Guild Wars 2

Jewelcrafting 500 on march 18th update?

CrazyDuck.4610:

Jewelcrafting 500 on march 18th update?

Signs point to no, says the magic 8 ball.

That patch is confirmed to be the removal of the current living story content, an epilogue if you will.

It is also confirmed there are no feature updates for that patch. Of course what the word feature might extend to is somewhat unclear, but the general consensus is no balance, item, skill, rune, sigil, or trait changes will be in that patch.

It seems rather likely no major crafting change would sneak into a “maintenance” patch

Rennoko.5731:

CrazyDuck.4610:

Jewelcrafting 500 on march 18th update?

Signs point to no, says the magic 8 ball.

That patch is confirmed to be the removal of the current living story content, an epilogue if you will.

It is also confirmed there are no feature updates for that patch. Of course what the word feature might extend to is somewhat unclear, but the general consensus is no balance, item, skill, rune, sigil, or trait changes will be in that patch.

It seems rather likely no major crafting change would sneak into a “maintenance” patch

It is possible it could sneak in. Considering thats the date balance overhaul of sigils and runes and skill/trait nerfs/buffs are supposedly going into it.

I know some items are set up for it, but I don’t see them going to 500 any time soon with jewelry or cooking.
The logical product of jeweler 500 would be ascended jewelry, but that is already limited to laurel vendors, and so on. So it’s tied up in that respect.

Anet’s developers need to find something for jewelers to make in the first place before they can move forward with taking it to 500.

Neural.1824:

Anet’s developers need to find something for jewelers to make in the first place before they can move forward with taking it to 500.

Legendary accessories, rings and stuff?

Neural.1824:

I know some items are set up for it, but I don’t see them going to 500 any time soon with jewelry or cooking.
The logical product of jeweler 500 would be ascended jewelry, but that is already limited to laurel vendors, and so on. So it’s tied up in that respect.

Anet’s developers need to find something for jewelers to make in the first place before they can move forward with taking it to 500.

Except not every stat is buyable with laurels/guild comms/fractal relics which would be the purpose of doing this and would offer another way to get the jewelry. Do you know of anyway to get an ascended amulet for other than laurels/laurels+badges other than the triforge pendant (which costs kittened amounts of gold to craft anyway)? There’s more than 1 way to get armor/weapons (non ascended gear anyway) you can buy it with gold or karma, craft it, be stupidly lucky and have it drop, or do dungeons and trade the tokens in.

We already have 3 (crystalline ore/ingots, and xunlai electrum ingots) things in the ascended crafts section in the bank. They probably have something to do with the jeweler so they might as well just use em already.

Basically if they release ascended jewel crafting you’ll finally be able to get the exact stats you wanted for your ascended trinkets that aren’t buyable from the merchant like magi’s and assassins (you can’t buy ascended assassins or magi’s trinkets and the only way to have them currently is to have had old magic find ascended and have picked them).

Travis, I don’t think that introducing a second method of obtaining ascended jewelry would fly very well at Anet. They have a lot of time and such invested into creating the laurel market. If Ascended jewelry is suddenly craftable, within a month I would think there would be a huge drop in participation in dailies, which, going by their past actions, seem very important to Anet.

I don’t know, maybe you are right. In my opinion, it just doesn’t seem to fit.

I would imagine that the most sensible level 500 jewelcrafting items would be ascended versions of the upgrade jewels. So something like combining 10 ruby jewels to make an ascended ruby