Guild Wars 2

It is a great idea, in general but……

How about level specific map materials ? aka linen and such items.
Which are low level materials but due to the nature of guild wars 2, level cap players have a hard time getting these as drops, I’ve had to leave one of my characters frozen at level 50 to properly acquire these materials in order to make T7 ascended armor.

Will we see some form of proper map level mechanics for acquiring map level materials even if playing on a level cap character ?

Thank you in advance for your information,

With kind regards,

A concern loyal player.

From reading the Map Completion section in their news page “A Legendary Journey” I got the impression that maps will have rewards accosiated with the map itself, for example for Orr this would be T6/Lodestones, Silverwaste more along the lines such as Geodees, making me believe a map in ~level 55 range will have the materials accosiated with that level, so t4/linen etc. The starter zones are excluded, so t1 materials might be out of the question though. Still, I remember the poisonous attitude the Queensdale Champion Train could have (not always!!) when I started playing, so I see this as a smart move.

PS: Unless there’s a major price-change on Linen vs Silk, Rugged vs Thick Leather and Platinum vs Mithril I’d always keep my level 57 toons for opening champion bags though. Though opening on a level 80 and forging/selling the right things isn’t too bad either, I’m just lazy and salvage it all for luck.

The map bonuses (at least to me) sounded like they were being applied to all the maps, core game as well as HoT. The example they give is Cursed Shore, which is in Orr, and those bonuses sound level appropriate. I’m guessing the lower level maps (sans starter zones per the post) would have similar bonus rewards to what you could potentially receive for map completion – ie, crafting materials or cooking ingredients available from that zone.

They specifically stated Map bonuses will NOT be in starter zones, but the rest of the comments did imply all other zones were possible (but did not go so far as to STATE that all zones but starter zones would have Map Bonuses).