Guild Wars 2

Is the mining boost NPC in guild halls bugged? Or is it seriously only supposed to give you 1 second off your aetherium timer?

Im sure someone could do the math, but if you buy the 16 hour boost, you get less than 20 extra aetherium. How is that worth 100k influence?

They flat out said that influence conversions would have very low rates of return before launch, and they highly reccommended using remaining influence to stock up on consumables that were becoming more expensive to produce. They reccommended, both on stream and on these forums, that everyone spend their influence before launch because having tons of inf for not much effort was the primary reason they did away with the influence system and transitioned to a materials cost and hard time gate system.

Having a bunch of influence in the bank wasn’t intended to give you huge buffs. It was simply intended to have a way to spend maxxive overflows of influence for guilds that had so much of it they couldn’t turn it all in to consumables before launch.

That’s fine and all. But why even make a Mining Boost NPC if it doesnt do anything?