Guild Wars 2

What is the logic in time-gating crafting Silk Threads and Elonian Squares across the account? I just leveled tailor on an alt, only to find I couldn’t make a second thread. Luckily, this is only the first truly upsetting feature of the game for me so far —- I lead a sheltered life —- lol.

Buy what you need (elonian leather and damask) and craft the remaining later and sell them.

Daily lockout increases the value. Basically means that as long as you’re doing your ecto processing you’re making money.

I think you missed the point. I don’t mind that they are time-gated, I mind that if I have two or three professions that I’ve leveled to 500 either on one character or two or three, that I can’t make as many of the items as there are professions.

This has been a feature of level 500 crafting since it was introduced in 2013. They wanted ascended armor and weapons to take time to get. One of the stated reasons for putting in ascended was because people got exotics too fast and then didn’t have a way to progress their character, and probably level 80 player retention was too low. If people had multiple chars all making ascended crafted items, they can get full sets of armor and weapons fast and negate the reason for putting in ascended crafting. Now people must either take the time to get the gold to buy or take the time to craft.

Though you can get around such time gates by either A) having multiple Guild Wars 2 accounts with 500 max crafting (also help in getting certain things that are locked behind laurels and mystic coins) or B ) have a friend or guild member you trust to craft said item for you.