Guild Wars 2

So there Is a rumor going around for months around the arch about craftable precursor. I hope hope it’s just that a rumor. Doing so will decrease the value of all current precursors and sky rocket mats which are need to make legendaries. I know it sucks seeing everyone running around Tyrian with those groovy footprints but if you don’t have one it’s not meant to be. I bought 3 precursors and found 2 simply by going on the daily grind kitten many of us do. And like the idea if I find a precursor I can make money to fund my next project whether it be making another legendary, which I’m on my forth, or blow it gems to buy cosmetic item for my toons. Unless they plan on adding totally new rarer mats to make a precursor, I feel it’s a bad idea. Time will tell and I’ll see all you at the lions arch BBQ..

The only people it would be a bad idea for are the people with entirely too much Gold who exploited the game in the SSC event and got rich almost immediately off the whales.

It would be a step in the right direction towards fixing their economy.

What on earth has convinced you that crafting precursors will be cheaper?

Have you seen ascended crafting? That is expensive… I suspect it will take 600-700g in materials to craft a precursor. If anything, crafting will INCREASE the price of many precursors and slightly lower the most expensive ones.

Yeah with craftable precursors the t6 market will spike crazy. If anything prices will go up.

It’s not a rumor. It’s been stated by devs on numerous occasions that it will be “eventually” rolled out.

Ayrilana is corrent, this is not a rumor.

It was stated last year in the July blog that they were planning on doing precursor crafting by the end of the year. However, in November, Colin stated in a thread asking if precusor crafting was still coming (can’t recall the exact title), that yes it is still coming. It was behind schedule, was not likely going to make its end of the year projection (which it obvioulsy didn’t), but was still on the docket.

I would not be surprised if this was implemented as part of the feature patch 2 updates hence.

Actually depending on how much they make it cost, and hopefully they make them account bound on crafting, it could actually push the price of pre-cursors up on the market, as you will always have those people who don’t want to farm/grind for the mats to craft it, espically if they put something in that is RnG based.

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Actually depending on how much they make it cost, and hopefully they make them account bound on crafting, it could actually push the price of pre-cursors up on the market, as you will always have those people who don’t want to farm/grind for the mats to craft it, espically if they put something in that is RnG based.

Crafting pre cursors will mostly use account bound mats anyways and they will propably be capped per character, just like Legendaries/gift of exploration.

Yes but its not likely to be all account bound mats, im sure it will require gifts etc which are all account bound when made, but its all the other mats, if it requires stupid amounts of T6 mats for example, some people will not want to farm them, so they will still want to buy the precursor out right, then it because a demand/supply, and you normally pay for something that you want quicker,

This update will benefit a few types of players

The rich who can afford to buy pre cursors out right
Those who do not mind time gated content
And those who have no interest in legendary weapons, and will sell all the mats and super high prices

It’s also been mentioned as probably requiring the t7 time gated materials. Lets assume in a moment of insanity the dev decides not to require 250 and use something like 60 of each so it would take at least 2 months if you are making the stuff yourself. At current prices that is around 800g for those components alone.

Magnus Godrik.5841:

So there Is a rumor going around for months around the arch about craftable precursor. I hope hope it’s just that a rumor. Doing so will decrease the value of all current precursors and sky rocket mats which are need to make legendaries. I know it sucks seeing everyone running around Tyrian with those groovy footprints but if you don’t have one it’s not meant to be. I bought 3 precursors and found 2 simply by going on the daily grind kitten many of us do. And like the idea if I find a precursor I can make money to fund my next project whether it be making another legendary, which I’m on my forth, or blow it gems to buy cosmetic item for my toons. Unless they plan on adding totally new rarer mats to make a precursor, I feel it’s a bad idea. Time will tell and I’ll see all you at the lions arch BBQ..

Not seeing a downside here. Your entire post basically comes down you wanting to remain a unique snowflake.

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Magnus Godrik.5841:

So there Is a rumor going around for months around the arch about craftable precursor. I hope hope it’s just that a rumor. Doing so will decrease the value of all current precursors and sky rocket mats which are need to make legendaries. I know it sucks seeing everyone running around Tyrian with those groovy footprints but if you don’t have one it’s not meant to be. I bought 3 precursors and found 2 simply by going on the daily grind kitten many of us do. And like the idea if I find a precursor I can make money to fund my next project whether it be making another legendary, which I’m on my forth, or blow it gems to buy cosmetic item for my toons. Unless they plan on adding totally new rarer mats to make a precursor, I feel it’s a bad idea. Time will tell and I’ll see all you at the lions arch BBQ..

Not seeing a downside here. Your entire post basically comes down you wanting to remain a unique snowflake.

That would mean making legendaries that most people don’t want! The precursors for those are already cheap.

They should release the scrolls right when Generation 2 legendary weps come out.