Guild Wars 2

Um hm.. So me and my guildies wanted to see what this bulk recipe was all about that you can make using the mystic forge. So we went ahead and made one.

50 mystic coins
20 crystal
5 wine
Whatever chest armor you want. I used rampager exalted chest armor.

So… here we go. We’re all a little confused on this.

I used the forge and it gave me a recipe which I consumed. However this says….

Recipe: Satchel of Rampager’s Exalted Armor (Exotic)
Ingredients:
11 Rampager’s Intricate insignia
18 Bolts of Gossamer
10 spools of gossamer Thread
6 cured hardened leather squares.

Everything looks good, aside from the 11 rampagers insignias. It only takes…. 6 insignias to forge a full set of exotic rampagers armor…. o.O ???

This basically makes no sense at all.

It means that you would need 25 MORE globs of Ectoplasm and 25 MORE powerful venom sacs than you would normally need if you just crafted the pieces of armor individually. This means that crafting this “bulk” recipe would… literally make no sense. I mean isn’t this supposed to make crafting a full set easier? Not… almost 2x harder?

I mean… my guildy gave me 2g in mats, and I used 50 of my mystic coins to get this, and its 100% utterly worthless.

Please tell me this is some kind of mistake….

SCREENSHOT PROVIDED.

On Gate of Madness server. Which is sort of fitting when you think about it, because this sure is about as maddening as you can get.

So… any information on this?

I am sad. I wasted an exalted chest armor (cost like 2-3g to make) and 50 mystic coins that I earned myself for this.

:( Any information at all that this is a clear typo or something in the mats required to make this, would really be appreciated.

I feel your pain bro. Anyway here is my 5 cents.

This doesn’t make sense. Why did we spend 50 coins, nearly 3-4g in mats, just to get something that is completely obsolete?

This seriously needs to be looked at. I see that the leatherworking one requires 2 more insignia than is normally needed. Why’s the tailoring one 11 lmao?

Please tell me there is more information that this issue is even recognized as being a problem..

Wasn’t there a post about one of these things, I think it was “Box of berserker’s draconic armor” or something, that when opened produced a yellow set? Does that happen with these too?

Corew.8932:

Wasn’t there a post about one of these things, I think it was “Box of berserker’s draconic armor” or something, that when opened produced a yellow set? Does that happen with these too?

I don’t know, I haven’t and won’t craft this bulk thing due to the ridiculous amount of mats it costs. It’s 50% cheaper to make an entire exotic set piece by piece rather than use this bulk thing.

i bought this game i bought tons of stuff and now its gone i suggest everyone goes and plays diablo 3 and also we should get our refund for the game since the makers of the game took some of the game away that we payed for i mean think if you played mw3 and half the guns where gone

FEAREDSHOOTER.3908:

i bought this game i bought tons of stuff and now its gone i suggest everyone goes and plays diablo 3 and also we should get our refund for the game since the makers of the game took some of the game away that we payed for i mean think if you played mw3 and half the guns where gone

Hell naw. D3 blows compared to this game..

They just gotta work out these balance problems and a few bugs.

I just don’t know why a mod or dev hasn’t answered about this topic yet. This is clearly an obvious problem. Why would you make this recipe that costs like 4g all together to make, plus 50 mystic coins, to get something that is ridiculously obsolete. Not even obsolete but that it just makes zero, ZERO sense. This should be a reward that lets you craft an entire set of armor for a lower amount of mats, not 2x the mats?

Like who in their right freaking mind would craft this bulk recipe when they could do it 2x easier just by crafting the entire set by crafting individual pieces. Sorry but does not compute.

Does not make sense.

let me say that one more time.

This. Does. Not. Make. Any. Sense. At. All. Rinse, and repeat until it sinks in.

I made one of these today, unfortunately without reading this forum post first. One of my guild mates and I were talking about making these, so I went out and got one and then I saw the mats and had a sinking feeling in my stomach. I agree with the previous posts, why in the heck would I go and drop 3 extra emblems ( approx. 2-2.5g to make) to make a bulk set when I can craft each individually for far less mats. Not to mention the 3g worth of mats I’m already down for dropping it on this recipe.

In my opinion, to make it fair make the bulk set cost 2 emblems cheaper than crafting each piece individually since we already dropped one piece of gear into crafting thekittenthing, and we get rewarded with this headache.

So far as I’ve seen:

Light lvl 80 Exotic armor takes 11 Insignias to make.
Medium lvl 80 Exotic armor takes 8 Insignias to make.
Heavy lvl 80 Exotic armor takes 10 Insignias to make.

Box of Berserker’s Draconic Armor (Exotic) will instead give you Berserker’s Gladiator Armor (Rare).

I also believe that the lower level (sub 80) exotic sets require more insignias in bulk than they do individually.

Edit: On a side note, it would appear as though the Masterwork bulk sets (possibly rare/fine as well) require about 55-60% of the normal materials in order to craft. IE: 48 Potent Blood rather than 90.

still looking for more information from higher source regarding this problem …………….

Help please. When will this be fixed, or is this actually intentional for some unknown reason other than you want people to intentionally waste their monthly coins ??

good luck on a fix!