Guild Wars 2

This has been bothering me for awhile now and I’m sure there are many in the community that know what I’m talking about; crafting exotic zealot’s is waaaay too expensive due to limited insignia recipes.

I am a player that primarily plays WvW and Spvp, so money has always been an issue for me and I never committed to ascended crafting because it was such a huge time sink that for me was not really worth the stat increases, I could always get by on skill wearing exotics with ascended trinkets/amy etc.

I started getting into frontline guardian recently and my guildies and others in my WvW community all expound how awesome zealots gear was and that its the best way to add some support and sustain without killing your dmg, so I looked into how much it would take to get some of this stat set crafted…

only to see the recipe for the exotic insignia being around 140g.

I missed out on a lot of the Scarlet content, I did not have a lot of time to play back then, so the idea that there is a diminishing number of insignia recipe’s because it was locked into this 1 time content from a specific time in GW 2’s history really frustrates me. I don’t understand why there hasn’t been a new way get this recipe, and I’m sure there are plenty of other examples of old content being the only source of something that is now stupid-expensive.

A-net, please for the love of those people who play your game but don’t always have the time to farm 1 time pve events make alternate ways of getting this stuff. WvW could use more rewards honestly, and I while know you guys loath to make it a viable source of income adding something akin to pvp tracks within WvW with stuff like crafting recipes/skins in WvW would be amazing. With HoT coming tomorrow there can be factions in the jungle that could sell it for a reasonable price (though the fair thing to do would make a way to get it in the base game too). I really hope something as important as an entire stat set never gets locked into 1 time content ever again.

I am pretty confident that those recipes will be available by other means starting tomorrow.

Just wait 1 more day for real lol.

Is this just speculation or has it officially been hinted at/revealed that these will be in HoT? I havent heard anything yet, if you guys are right I will gladly put my foot in my mouth and delete post

Wanze.8410:

I am pretty confident that those recipes will be available by other means starting tomorrow.

I’m really, really hoping this is true. I’ve been eyeing this gear for druid.

well during the content which originally unlocke the ascnded recipe’s were expensive and the zealot’s were worth a few silver a piece , only a few people bought a couple… 2 months ago they STILL were cheap, until the release of druid and the skyrocketed.

Pact Mentor Mastery line will grant access to old recipes that you can buy with karma and will be tradeable, so that should include Zealots stuff and bring the price down or make it available for anyone who really wants it.

Then they just need to bring the Sprockets into line.

you are very happy

all people who wanted to craft that earlier

had to buy the Insignia recipe +
1 expensive recipe for
Head
Shoulders
Chest
Hands
Legs
Feet

those were between 50 and 450 gold i think…

so you get away pretty cheap with just having to pay 140g

i still think they should release those recipes again in some way
maybe make it a bit expensive to not screw everyone over who bought all those recipes in the meantime