Guild Wars 2

I know this problem was (for the most part) addressed with the reintroduction of Celestial with the fateful Zephyrite visit, but there are some recipes that are outrageously expensive, in particular Zealot’s. With the trait overhauls coming on Tuesday there is a surge in interest in build diversity, and someone had the foresight at 2:00pm today (et) to buy every single Gossamer and Orichalcum recipe and relist them 30g more expensive. There were only 25 of each of them to begin with so I can’t imagine it was that hard or ridiculously expensive to do. But the fact that the two recipes together cost 110g is fairly unacceptable. Isnt manipulating the market in this way against the supposed “code of conduct” anyway? You can see for yourself here:

https://www.gw2tp.com/item/49734-recipe-zealots-orichalcum-imbued-inscription

https://www.gw2tp.com/item/49735-recipe-zealots-intricate-gossamer-insignia

tboneking.2531:

Isnt manipulating the market in this way against the supposed “code of conduct” anyway?

Where does it say that?

You know I can’t honestly remember where I saw that, so that specific part may not be true, but I believe I heard mention that ANET frowned upon that behavior in the TP guides that I have read.

I don’t know if this is against the CoC, but considering we haven’t seen this since Marionette, Scarlet’s Base, and Battle for LA, it seems reasonable that at the very least account bound versions could find a way to the Laurel Vendor like other Season 1 rewards.

tboneking.2531:

You know I can’t honestly remember where I saw that, so that specific part may not be true, but I believe I heard mention that ANET frowned upon that behavior in the TP guides that I have read.

It’s not market manipulation though. The individual(s) who did that are simply taking advantage of a predicted sudden increase in demand of a particular commodity.

The risk is still on the person performing the transaction, it’s like an investment. If it turns out that the demand for those recipes is lower than expected, they may run into issues selling them at that price, and may actually have to end up selling them at a loss.

If the individual had performed such action based on inside knowledge, then it would violate the code of conduct. However, it’s been changes to the way builds are being setup as well as the attributes being removed from trait lines has been announced quite some time ago, so it is reasonable to expect that people would have a higher demand for such items as they redesigned builds.

I imagine this has to do with the announcement that they will allow for ascended gear to have it’s stats swapped, for which an insignia or inscription of the new stats is required. Since ascended zealot’s recipes are extremely expensive, it will generally be cheaper to swap stats by crafting the incscriptions/insignias instead. Thus, there was a price differential there that the individual(s) have attempted to cash in on.

Simple buying and reselling based on educated guessing like this is not against any sort of rules.

However, making older recipes available again in some respect is a discussion worth having, especially since the recipes for those items are exorbitantly expensive and make build options using those stats for newer players simply impractical due to the cost barrier.