Guild Wars 2

Disclaimer: I’m absolutely not complaining about this. I like the journey of going for a legendary item, and I know that the journey towards something is generally more exciting that the afterglow of having achieved said thing.

Question is simple. I didn’t log in to Guild Wars 2 for almost a year, and now I see that prices for legendaries and precursors have almost doubled. Ectoplasm prices (one of the important components) have only increased by about 15%, so: what has happened to legendaries and precursors to make their prices go up so much?

Ectos are much, much easier to obtain now with the introduction of magic find, champion bags and a lot more bosses and guaranteed yellows that come with them. The precursor drop rate hasn’t increased by as much and are also subject to marketeers using the trading post to increase profits.

Greed/unwillingness to farm World Bosses for RNG precursors for the majority

the inflation of gold

The introduction of the wardrobe is the biggest factor behind precursor/Legendary prices right now: create one Legendary and every character on your account that can use that kind of weapon can reskin his weapon with it. It’s easier to dual wield Incinerator and other one-handed weapons too.

Beside that, you’re competing with other players who also want their own Legendary, as the game ages more players have bigger piles of gold to throw at them. Keep at it, and eventually those with bigger piles of gold will get their Legendaries and drop out of the competition, while your pile of gold gets bigger and eventually you will have the biggest pile of gold to throw at it.