Guild Wars 2

I’m back for season two and I had a few questions:

1) Did they change dungeons? I was doing a couple AC paths and no one was doing stacking at the spider like I was used to. They said it doesn’t matter anymore but wouldn’t go into detail.
2) Did the class/trait/gear changes produce any new builds that I don’t know of? (I quit playing at the final scarlet fight) I play all classes except for engineer and guardian.
3) I noticed t6 mats and simple exotic gear has shot up in price enormously. Some t6 mats appraoching 50 silver and exotic gear is now like 5-6g a piece whereas previously 15-20 gold would give me a whole set it now takes about 30 gold. Weapons seem more expensive too and also the sigils and runes (i know they were changed) have shot up in price even though availability hasn’t. E.g. force/accuracy and other ones that were already used and meta are now more expensive even though they are still readily available. What happened that explains all these price jumps

1. Some dungeons got a tweak. Most notably, if you draw the Spider Queen into the corner like you used to, she will now use her poison AoE attack. And since everyone is stacked, all those AoEs will be stacked on top of each other, and deal massive damage. The only way to really stack is to have an all zerk party and 2x or 4x FGS. And even then half those fights end in a double KO from my experience.
2. Produce any new builds? Maybe… but I haven’t heard of any that would fit the omgthisisthenewmeta category.
3. I’m not 100% sure about this, but I have noticed the change you are speaking of. If I had to guess, it’s all due to the new wardrobe system. Legendaries are in higher demand, since you can re-use their skins now. I know Incinerator has jumped in price because of this. Given the high amount of T6 mats required, I think this is the reason the price has been driven up. And since exotic gear also requires T6, that would explain the increase in those prices, too. The lack of ability to transfer sigils and runes to new gear with the old transmutation stones I think is the largest contributing factor to driving those prices up.

Thanks for your detailed reply. I didn’t know about all the sigil stuff and definitely didn’t know u could actually re-use the skins of legendaries on all characters. This might even motivate me to get one myself. I do believe it is indeed the cause of the prices going up.

Verificus.4320:

Thanks for your detailed reply. I didn’t know about all the sigil stuff and definitely didn’t know u could actually re-use the skins of legendaries on all characters. This might even motivate me to get one myself. I do believe it is indeed the cause of the prices going up.

Another reason is that legendaries and ascended gear i are now account bound instead of soul bound! I just made howler and it’s precursor costed 300 more gold than it did last year, but I’d still say it was worth it