Guild Wars 2

With the impending increase of all crafting to 500, please tell me the recipes for the legendaries will not change and the gifts required through personal crafting will remain at 400.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the recipes did get changed to require level 500. Judging from their past actions, Anet always takes the opportunity to have you grind more.

It would indeed be quite logical to increase the requirements of said items, since it would be quite silly that you could create something Legendary at a certain skill, but being able to create “less awesome” weapons required more skill.

hmmm Might be prudent to buy the recipes now and at least craft the one gift I can.

I’m assuming you’re speaking of the Gift recipes, and not the precursor recipes said to be released in the future at some point (next year sometime is the latest eta I believe). I wouldn’t think the Gift recipes would shift requirement levels at all. Crafting a gift for a legendary is very different than crafting a precursor itself, which will most likely require 500.

A crafted Gift is only a piece of a much larger puzzle. Crafting a gift for a legendary is indeed “less awesome” than an ascended weapon, since it is useless unless it is combined to create a legendary weapon.

J Season.9156:

I’m assuming you’re speaking of the Gift recipes, and not the precursor recipes said to be released in the future at some point (next year sometime is the latest eta I believe). I wouldn’t think the Gift recipes would shift requirement levels at all. Crafting a gift for a legendary is very different than crafting a precursor itself, which will most likely require 500.

A crafted Gift is only a piece of a much larger puzzle. Crafting a gift for a legendary is indeed “less awesome” than an ascended weapon, since it is useless unless it is combined to create a legendary weapon.

Yes, I’m talking about the gifts. (Gift of Color, Gift of Energy, etc.) Making them require 500, would make the legendary much more expensive and more grind and GW2 is oh so much grind now.

I can imagine the outrage when they are suddenly upgraded to require level 500 crafting. There will surely be lots of people who were 1 day or 1 week or 1 month away from getting their gifts when the update pops and they will be angry!

And Anet will probably state that they intended to give notice but forgot.

It would probably make me angry enough to leave the game again. It’s not like I have a shortage of games to play and the Steam Xmas sales aren’t far away so I can get more games I don’t have time to play.