Guild Wars 2

Some back story on these: (1) You need 1 crystalline dust and any combo of 9 orbs such as beryl orbs, crests, and doubloons separated into 3’s in the mystic forge to make 1. (2) You have to have 250 of these amalgamated gemstones to make the crystalline ingots needed to finish the new Maguuma legendaries.
I don’t understand why these were necessary as an ingredient for crystalline ingots especially when it says on the item definition that it’s for polish for precursor crafting not legendary! Also as of tonight the price of them has gone up to 2g 25s and every orb, crest, and doubloon has gone up as well. When Anet said that they were looking at helping out the market for lower priced items, this is not what I was thinking they had in mind! I thought they would actually introduce something to help out the silver and gold markets not the orbs and crests which were already over the 5s a piece before the expansion. Now they are 17s to 18s each and they aren’t that easy to find since a drop is not guaranteed per farming a tier 5 or 6 ore or wood node. If we needed something jewelry related for crystalline ingots why not have used something silver or gold instead of amalgamated gemstones which require so much in themselves and costing over 450g for a full stack? So much for being able to craft a Maguuma legendary in a month like they said and cheap of them to use something already created from Silverwastes that was 1g before the expansion. Anet should have chosen a better option than amalgamated gemstones for their Maguuma legendaries which would have had a better outcome in the market than amalgamated gemstones that were already expensive.

Price only went up because someone bought a bunch of them (e.g. orbs). The price has since come back down.

shygirl fourfivetwo.3751:

Some back story on these: (1) You need 1 crystalline dust and any combo of 9 orbs such as beryl orbs, crests, and doubloons separated into 3’s in the mystic forge to make 1. (2) You have to have 250 of these amalgamated gemstones to make the crystalline ingots needed to finish the new Maguuma legendaries.
I don’t understand why these were necessary as an ingredient for crystalline ingots especially when it says on the item definition that it’s for polish for precursor crafting not legendary! Also as of tonight the price of them has gone up to 2g 25s and every orb, crest, and doubloon has gone up as well. When Anet said that they were looking at helping out the market for lower priced items, this is not what I was thinking they had in mind! I thought they would actually introduce something to help out the silver and gold markets not the orbs and crests which were already over the 5s a piece before the expansion. Now they are 17s to 18s each and they aren’t that easy to find since a drop is not guaranteed per farming a tier 5 or 6 ore or wood node. If we needed something jewelry related for crystalline ingots why not have used something silver or gold instead of amalgamated gemstones which require so much in themselves and costing over 450g for a full stack? So much for being able to craft a Maguuma legendary in a month like they said and cheap of them to use something already created from Silverwastes that was 1g before the expansion. Anet should have chosen a better option than amalgamated gemstones for their Maguuma legendaries which would have had a better outcome in the market than amalgamated gemstones that were already expensive.

TL/DR: Anet should have made something more expensive that i dont need, so i can sell it. Instead they made something more expensive that i need.

So today I went to the supermarket because I was craving for some watermelon. Then I realized watermelon has gone up to $10 a piece while I could have bought a bag of apple for $3. So I complained to the store manager about this outrage.

The issue with Amalgamated Gemstones is the amount of clicking that’s required since it’s a MF recipe…