Guild Wars 2

Completely made me feel like I was the biggest moron, ever.

I created my first exotic armor and sort of thought, maybe there’s some upgrades out there in the mystic forge. Turns out there is, so I was thinking all that crystals (which cost 12 skill points) and coins, and even wines, should give me a reward big enough to offset risking the precious exotic armor, even my skill points.

I got [Recipe Satchel of Carrion Emblazoned Armor].

I was really excited. Maybe it was some form of discounted materials, but when I took a look at it, the first thing that shocked me was having EIGHT insignia. You see… if I crafted 6 armor pieces, I will need SIX insignia. Which meant that I had to spend an extra 3-4 gold just to craft this satchel.

So I thought… OKAY… maybe it’s the gossamer and leather squares that’s discounted.

Nope. It was the exact same number of materials required to craft the armor.

After risking probably 4 Gold to get the Satchel recipe, as well as my skill points, I’m treated like I was a complete fool for using the “Mystic Forge”, which is truly a huge mystake.

Thank you ANet. Thank you indeed. Players. Don’t. Get. The. Recipe.

PS: Anet, you made me really sad. I think after I finish the story, I’m going to stop playing. I’m sure there’s lots of stuff to do, but I’m more interested in your crafting rather than WvW or PvP. This experience truly made me furious beyond words.

Dont use the mystic forge then? It doesnt have to have anything to do with your game, I’ve only just glanced at it.

I spent close to 2 gold on gems to buy an armor set for my thief because it looked awesome on the preview… ended up not being for my class so I couldn’t use it, couldn’t refund it and I made a warrior just so I could wear it and then hated how it played compared to my thief.

I feel your pain on making mistakes.

I’m playing the game with the intention of being a crafter, being useful to the community and helping for free in lion’s arch since I reached lvl 80. Having new recipes to craft and make sense is the most important thing to me in-game. What’s the point of paying 2 more insignia that will give the same armor that I can craft 6 with?

Sure, there’s the trading post failure and memory crashes like every hour, but this single recipe truly made me speechless. I guess they lost me.

LoneWolfie.1852:

I’m playing the game with the intention of being a *crafter*, being useful to the community and helping for free in lion’s arch since I reached lvl 80. Having new recipes to craft and make sense is the most important thing to me in-game. What’s the point of paying 2 more insignia that will give the same armor that I can craft 6 with?

Sure, there’s the trading post failure and memory crashes like every hour, but this single recipe truly made me speechless. I guess they lost me.

Putting one item up on the Trading Post instead of 6?

*Shrug*

Morgue.2593:

I spent close to 2 gold on gems to buy an armor set for my thief because it looked awesome on the preview… ended up not being for my class so I couldn’t use it, couldn’t refund it and I made a warrior just so I could wear it and then hated how it played compared to my thief.

I feel your pain on making mistakes.

Whoa whoa whoa. I understand mistakes on my part, this is my first MMO and I didn’t understand how rune placing works, lost silvers on that.

But this was something that a player cannot see. I crafted the recipe, looked forward to see what mystic forge gave me, and it was a slap to my face, left and right, a punch to the gut, and basically 5 hours+ of wasted farming to get the money as well as skill points.

This isn’t my fault but ANet’s. I just basically have no idea why the devs actually think creating a full bag needs 8 insignia instead of 6 is a good idea. It’s not even saving my time, because you needed to farm 2-3 hours in the world, and one can probably craft everything in 10 mins with the materials required.

I’m just so mad over this till the point of quitting the game, and I really hope ANet looks into this as soon as possible. AND it cannot be something like making it the same amount of materials compared to making it individually, either giving it a NEW skin OR less materials required to produce it.

Dude, the games been out a week or two. If it looks like its an obvious mistake, report it as a bug. It probably is. Millions of lines of code, items, tables, crafts, mystic forge combinations, loot tables, vendor lists, ad nauseam. So the likelihood of a single digit typo lingering around is entirely possible. Its already been found with some cooking stuff and karma vendors.

Besides that…its a freaking crafting recipe. You accidentally crafted one thing in a digital world, where everything is replaceable, and you were disappointed so instead of shrugging and moving along, you’re just going to take your ball and go home? Part of crafting is the experimentation. Part of experimentation is risk. Risk comes with gains and losses. (begin sarcasm) I’ve spent hours in explore-able mode dungeons, spent nearly a gold on repairs, and gotten garbage loot at the end. Curse you Arenanet! (end sarcasm)

I don’t know how old you are, but be prepared for a long long road of being angry and quitting things, because life if full of little disappointments. You possibly learned a lesson…if you dont want to spoil discovery by looking up the recipes, then there is an inherent gamble of not getting out what you might put in. If you don’t want to gamble, then look everything up.

AcidicVision.5498:

Dude, the games been out a week or two. If it looks like its an obvious mistake, report it as a bug. It probably is. Millions of lines of code, items, tables, crafts, mystic forge combinations, loot tables, vendor lists, ad nauseam. So the likelihood of a single digit typo lingering around is entirely possible. Its already been found with some cooking stuff and karma vendors.

Besides that…its a freaking crafting recipe. You accidentally crafted one thing in a digital world, where everything is replaceable, and you were disappointed so instead of shrugging and moving along, you’re just going to take your ball and go home? Part of crafting is the experimentation. Part of experimentation is risk. Risk comes with gains and losses. (begin sarcasm) I’ve spent hours in explore-able mode dungeons, spent nearly a gold on repairs, and gotten garbage loot at the end. Curse you Arenanet! (end sarcasm)

I don’t know how old you are, but be prepared for a long long road of being angry and quitting things, because life if full of little disappointments. You possibly learned a lesson…if you dont want to spoil discovery by looking up the recipes, then there is an inherent gamble of not getting out what you might put in. If you don’t want to gamble, then look everything up.

The endgame craftables are all pointless. I spend 100+ hours on this game just to fall flat on my face with the endgame crafts? Nope. It’s utterly disappointing, not full of little disappointments. What’s the point of me rushing to craft both of my professions to 400? It’s pointless. Fine workcrafts are completely unsellable, mastercraft items sell below cost, few people bother with rare crafts (although it’s still sellable), and exotics are the only thing that people seem to buy and save for.

The entire crafting system is also painful to look at. The food profession is a complete pain to look at because the amount of money and karma spent makes me think that the end game food system is pointless.

The only thing that probably interest me is the legendary weapons, but just looking at the grinding farm makes me tired. I want to craft and trade weapons or armor, but it appears it’s just pointless to do so. The market is so… warped or something.

Edit: I wrote so many times of “pointless”, when I look back at it.

“Laughs sardonically”

Seems like you wanted to roll the dice, did so, didn’t like the outcome, and blame the devs somehow. Left-leaning in politics? Hehe…

But really, yes there’s some things that I don’t think make sense. For example right now in WvW, I can buy a Ballista for 6 silver. Cheap! Or spend 6 Badges of Honor, which is ridiculous considering it’s rarity and randomness of dropping.

Yet, it kinda makes sense, when I have all the badge gear in <calculates rate of badges to date to future time> around 2 months, I will be able to spend badges instead of silver. Ah ha, so there is a point, that eventually we will be karma heavy, and badge heavy, and so on heavy because we don’t need those types of items anymore.

I swear they thought of everything.

Rushing to the end probably wasn’t what you should have done with this game. All the content is on the way, and rushing to finish it all so you could experience “more” doesn’t make any sense. It is your choice to play how you wish but you can’t be mad when you made the choice you did. I’ve played 160 hours since headstart, plenty of time to get to max level, but I’m not going to blow 5 years worth of content creation in a weeks time. Someone else already got there first so the brag factor is out the door. The market will fluctuate hard in the first few months maybe, so expect either extremely huge or disappointingly minimal results for now.

For the market i would say gears where it will stay due to the small improvement between the different rarities. (Which is a good thing.) Crafting mats will come down in price is my guess due to the fact crafters will stop buying them as theres no profit. Only thing you will see improve in sale value is the gear that looks cool for the appearance value in it. Or atleast thats what im expecting/hoping.