Guild Wars 2

Put shovels in the Gem Store.

Anet profits, we profit. GG

Incident: 121116-001086

I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to GM Andreas and all the support team for reading my ticket and reactivating my account.

Issued a ticket and received a response in less than a day. I am very impressed by the swiftness of the support team and the outcome of my situation.

You guys are great!

Regards,
A happy Tyrian.

I’ve been seeing a lot of QQing on the forums on how expensive legendaries take to make, as well as precursors.

But Anet, please do NOT change the drop rate/price of them.

Legendaries are NOT meant to be easily obtained within 100 or 200 hours of gameplay. I worked very hard for my legendary and it would be saddening to see half the casuals in the server have one before the next year kicks in.

Also, I think the price of the precursors (currently 100-400G) is a very reasonable rate. The most expensive is the Dusk/Dawn, which are around 300-400G now.

400G can nab you 2000~ rare greatswords. That is 500 crafts plus additional 160~ crafts from those 500.

If the drop rate is indeed less than 1% (speculated to be 0.1%~) it would give you 0.66 GS out of those 660 crafts.

The price on the TP is actually very realistic if you do some math. Even if the drop rate were higher than 0.1%, then the trade-off of the higher price on the TP is the elimination of the risk involved of crafting the 2000 GS, since there is a chance you will get nothing.

TLDR; Legendaries are not meant for everyone. Precursor prices are meant to be for those who are risk averse, take your chances at the forge if you want to save some cash.

I just looked up recipe and noticed that the Bloodstone Shard is soulbound.

If I want to make my legendary for another character, will the Gift of Mastery (Bloodstone, 250x Obsidian Shard, Gift of Exploration/Battle) be soul or account bound?

Thanks for the quick reply

I’m planning on getting the entire Galrath’s Set (Precision, Toughness, Condition Damage)

However, I don’t really like the set’s unique abilities.

Is it possible to put runes on unique armors?

Kathias.8532:

It’s a bit sad, but again, anyone rational (from a theoretical point of view) will never take part in such a trade, because it’s always better for both parties to scam (as long as there is no viable punishment). You’d either need to find a way to punish the scamming player (like a ban) or repeat the transaction multiple times (the profit from future trades would have to be higher than the profit you get from scamming/deviating).

While the game theory/prisoner’s dilemma as Kathias mentioned is what any economics textbook would say a “rational” person would do, it is not always the case.

There are two types of people in this world:
1) Kittens/scammers
2) Nice people

Not everyone wants to scam…some people just want to have fun in a game and isn’t a sadistic prick.

Hope you get what you want OP, you need to be patient with this. Fiat money was made to eliminate double coincidence of wants, but I guess you want to save some money ^^

Kathias.8532:

I’m afraid that according to the game theory, there is no way that this trade could happen, unless you find a way to punish a deviating player (for not sending the weapon/money). The only way would be to repeat the trade infinite number of times

Your rep gets stained. That is how you keep people in check. Worked well in TF2 trading when people were using cash to get hats, using rep on forums to make sure you were not getting scammed…but this is just a one-time deal so dunno how well this will work out.