Guild Wars 2

What’s cheaper, buying the legendary?
OR
Buying the precursor, and crafting it?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Is-it-easier-to-buy-of-craft/first#post2627189

Falunel.7645:

Tallying up the costs of everything you can buy to make a legendary (precursor and all gifts save Mastery)… crafting Twilight, if you bought all the materials but made Gift of Mastery yourself, would cost approximately 1404.64g. Twilight is currently being sold for 1777.77g. In other words, if you buy the legendary directly, you’re paying a markup of ~374g.

Just throwing that out there in case anyone finds it interesting. I will say that the crafting price varies depending on your luck with clovers, the market, and how many mats you have saved up/get dropped. Also, I did that calculation on paper (no calculator) and with plenty of rounding, so it may be off here or there.

It will always be more expensive to buy a legendary than to craft it. The only reason you would buy a legendary directly would be to avoid making Gift of Mastery (which cannot be bought with gold).

currently, every single legendary costs more to buy (from sell listings) than to make.
some are only a couple dozen gold more, most are 200g+ more.
a lot of maximum buy orders are below the cost to make, but those are the ones that weren’t filled, so I wouldn’t expect to actually buy one there.

If you can buy it for less than the cost of making it then it’s because someone is bad at maths.

Considering the kind of money involved it’s well worth taking the time to make sure you’ve worked out the price (and profit) correctly, so that’s very unlikely to happen.