Guild Wars 2

They just don’t seem worth using for their price, particularly since you can’t use with in wuvwuv and mesmers are a good addition to most dungeon teams anyway. Why were these made to be so obscenely expensive?

I would love to know this too, why implementing something that isn’t nearly worth it’s price. What was the idea behind this? Compared to the teleportation gun which costs 32 copper… hmmmm

Watchwork Portal Device:

5 Orichalcum Ingot
1 Charged Lodestone
250 Watchwork Sprocket
2 Master Tuning Crystal

Maybe IF we’d gotten more Charged stones in these Coffers….

(but no…. they thought Drips of Karma and Masterworks would be so much better than guaranteed Slivers which MIGHT be charged …. but most of the time would probably just be crystal/molten knowing the RNG).

I dunno who decides their Drop tables but it’s pretty clear when you look at popular opinion that they should find someone else for it who actually understands “Incremental Relationships”. This All or Nothing approach just makes people give up entirely.

The problem with adding more valuable goods to the coffers is that those goods won;t be so valuable then. Look at how many coffers you get from farming the Cursed Shores.

That’s kind of the whole point though… People are just farming lottery tickets right now.

And it’s not helping the supply of things that are incredibly disproportionate to the exact equivalents of those items in their own loot class. IE: compare Glacial Cores to Charged Cores and then despair…. Are “Icy” themed mobs 10x more common than Electric ones?? No they’re not. It’s the RNG & Crafting systems and the complete lack of any means for generating a steady flow of these incremental materials that eventually would allow the market to “correct itself”.

Crystal Dust for example was in this same exact place 2 months ago. They eventually HAD to fix that…. and they sorta did (It’s still 3 to 4x more expensive than it should be though b/c again, the salvage table has such poor probabilities in it). And that’s working out okay for everyone. They can do the same thing with other shortages if they stop this binary lottery approach and let the players have some say in the supply.

Maybe you want to check out this post from last week Watchwork Portal Device Recipe?!

There was some discussion on if the Portal Device was worthwhile or not.

LM*O, so many clueless responses in that thread…

But no, there’s never any casual reason for this thing with it’s current Crafting Cost.
I’m leveling up a mesmer right now purely on Crafting which so far is only 1/2 the price of a single Lodestone after calculating Losses (the majority of which are for things like Coal, Thread, and Water jugs … which means I’m actually breaking even on every other material)

very expensive wvw device. could be useful when Mesmer is not around. Don’t underestimate the amount of gold thrown around in wvw.

Hell Avenger.7021:

very expensive wvw device. could be useful when Mesmer is not around. Don’t underestimate the amount of gold thrown around in wvw.

It can’t be used in WvW.

Blaine Tog.8304:

Hell Avenger.7021:

very expensive wvw device. could be useful when Mesmer is not around. Don’t underestimate the amount of gold thrown around in wvw.

It can’t be used in WvW.

well… that is a very “thought out” device then.