Guild Wars 2

With the strong possibility that we’ll be able to use the map bonuses system to get materials for legendaries more easily, are we better off selling our mats well ahead of HoT’s release?

To offset this, there are going to be new Legendaries which means more demand after HoT release.

I always keep my mats because you never know when you will need them and I absolutely hate spending gold on things so if i already have them stored up there is no need to do that. The prices might go up for whatever reason too so you can sell them then if you want, but I always wait until I have full 1500 mats in my storage before I sell the excess mats i get.

sell, sell, sell.

As OP already said, new map completion system will give more crafting materials + the new legendarys will use different crafting system than the current one.

Personally expecting the current legendarys to be the legendarys of gold and the new ones the legendarys of playing content/being skilled.

Anet hasn’t said anything about a new crafting system for Legendary Weapons. The only thing they have said is that we are getting a new way to get precursors. The mystic forge recipes are going to remain the same and require all the same mats as before.

Chobits.2430:

Anet hasn’t said anything about a new crafting system for Legendary Weapons. The only thing they have said is that we are getting a new way to get precursors. The mystic forge recipes are going to remain the same and require all the same mats as before.

Actually, they did..

Honestly, saving mats is a total crap shoot. ANet has a history of making unpredictable changes that have a huge impact on whether you should save or sell mats/currencies/etc. you may end up rich by saving them, but you’ll definitely at least get a decent return on them now. Personally, I think a bird in hand is worth two in the bush, so I’m not sitting on big piles myself.

Your best longterm stray is probably to diversify your investment and to sell some while also saving some. You may not earn as much as if you saved everything if the value goes up, but you’ll still profit without risking a huge loss.

You might consider getting one stack of each T6, if you can, and putting it aside in case one of the new Legendaries is something you want. If not then you can sell the mats to people who are making the new Legendaries.

Jack.1469:

Chobits.2430:

Anet hasn’t said anything about a new crafting system for Legendary Weapons. The only thing they have said is that we are getting a new way to get precursors. The mystic forge recipes are going to remain the same and require all the same mats as before.

Actually, they did..

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With Heart of Thorns, most explorable maps will have an associated set of bonus rewards that rotate on a regular basis. Starter maps will not be included in order to preserve the new-player experience. By completing events, jumping puzzles, and mini-dungeons in a map, you’ll be periodically awarded with one of its associated bonuses in addition to the normal rewards. For most maps, the bonus reward will be crafting materials. For instance, playing in Cursed Shore could reward you with ancient bones, charged cores, charged lodestones, or giant eyes during one rotation, and powerful venom sacs, glacial cores, glacial lodestones, or globs of ectoplasm during another rotation.

All that ANet quote states is that there will alternate ways to get the materials that you then put into the forge to make the gifts.

Like Chobits has stated, you’ll likely still need to put all the materials into the forge. Exactly the same as the way it’s done now.

In general, keep them unless you are desperate for in-game credits to do something specific.

You can always collect the materials again or acquire gold via other in-game means and my personal rule of thumb is store stuff until I run out of space or need to raise more credits to do something quickly.

I always sell once I get a full stack of 250. I don’t have the room to store all the junk and I am not interested in crafting since I have no particular desire for legendary stuff. But I do keep collecting resources because it is decent money.

Chobits.2430:

Anet hasn’t said anything about a new crafting system for Legendary Weapons. The only thing they have said is that we are getting a new way to get precursors. The mystic forge recipes are going to remain the same and require all the same mats as before.

New legendary crafting http://dulfy.net/2015/05/26/gw2-list-of-mastery-abilities-from-closed-beta/#Legendary_Precursor_Crafting_Mastery

Also, in Exalted Lore category, new crafting mats via http://dulfy.net/2015/05/26/gw2-list-of-mastery-abilities-from-closed-beta/#Exalted_Lore via Fine Ore gathering skill

New lootables from the mentioned Champions from Exalted Lore and Itzel Lore masteries may be used in the new legendary crafting thus replacing old components.

Though of course until we actually see it, we won’t know what exactly it requires.

Jack.1469:

With the strong possibility that we’ll be able to use the map bonuses system to get materials for legendaries more easily, are we better off selling our mats well ahead of HoT’s release?

First of all, you would get a more concrete answer, if you would state, which mats you actually mean, as there are many different ones going into a legendary.

In general, whatever mats you mean, you will probably be able to sell them for at least 30% more between now and HoT but will also be able to buy some for at least 30% less.

After HoT, its anybodies guess because we dont know the loot tables in Maguuma Jungle, which will drop most of the loot after release (because most of the players will be there). I also expect a sudden influx of t5 and t6 mats right after HoT release from a huge amount of champion bags that players have been hoarding in order to open them, once they have their loot tables adjusted with new currencies or loot.

If you mean t6 fine mats for example, we dont know, in what quantity they will drop in MJ or how much of a faucet the new map completion rewards actually will be.

While loot in MJ can certainly be farmed and will have a big impact on overall prices, i dont think that map completion rewards will be a viable farm because completing a map will probably yield alot less loot per hour than other popular farms in MJ or elsewhere.

The faucet from map completion rewards will more or less be a steady addition to supply but it wont (and cant) be target farmed.

We also dont know, how much new sinks HoT will introduce. Apart from the new legendary weapons, there are potential sinks in legendary back pieces