Guild Wars 2

Precursor crafting wasn’t put into the game to be cheaper
Precursor crafting wasn’t put into the game to be faster
Precursor crafting wasn’t put into the game to provide a none RNG method
Precurosr crafting wasn’t put into the game to provide balance

Precurosr crafting was put into the game as a Mat/Gold/Time Sink that keeps people logged into the game and drains the economy of access gold and mats. They supply of certain mats are already on the decline like then adding Damask Patches or when people stopped farming T6 this will just make them more expensive. Adding value to leather was the purpose of the Damask Patch and pre crafting will add Value to a number of mats and also push people into other modes of the game. Quip for instance requires you to enter several Fractals and either eat Candy Corn till you throw up or toss harpy love juice on the Fractal Bosses.

Also a number of Pre crafting recipies apparently require a great deal of RNG

A number of Pre crafting recipes require a great deal of miracle since most of them are bugged like crap

Which parts of the recipes are RNG-based? The salvage and crafting portions are not. If you’re referring to finding items off of enemy drops then sure, but the point of precursor crafting was to take away the RNG aspect of getting a precursor. Boy do you have to pay for it too.

Doam.8305:

Precursor crafting wasn’t put into the game to be cheaper
Precursor crafting wasn’t put into the game to be faster
Precursor crafting wasn’t put into the game to provide a non RNG method
Precurosr crafting wasn’t put into the game to provide balance

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RNG

This is not entirely correct. They have said infact that it was put into the game to give players a specific NON rng way to get their precursor.

There was that thread about Final Rest. From what boss would it drop and when would someone finally get one.
Then the first one appeared… and the fell like rain from the sky after that.
The content has been out just over a week.
Cool yer jets

I find the precursor crafting way more fun that just RNG from mystic forge or grinding the 1000+ gold to buy the precursor (or even the full weapon) at the TP.

Sure, it is grinding. But the tier 1 and 3 collections are reasonably fun. And tier 2 requires a lot of grinding or gold spending, but you still have a higher sense of progression when you’re day after day checking things off of your list.

Silverkey.2078:

I find the precursor crafting way more fun that just RNG from mystic forge or grinding the 1000+ gold to buy the precursor (or even the full weapon) at the TP.

Sure, it is grinding. But the tier 1 and 3 collections are reasonably fun. And tier 2 requires a lot of grinding or gold spending, but you still have a higher sense of progression when you’re day after day checking things off of your list.