Guild Wars 2

Hippocampus.8470:

But if you gather those mats incidentally, by going around killing things through the normal course of the game, I wouldn’t say you’re selling at a loss, though admittedly it is less than you’d get selling the mats directly. Selling the mats directly wouldn’t have gotten me from 150 to 210 in Leatherworking yesterday, along with more than 2 levels of regular XP. So I’m pretty okay earning less for the finished products than I would if I’d sold all the mats as I got them.

I 100% agree with you. Value doesn’t have to be only monetary. In this case you’re exchanging money for XP and Leatherworking skill. That’s legit. This is a crafting economy, so I fully expect that skillup items are going to be selling at a loss for the foreseeable future.

That being said, the actual problem is worse than people make out. People are selling items significantly below cost even for level 400 crafts. High demand consumables. In bulk, no less. This makes absolutely no sense. No amount of ‘well I farmed my own mats’ can make this make sense. Minerals you mine are not free.

In response to the OP, as others have said, changing the tax is not going to actually solve any problems. Making the tax more visible might, though with the current state of things I have my doubts.

Kopipoki.3542:

Make sure your sell price is at least 15% higher than your original purchase price, since that is how much the TP costs.

Of course he means make sure your sell price is greater than (purchase price / .85), which is about an 18% markup. You lose money at (purchase price * 1.15).

There is no problem with the tax (though they could make it more visible, that’d be fine).

The problem is people who think that spending time gathering 3g worth of mats, crafting them into items and promptly selling those items for 2g are somehow making a profit off the TP.

The TP is working as intended. It’s being driven by supply and demand. It’s just that the supply of crafted items is primarily being filled by morons.

Having the same error as the other 15 pages of people, had no issues before the last patch.

It also only affects me in certain zones (Lion’s Arch occasionally, Straits of Devastation every 5-10 min).