Guild Wars 2

The TP is global, so any legitimately profitable items, i.e. buy mats + craft = profit, will be supplied by 10,000 other players trying to do exactly the same thing you are doing 24/7 in a race to the bottom.

Your best bet will be to farm mats and sell them. I have made enough for 2 character slots plus four bank slots simply by forgoing all crafting profession altogether and selling what mats I pick up. My highest level character is 52.

There is some Day Trader-level of profit possible with Buy/Sell Orders, but again, there are 10,000 other people trying to do the exact same thing and they are all competing with you.

I understand that Cooking wasn’t as epic as the Chef trainer warned us about before we picked up the profession. I understand that we need to scour the world for ingredients to craft hundreds of different dishes.

But Black Peppercorn off the vendor? It makes no sense for such a low-level item.

If you were not aware, Black Peppercorn is used with Packet of Salt to create, you guessed it, Pile of Salt and Pepper. A level 0 recipe. Used with two more level 0 recipes (and, granted, several higher level recipes as well). But currently, Black Peppercorn is selling for 28c each. It can otherwise only be found randomly from Herb Bushes (sometimes you get Garlic), which is itself a random gathering node (Onions/Carrots/etc could show up there instead).

Some bottlenecks simply don’t make sense. Salt is in infinite supply, butter is in every bag, but pepper? Almost worth its weight in gold.

P.S. Vanilla Beans are also ridiculous, but whatever.

I agree that this is both annoying and frustrating that we haven’t heard that it is being looked into. If it is intended to be “sit in same zone and grind 100k XP without leaving,” then the tooltip needs updated.

There are two weeks left in September. Is this going to be addressed before then?

It is generally cheaper to just buy new gear to replace “damaged” pieces, then vendor the damaged gear.

And people say the economy isn’t broken.

All chests are farmable, e.g. they respawn on a daily basis. This includes Splendid Chests. I have two alts hanging out at the Shamans’ Rookery for exactly this purpose, and the Rich Copper Node that also always respawns at that location.

At one point, I swear these chests gave rewards that scaled with your own level. They do not do so any longer. Three level 9 items are sometimes still good to break down into more mats, but I agree that it destroys all incentive to complete lower-level zones.

“You are auto-leveled down so everything will be a challenge and thus content! Except you get level 1-10 XP and gear, so there isn’t a point after all.”