Guild Wars 2

I had an idea for obtaining an item from the mystic forge through actually crafting it instead of throwing random weapons into it.

The first ingrediant would be an ascended weapon that corresponds to the weapon you want (EX: you use an ascended longbow to get Leaf of Kudzu, you use a greatsword to get dawn/dusk). The second would be a new item: Gift of the Precursor. The recipe would be purchased from the mystic forge attendant for the usual 10 gold. It would be crafted from 15 Deldrimor Ingots, 15 Spiritwood Planks, 15 Elonian Leather Squares, and 15 Bolts of Damask. It would be availible to all 8 crafting professions at level 450 (obviously cooking and jewelcrafting cant make it yet). The third ingrediant would be 100 Exotic Luck Essence. The fourth would be 100 ectos.

The prices of precursors would probably decline if this were implemented, but i dont think rares/exotics/ectos/crystal dust would decline much from this due to the ecto requirement and the fact that people would still use the old method if exotics declined in price by much.

If crafting an exotic from ascended materials/weapons bothers anyone, perhaps precursors could have their own color for the name (red maybe?) and have their stats buffed to ascended level to compensate.

Thoughts?

Gobble D Goop.4081:

I had an idea for obtaining an item from the mystic forge through actually crafting it instead of throwing random weapons into it.

The first ingrediant would be an ascended weapon that corresponds to the weapon you want (EX: you use an ascended longbow to get Leaf of Kudzu, you use a greatsword to get dawn/dusk). The second would be a new item: Gift of the Precursor. The recipe would be purchased from the mystic forge attendant for the usual 10 gold. It would be crafted from 15 Deldrimor Ingots, 15 Spiritwood Planks, 15 Elonian Leather Squares, and 15 Bolts of Damask. It would be availible to all 8 crafting professions at level 450 (obviously cooking and jewelcrafting cant make it yet). The third ingrediant would be 100 Exotic Luck Essence. The fourth would be 100 ectos.

The prices of precursors would probably decline if this were implemented, but i dont think rares/exotics/ectos/crystal dust would decline much from this due to the ecto requirement and the fact that people would still use the old method if exotics declined in price by much.

If crafting an exotic from ascended materials/weapons bothers anyone, perhaps precursors could have their own color for the name (red maybe?) and have their stats buffed to ascended level to compensate.
Thoughts?

I like the idea. At least the crafting process. I think “Gift of Precursor” is a bit silly though. XD

Yoroiookami.3485:

I like the idea. At least the crafting process. I think “Gift of Precursor” is a bit silly though. XD

the name or the material requirement? I did the materials that high because it is still a precursor. The drop rate is severely small, so the requirement for making one should be crazy (although higher than that would not be outside of the realm of possibility). If it’s just the name thats silly, well, i couldnt think of anything better to name it.

Well 1 or 2 legendaries are still very good and the new precursor system would work great for newly introduced legendaries

Gobble D Goop.4081:

Yoroiookami.3485:

I like the idea. At least the crafting process. I think “Gift of Precursor” is a bit silly though. XD

the name or the material requirement? I did the materials that high because it is still a precursor. The drop rate is severely small, so the requirement for making one should be crazy (although higher than that would not be outside of the realm of possibility). If it’s just the name thats silly, well, i couldnt think of anything better to name it.

I meant the name. =)

Or you know, you could just buy one.

Also, with your current method, I could make like 10 precursors right now. It’s not even the least bit difficult and it’s very cheap.

calyx.9086:

Or you know, you could just buy one.

Also, with your current method, I could make like 10 precursors right now. It’s not even the least bit difficult and it’s very cheap.

you have that many mats in your bank? im not sure i buy that. The 15 of the 4 ascended, sellable crafting mats would set you back a lot of money if you were to strait up buy them:
Currently they are listed as
Deldrimor: roughly 3 gold each X 15 = 90 gold
Spiritwood: a little under 3 gold each X 15 = 90 gold (roughly)
Elonian Squares: about 1.5 gold each X 15 = 45 gold
Damask: 16.5 gold as a buy order… X 15 = 247.5 gold
totalling 472.5 gold and that is just for the Gift of Precursor. you also have to get 100 ectos (not difficult) and 100 Exotic Essence of Luck (that might take a while)

according to current prices, this isnt that much cheaper than just buying one. This would also add more to the economy (which is severely limited by the current options)

Gobble D Goop.4081:

calyx.9086:

Or you know, you could just buy one.

Also, with your current method, I could make like 10 precursors right now. It’s not even the least bit difficult and it’s very cheap.

you have that many mats in your bank? im not sure i buy that. The 15 of the 4 ascended, sellable crafting mats would set you back a lot of money if you were to strait up buy them:
Currently they are listed as
Deldrimor: roughly 3 gold each X 15 = 90 gold
Spiritwood: a little under 3 gold each X 15 = 90 gold (roughly)
Elonian Squares: about 1.5 gold each X 15 = 45 gold
Damask: 16.5 gold as a buy order… X 15 = 247.5 gold
totalling 472.5 gold and that is just for the Gift of Precursor. you also have to get 100 ectos (not difficult) and 100 Exotic Essence of Luck (that might take a while)

according to current prices, this isnt that much cheaper than just buying one. This would also add more to the economy (which is severely limited by the current options)

I think you made some math error and you also need to consider damask you can craft for 14 gold yourself daily. I think it’s around 360gold including the ecto(if I didn’t make math error).

15*3 = 45
1.5*15 = 22.5

I think account-bound precursors should be able to be crafted in the MF with the following recipe:

1 Gift of Exploration
1 Gift of Battle
1 Reward from a PVP reward track (un-opened)
1 Pact Victory Token

If you choose this method, you’d be limited to 1 legendary per char, and # of chars legendaries per account. So to get a free precursor, you’d have to level a char up to 80, complete story, map completion, use a reward from a pvp track which takes a minimum of four days, and a use a gift of battle.

laokoko.7403:

I think you made some math error and you also need to consider damask you can craft for 14 gold yourself daily. I think it’s around 360gold including the ecto(if I didn’t make math error).

15*3 = 45
1.5*15 = 22.5

Ouch, i guess i need more sleep.
With the revised numbers that would be
45 for Deldrimor and Spiritwood, 22.5 for Elonian, and 210 for Damask (at 14 each).
322.5 for gift. Ectos are about 40 silver each so yeah 360 for gift and ectos.

Krisztian.8405:

I think account-bound precursors should be able to be crafted in the MF with the following recipe:

1 Gift of Exploration
1 Gift of Battle
1 Reward from a PVP reward track (un-opened)
1 Pact Victory Token

If you choose this method, you’d be limited to 1 legendary per char, and # of chars legendaries per account. So to get a free precursor, you’d have to level a char up to 80, complete story, map completion, use a reward from a pvp track which takes a minimum of four days, and a use a gift of battle.

Except that most of us have spent our pact victory tokens already…

Having spent my token as well, I feel ya. But that’s the price of free.

Using ascended crafting mats is a terrible idea.

Damask is already expensive and would increase in price a tremendous amount.