Guild Wars 2

If T6 mats are going to be used to upgrade to T7, to be used to craft from level 400-500, to create unique exotics, to craft gifts for legendary items, to craft ascended backpacks, to craft ascended gear once you get crafting up to 400-500 there needs to be more ways to get them.

Using laurels for mats has been nerfed. 3 for 1 day and it’s randomized isn’t worth it, especially if laurels are going to be needed for buying other recipes, crafting.

The MF clover recipe doesn’t guarantee you’ll get 1 or 10 T6 mats let alone the T6 mats you need. It’s too randomized. You could get unlucky and never get the mats you technically need.

Zone clearing for mats is crap because only 3 zones are level 80 and only 2 of them have explorer achievements (Southsun doesn’t have map clear achievement). Frostgorge, Malchors, and Straits are level 76-80 meaning you get T5 not T6 mats. Not to mention all of this can only be done once per character.

There is no karma way of getting T6 mats (Orrian jewelry gives lodstones not regular T6 mats like claws, fangs, etc). The only way is basically to farm gold and buy on the TP and with prices skyrocketing because of the upcoming patch this is only going to get worse making T6 mats the new legendary/precursor money sink.

With MF going account bound farming specific creatures is going to be worse than it already was until you can up your account MF to a high enough level.

Bags are just as random as MF and less likely to actually drop T6 mats.

Also, I know this point has already been brought up, but what’s the point of doing world events when every chest you open is likely greens and blues (yes the new patch will make greens and blues somewhat worth wild) BUT if gobs are only a random chance with rares more rares need to drop. Spending 45 minutes fighting jormag only to be guaranteed 1 rare because you get a crap chest roll (which MF doesn’t help with) is not by any means an incentive. Champs give better drops now than world bosses. That is not right.

I suggest that level 80+ creatures no longer have any chance of dropping T5 mats. If level 70-79 already drop level T5 then let their be a tier of monsters that can only drop T6 mats. Also maybe there should be a small % that gobs can drop from salvaging rares and masterwork items if they are level 80 as well.

There has to be something implemented and soon if not when the patch hits otherwise it’s going to turn into pay to play where anyone who buys gems to transmute to gold or buys farmers gold is going to have the best gear and best stuff unless you have no life and farm regularly every single day for mats. Farming/Grinding is exactly what ANET promised GW2 wouldn’t be and yet this patch and the new items look like nothing but a grind, just like Legendary items already are.

True this.

/15characters

Oh my gob, you guys.

In before you get the mob of people that scream “Stop asking everything to be handed to you!” that apparently like to pretend that RNG has some kind of difficulty tacked along with it.

How about globs of ecto purchased with karma..
oh wait, that would be way too easy. It would eliminate a lot of grind and currency exchange.

Lets not kittening do that!

Make dungeons drop more of these.

Anet probably won’t rest until a single glob of ectoplasm is an average of 1gold in price. I like how they did the new crafting, but with no adjustments to drop rates of T6 mats, legendary weapons are going to push towards well over $1000US in value for outright purchase.

It sounds like you can get T7 mats to drop too as well as full acceded weapons there must be a new event coming up that can drop these things.

Yep. T6 droprate is terribaaad

And lest we forget, to upgrade t5 you need 5 crystalline. That is insane.

Neural.1824:

Anet probably won’t rest until a single glob of ectoplasm is an average of 1gold in price. I like how they did the new crafting, but with no adjustments to drop rates of T6 mats, legendary weapons are going to push towards well over $1000US in value for outright purchase.

And this, my dear, is exactly what they want: having desired mats reach stupidly high prices, so legendaries become more and more costly thus making them achievable in way way more time.
Oh boy, I’m so happy I have 2 already. Seems like I won’t be getting a third, though. Everyone, take a look at the t6 and ecto prices right now. It’ll be fun.

While we are at it; can we get more ways to acquire silver doubloons? The only odd out crafting material that is somewhat of hassle to get.

Or…leave crafting to those who can tolerate the difficulty.

Gasoline.2570:

Yep. T6 droprate is terribaaad

And lest we forget, to upgrade t5 you need 5 crystalline. That is insane.

Yep. You get a tonnnn of t5 just generally existing at level 80 (even more so if you spend any time in 80 zones). T6 droprate is still bad, even with the champ bags (that 90% of the time give t5 materials). That and dust is incredibly non-existent, I don’t understand that. All other tiers of dust is so common. The dust I would almost consider the main issue here, since you could transmute the tier 5 materials.

If they are going to move towards us using it more it needs a little bit more help. Not saying it needs to be thrown out like confetti. Just needs some more tweaking. It is definitely better then it was a year ago I can give them that.

Champ bags give T6? I’ve opened a ton and literally haven’t gotten a single T6 mat out of them. >.>

Yes, more ways of getting T6 (including lodestones) would be nice. ~35s for powerful blood is ridiculous.

Heres what is going to happen

1. Ectos shoot way up (as they are now)
2. Everyone goes crazy on the 3rd crafting exotic gear
3. With the extreme amount of exotic gear now on the market, the prices crash
4. People buy this gear and salvage it for the dark material AND also get globs with it

Anet set this up very well. After the first week or two we will see globs settle around 35s ish (my educated guess) with the cheap exotics sitting at around 65s ish.

My recommendation to the masses. WAIT 2 WEEKS. You will be 1 weapon behind but you will save A TON of gold. People will figure out how to do everything the most efficient way for you. In the time being, go gather all those other mats from dungeons, wvw, jumping puzzles, temples, meta events or whatever suits your fancy.

Who knows, you may even get a weapon to drop for you in the first 2 weeks anyway

What concern me the most is that every time there is a way to make Gold in this game, something you can farm, exploit or not, they nerf it. I run my dungeons, which take 2 hours then I’m left with nothing to farm, they nerfed my karkas, then Orr, then CoF, then Deadeye and we are left with Invasion handing out an average of 4-6 gold an hour while the price keep getting higher…

Trice.4598:

What concern me the most is that every time there is a way to make Gold in this game, something you can farm, exploit or not, they nerf it. I run my dungeons, which take 2 hours then I’m left with nothing to farm, they nerfed my karkas, then Orr, then CoF, then Deadeye and we are left with Invasion handing out an average of 4-6 gold an hour while the price keep getting higher…

Well that is a whole different issue.

Risk vs Reward in gw2 is fundamentally flawed atm

You know nothing extra along those lines is going to be introduced because…? The release is not live, no one outside the company has a clue how it will be handled.

You basically get an Ecto everytime you get 15 of the same T5’s. …well 0.7 something ectos, but you still get one once RNG averages out…

For T6’s, There’s the Clover Recipe. You can net a lot of T6’s with that. The only hard part is actually getting the Obsidians now that the Balthazar escort has basically been made impossible for most people and RageQuittingly luck-based for everyone else.

Yep I’ve played this game from day 1, minus a few months (everything became boring).

I will say this in all honesty, I have found ONLY through drops, and I dont play that casual, (I’m close to 1000h on my account, not much for some people but for me it is),

78 t6 Bloods, yep 78. How the hell are you supposed to find these without working 24/7. Luckily I’ve bought 4 t6 mats while they where ridiculously cheap and I deeply regret not buying LOADS of them, because by now I would be super rich.
What Im missing for the gift of fortune is 180 bloods, 140 scales, 150 totems, 100 venom and some dust (which is easy to get).

I don’t want to buy them, I could, but them I had to start to save money for the precursor again, which is now unreachable for a non-TP-trader (I do it a little).

Guess I go craft Kamohoali Kotaki, it looks cool, has nice effects AND I have the precursor (bought for 10g after the Karka event), but it is an underwater Weapon only few people will see.

ilr.9675:

You basically get an Ecto everytime you get 15 of the same T5’s. …well 0.7 something ectos, but you still get one once RNG averages out…

For T6’s, There’s the Clover Recipe. You can net a lot of T6’s with that. The only hard part is actually getting the Obsidians now that the Balthazar escort has basically been made impossible for most people and RageQuittingly luck-based for everyone else.

Problem with the clover recipe is if you are doing the 10 one, 10 ectos at an average of 35s each would run you 3.5g per combine. Now unless you actually get a good one like bloods and get at least 10, you will lose money since if you get 10 gossamer or 10 ancient woods or worse yet 10 clovers, you are screwed.