Guild Wars 2

You can buy 2 Letters of Commendation with 16 Laurels. That amounts to 2k influence. If you were to buy it from the Guild Promoter, it would cost 4g.

My question is: Is it worth spending the 16 Laurels for this? Are there better ways to spend the Laurels for the same effect? Would buying 16 heavy crafting bags, as an example, cause me to end up with more than 4k, at which point I’m better of buying them and spending the profit to buy influence from the Promoter?

Thanks in advance!

Richard Nixon.6573:

You can buy 2 Letters of Commendation with 16 Laurels. That amounts to 2k influence. If you were to buy it from the Guild Promoter, it would cost 4g.

My question is: Is it worth spending the 16 Laurels for this? Are there better ways to spend the Laurels for the same effect? Would buying 16 heavy crafting bags, as an example, cause me to end up with more than 4k, at which point I’m better of buying them and spending the profit to buy influence from the Promoter?

Thanks in advance!

Do you want or need Ascended gear? Do you want the minis or tonics? Do you have anything else you want to spend Laurels on?

Of not, then go for it.

Ascended gear is down the line, I’m more than willing to delay getting them for gaining the influence.

But my question is not whether i should spend Laurels, but rather will spending them on tradable materials net me more gold than the cost of the Commendation letters?

If the answer is yes, then it is better for me to spend the Laurels on whatever profitable item, sell that, and then buy from the Promoter. That way, I don’t spend any of my gold, and even get a slight relative profit.

If the answer is no, then it is more efficient for me to just buy the Commendation letters with Laurels.

Richard Nixon.6573:

Ascended gear is down the line, I’m more than willing to delay getting them for gaining the influence.

But my question is not whether i should spend Laurels, but rather will spending them on tradable materials net me more gold than the cost of the Commendation letters?

If the answer is yes, then it is better for me to spend the Laurels on whatever profitable item, sell that, and then buy from the Promoter. That way, I don’t spend any of my gold, and even get a slight relative profit.

If the answer is no, then it is more efficient for me to just buy the Commendation letters with Laurels.

The answer isn’t going to be something simple. Check the Black Lion going rate (I cant right now, I’m actually away from that computer and I have a problem with getting BL to actually recognize my inventory lately) and see what you think.

I used my Laurels on a box for gear and made like 4g on 1 item and the other was worth like 60 silver but I would probably use those for other items that could be sold to buy more influence.

Generally, no. 16 laurels are worth way more than 4g or 2k influence – partly because while you can exchange laurels for other things, there is no way to get laurels besides dailies. In this regard it’s very unlike karma, which is both mostly useless, and farmable.