Guild Wars 2

A Chest of Legendary Shards can be bought for 10 laurels at the laurel merchant. It contains 3 shards of endeavor.
But for some reason it seems to be only purchaseable once per day. Why is this if the shards are untradeable and I can produce as many as I want with crafting using basic t5 mats?
It has almost exactly the same value as spending 10 laurels on t6 mats (both ~7,5g at current prices) but you save the conversion via the trading post. So why this needless time gate? Just let us spend our time gated laurels on this if we feel like it.
Currently the option to spend 10 laurels per 3 shards is almost useless. It would take 97 days to buy enough shards for the legendary or I can spend 2 hours of buying everything on the trading post and crafting the shards.
I think the time gate to aquire 970 laurels (max 55 per month, so 17-18 month) is more than enough.

There are probably two reasons:

• To prevent those paying too little attention from overspending.
• To discourage others from avoiding participating in other aspects of the game.

I agree with the OP that 3/day is too little to be of any real use. However, I’d just as soon see ANet remove them from the laurel vendor, if they don’t want to remove the cap. There are plenty of other sources for shards.

Well putting timegates on using strictly timegated currency sounds like overkill. Maybe we could compromise to being able to buy 5 chests or so per day cutting the total wait time to 20 days