Guild Wars 2

… when you can just buy it from the TP for less money, less time invested and less headaches?
Because I simply don’t get it.

VaLee.5102:

… when you can just buy it from the TP for less money, less time invested and less headaches?

And less mastery points, just saying. I don’t like them myself and I find most of them to strange for my tastes. I do however try to get very rare skins and use them when I can. But it seems many players do like them hence why we have 40 million great swords clogging up our view with obtrusive particle effects.

Precursor collections are the result of all the discussions on a precursor scavenger hunt.

They weren’t supposed to make precursors cheaper or easier to get, only to give an alternative for people who don’t like the idea of buying one (or waiting for RNG).

So it’s just a matter of role playing?

I want my legendary not to be just some money thing. I also want it to have a story like acquiring colors doing quests making it feel like a true legendary weapon with a background. I know most people will not see it this way and although I am 100% upset with Bifrost III specifically getting sharded and corals my overall experience with it was positive. However, the this low level of negative is almost about outweigh how I feel about legendary crafting. At this point I am completely torned. Should I do more to get a story out of my legendary or just say it was all pure cash that made my legendary.

Here is my achievements so far in the game:
Permanent bank express, permanent hair stylist, permanent trading post, permanent vendor, maxed out bank slots to combine with permanent bank express now I have a 280 account bound bag slot, 3 permanent salvage kit, and also including nightfury. I also have ascended armor for all 3 armor types at berserker with stregnth runes.

Danikat.8537:

Precursor collections are the result of all the discussions on a precursor scavenger hunt.

They weren’t supposed to make precursors cheaper or easier to get, only to give an alternative for people who don’t like the idea of buying one (or waiting for RNG).

Yet people are still stuck on the collections because of RNG built right into them. And while many would prefer the legendary quest route, they may lose interest when they realize the mats they’ve farmed could be sold to buy the pre off the tp without depending on the RNG of collections.

Collections are starting to seem little better than the mystic forge. Anet may not want crafting to be cheaper, but honestly they should have made it more achievement and adventure based. It could still take time and dedication without making you feel like you’re making a mistake farming mats and not selling them.

Danikat.8537:

Precursor collections are the result of all the discussions on a precursor scavenger hunt.

They weren’t supposed to make precursors cheaper or easier to get, only to give an alternative for people who don’t like the idea of buying one (or waiting for RNG).

if you don’t want to wait for rng, then you can buy if, for sure, from the TP.

so, i guess, the precursor crafting is there for people that feel buying the precursor is not a waste of time big enough, and want to spend even more time farming for more gold, and then even more more time doing the silly things the precursor crafting requires (that, surprise surprise! also involves rng and farming)

i was at the fence on buying it from the tp, but after seeing the cost in materials i just decided crafting was not worth it and spent 950g before prices go up again.

i could be totally wrong and prices may collapse in the coming month, but anyway, it’s just gold from a stupid game. Nothing is wasted here.

It is unsure how the economy is going to develope so I can’t say that much regarding how the prices going to be in the future.

However, as of now, precursor crafting is more about having a list of things to do over a long period of time for those who find it hard to just farm gold, save it and then use it. It is basically a method to make you feel like it is a process. You can take pauses from this process and do something else and then comeback to it and finish your ‘’to do list’’.

VaLee.5102:

… when you can just buy it from the TP for less money, less time invested and less headaches?
Because I simply don’t get it.

Because soon you won’t have any option. The new legendaries will have precursors that can only be obtained through crafting. Then you won’t have any option other than doing a grind that is arguably worse than farming for gold in order to buy something from the TP.

The only silver lining here is that we will likely only get a full new set of legendaries around 2020, if ArenaNet is still around by then.

Well, it’s just a different way to aquire it. You can get the precursors for free via the collections if you’re willing to farm a few mats. I’m, for example, logging my wood by myself everyday. It’ll take over a month to get The Legend this way, but it feels smoother than grinding the money instead of the mats and buying it directly. Plus, I like the scavenger hunt and the associated AP.

I think it’s pointless.

Farming the mats myself = boring + require time + possibility of going cuckoo. Farming the gold doing fun things like events, wvw… things I want to do = fun. So it’s better for me to buy it from the TP.

I would only craft the HoT precursor since it’s account bound.

I finished the first tier collection today, looked at the recipe, did a quick mental calculation of how much it would cost to craft the first of three tiers and straight on noped away at the speed of light.

It looks like I’m going to frequent the TP often and just buy the freaking Leaf of Kudzu.

It’s a huge over site IMO. If it costed 2-300g or even 400g I’d be okay with it since that’s the price of each other quarter of a legendary but as of now it’s more expensive than buying a precourser flat out. A thing so expensive, that the system was in need of invention. Now it’s an alternative way to sink 800+ gold rather than the legendary quest we were told it was to be.

The tp may regulate it back down but I doubt that will happen soon any time remotely soon. Looking at zaps achieve track, it would be oodles of fun to do and would be pretty challenging to do. I can’t do it however, cause it costs more to do the challenge for the reward.

I could say the journey is more important than the destination, but the destination is why I would do the journey if it is the least efficient path?

guys, this is the market in action.

anet doesn’t directly set the price of doing precursor collections, just the mats required. the price of the ascended mats spiked after HoT release

If the precursor is way cheaper than doing the collection, the proper thing to do is to sell mats and buy the precursor with the profits. Right now you can make something like 6-7 gold per day just by making and selling the 3 ascended materials. That’s driven by the demand for precursor crafting by people with fat wallets.