Guild Wars 2

Making all of the HoT jewels account bound is extremely prohibitive. I understand that ANET doesn’t want core/f2p players to benefit from things they can’t have access to, but having to pay 40g for a recipe for commanders trinkets is absurd. Can nothing be done to remedy this?

The recipes for all the other HoT-stat gear are just fine. Only Commander’s has the problem of being excessively overpriced. Its not really a problem of being account bound, as all the others are as well and they’re fine. The bigger problem is that the Commander’s recipes seem much rarer than the others, probably since they only come from Dragon’s Stand chests, which are smaller in number than all the other HoT zone chests and basically require you to beat an hour-long meta to get in decent numbers.

All that said, if jewels are your main issue then look into the Bloodstone Fen / Ember Bay / Bitterfrost Frontier ascended items. You can pick Commander’s stats from those.

Electro.4173:

The recipes for all the other HoT-stat gear are just fine. Only Commander’s has the problem of being excessively overpriced. Its not really a problem of being account bound, as all the others are as well and they’re fine. The bigger problem is that the Commander’s recipes seem much rarer than the others, probably since they only come from Dragon’s Stand chests, which are smaller in number than all the other HoT zone chests and basically require you to beat an hour-long meta to get in decent numbers.

All that said, if jewels are your main issue then look into the Bloodstone Fen / Ember Bay / Bitterfrost Frontier ascended items. You can pick Commander’s stats from those.

The commander’s recipe sheets have dropped a lot in price.