Guild Wars 2

Anet did a good job of adjusting costs for upgrades and such, except for flax fibers. 12 of these needed to make a linen sack, which is needed for almost every WvW upgrade – and a lot of the decent ones require two, so that’s over 3g before including other mats.

I understand it for upgrades for keeps, and perhaps towers, which are easily defensible, but for camps, 3g+ per upgrade on an objective easily flipped deters a lot of these upgrades being used much.

Perhaps that’s the intention (Speedy dollies is kitten nice), but it would be great if Anet could take a look at some of the flax fiber requirements on some of the upgrades and see if the cost/usage is in line with what was intended.

Mm yeah. I die a little inside when my guild needs things like Speedy Yaks… guild catas, Invul Fortification etc. Or more so… my gold wallet dies a little. Haha.

I really wish Flax Fibres were more generous.. but not overkill to the point of not being worth much. Economy is a tricky and delicate thing to balance…

Considering how powerful these tactivators are, these upgrades should be expensive. It is an additional incentive to defend your objectives.
It is also more satisfying to reset an object with expensive upgrades. Since upgrading structures to t3 costs no gold anymore, removing expensive tactivators is the main motivation to flip it now.

Malediktus.3740:

Considering how powerful these tactivators are, these upgrades should be expensive. It is an additional incentive to defend your objectives.
It is also more satisfying to reset an object with expensive upgrades. Since upgrading structures to t3 costs no gold anymore, removing expensive tactivators is the main motivation to flip it now.

GW2 is heavy gimmick based.

Flax farm… put it in the daily routine or as a prelude to a guild event

The entire scribing stuff is totally whacked out. Anything that requires scribing is gonna cost you and or your guild. In addition, there are tons of pieces to making 1 wvw item and most are account bound so like having things spread across several scribes instead of just one is almost impossible. Wait until you make banners for your guild, or even some decorations. Like a few decorations take a map completion to complete.

Thanks for highlighting this issue. I made a similar thread a few weeks ago (which has sunk onto page 2 of the HoT forum – BUMP IT!): https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Flax-Fibres-Still-Too-Rare/first#post6316568

I tend to agree, having a high priced item deters people from trying to do scribe. Much better to have some leveling recipes that aren’t very good but relatively cheap and then the big ones – which should be expensive – for places like Stonemist castle and the keeps.

Expensive shouldn’t mean a sink for lots of gold. I have suggested including Aetherium in recipes as a brake on the amount that guilds can produce in a week. The production of this is limited but a large number of guilds are already finding continued production worthless – they have nothing to use it for.

Guild halls and WvW upgrades is pretty much designed for 250+ people guilds. All of them going to a flax farm with say 5 characters… That’s alot of flax in 10 minutes.

Just an update.
In the recent AMA, Mike O’Brien said some kitten is hoarding all the flax fibres we need to make WvW upgrades:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/53plre/rising_flames_devs_here_ask_us_anything/d7v9en4?context=1000

There’s actually a ton of supply of leather and flax. But apparently the trading price, while expensive, is not enough to get people to sell what they’re sitting on, or to farm them for profit. People have more wealth than they used to and it’s changing behavior. We want to give the market time to balance itself."

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Idk, I have 5000 flax seeds stocked but I barely have 1 stack of Flax fibers. Leathers are somewhat easy to come by (just as mithril and elder wood), idk why it is so expensive compared to the others.

Jeknar.6184:

Idk, I have 5000 flax seeds stocked but I barely have 1 stack of Flax fibers. Leathers are somewhat easy to come by (just as mithril and elder wood), idk why it is so expensive compared to the others.

Leather is needed in crafting all types of armors if I’m not mistaken. There is just too many uses for it.

As being an officer in a wvw only guild, flax fibre is killing me. Even with all my toons parked at the flax farm I maybe get 20 flax fibre a day which is not enough to make 2 linen bags…

IMHO there needs to be some adjustment to flax fibre either to slightly improve the drop rate or to reduce the amount needed to make a linen bag.