Guild Wars 2

So I tried my luck and asked support if it would be possible to trade a gift I have. Since i’ve regretted what legendary I want to craft.
As I expected they weren’t allowed to do that xD

But I just don’t get why they can’t be made sellable on trading post? I mean, if you are allowed to sell the legendary, why not “gift of -insert legendary-” ?

I can imagine other people regretting aswell, especially if they loot another precursor, or begin to play another class more, that uses different wep types etc.

It’s just really depressing to look at 200-400 g (I don’t remember what the gift is worth xD) laying in my bank that I don’t feel motivated to craft. I would do it just to list it on tp for maybe months before it sells.
Plus, the other legendary I want I would get much faster cause of cheap precursor.
I have only crafted legendaries to keep so far, and don’t really feel like changing that. The journey feels like a part of the legendary ^^
Just to add, i’m fully aware of it beeing my own fault. I should have just waited with the gift to the end. But, it’s an expensive mistake to make, so would be so nice to be able to get rid off it, for more than 6 silver !!!! (troll a bit harder anet ^^)

Please consider this anet.

If there is some huge reason I’m missing to why this wouldn’t be good, then pls let me know ..

If people could profit on the gifts or something on the tp .. Don’t really know if that would be a problem, then maybe a vendor who could trade the gift into something else would be a solution. Since there is difference on the pricing, he could charge a 50 g fee or something :P

I dont think Arenanet is going to change some options to make it tradeable just for 1 person that maked a mistake.

I think one reason is because they concentrate storage for mats.
Usually, you can store 250 mats in 1 slot, if you store a gift, it includes 4×250 mats.
If the gift stacks as well, which i believe it does, you can potentially store 250k mats in one storage slot.

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

I dont think Arenanet is going to change some options to make it tradeable just for 1 person that maked a mistake.

Well, probably not .. But it’s worth a shot
And I doubt i’m the only one this have ever happened to ^^ Many idiots like me in game

Wanze.8410:

I think one reason is because they concentrate storage for mats.
Usually, you can store 250 mats in 1 slot, if you store a gift, it includes 4×250 mats.
If the gift stacks as well, which i believe it does, you can potentially store 250k mats in one storage slot.

Hmm, maybe ur right .. Maybe they could add a vendor thou, like I wrote before:
“If people could profit on the gifts or something on the tp .. Don’t really know if that would be a problem, then maybe a vendor who could trade the gift into something else would be a solution. Since there is difference on the pricing, he could charge a 50 g fee or something :P”

jokke.6239:

Wanze.8410:

I think one reason is because they concentrate storage for mats.
Usually, you can store 250 mats in 1 slot, if you store a gift, it includes 4×250 mats.
If the gift stacks as well, which i believe it does, you can potentially store 250k mats in one storage slot.

Hmm, maybe ur right .. Maybe they could add a vendor thou, like I wrote before:
“If people could profit on the gifts or something on the tp .. Don’t really know if that would be a problem, then maybe a vendor who could trade the gift into something else would be a solution. Since there is difference on the pricing, he could charge a 50 g fee or something :P”

Exchange for a different gift is troublesome with a flat fee because some gifts overvalue other ones by morethan a couple of hundred gold.
Making them salvageable might be a solution but the return must be lower that what you used to make the gift (maybe only get 2/4 random ingredients back), if you get all mats back, people will use it as concentrated storage.

Just finish the legendary that you were going for originally and then sell it on the tp and buy the one you want now.

Taku.6352:

Just finish the legendary that you were going for originally and then sell it on the tp and buy the one you want now.

Did you read my post?

your best bet would probably be to craft the legendary regardless, since this thing is account bound (its doubtful that it will ever be a TP item). You could then either equip it anyway or just sell it on TP.

Regardless of what you do with it, this is a painful choice to have to make. Hopefully they’ll find a way to make it less painful in the future though.

jokke.6239:

Taku.6352:

Just finish the legendary that you were going for originally and then sell it on the tp and buy the one you want now.

Did you read my post?

Yes and I still stand by my statement.

You would still do “The Journey” of crafting a legendary (not that it’s exactly hard) and you’d still get the legendary that you wish for.

How about they make them salvageable to the mats used to make it? Might be an option.

munkiman.3068:

How about they make them salvageable to the mats used to make it? Might be an option.

Still exploitable for concentrated storage.

Wanze.8410:

munkiman.3068:

How about they make them salvageable to the mats used to make it? Might be an option.

Still exploitable for concentrated storage.

Meh, i wouldn’t call storage consolidation an exploit. They could sell kits that break em down in the gem shop i suppose.