Guild Wars 2

Elbegast.6970:

Azihe.9456:

Elbegast.6970:

Renny.6571:

Elbegast.6970:

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No, you still have the crafted item. That’s what you dumped your gold on.

I paid far more for the materials needed to discover the recipe than the exotic would sell for on the Trading Post. That recipe is now being ripped away and I will be forced to spend even more gold to relearn it. Do you understand that? The ‘crafted item’, as you put it, means far less to me than having the recipe in my crafting tab.

That seems like a compulsion. An unhealthy one. The words do nothing for you, contribute nothing to a title or achievement points. No one will ever know except for you, and it seems a bit silly to get that worked up over those words on the screen. Bottom line is this is beneficial for everyone involved, and outside of people with weird compulsions, there is no negative.

There is a negative…a huge one. I have lost gold and I have lost a lot of it. I wouldn’t be so upset if ArenaNet would reimburse my material expenses for my soon-to-be-missing discoveries.

You lost gold of your own volition. I could have a compulsion to keep my achievement points at “1337” because that is exactly what I want, and if ANet introduces something that gives me 1 achievement point by accident, that isn’t their fault. Think of all the gold I didn’t get by not doing dailies! So much lost!

Same deal for you. You decided that you needed to have orange words pop up on the screen that do absolutely nothing for your character, account, or really anything at all. Since ANet has a VERY good reason to wipe those words and it causes no trouble to anyone, if you invent a reason why it’s bad, that’s on you too.

Elbegast.6970:

Renny.6571:

Elbegast.6970:

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No, you still have the crafted item. That’s what you dumped your gold on.

I paid far more for the materials needed to discover the recipe than the exotic would sell for on the Trading Post. That recipe is now being ripped away and I will be forced to spend even more gold to relearn it. Do you understand that? The ‘crafted item’, as you put it, means far less to me than having the recipe in my crafting tab.

That seems like a compulsion. An unhealthy one. The words do nothing for you, contribute nothing to a title or achievement points. No one will ever know except for you, and it seems a bit silly to get that worked up over those words on the screen. Bottom line is this is beneficial for everyone involved, and outside of people with weird compulsions, there is no negative.

So here is what I want to know: You know what the recipe is, and you can re-combine things if you ever need it again. So what do you actually lose? The words on your screen saying the recipe name? What is actually lost?

Because someone thinks it’s good, apparently. It’s a pretty over-hyped rune that people like to use since they don’t want to think about the math involved, I guess.

BilboBaggins.5620:

Sykper.6583:

Wait.

I think people are misunderstanding somewhat, because you aren’t losing out the most important part of making the exotics, the inscription. Those are not being reset, those ranting and raving about losing their RARE molten sentinel exotic creations can still make them.

It’s the convinence of seeing that exotic on your crafting list that is going away. Meaning once the patch hits, you make the materials and toss it in the discovery again to get the exotic and its discovery back on your crafting list.

Blowing it far out of hand folks…

Though if you are a completionist of the most extreme kind (Every Exotic Discovery founded) then yes this would impact you. Sorry for your impulsive loss

This does nothing against everyone else.

Except this DOES impact everyone who has even one recipe reset. It affects the gold/time it took to get the mats to discover that recipe and requires us to invest that gold/time to discover it again. Just like the mf change that flushes the gold/mats/laurels/time/transmutation stones that we invested to make the gear.

So let’s say that you need to make a Berserker’s Pearl Dagger. You can still make it with the exact same materials. The pattern for daggers is still handle,inscription, and blade. Just make it. Discovery was never difficult. It was never hard to figure out. It was always about experience.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Azihe.9456:

Does anyone really think that they are going to remove the ones that require a recipe? Come on, people. This is just a minor inconvenience at worst, and a way to level your weaponsmithing for everyone.

They stated they are removing all… so until told otherwise, we must assume they are screwing us over.

No. We don’t have to. You choose to. Discoveries != recipes from sheets.

Does anyone really think that they are going to remove the ones that require a recipe? Come on, people. This is just a minor inconvenience at worst, and a way to level your weaponsmithing for everyone.

So there is lots of info on what all the various MF items will turn into, but I have seen nothing on the crests themselves. I know they’re a low-cost, low-priority item, but is there any word on what we might get out of them?