Guild Wars 2

Hey aura, stop replacing his argument with one of your own and refuting it. He isnt saying that the recipes are the same, hes just saying similar things can be done and in a player controlled market that arenanet supposedly has no control over the same thing could in theory still happen.

Look at it in terms of ecto, If the original recipe cost 1 ecto (The crafted snowflake) and returned anywhere from 0 to 4 ecto (snowflake plus 3), and the 15 T5 recipe cost .5 ecto (15s for the mats) and could in theory return anywhere from 0 to 3 ecto.

the problem is mats are not fixed or that cheap usually and if its a good deal then other players will discover it and drive the prices up to a point of 0 profit.

In the case of the snowflake recipe there was still a slim chance for total loss. I had a friend invest 10gold and get 5 in return.

now i will grant you that the potential for return in this case is great, but it isnt guaranteed.

took me around 4 hours to learn this thing, once i did, i 1 shot it with most of my alts. This was a fun challenging puzzle and i loved it

thank you very much

TL:DR Legendary Gathering Tools that are permanent but charge players copper per gather.

This idea comes from the Zelda:TP magic armor. Figure up the cost per gather and have the tool charge the player accordingly.

So currently 100 orichalcum mining uses cost 4 silver. The Legendary(jeweled/rupee/magic) mining pick could charge 4 copper per gather.

This could be a legendary crafting recipe that gives no advantage other than convenience.