Guild Wars 2

So I spend the past day leveling up my tailoring skill with the intention of crafting a set of Viper’s armor, but after doing so I come to find out that it’s going to cost me between 10 and 15 gold per piece to do so, which is way out of my budget and seems really high for exotic gear.

A few questions…

First of all, is this correct? Am I missing something?

For those of you who have crafted a full Viper’s set, what was your total cost?

Do you foresee the price of materials (i.e. recipe costs, black diamond costs etc.) coming down any time soon as they become less “new and shiny”?

Thanks!

It’s currently the price of most of the new exotics – mostly because of the price of flax. It should come down a bit, but not to 1-5g range. Maybe 8g-ish

It cost me 10-15g per piece of Wanderer’s as well.

Every newly added material to the game is very expensive for the first few months.

Personally, I won’t really bother with HoT crafting (or rather, crafting requiring HoT-onlymaterials) until Wintersday or so.

You can get that much gold from a single full run of Silverwastes, because right now many materials that you get from salvage, like silk and leather, are worth alot of money, so just do event maps, salvage and sell and there you go.

Also: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1xffs0/permanent_rich_ore_locations_30_final_version/
If you hit every single node on this list, plus the food farm on every map including Dry Top, it takes about two whole days and you make a total of 100g.

It takes alot of practice to get used to doing this efficiently, though…

As for the new stat combos specifically, you can farm your own Flax on Verdant Brink, I think the food farm is located somewhere near the hylek village in top-right corner, just take a bunch of level 80 characters there once a day.

Hannelore.8153:

You can get that much gold from a single full run of Silverwastes, because right now many materials that you get from salvage, like silk and leather, are worth alot of money, so just do event maps, salvage and sell and there you go.

Silk prices are in the toilet right now compared to the last few months. You could always get over 2 silver per scrap over the summer, and the prices peaked over 3 silver per scrap in September. Thick leather sections are up (they were almost worthless before the expansion), but they’re still well below 1 silver each.

Now, after the expansion dropped, you’re lucky to get 1.5 silver per silk scrap. T5 mats really went down the drain; you could easily get over 1 silver each before; now you’re lucky to make .5 on most of them.

For the average player farming the Silverwastes as is customary, cash flow has gotten a lot tighter.

Silk prices are in the toilet right now compared to the last few months. You could always get over 2 silver per scrap over the summer, and the prices peaked over 3 silver per scrap in September. Thick leather sections are up (they were almost worthless before the expansion), but they’re still well below 1 silver each.

Now, after the expansion dropped, you’re lucky to get 1.5 silver per silk scrap. T5 mats really went down the drain; you could easily get over 1 silver each before; now you’re lucky to make .5 on most of them.

For the average player farming the Silverwastes as is customary, cash flow has gotten a lot tighter.

You open bags of gear on a lvl 52 character and you get lower tier gear which you salvage for lower tier materials which are a lot more valuable. I just opened 115 bags of gear and got around 25g.