Guild Wars 2

i don’t see a reason for it to be time gated for exotic

Time gating was used for new crafting tiers/types intorduced after game launch, in an effort to keep everyone from grinding out a whole set on day 1. It was annoying, but effective in that goal.

However, now that celestial (and ascended) gear have been out for a while, I see no reason for the time gating. Celestial gear is still exotic, and so should be brought in line with the rest of its crafted counterparts.

I think celestial gear was the test case for the ascended crafting.

Probably because Celestial stuff was a whole lot more valueable way back in the beginning, both because it had Magic Find and because it’s crit damage was disproportionately high. So, as mentioned, they didn’t want people grinding it out too quickly because of how much ‘better’ it was than lots of other gear sets.

Now that magic find is gone from items, and that its crit damage has been nerfed, no reason not to remove the time gate.

Already a topic on this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Charged-Quartz-Crystal/first#post4162019

It’s even on the same page.