Guild Wars 2

Hello to you all!
I’m not sure what is happening, but there have been a HUGE incrise of prices on Soft, Seasoned and Hard logs since april 20th Elder logs also took a hit, but not so much. The “production” of these logs also dropped dramatically!!! while the the demand for it increased at the same time…
I’m not sure what caused this, could it be the new legendary backpack? could be the lv80 boost? what do you guys think?

Soft wood: https://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19726
Seasoned wood: https://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19727
Hard wood: https://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19724
Elder wood: https://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19722

Yes, the new legendary caused it.

Scribing costs were significantly lowered to the point that people are actually willing to drop hundreds of gold on materials for it that weren’t before.

Basically, where before you’d drop 200 gold on mats (most of which were not logs) and get maybe two decorations out of it, you can now drop the same 200g and get 20 out of it.

All tiers of wood are ingredients in every scribing recipe, as they’re used to make pulp, which is used to make paper. Even though the amount of pulp was cut from 5 to 1 per kit, the cost reduction on scribing was so drastic that a huge number of people are buying up the mats.

In the case of wood, there isn’t a corresponding increase in supply to meet the increased demand, where as other things like sand, pigments, and shards already had a huge supply surplus, they are only used in scribing, and their reduced cost balanced them out with increased demand.

There was no corresponding increase in wood supply, and a massively increased demand due to the lower costs of previously expensive other scribing materials.

Combined with all the other new uses added for wood (legendaries) and a lot of people burning through or using their supplies rather than selling them (leveling scribing without buying the wood) production is down because people see real progress from using it as being more valuable than selling it to people, as previously only the buyers were really leveling or using scribing.

Less wood salvaging compared to mithril.
Prices will always be higher for good wood.

Mithril sources: weapons (54-80), heavy armor , mithril nodes
Wood sources are : weapons (lvl 54-80), trees
Leather: Medium armor, bags (direct drops). Map event rewards
Cloth: light Armor, bags , map event rewards

I think you can see why the costs of items are balanced around how many can be salvaged..which in turn is linked to drop rates.
That and the salvaging rate nerf (less mats / salvage of items)... Results in increased prices. I
Many people don’t want to be a lumberjack or event monkey.
They want these as salvage or through doing there normal stuff... Farming 10K logs for a legendary is a little OP

… sorry, can’t put my wood on the TP, I need it for tigers. Also, I’m now buying wood, for tigers.

Its not a crisis, its a great time to start chopping down wood . 1 node = 10 silver, go get them tiger

Thanks you made me 55g

I like high wood prices, Gives peeps some other ways to make gold.

I think a lot of people saw the new legendary as a shortbow and went eeewwww because of the weapon type. Then when it came out were like…Tigers, YaY! So Cute! and decided to make a push.

Related – I’m amazed at how much of an aversion to gathering people seem to have. Running around in a circle in silverwastes to collect chests is somehow ok, but running around any number of different maps to make 2x the gold is intolerable. Oh well, thanks for the gold.