Guild Wars 2

One hundred fifty of those green shrubs I can call my own,
but what shall I do with them?

I was thinking on spending them on ascended accessories. An amulet and rings I already have.
But wouldnt it be better to join a bigger guild to acquire ascended accessories via those guild activities?

So what else could I do with them?
Maybe trade for 300 unidentified dyes?
If I get lucky, I’ll get some high valued ones;
or how are the chances for this to happen?
I remember I bought 40 unidentified dyes, but this was months ago. I got celestial and abyss out of that. A good deal for me and a bad deal for a friend. Because after he heard how I raised my gold he wanted the same for him. He purchased 100 unidentified dyes. But nothing too valuable popped out then.

Any other usefull ideas?

Save them until you decide to craft something that requires a lot of T6 materials.
Each laurel equals 3 t6 mats.

I use mine to get exotic armor for new alts from the WvW vendor, using the badges of honor I have that are stacking up to suplement the laurels. BTW, ascended amulets can’t be gotten from guild missions…only from laurel vendors.

Unidentified dye price has risen a little, about 22s the moment I’m writing this. So if you want to transform the laurels into money then buy those dyes and sell them. You can make a lot of money~

I see, get T6 Materials for laurels.
But there is nothing that I’d like to craft at the moment. Maybe in the future.
If my infos are correct we will be able to craft till level 500 to create ascended armor. If you’ll need T6 mats for them then thats a good idea…
or will they invent some T7 mats?

Selling 300 unidentified dyes for a total sum of 66 gold [if one sells for 22].
Thats a good load of money. But I am more the gambling type, so I’d open them all to see if luck is still a skill. I’d just need for example 2 celestials and 2 abysses to turn that into a good deal. 1 abyss I’d use then to black my char up.

Statictary.5206:

I see, get T6 Materials for laurels.
But there is nothing that I’d like to craft at the moment. Maybe in the future.
If my infos are correct we will be able to craft till level 500 to create ascended armor. If you’ll need T6 mats for them then thats a good idea…
or will they invent some T7 mats?

The new T7 mats will be account bound and time gated. Though it seems it will be better than the charged quartz.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

We’ll also add a new set of account-bound crafting materials to the game. You’ll receive these materials as guaranteed rewards once per day per unique location for completing content within a category of gameplay in Guild Wars 2.
For example, capturing camps, towers, and keeps in WvW will earn you these crafting materials. In the Living World, you can earn them for killing giant world bosses, defeating dungeons, completing jumping puzzles, completing mini-dungeons, finishing some types of guild missions, capturing temples in Orr, and other activities.
Mix it up and try your favorite mini-dungeons one day, your favorite jumping puzzles the next day, and on an another day capture supply camps in WvW instead to earn the crafting material. Or if you want to do all three in one day, the choice is yours! Players can earn each of these guaranteed reward crafting materials from a variety of content across both PvE and WvW to give players choice in what type of content they enjoy.

We’ll expand all crafting professions to allow them to reach a new milestone: 500 points!
At 500, crafters will be able to craft ascended weapons and armor. Once you reach 500, a new tier of crafting materials will be available to you; this new tier of materials will be made by combining lower tier materials. This tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.

This new tier of crafting material, along with the new guaranteed material rewards mentioned earlier and some other materials we’ll introduce will be used to craft ascended weapons, armor, and more. These weapons and armor will also be able to be found as rare drops from locations in the world. Ascended weapons and armor will remain account-bound like other ascended gear.

I just don’t really understand “This tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.”

If they are account bound, how does that let crafters form an economy.

I don’t think all the items crafted will be account bound…..most likelly soulbound on use (like most high level crafted stuff now).

Brother Grimm.5176:

I don’t think all the items crafted will be account bound…..most likelly soulbound on use (like most high level crafted stuff now).

Ascended weapons and armor will remain account-bound like other ascended gear.

Also, isn’t the celestial gear, which are just exotic, also account bound?

Four words: Endless Mystery Cat Tonic!

Wallace MacBix.2089:

I just don’t really understand “This tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.”

If they are account bound, how does that let crafters form an economy.

These will be crafted. The account bound materials is separate. Go read the blog post again.

In theory the crafted materials will maintain a high value since they are time constrained and require a high level crafter.

Khisanth.2948:

Wallace MacBix.2089:

I just don’t really understand “This tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.”

If they are account bound, how does that let crafters form an economy.

These will be crafted. The account bound materials is separate. Go read the blog post again.

In theory the crafted materials will maintain a high value since they are time constrained and require a high level crafter.

Ah thanks, I read it a couple of times, but kept getting confused because I assumed they were related. I guess it’ll be a good time to have only 1 main and be a crafter.

No joke during SAB time period (April?) I purchased the 10 unidentified dyes with laurels. From that ONE packet I got both Celestial Dye, Abyss Dye, Midnight Fire Dye, and Midnight Blue dyes. No one in my guild believed me when I linked them….

But I swear it happened! It’s the single best RNG experience I’ve ever had. Every other attempt at RNG has yielded doodoo.

kaikalii.4198:

Four words: Endless Mystery Cat Tonic!

It’s a trap!!!!!

No seriously I’ve heard from many people that it’s a massive waste of laurels.

T6 mats and the ascended amulet are the only way to go IMO :p

What’s the point of transforming one useless currency (laurels) into another (gold) or even a third (T6 mats).

When you quit the game it will all just vanish into electronic limbo.

Yeah – Cat Tonics I guess.

Contiguous.1345:

What’s the point of transforming one useless currency (laurels) into another (gold) or even a third (T6 mats).

When you quit the game it will all just vanish into electronic limbo.

Yeah – Cat Tonics I guess.

The pessimistic attitude makes me wonder.

kaikalii.4198:

Four words: Endless Mystery Cat Tonic!

Im allergic to the fur of these kittening kitten kats.

Now if this tonic would transform me into…something…that has new skills that I could use in kombat, why not.

alexjolly.1463:

The pessimistic attitude makes me wonder.

You mean cynical.

Contiguous.1345:

alexjolly.1463:

The pessimistic attitude makes me wonder.

You mean cynical.

Nope I meant pessimistic.

Dictionary definitions

Cynicism
Doubtful as to whether something is worthwhile.
e.g. ‘Gold, laurels, game stuff in general is worth kitten’ = Cynicism

Pessimism
A state of mind in which one anticipates undesirable outcomes.
e.g. ‘I won’t get a legendary no matter how hard I try’= Pessimism.

You can call cheese chalk if you like. It doesn’t make it true no matter how you argue.

Contiguous.1345:

Dictionary definitions

Cynicism
Doubtful as to whether something is worthwhile.
e.g. ‘Gold, laurels, game stuff in general is worth kitten’ = Cynicism

Pessimism
A state of mind in which one anticipates undesirable outcomes.
e.g. ‘I won’t get a legendary no matter how hard I try’= Pessimism.

You can call cheese chalk if you like. It doesn’t make it true no matter how you argue.

Cynical – Believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.
Pessimistic – A tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view

See what I did there, I used the definitions that support my argument rather than using both definitions of the word … look familiar?
At any rate both usages of the word would have been correct in that context but that wasn’t your point. You tried to pedantically pick at the correctness of my grammar in a petty attempt to get some form of virtual 1 up and instead blundered. GG

Or you can be smart and start your very own personal guild… Buy the letter of commendations and then use the influence to build your self a guild storage. I recently did this and I will soon have 150 extra bank slots for random stuff to fill with.

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Brother Grimm.5176:

I don’t think all the items crafted will be account bound…..most likelly soulbound on use (like most high level crafted stuff now).

Ascended weapons and armor will remain account-bound like other ascended gear.

Also, isn’t the celestial gear, which are just exotic, also account bound?

Celestial gear is one of those examples which breaks the rules. Or, it’s probably because it uses account-bound materials (Charged Quartz Crystal) to craft, thus the end result is account-bound.

Contiguous.1345:

What’s the point of transforming one useless currency (laurels) into another (gold) or even a third (T6 mats).

I tend to agree here with this statement.

Gold is easy enough to come by in this game. I would always keep the time gated currency over everything else. Sure there isn’t a ton to buy with laurels now, but you never know what will come down the road. They might even be used for some component in 500 level crafting, or be used as an easy way to purchase mats for said crafting.

The limiting factor on gold production in this game is your own personal time and, realistically, there isn’t even a ton of stuff to spend gold on anyway once you buy exotic stuff or you collect things.

tl;dr : Save the laurels.

I’m starting to think it’s a bit like I.T gear. At the moment, I don’t buy new stuff because I think “if I just save a bit more, then I can have the newer thing and it wont make my old thing obsolete”. Except, this makes me never get the new thing.

As a result, I have 270 laurels and growing sense of unease about my ability to commit to a course of action. :P

I haven’t found a use for Laurels yet, nothing is interesting to buy from that merchant so I’ve turned it into a game to see how many I can gather. Let’s see how many Laurels I have by the time they add something interesting to that vendor.
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