Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I wanted to start learning to scribe today. My guild could use some help all around and we’ve really stopped doing more with dungeons. It’s a good time to get this out of the way.

That said I’m getting no clarification on anyone about this and a lot of horror stories.

I need some help:

- If I invest in this is the investment bound to my account?
I know scribing is to benefit my guild and that’s great. My concern is whether or not my guild is going to stick around. Recently my favorite guild switched from EU to American servers. I don’t want to put a lot of gold into something if it could all just go into guild that suddenly evaporates.

- How much does this cost?
This is a big question. I like to plan before I do something. I’m not just going to step into something without a clear idea of what I’m doing. I’m asking this question to the forums because the wikis are demonstrating to me that people really aren’t sure anything about this. The information from them is obtuse and mostly seems to say the people writing them aren’t that far along in scribing. So, what’s the costs? Hundreds of gold? Tens of hundreds of gold?

- What’s this really do for my guild?
I mostly play for my friends so being able to do something like make my guild a jumping puzzle to little RP areas is extremely fun conceptually, but I’m hearing Scribing is really of no benefit to smaller guilds. The cost is to high to ever reach. What are the facts here?

- What should I be asking right now I haven’t?
I’m sure some people who really are far along in scribing have some perspectives on all this that, in retrospect you wish you’d know or would do differently now? Words of wisdom please!

Thanks all.

My opinion as someone who has started scribing and thrown up their hands? Wait until either it is fixed, or the prices come down. The investment right now for a character bound craft just does not seem worth it. The mats sink is insane. Even at the lowest levels, you are talking about extreme amounts of wood and sand. 5 wood planks makes one piece of paper. That’s 15-20 pieces of wood, per paper. 10 sand for one sandpaper…

At level 50 you stall out with the only way to advance being decorations, which are wildly (1200g for a bar… A Gift of Exploration for a simple globe…) overpriced.

Banners? Something like a heroes banner costs a ridiculous amount of pigment, resonating slivers and cloth plus other items to make ONE banner, when you can pick up three at the Guild Initiative office for 10 silver and 3 commendations from Missions.

IIRC, I have read from those who have reached the highest levels of the craft that it costs thousands… thousands of gold to master…

I have yet to see where the rewards for such a mats and gold sink are at all worth it, outside of dabbling here and there on a ‘hobby’ level.

Of course, others’ mileage may vary.

Wow…

Okay.

Thanks, Peakitten.

I think one of the biggest problems with scribing, IMHO is the escalating costs. A good example with this is the ink: 10 brown pigment to make a tier 1 ink. The tier 2 ink requires 10 of the next pigment, PLUS one tier 1 ink already containing the 10 brown pigment. This continues on up the line so that the highest tier of ink, which requires an ungodly amount of pigments from all across the board.

I get that it’s supposed to be a guild backing a scribe, but to me, this just seems to be beyond the bounds of all reason…

There have been quite a few posts on reddit about the matter, along with pictures and what has gone into some of these decorations.

I need to produce two hundred sheets of the lowest tier of paper for Hall upgrades this week. Feel free to wave as I run through the 1-15 areas over and again to accrue the needed 3,000 green wood logs to make them

Approximately 5,000 gold. That’s what someone said they spent to level up Scribing recently.