Guild Wars 2

We all know flax fibres (English spelling) aren’t common enough. Arenanet more-or-less admitted this by placing flax nodes everywhere in the new Bloodstone zone (it is August 2016).

Speaking from a WvW perspective, why would I spend 4g on a consumable upgrade that could be instantly negated? Examples: 1, 2, 3.

Thus, I propose that the Linen Supply Sack Recipe be reduced to 2 flax fibres instead of 12.

I don’t find them hugely rare, especially since they also drop from jungle plants, which gives two sources for the material to drop. At least they aren’t as rare as Freshwater Pearls or Maguuma Lilies which is insane

FOr a consumable yes I agree 12 is too much though. 2 is waay too much of a drop though.

The problem with Flax Fibres is the fact that WvW players need them the most and have no reasonable way of getting them in their game mode.
WvW players suggested the cost of Supply Sacks to go down to 6 (or 4) when Anet tweaked Scribing in April – which they have not done (nothing WvW related really was fixed concerning Scribing; same applies to the Cost of 3000 Badges of Honour for a Mist statue).

WvW players need a War Supply Track that replaces the Boxes 5, 15, 25, 35 & 40 from the Hero Weapon track with Greater Boxes of War supplies (2 Supply Sacks, 1 random T6 fine mat, one Exotic backpack, 20 Badges of Honour + 2 Clovers for the final box)

yeah that is kinda dumb that its main usage is wvw but its main method of acquisition is pve. reward track definitely seems like the right way to go to fix that though

Gorani.7205:

The problem with Flax Fibres is the fact that WvW players need them the most and have no reasonable way of getting them in their game mode.
WvW players suggested the cost of Supply Sacks to go down to 6 (or 4) when Anet tweaked Scribing in April – which they have not done (nothing WvW related really was fixed concerning Scribing; same applies to the Cost of 3000 Badges of Honour for a Mist statue).

WvW players need a War Supply Track that replaces the Boxes 5, 15, 25, 35 & 40 from the Hero Weapon track with Greater Boxes of War supplies (2 Supply Sacks, 1 random T6 fine mat, one Exotic backpack, 20 Badges of Honour + 2 Clovers for the final box)

This is a good idea. Hope the WvW devs pick up on it

Considering i haven’t seen anyone using tower/camp upgrades for a very, very long time (since the beginning of the year at the very least), i do fully agree they are way overpriced. Even keep ones are generally used only on EB and your own battleground garrisons, and even then it doesn’t happen that often.

There’s simply no point in upgrades that are so costly noone bothers to ever use them.

(now, i’m not going into arguing whether those upgrades, if/when used, are beneficial for WvW or not – that’s a separate discussion)

I don’t normally see camps even get upgraded to T1, so not too surprising you don’t see many camp upgrades going around. Perhaps though ANet wants to keep the upgrades expensive to make you think about whether you actually want to upgrade that objective. I don’t think they envisioned every structure in every map being fully upgraded, which would happen if the recipes were made too cheap. And keeping the upgrades expensive helps ensure that people don’t upgrade everything, just that which they really want to hold onto

OriOri.8724:

I don’t think they envisioned every structure in every map being fully upgraded,

It’s possible, but I don’t understand why not, especially after they’ve teased us with such a plethora of different things to upgrade with?

Svarty.8019:

OriOri.8724:

I don’t think they envisioned every structure in every map being fully upgraded,

It’s possible, but I don’t understand why not, especially after they’ve teased us with such a plethora of different things to upgrade with?

Grand Strategy.

flax fibers insane to find i need freshwater pearls they got a more insane drop rate and i still need a ton for armor and jewelry for a chrono and a rev

yea, flax is expensive, wvw uses them up a lot. the supply don’t seems to keep up with the demand.

Gorani.7205:

WvW players need a War Supply Track that replaces the Boxes 5, 15, 25, 35 & 40 from the Hero Weapon track with Greater Boxes of War supplies (2 Supply Sacks, 1 random T6 fine mat, one Exotic backpack, 20 Badges of Honour + 2 Clovers for the final box)

I like this idea too.

The issue I have with flax requirements is that they don’t scale, either in requirements or cost, relative to the objective they upgrade.

For example Dolyak upgrades take 2 linen sacks (24 fibers), making then the most expensive upgrade with their other mats (at the time of calculating), to go into the least defendable objective, which in worst case can get flipped before the upgrade even activates.

Other upgrades, like emergency WP, only require 12 fibers, are cheaper and arguably far more useful, and usually sit inside a keep where you’re going to get your money’s worth.

My suggestion would be dropping the requirement of fibre to make a linen sack to around 4, and then tweaking the number of sacks required for the shimmering energy bags, so the cost of the upgrade better fits it’s use – i.e. the ones that should be expensive and sit in place for many hours stay that way, while the ones you need to use a lot of don’t bankrupt the guild.

Goatjugsoup.8637:

yeah that is kinda dumb that its main usage is wvw but its main method of acquisition is pve. reward track definitely seems like the right way to go to fix that though

It should be for decorations and not wvw. I wondered if this is how it was originally designed and then they added stuff and messed it up in the April patch?