Guild Wars 2

Why exactly are the recipes for them extremely rare? I looked through all the other HoT recipes such as Viper, Minstrel, Wanderer, etc. Wondering if this is as intended or not. It looks as though the drop rate for them is really low. Recipes to craft the armor and weapons that is.

Questioning if the drop rate for them is correct or not, to be clear.

I’ve got about 25 recipes sitting in storage collecting dust and only 1 is the commander recipe (armor I think). It does seem to drop a lot less than the others.

On the one hand they do seem rarer. On the other hand you don’t need them at all since you can craft any other stat and just convert to it using the exotic insignia/inscription.

You can only convert ascended.

For people with many alts or are new to the game, it is not viable for them to have 3+ sets of ascended armor (let alone multiple sets per character).

The main reason for this is runes.

Keep in mind for WvW, many players run a tankier armor for their frontline warrior,guardian, or revenant. So while nomad’s / Soldier’s/ Wanderer’s / Crusader’s / Commander’s / Minstrel’s / Knight’s / Cavalier’s and durability /hoelbrak/ melandru / pack / trooper runes are common in WvW they are really a rarity in PvE.

It seems like they only come from Noxious Pods so it might just be the case that there are fewer people in DS. DS is also nowhere near as generous with the machetes as the other maps are with their equivalent and the pods have much lower availability.