Guild Wars 2

Gold and Silver are only used in jewel-crafting, and the occasional weird recipe on some other profession or the Mystic Toilet.

Since Jewelcrafting is currently mostly useless, with everyone and their mother getting directly their Ascended gizmos with laurels. That leaves Gold and Silver ores mostly useless with a dirt cheap price on the TP, and their tab in most people’s bank maxed out.

However, when it comes to artificer, one would expect that he’ll use the beautiful materials to make the tops of his magic catalysts. It’s not like they are directly hitting anyone with them… most of the time.
Instead we use the the “Jack of all trades” Iron, that’s already being used on 2 other profession, and on 3 tiers of their equipment for each.
So now we are in that weird place where Iron is more expensive than Gold and Silver.

Soooo…..
How about, having the artificer profession use Gold, Silver and platinum in place of Iron, Iron and Iron.
It makes more sense for those items to look fancier, and it makes more sense on how the usefulness of each material is divided.

If A-net wants the dowels to be similar as the other offensive professions, they can leave that part of Iron in their recipe, but the cores and heads of the weapon should be made of Silver, Gold and Platinum.
Alternatively, they can change the infusions to be more similar to Jewelcrafting, as most gem have also reached rock bottom, and would make more sense for them to exist in a magic casting item.

Changing the mid-range stuff for Artificer to use Gold and Silver wouldn’t really do anything, as there aren’t enough people who still need to level Artificer to make any significant dent in the surpluses of those materials that already exist.

Ooooor we could finally get 500 jeweler and along with it a way to reliably attain Quad-Stat-Trinkets by crafting them. Xunlai Electrum Ingots were supposed to use Gold and Silver.

Would solve two problems in one go.

Electro.4173:

Changing the mid-range stuff for Artificer to use Gold and Silver wouldn’t really do anything, as there aren’t enough people who still need to level Artificer to make any significant dent in the surpluses of those materials that already exist.

I’m spending whole gold coins on Linen scraps every day to make my self an ascended. Don’t tell me that the low tier mats are not being used beyond leveling!

Besides, the problem stands, and even if most existing players have passed over, and it’s never to late to fix it.

Redoing systems over and over and over and over were part of the reason for not having new content for so long. I see no reason to do this.

Kite.2510:

Gold and Silver are only used in jewel-crafting, and the occasional weird recipe on some other profession or the Mystic Toilet.

You left out Scribe. Scribing kits used in various decorations take silver or gold pen nibs, and those decorations become components in higher tiers, so the gold and silver won’t only be useful during a leveling window.

Is there a reason why Jewelers cannot craft ascended items? Would finally make Gold and Silver actually worth something, plus give players options other than laurels and guild commendation tokens.

Mitch.4781:

Is there a reason why Jewelers cannot craft ascended items? Would finally make Gold and Silver actually worth something, plus give players options other than laurels and guild commendation tokens.

I believe that the only reason we can’t is to give people a good laurel sink with ascended trinkets (even though now there are plenty of other ways to get them so its less helpful). Other than that I can’t think of a reason to not give us the ability to get 500 jewelcrafting and make ascended trinkets

I would like to see chef and jeweler expanded to 500. Maybe in the next expansion, who knows?

OriOri.8724:

Mitch.4781:

Is there a reason why Jewelers cannot craft ascended items? Would finally make Gold and Silver actually worth something, plus give players options other than laurels and guild commendation tokens.

I believe that the only reason we can’t is to give people a good laurel sink with ascended trinkets (even though now there are plenty of other ways to get them so its less helpful). Other than that I can’t think of a reason to not give us the ability to get 500 jewelcrafting and make ascended trinkets

Quad-Stat-Trinkets are the new hype for plenty of builds/players, which you can’t get through laurels anyway. At this point its more “making you farm the new maps” I assume.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

OriOri.8724:

Mitch.4781:

Is there a reason why Jewelers cannot craft ascended items? Would finally make Gold and Silver actually worth something, plus give players options other than laurels and guild commendation tokens.

I believe that the only reason we can’t is to give people a good laurel sink with ascended trinkets (even though now there are plenty of other ways to get them so its less helpful). Other than that I can’t think of a reason to not give us the ability to get 500 jewelcrafting and make ascended trinkets

Quad-Stat-Trinkets are the new hype for plenty of builds/players, which you can’t get through laurels anyway. At this point its more “making you farm the new maps” I assume.

Most of these Quad stat gear looses lots of it’s value since it’s much more expensive and convoluted to build, usually requiring a recipe thus not giving much in terms of EXP, and generally doing little more that a well choose three stat gear combination couldn’t do, with half the money and effort. Also, since you can’t buy/sell them on the tradepost, they are kind of useless beyond those who need them for a specific build.

That’s a topic for another “How about” thread…

CMM.6712:

Redoing systems over and over and over and over were part of the reason for not having new content for so long. I see no reason to do this.

There’s a bit if a difference between redoing systems and adding more crafting levels

How about throwing gold and silver in the toilet and allowing Zom-the-bog-troll to give you back X mystic coins?

Fermi.2409:

CMM.6712:

Redoing systems over and over and over and over were part of the reason for not having new content for so long. I see no reason to do this.

There’s a bit if a difference between redoing systems and adding more crafting levels

I realize that, read the OP again. I’m stating I don’t like the OP’s idea, then came back to say but I do agree with expanding to 500.

Kite.2510:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

OriOri.8724:

Mitch.4781:

Is there a reason why Jewelers cannot craft ascended items? Would finally make Gold and Silver actually worth something, plus give players options other than laurels and guild commendation tokens.

I believe that the only reason we can’t is to give people a good laurel sink with ascended trinkets (even though now there are plenty of other ways to get them so its less helpful). Other than that I can’t think of a reason to not give us the ability to get 500 jewelcrafting and make ascended trinkets

Quad-Stat-Trinkets are the new hype for plenty of builds/players, which you can’t get through laurels anyway. At this point its more “making you farm the new maps” I assume.

Most of these Quad stat gear looses lots of it’s value since it’s much more expensive and convoluted to build, usually requiring a recipe thus not giving much in terms of EXP, and generally doing little more that a well choose three stat gear combination couldn’t do, with half the money and effort. Also, since you can’t buy/sell them on the tradepost, they are kind of useless beyond those who need them for a specific build.

That’s a topic for another “How about” thread…

Most condi builds require vipers gear to some degree
Backpacks in general still can’t be crafted and are often annoying to acquire
Xunlai Electrum Ingots and the refined jewels could be sold
Three-stat-combos can still be crafted, no issue there
etc.