Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I along with many others constantly build up materials we rarely use. The majority we are able to sell on the Trading Post. However, then we come to Account bound materials. These are useful initially, but having already created ascended armour and weapons, i now have stacks of the ascended mats in my bank (i’ve screenshotted how many! – 11250 for those interested).

My question to Anet is this: Is it worthwhile holding on to these mats? Will they possibly be used for anything other than ascended armour? Or will they have another use… thinking potions on Artificer, or maybe even Ascended Jewels.

Anyone who runs the EotM karma train or WvW in general will build up vast amounts, but if you have ascended equipment (which is all account bound and not sellable) then whats the point of keeping this dust? The sheer amount given to us from champ boxes is ridiculous.

The thing is, we were told with regards to blade shards, that we should keep them so that during the zepherites sanctum, we could sell them. However, the rewards were mostly Masterwork items and hardly worth the storage space. I would have dumped them straight away.

What i would like from Anet is just a quick comment on what they see the use of Bloodstone Dust. Is it likely to have another use within the next 6 months. Because then i suggest many people will likely dump their dust! Is it worth converting to bricks? I wouldn’t want to convert it to get 250 bricks and then have Anet tell us we need the dust!

Any thoughts? Also would be interesting to see who has the most amount of stacks of dust!

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloodstone_Dust

for bricks..

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloodstone_Brick

There ya go…

I am aware of the information on Guild Wiki. The bricks are barely worth anything useful apart from ascended crystals. As for the dust, i said i have all ascended equipment, with the toxic cons being the most useful, however its actually cheaper to buy straight off the trading post, rather than go through the effort to craft. I believe there is an over abundance of Ascended mats – hence Dragonite Ore and Empyreal Fragments which can’t be used for anything other than crystals!!!

You can already use Bloodstone Dust in Toxic Nourishments, which can be sold for profit, so there are posibilities to cash in on them. I am pretty sure that these mats will never be directly tradeable because it would defeat their purpose. They got introduced so you complete certain content in order to get ascended gear.
One problem Anet has with introducing new uses for them (especially uses that would give you profit) is that so many peope have this stuff stockpiled.
Any recipe that they would introduce that would potentially give you a profit margin, will be neglectable because the market would be flooded with those items.
I am sure that they will introduce new ways of using up vision crystals, like they already done in the past with back pieces.
So you can either speculate on that, refine your raw mats and store them in your collectible tab or not. You have to keep in mind that you propably are a hardcore player and therefore get alot of these mats. But any future use of these mats will have to be balanced by Anet, so casual players can reach those goals as well. So i dont think they will release a sink for them that you can “spam”.
I would suggest that you keep a certain stock of refined mats in your collectible tab for future use and destroy the rest of the unrefined ones, if you want to use the bank space for something else. Its highly likely that you will need bricks, Ingots and Shards at a same rate, so especially your dust is pretty worthless, if you dont craft the nourishments.

I agree there are possibilities to cash them in, but compared to other mats, hardly any at all. I think they need to remove bloodstone dust from champ bags as its just ridiculous. Also prices rises in mats are happening more and more. I think u should be able to convert bloodstone dust into a NON account bound material.

Wanze.8410:

You can already use Bloodstone Dust in Toxic Nourishments, (…)

Are the recipes still available?

Edit: Ok, I assume laurels and 15g would be an option …

Wanze.8410:

You can already use Bloodstone Dust in Toxic Nourishments, which can be sold for profit

They all sell at a loss, except for the oil which is only a 6 silver profit atm, which will probably dissappear after this post.

They need to reduce the non-dust ingredients for those consumables. They make it too expensive.

Mikei The Mighty.8690:

I agree there are possibilities to cash them in, but compared to other mats, hardly any at all. I think they need to remove bloodstone dust from champ bags as its just ridiculous. Also prices rises in mats are happening more and more. I think u should be able to convert bloodstone dust into a NON account bound material.

Or rather than removing it from champ bags, you can just delete it from your inventory. It’s not a complicated or difficult process.

I know its not a complicated process…. so why give it to us in the first place? I thought Anet didn’t want us to HAVE to delete anything?