Will we ever be compensated for Infusions?
you can trade it in for new 9/5 infusions and have your other characters geared out as well
Those of us who crafted full gear sets worth (ex: 16 +5 condition damage +5 agony resistance infusions) before the fractal infusion rework spent anywhere between 50-100 golds worth of materials on each infusions.
This equals up to anywhere between 1k – 1.5k gold on average. Now, those infusions have even higher stat combos that cost next to nothing. Those of use who wanted to have complete max stat gear for WvW and PvE got screwed.
We could have crafted legendaries, full ascended sets of armor, bought tons of gems ect. I am a gw1 vet and have over 3k hours in GW2. But this is probably the only legitimate time I have had a reason to be upset with the game developers.
No compensation, and no word other than a “we’re just changing the whole system.”
Looks like someone failed to read the patch Notes, from July…..
With better attribute and agony infusions now available, we’re automatically upgrading any existing infusions that you may have obtained from the Mystic Forge.
If you currently possess any fine-quality attribute infusions, they have been upgraded to a +5 attribute, +7 agony resistance infusion.
If you currently possess any versatile attribute infusions, they have been upgraded to a +5 attribute, +9 agony resistance infusion.
The Mystic Forge recipes for these items have been disabled.
Old 5/5 omni infusions were converted to 5/9s, which are best in slot and cost ~80g a pop to make; old 5/5 offensive infusions were converted to 5/7s and sell for ~40g. So you got your stats upgraded, and the new versions preserved value well.
I did not fail to read anything. Currently, you can purchase a Malign 7 agony infusion for the equivalent of around 13 gold. Before the rework, these infusions costed us anywhere between 50-80 gold to craft.
Take that times 14-16 infusions for a full gear set, and its over 1k gold that has been lost for no gain. I encourage you to read my post in detail again, as this topic does confuse some people who have not crafted them pre- rework.
mozing, they are telling you that your infusions were automatically upgraded. what the kitten is the problem? you didnt lose gold. any that you make from now forward are cheaper, and all the ones you previously made were fixed for you.
You could at least get your math straight, because 7ar/5 stats infusions are nowhere near 13g.
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He is just mad that now people can access the infusions without dumping gold into them, and neglecting to acknowledge that he had value from the early investment and use of said infusions.
At the very worst, you could say you paid more for something than people are paying now.
And that’s par for the course for being an early adopter. If I got a refund for everything in this game that got cheaper years after I bought it, I’d be swimming in gold.
I’ll let my representative answer this .
People paid over 200 gold for the new Poly-luminescent Undulating Refractor (Teal) during the first hours it became available. Now I can get one for under 50 gold and the price keeps dropping. That always happens with items: early adopters are willing to pay premium prices to adopt early and those who come after are able to snatch up the same benefits for less.
Similarly, the price of Algae Dye is now over 400g, even though I sold an extra I had for less than 50g back when. That’s what happens when I want the 50g immediately rather than the potential 400g on some future day.
There is never compensation for the ebb and flow of the economy, even when ANet has deliberately disrupted the market in question.
The only time ANet has compensated is when they completely changed the nature of a mechanic. When the wardrobe launched, we got unidentified dyes in place of having unlocked the same color on multiple characters. We did not, however, get anything for using the same weapon or armor skin on multiple characters. The first was a fundamental feature change; the second was a QoL change.
tl;dr there is nothing to compensate as no ‘loss’ has been incurred, just a drop in market value.