Guild Wars 2

Why is this consumable so expensive?

… because they decided to keep the stupid Matryoshka doll setup for the recipe?

Because for some reason when ANet said they were revamping the costs of Scribing, they forgot that they needed to hit every recipe. All Writs should have the 3x prior Writ material level requirement reduced to 1×.

The upgrade from Writ of Masterful Speed takes 3x Writ of Studied Speed, which in turn, each Studied Speed takes 3x Writ of Basic Speed. Writ of Basic Speed requires ~88s minimum to craft each. That’s ~8g (and a ton of time really) just for one part and ~2g in cost for the other parts to make 1 Writ of Masterful Speed.

If you craft them, Writ is still 10g a pop for a 30m 25% speed boost that takes your utility nourishment spot (a reasonable chunk of your damage output) … so not worth it.

If you reduce the 3x material cost to 1x, it’s still about 1g to craft. More reasonable at least but still not worth it even for the most desperate of class builds …

Plus side, crafting for profit is good for this item right now with a +240% return.

Artaz.3819:

Plus side, crafting for profit is good for this item right now with a +240% return.

Crafting for profit is only good if people actually buy it. In my experience, you will be undercut long before someone pays the outrageous fees that most people know aren’t worth it. The high prices are more symptomatic of a broken market without enough transactions to regulate a standard price.

I’ve tried it, and it is not worth doing, in my opinion.