Guild Wars 2

I would love to avoid any negativity, but I strongly agree with the statements about driving up gem prices. For example: 300 Gems for a single stack of Black Lion Salvage Kits. That’s approximately 5 gold presently. After the November modifications, a dozen level 70+ yellow items yield 3 or 4 globs.

This obviously is not cost effective. My original interpretation was the proclaimed “anti-grind” motto of the development team. Unfortunately, this apparent alteration to the loot table has me back in the 80 zones grinding away — instead of running dungeons.

Hilariously, with a full set of magic find equipment the drop rate of valuable items actually seems to decrease. I’ve logged my earning with NO magic find buff and average about 1 gold/20-30 minute interval. With a significant amount of buffs I average roughly 50 silver in the same amount of time.

I currently have a weapon set equipped that includes a mace (main hand) with a Superior Sigil of Energy attached to it. In my off hand is a shield with a Superior Sigil of Intelligence attached. When I swap to this set in combat (as my guardian), only the intelligence sigil activates. The energy sigil does nothing.

If I remove the shield and leave only the mace equipped I gain 50% endurance, as I should, when I swap. I already submitted the bug directly via the in-game reporting function. Missing out on this extra heal, however, is a significantly detrimental to my current build. I brought the matter here, because I feel things like this should be a priority.