Guild Wars 2

If you look at the description of materials currently in use:
Deldrimor Steel Ingot: Refined from X, Y, Z, and Time-Gated.
Spiritwood Plank: Refined from X, Y, Z, and Time-Gated.

Now look at Bolt of Damask:
Refined from Wool, Cotton, Linen, and Silk Weaving Thread. (you can see this description in the code [&AgGVtgAA] )

I think this makes it pretty clear that Spool of Silk Weaving thread will be Time-Gated material. It will probably be similar to the others…. 50 Silk Cloth, 1 glob, and 10 reagent.

More importantly, these spools will (probably) be required to make Bolt of Damask in the same way the Mithrillium is required to make Deldrimor Steel Ingot. So as we have to wait a few days to build up our mithrillium to make a three-ish ingots for weapons components… we may have to wait a few days to do the exact same thing for armor… whether it be mithrillium for ingots, or spools for bolt of damask.

I hate to say it, but we may be working at least 3 days per piece of armor just to get the time gated materials. I say 3 days because each armor piece costs typically fewer ingot-type material than a weapon does (except for chest).

But that’s no big deal, because if other speculators are correct in their prediction of 1 Vision Crystal per armor piece… then we will be spending at least 3 days farming dragonite for each armor piece anyway!

Cheers, and have fun with the patch.