they dont have the time to invest into the game like others.

IMO it is a great way for the 70% of players that only play 30% the time to have a neat little thing to do daily, (An actually easy to get reward) for armor fit for there needs, they need something that can help them do some damage (the high Crit dam) the power/prec something that can help them live if they fail a dodge (toughness/vit), something to help with sutain damage and to recover fast while still hurting them (healing and Condition) all at the same time giving them a better chance to get loot/money (MF) b.c of lack of playing.

IMO this is great for a perosn that likes to get on once a day for maybe 1-2 hours at most, do a daily routine and get off.

it has a long term goal, it doesnt take long to do, and its simple.

Dont forget that not everyone plays all the time and things need to be added for those players too.

I can see anet doing a few more of these in the future.

Riss.1536:

How can people craft it yet ? I thought the quartz or whatever were time gated…
And how do you know you can’t sell it ? You didn’t craft it…

It only seems to be time gated as far as globs of ecto are concerned which is very much a positive imo, we’re not trying to get materials that never drop for some people except ectos which aren’t really too expensive to receive right now.

I have to say this is a better system imo for this armor. Looks like they are trying to place these things within the reach of the average player in this case.