Guild Wars 2

One of the options for the loyalty chest as it is today is 7 mystic clovers. These would normally take ~21 mystic coins to make, but mystic coins have other uses. Would we be able to get another option of 21 mystic coins from the chest?

Hesacon.8735:

One of the options for the loyalty chest as it is today is 7 mystic clovers. These would normally take ~21 mystic coins to make, but mystic coins have other uses. Would we be able to get another option of 21 mystic coins from the chest?

That seems unlikely, since it would make it by far & away the most valuable option. Even laurels have never been worth much more than 20g total. (The first month or two, adding 20+ m-coins to the chest would probably reduce market value of coins, but that would change quickly as people who are making legendaries realize that’s not enough to offset their requirements quickly enough).

I think asking for ~10 m-coins is more likely to get attention, assuming that folks at ANet agree that there ought to be more faucets for coins.

In the meantime, if you want more m-coins, choose the laurel option, then use those to buy medium crafting bags (or heavy — you can check various websites for the most profitable option), sell the contents, and use your funds to buy mystic coins. You’ll get about 14-15 coins at today’s prices.

I disagree.

Coin’s cost will decrase if you add an extra 21 of em every 28 days.

If you really want you still can chose 20 laurels and trade em for T3 or t6, then buy mystic coins from tp.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Hesacon.8735:

One of the options for the loyalty chest as it is today is 7 mystic clovers. These would normally take ~21 mystic coins to make, but mystic coins have other uses. Would we be able to get another option of 21 mystic coins from the chest?

That seems unlikely, since it would make it by far & away the most valuable option. Even laurels have never been worth much more than 20g total. (The first month or two, adding 20+ m-coins to the chest would probably reduce market value of coins, but that would change quickly as people who are making legendaries realize that’s not enough to offset their requirements quickly enough).

I think asking for ~10 m-coins is more likely to get attention, assuming that folks at ANet agree that there ought to be more faucets for coins.

In the meantime, if you want more m-coins, choose the laurel option, then use those to buy medium crafting bags (or heavy — you can check various websites for the most profitable option), sell the contents, and use your funds to buy mystic coins. You’ll get about 14-15 coins at today’s prices.

That’s assuming today’s prices are intended. Coins would adjust in price to meet parity with laurels or ascended crafting items. It would effectively tie a price ceiling of coins to other loyalty chest items, whether it’s 10 coins or 20.

Hesacon.8735:

That’s assuming today’s prices are intended. Coins would adjust in price to meet parity with laurels or ascended crafting items. It would effectively tie a price ceiling of coins to other loyalty chest items, whether it’s 10 coins or 20.

ANet’s been pretty clear that they like high m-coin prices: it’s a good way for wealth to transfer painlessly from rich players impatient to craft to new players impatient for gold. I doubt ANet is going to be concerned about today’s or next month’s prices (which will be higher, after PoF launches).

Everything that requires m-coins is an optional shiny, with the arguable exceptions being:

• Specialization weapon collections — these require the mystic version of the weapon and those are pricier these days.
• Shared food recipes. The cost of these makes it unlikely for any but the super wealthy to want to create new recipes, because it’s simply cheaper to produce lots of the food and transfer by email or g-bank (it’s just horribly inconvenient).

The first one… I’m not sure ANet’s worried about that. Lots of collections include gold and material sinks, so this isn’t unusual. As with m-coins, we’re just used to cheap mystic weapons.

The second one… I think that ANet could be convinced to change the formula, perhaps substituting some mystic stones for mystic coins (or whatever; the details should be left to them). Bulk food has an important use in WvW and perhaps raids; it should be pricey, but not out of reach for the average guild leader.