Guild Wars 2

MetalGirl.2370:

Put capes on everyone, remove them the next day and never put them back.

OK, that would be really extremly awesome!

Ampa.2749:

Female cloths are crap. Clearly the target demographic is 14-18 year old males.

I gave up long ago and just bought a Jungle Explorer Outfit.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Jungle_Explorer_Outfit

I don’t believe that the cause of girl gamers is served by this sexist bias. Just my opinion.

Hey, nothing against that great outfuit. I love it and its great to use the legendary (high defense) mini skirts on my 30 same looking female chars ingame. Of course always with mini kasemeer in her bikini.

PS: 26 year old male gamer and yes I don’t either care if you use only male chars with farens legendary titan speedos

Just found it on reddit, so no idea if it is true (can’t check it ingame).
It seems that anet added/increased the needed leather for the patch you need for medium ascended armor.
If that is true, there is the reason for this extreme fast supply drop and we can be sure that the price will raise over the next weeks/months.

My guess is, that either someone rich belives that thick leather will be a main component for ad infinitum (release @next quarter update) or someone has a little inside information for the next quarter update.

But at such an early time (I mean next quarter update is not before april 18th) my closest bet is on a rich person speculating that price will raise for ad infinitum / new legy’s / anything else new.

Don’t go into the pvp mists. You will never see any gold spammer, but spend 5 min. in pvp and you will get gold spams for at least a week!

Anets perfect april fool 2016:

Gaile probably goes to the forums and writes some thing like:
‘SAB is coming soon, nothing is off the table!’

Ingame the SAB icon appears in rata sum and noone can enter it, but you can exchange your endless coin for a green bag that has a bag inside with another bag inside and so on.

Please make fire elemental easier!
It’s just boring to wait ~10 minutes for the pre event until you can finally have that 30 seconds rush and get some nice loot.
And I totally agree, shatterer, tequatl and triple trouble are like some other world bosses just so boring and long. Please reduce their health by 90%, that would make these bosses a fast, fun and action based encounter! (And please increase their loot! 5-15 min. defeating a world boss should at least loot an exo!)

2.000 gems for each commander color. Soon in your local gemstore.

Yes. That’s why you join ranked, get 5 points and then go afk. Still an easy and nice daily especially on second, third, whatever accounts. Anet wants us to go more into pvp, so let’s go.

I got that covered in an earlier post that some people just don’t und er stand how the game works. And yes… prices don’t stabilize quickly… 3.5 years is not quickly!

Over 3 years mystic coins have been needed for legy’s and hundrets other items. Anet was always fine with their price. They changed it with the daily login reward a little bit. And they changed it again with new mf recipes during and after HoT (so even the lazy people would see that these coins have a value).
Anet totally underestimated how much people of their playerbase are no life, hardcore asiagrinder.
That’s why there are now two items, mystic coins and gemstones, totally broken. Kind of funny how all the trader come out now and defend the broken design with their lives because they stocked up in time.. And of course some special snowflakes love the broken raise because they have been able to get some new legy for cheap directly after release and now they want to be a special shiny snowflake…
Probably that’s why anet usually only acts after issues have been repeatedly on reddit. (There at least the trolls and traders usually get just downvoted and forgotten.)

Seera.5916:

Ayrilana.1396:

Seera.5916:

Ayrilana.1396:

Behellagh.1468:

The assumption you have Ayrilana is that someone now controls the bulk amount of Mystic Coins not currently on the TP. And that’s where people who do those things get into trouble. Because it quickly becomes a question for every player sitting on a pile of Mystic Coins whether to sell off some of their hoard, knowing prices after shenanigans like this return to normal quickly. If I can make a quick 100 gold now and buy back the number I sold later at half that, the person or group that tried to corner the market is going to take a bath.

Look already it’s down significantly from the spike yesterday. Supply has recovered. Sure prices are up roughly 14% but this is almost the only way to raise a price to the level the market is willing to bear at the current supply/demand equilibrium.

Yeah I know. It’s the main reason why I didn’t just now go and do it to prove a point. I went through various scenarios to see if I could possibly break even quick enough with the higher prices but there was just too much risk to be worth it.

Someone buys the stock.

Someone waiting for the price to go past a price line before dumping their stock now jumps on the ability to set the price where he/she wants it.

Other players with stockpiles see this price and go: ooo, that’s a good price, I’ll sell my stack, but I want mine sold now so I’ll undercut.

The person who bought the stock initially eventually sells the stock before the price crashes too much and they can’t profit.

Assuming current price is the equilibrium price, prices eventually return to where they are now. Because that’s the law of supply and demand. It won’t necessarily happen quickly, but it will eventually reach the equilibrium price.

Yep. People who have them stockpiled were one such risk as were those who chose to sell their coins from the daily rewards rather than keep them. I couldn’t see myself breaking even quick enough for that reason. Making a profit wasn’t a concern but I wasn’t prepared to take a loss to make the point.

Right now new supply (not held by players) is at a fixed rate. Demand for the coins are fairly high as they’re used for legendary weapons and quite a number of mystic forge recipes. Price has been steadily rising since last month with supply levels dropping. It may have hit equilibrium the beginning of last week but it’s difficult to say. The player(s) who bought a bunch made things sporadic the past few days.

When the next batch of legendary weapons are released, you can be sure that the price for coins will go up. The same can be said about the legendary fractal backpack. This will shift everything to a new level which they will probably not fall back down to how they are now.

Someone buying up a lot of supply to drive up prices does take time to settle back down. Sometime prices go back to where they were and other times they remain slightly elevated. Imagine if someone were to buy up supply just before legendary weapons or backpack were released. Demand would have increased, there would be less people who would be inclined to sell their coins, and a percentage of any supply that got dumped would have been absorbed by the new demand. The price recovering would now be slower.

What if Anet released the next batch a few months after that before prices had settled? It would be an endless cycle of prices going up and then falling back down without reaching previous levels so long as they keep adding new uses for the coins. And during this time, those that need to use them, will struggle because of it. The coins are used for many other recipes other than to make legendary weapons.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

There’s an equilibrium price with the current supply and demand.

And a new higher equilibrium price with higher demand and same supply with the next set of Legendaries.

And a new higher equilibrium price with higher demand and same supply with the next set of Legendaries.

And a new higher equilibrium price with higher demand and same supply with the next set of Legendaries.

And a new higher equilibrium price with higher demand and same supply with the next set of Legendaries.

Which as I understand this thread is the point, that supply needs to be increased at some point.

Yes. That’s what I’m trying to get at. I’m not saying that it’s currently bad but at some point in the future it will be.

And it might not ever be a problem even if ANet never changes anything related to Mystic Coins again. Given how guild upgrades and legendaries are more long term goals, I would say it’s still too soon to determine if we’re at a higher than normal demand for mystic coins or not. Demand could go down in the next few months.

And for all we know, ANet has it set like this to purge a lot of the supply to bring price where they want it to be before making the rate of generation of coins be equal to the rate of consumption. Like a controlled fire in a forest to promote growth. Something that at first glance looks like a problem, but actually isn’t as long as someone’s monitoring the situation.

Seriously people start reading threads before you write some kitten stuff in them. Around 50% of posts here are from people that have no idea at all and are just writing because they are bored.

Again for all the non reading kids: Noone cares about your stupid legendary or guild upgrade! For these two mystic coin price is fine and could be doubled and still noone should care!
The problem is that mystic coins are needed for ~250 mf recipes (lvl15 up to lvl500 recipes), there are ~100 mf only weapon skins that can only be created with mystic coins (like eternal sands), there are some couple hundret other items and upgrades that need mystic coins!!!

Only because most people are to lazy to look up from where or how their weapons are created, doesn’t mean that we all aren’t massively hurt by increasing mystic coin prices.
Mystic coins have been an undervalued item since gw2 release.
Not because you didn’t need them! They have been undervalued because 99% of the player base is —-———. I know that because I made thousands of gold two years ago by crafting mystic coin items (for less than 1g) and sellling these for 30g. Now this doesn’t work since HoT (which is totally fine), but now these crap items are really costing ~40g each and their price is raising fast (because of mystic coins).
So again the problem is that now ~300+ beginner items and base food cost ~40-50g and these are still raising fast. So 1g each mystic coin will be fine for guild halls and legy’s, but IT’S NOT FINE for hundrets of low lvl beginner items!

Wanze.8410:

Astralporing.1957:

Bomber.3872:

Probably it’s one of John Smiths ideas to raise mystic coin price. Sadly for most players exactly this is happening…

One more proof that when you are thinking about keeping economy healthy, but only look at the big picture, it isn’t always healthy for the players.

This is only bad news to players who care about looks, as nearly all recipes for mystic coins are for cosmetic items.

Well yes that is terrible for everyone, considering that looks and cosmetic items are the endgame and main selling point of gw2. (and gw1)

Y, wondered about it yesterday. I really would like to know how some people for each patch seem to have some inside knowledge.

One problem that a lot don’t seem to see: Mystic coins are needed for a couple hundret items and not only for legendary’s!

You need thousands of them to get mystic forge weapons (like eternal sands), another couple thousands for (sry I don’t recall which it was, either plated weapons or specialization weapons), some more thousands of mystic coins for expensive stuff like nightfury, for hundreds of old tyria recipes and last for pecursor’s/legy’s.

Everyone can see that this is already a big problem because of the extremely slow supply. On top of that it seems that since october last year every new recipe / item needs more and more mystic coins. Probably it’s one of John Smiths ideas to raise mystic coin price. Sadly for most players exactly this is happening…

Yes. My main post was about anet introducing more directly ingame and not using this much ressources on the gemshop. The map creation is just an example and the same people of course could help out / work on parts (the designed weapons, amrors, …) there, but of course they wouldn’t create just a new map by their own completly.

Sorry if that wasn’t clear enough^^

Sry, I didn’t see that I put it in as a quote. I fixed it, so it is clear that it is meant as my statement.

PS: And I totally agree that it showed a quote that could be understand wrongfully, that was not my intention.

kolompi.1287:

What is AP there for then? It’s completely useless to gauge a person’s ability to play the game. The skins you get are mostly rubbish by themselves (without the whole “prestige” of the AP gate). The competition? Ridiculous.

You are right about one thing though. We should all play the game for the game and not for AP. So the whole AP reward system should never have been implemented and should be dropped.

… Y… Well I guess you don’t care at all about the ap leaderboard? Of course they are useless for you then. For example I couldn’t care less on who is on the pvp ladder or which server is on which position on the wvw ladder. For me these two ladder’s show no skill, no dedication, nothing, for me they only show people that have been lucky and anet could remove them tomorrow and I wouldn’t care.
But that said, I don’t come here and write: anet let pvp rankfarm count for the ladder/pvp backpack/leauge system.
I don’t write: anet remove wvw or let us only play against non zerging low population servers, so we always win.

The same with achievements, there are people that don’t care about any, about daily or about the ladder. I can ensure you most of the top 1.000 AP player do care. At the top100 ap highest ranks people care so much that they craft every legendary only for the collection ap or for example that theiy spend 25.000 ecto and 10.000g on the ecto gamle skritt only to get 1 more ap, or they farm activity’s for years only to get the ap.
That competition, dedication, time, money and yes ‘work’ exists only because of the ladder and it’s only possible because of the daily cap.

That’s an extremly good reason for the cap and for the exclusivity that someone has for example because he owns the 30.000 ap skin. It’ a possible long time goal for every veteran, completionist, long time hardcore player, way more than daily logins could ever be. (Of course in some years a lot of people have 30.000 ap, but then 40.000 ap will be some thing special. It’s kind of a long time systme like the leauge system vor other long time goal system in gw2.

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Bomber.3872:

What most of the hardcore fanboys and new player still don’t unterstand (look at the other posts here):
Anet could give us a lot of new maps if anet wouldn’t waste so much ressources every two weeks on a new bltc set + costume + glider + some other gemshop item.

And what you don’t seem to understand is the team making all those pretty gliders, weapons, costumes, minis, etc. are probably all artists and animators designing skins to already existing mechanics. They probably have no expertise in figuring out how mobs attack/defend, nor interact with each other or the players, nor design maps and how events take place within their space. Heck, they very well might not even be the same artists who make the trees, rocks, wildlife, etc. within those maps. They might be solely costume and weapon designers and throwing them into a level design team would have little to no value.

That’s a sweet wish, but it’s not the truth. Since 3 years people claim what you claim and it seems like noone who claims that is able to use google and actually look what anets employees are working on. Anet very openly shows everyone over their different streams, blogs, systems who at anet works or worked on which part.
Yes, for sure there are some programmers that of course are only working on something totally different (like the awesome guy I always forget that created the first person combat system for a long time). No designer could help there much (well beside on the icons like he said during one guildchat stream). On the other side you can read/watch a lot for example about the weapon designers. (For example the people that wrote and spoke during on stream about the new legendary’s) They actually design weapons for blc and ingame. So each design for blc they work on is time and design taken from ingame available items through pve for example.
Another area is the staff that designs collections. Each gemshop collection they design could have been an ingame collection, same effort! (If you don’t believe it, watch the streams anet did at the time they release their collection system)

So yes not everyone is working on the gemshop, but every work that is put into the gemshop could have been put ingame through pve/pvp/wvw with the same effort too. (And I agree fully with you, that the gemshop probably has the big advantage that they need no programmers at all to put it in, but the same way is possible with collections! Best example that there is no big work difference in implementig are the blc weapons and their collections!)

PS: Actually if you look it up, it’s a pure marketing/economic decision that anet spams us with gemshop items instead of a different way. And there is nothing wrong with that, because anet shall make money and they shall have the happiest shareholders that exist! The question is the proportion and that proportion could be handled way differently and better for the customers. (For example, only create 6 (or less) new blc sets each year and reroll one old set every month) or every two month.

kolompi.1287:

Bomber.3872:

Zergs.9715:

The… “competition” some of you are harping about is a JOKE. I bet that 99% of the ppl who want unrestricted APs simply want their rewards reached at their own pace instead of being drip-fed at a rate Anet considers “good for you”. Also other people shouldn’t be restricted because of your “ocd” or “addiction” or any other bombastic word you have for every little compulsion you have.

The leaderboard competition is the only real use for achievementpoints. Most of the people that don’t like the daily cap just want an easy way to get the ap skins, gold and gems easily for no work at all. That was never anet’s intend and if they would want the skins to be a joke for everyone, they would just give them out at lower ap areas.

So please people stop asking billion of times for a useless ap cap removal and just log in and do all the available achievements where you actually have to play the game!

Wait, wait. How was it not their intention? From Anet’s point of view, the daily cap is a bad idea because people actually stopped “playing the game” as you said when they reached it. I know, i have seen it happen often. Also… if the only real use of AP is the competition then why do you claim that people wanting the cap removed only want skins? Is it A or B?

It’s definitly B. There is no reason to stop playing after you reached your daily cap! You still get the same loot each day, you only don’t get cheap easy ap. So if someone stops playing because of the daily cap than it’s only because these people don’t want todo the hard or expensive achievemts (pvp/wvw). The reason for these people was only to gain easy ap and the ap skins/gold/gems. That thinking is only their fault and not anets. Even the worlds top player hasn’t reached the total maximum ap, so there is still extreme much todo.
The daily cap especially ensures that some (ap skins) are really exclusive! (No hellfirr and radiant is possible for everyone) The weapons/armor you get from 30.000 AP is currently something special and there is no reason why anyone should be able to get it by only logging in each day and maybe never doing harder real achievements.
Actually anet should have had a way lower daily ap cap or just remove all AP everyone gained through daily, that way AP would show some real ingame effort (currently only 25k+ ap player can show this real effort because of 15k free easy ap).

!And ap are not there to lure you into logging in each day! For this reason anet changed the gained loot, that’s why you now really get some loot just for logging in each day!

Zergs.9715:

The… “competition” some of you are harping about is a JOKE. I bet that 99% of the ppl who want unrestricted APs simply want their rewards reached at their own pace instead of being drip-fed at a rate Anet considers “good for you”. Also other people shouldn’t be restricted because of your “ocd” or “addiction” or any other bombastic word you have for every little compulsion you have.

The leaderboard competition is the only real use for achievementpoints. Most of the people that don’t like the daily cap just want an easy way to get the ap skins, gold and gems easily for no work at all. That was never anet’s intend and if they would want the skins to be a joke for everyone, they would just give them out at lower ap areas.

So please people stop asking billion of times for a useless ap cap removal and just log in and do all the available achievements where you actually have to play the game!

Jaxom.7310:

Bomber.3872:

Neural.1824:

I have a Fused GS, and a Zodiac Longbow. Both of which I got for under 50g (one was a drop).

Please explain more. As far as I recall it, the fused ones have been only total rng blc skins (and later been available for 7 blc tickets). The zodiac have been since their introdution a blc ticket only skin. I’m not sure about the zodiac at all, so please tell me how one of them was a drop.

maybe the fused gs dropped during the LS1, since that was when they were introduced, possibly it was a drop chance during that time

No, fused never dropped. They had the worst blc rng that every existed in gw2. And I think (not sure here) that zodiac had been blc rng only too. That’s why I asked how/where he had them as a drop.

Everyone lower than 20.000 AP currently only shows lack of interest in gw2. In groups is no need for people that show this lack of interest.

Vulcan.7035:

Just opened 30 chests in SW and only one had shards (3). I got tons of empy and dragon. They must have nerfed it. I used to get them in every other chest if not every one.

Nope that’s rng. 30 chests, 3 shards is actually pretty good! I sometimes have 250 chests and only 10 shards. I would be happy about such a high amount.

Edit: @under me: Oh yes. 2t account has over 1.000 obsis and no use for them. Main account has always only 0 no matter how much I farm.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I don’t care about 99% of the cosmetics in the gemshop, so I never include that as part of “what’s new” in the game.

So you don’t care about 99? of all content anet creates and that’s the reason why all the other people that care about new content should get none too?

Maybe a single player game (an old one, because you don’t care about new content) is better for you instead of an mmo.

Ayrilana.1396:

They said ad infinitum would be added with the next major update.

Where? When? Are you sure? Really?

Edit: I searched now for an hour and I didn’t find any little bit of information on what you claim. So I call that statement an outright lie.

Edit2: Thanks! Well it seems I’m only too stupid to google

laokoko.7403:

Are you guys discussing the rise of gem<->gold price?

No that is totally fine! But the amalsomething gemstones price is crazy and Brocken buy design. It needs a fix more than anything else in gw2.

Idea 1 is awesome and it would be a great feature!
Points 2 to 4 no! They will never be made, no need to even discuss thesm.

Noa.7490:

Something like that. What really new zones/content did we have in the last three years and a half? But, oh lookey, new wings in the gemstore!

What most of the hardcore fanboys and new player still don’t unterstand (look at the other posts here):
Anet could give us a lot of new maps if anet wouldn’t waste so much ressources every two weeks on a new bltc set + costume + glider + some other gemshop item.

Indefinite SAB coin! Would be awesome if it returns to gemshop!

No you won’t get anything automatically back after you bought the 5 slot pack.

You have some choices:
- Just buy the 5 slot pack, and you have wasted some gems.
- ask support if you get a refund for you 1 slot bought (they might deny that. ASK again if they refund it after you have bought the 5 pack)
- buy the 5 slot pack and afterwards ask support for a refund for one (maybe you get it, maybe not)
- buy only 4 slots

If you want one of the old legendary’s → craft it! (Well, buy the pre and craft the rest^^) That way it’s up to 1.000g cheaper instead of buying, but you need the 100% map exploration. Personally I find it way more fun doing 100% map exploration instead of farming 1.000 more gold (on top of the already needed ~1.600g for the legy).

If you want one of the new legy’s. Give it up. There price is endlessly raising extremly and it’s just crazy to farm for these. (For one of the new legy’s you can currently craft two (cheaper) old one’s)

Anet realized this problem at some point during LS1! At the time they changed the blc weapon system, so you can get all of them for tickets they had a great basic idea:
New blc set → buy weapon cheap for 1 ticket. With the next new set → raise price a little bit. They wanted to do this up to a point where you can get old skins with grind (5 tickets/skin), but that there is no good way for TP barons to buy old skins cheaply in masses.
Most important part, the main idea from anet was to remove the sets at some point and reintroduce them later again for cheap (1 ticket). That way everyone wants blc tickets, trader can flip and trade, the skins are available for every long time customer again and again.

Sadly it seems that at some point during the last year some economic/marketing person seemed to have thought that new sets every two weeks (instead of a rotation and sometimes a new set) would be better.
That different approach is the reason why now the whole blc set is a pure fail now. The extreme old Skins get more and more expensive. Noone wants the new sets (be real, doeas anyone know which set was introduced last without looking it up? Or which the current set is?). If you look it up most of the blc sets released during the last year are still at the same TP price (no market fluctuation at all). So currently the people just use tickets on any skin to sell it or they are hoarding tickets for the case if anet might release a set with weapons they want.
Ther is currently just no reasonable system/idea behindert the blc weapon skins! An other example, why did anet add aehterized aweapons as fractal loot, why not fused)? Or why didn’t they just rerelease atherzied for 2 weeks again? Why have been Chaos eaepons back again and zodiac not? … It’s just no reasonable concept!

Neural.1824:

I have a Fused GS, and a Zodiac Longbow. Both of which I got for under 50g (one was a drop).

Please explain more. As far as I recall it, the fused ones have been only total rng blc skins (and later been available for 7 blc tickets). The zodiac have been since their introdution a blc ticket only skin. I’m not sure about the zodiac at all, so please tell me how one of them was a drop.

Milkshake.4038:

It does matter how you compare these costs.

For example if you choose to buy The Legend (with buy order) at gw2efficiency, the price will go up to 2032g.

On the other hand if you watch closely: Nevermore crafting cost estimate uses Copper Doubloon with a 35s buy price and it is not the best idea, because you can make orbs/crests for 23s, so the price of 250 gemstones is 560g, not 840g.

But anyway, you are right, new legendaries are more expensive.

PS: 2666-1820-100 is not 500

Y, of course. My whole point was only that the older legy’s are ~500g – ~2.000g cheaper^^ and the orbs/crests are currently a little cheaper, but they are raising as fast as the gemstones^^
(And don’t pin me on the exact 2.000g, it might be 2.100 or only 1.900^^ )

Khyan.7039:

Bomber.3872:

2. You need to spend way more time for the new legendary’s than every single old legy! And on top of that you need to spend 500-2000 MORE gold on the new ones. This extreme difference is wrong!

This is soooo wrong. Please tell me your source because the price is almost identical, like 50-100 golds difference.

You complain about something you don’t even know. I guess you should stop to try to arguing more and be better informed about it.

That’s the difference^^ Most of the people here that write their kittens about how good the expensive legy’s are and how easy they are to get are (beside some elites that bought early and are special snowflakes) all people that don’t have any idea about legendary’s and precursors crafting. I don’t know why some people even post here, it’s hard to argue with people that have no idea how the game works.

But I’m happy to help! The price range of500-2000g can anyone check. If you are terrible at math (your 100g example shows that), check any legy building website. For example https://gw2efficiency.com/
Now check how much nevermore costs you to build! Currently: 2.666g (raising on a daily basis because of this kitten gemstones), then check bifrost (= legy staff too) → ~1.820g
If you want to check against other legy’s, twilight → 1.569g, take something more extreme, kraitkin = 1.032g!
(Yes I agree you can’t really compare it to kraitkin, because it’s crap. That’s why I wrote 500g (which was 100g less the nevermore – bifrost difference at the time I wrote) and up to 2.000g

Most important thing here is the new legendary have a stable price! The only thing raising daily for around 50g are the gemstones! That is the only item totally wrong with the new collections because it raises the price indefinitly! Whoever doesn’t see this currently, please don’t post anything kitten and just go first on any webside (reddit, wiki) and first check some facts and how the whole situation is currently!

No daily AP need an even lower cap! Currently all available AP are from daily AP. How should there be any competition for the ladder! Only with the AP cap it’s possible to create at least some competition on the ladder.
I’m personally at ~22-23k AP and I have left ~5k daily AP. So until I reach the daily cap I will have earned a lot of other ap (for example I still have ~3k of pretty easy pve ap’s left to get). For me the daily cap means the only possibility to reach top 1.000 EU at some point.
Why should anyone only because he logged in each day (and never did pvp/wvw/raid/or hard achievs like migraine) be ‘better’ forever? The ap system was for people that are dedicated and that fullfill a lot of hard or expensive achievements and not for someone who has no real life and can login each day for (currently) 3.5 years.

The daily AP cap is great! Other good changes would be to change festival ap, so you can do them each year but they only count AP once. And an other good point would be for example if at some point LS1 returns all historical AP would be put into the LS1 achievs.

With such changes you would have real challenge on the ladder especially at the top positions! And everyone, even new player could reach the top.

Sansarah.3076:

Which isn’t entirely true. I think that everyone should suffer. Period. When crafting a legendary, it should be hard. It should be grindy, it should take a long time. So you can get a good feeling of accomplishing something. Others should know it as well when you equip your legendary.

No, no, no, no, no!

1. Noone is against it that legendary’s are hard to get. Collections 1-4 are HARD and expensive and it’s fine and great!
2. You need to spend way more time for the new legendary’s than every single old legy! And on top of that you need to spend 500-2000 MORE gold on the new ones. This extreme difference is wrong!
3. The biggest problem is that there are 13 more legy to come. These gemstones are currently already way to expensive. If anet does nothing the price will only rise into amounts that are just crazy.
4. What on earth did someone accomplish differently who bought all gemstones for 100g 2 month ago in difference to someone who has to buy them today for 850g? I tell you: nothing! That these people now think everyone should suffer for their legy and they should be more expensive for their own prestige, only shows the unbelievable arrogance some people have.
5. Everyone doing one of the new legy’s now really suffers and shows way more dedication than everyone who bought it cheaply 2 month ago. Even if the gemstones price would be cut in half it’s still way more expensive than the old ones.
6. About the last two quoted sentences above: Everthing I would write about them would surely result into my post being deleted, so please just read again what you wrote and think about it for a second.

Arodanu.5762:

Is there going to be done anything against Gold Sell Spammers? cause im getting sick of getting loads of messages a day spamming my screen, and they keep comming so i assume nothing is done against them even that its 1 of the main violations of the game right? first i didnt react at all to them but they keep spamming, also asked or they could just leave me alone… and even tried it the hard way but it seems to get worse every day!

Never go to the pvp mists waiting area, problem solved.

I haven’t had any gold spam for over a year while I didn’t visit pvp (well only rankfarm but for that you don’t have to go into the mists). For the last pvp season I joined pvp mists one time → 4 days gold spam until it silenced. Then again two weeks nothing and yesterday I made the mistake to hit the wrong pvp button… 4 gold spams in less than 10 minutes…

That’s great! That’s how I get TT kills or HoT meta events without standing around and doing nothing for an hour.

XunlaiSpy.9384

You might get a valuable dye from the Celebratory Dye Pack which you can then sell / trade and exchange the gold for gems.

Celebratory dye pack doesn’t work like you think. These dye’s are acc-bound.

TPMN.1483:

That sink as you all should know is the Xulani Electrum Ingots… Check wiki:
Uses Copper, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Mithrillium

The ratios are yet unknown – but we know there will be a sink for these mats soon…

You should use a dictionary and learn what the word ‘soon’ means. We are waiting since over 2 years for the introduction of Xulani Electrum Ingots, that’s NOWHERE near soon!

“Don’t bring them back. Bringing them back will increase supply on the trading post and cause the prices to drop from the current, inflated prices due to a shortage of these skins from the passage of time. For reasons that I won’t go into right now, I feel that these high prices are a good thing (for the sellers, not the buyers. I don’t care about the buyers).”

More important:
How long until we finally get the blue, green, red, purple, yellow, orange, light abyss, dark abyss, white abyss wings for 700gems each? (I forgot around 250 colors, please add these wings too!)

Anet please take our money, we have way to much!

Hannelore.8153:

Look at the -entire year- of content drought before HoT released.

And look at the 4 month of content drought since HoT release!

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Anet could make so much money with more bank tabs!

On the other side, a little fast help would be if anet would at least be consistent with their material storage.
For example how can it be that since HoT release in OCTOBER 2015 over the last 4 month still noone at anet seems to think that ‘milling basin’ is an item that should be in the mat storage??? Even the coli from which you buy it sells only items you can put into your mat storage!

No and no. It sucks, but only creating more and more char with 160 slots will help a little against this big problem. Don’t know why anet doesn’t want your money for more bank slots…

PS: full bank, full 2k mat storage, 4 full guild banks and 3 full 160 slot char…

OtterPaws.2036:

Mosferre.1246:

Discounted Chest Keys wouldn;t be a bad thing 5 for 200gems please

Keys were on sale a month or two ago, yo

… They were on sale last week… (I think last friday?)

Well it could happen that anet just moves these achievements at some point to the “historical” section (wouldn’t be the first time…). So either you have luck and they come back with the old maps or they are gone forever.

Yep these gemstones are to say it friendly: A very terrible decision.
I hope anet will change them. A whole stack of these shouldn’t cost more than around 300g.

For the arguments some made: sry most are just dumb, here some facts:
1. You need way more grind for the new legendary and they are all together 500-1.000g more expensive than the old ones (if you count the most expensive old ones! Else it’s up to 2.000g more for the new ones). Example if you only craft and buy from TP mats: nevermore = 2.700g, bifrost = 1.600g
(I don’t say that’s bad, but it’s a fact that they are more expensive)
2. Old legendary needed 250 of each t6 mat. Yes and new ones need 200 of each t6 mat AND some stacks t5. Basically all togethet more (expensive mats) than the old legy’s.
3. The amount of time you need for the new precurser collections is way higher than for the old ones! (Not all, but 90% and you could at least just buy the old precursors or get mystic forge lucky)

All together the amalgated gemstones are a good idea to get some worthless mats valuable, but the overall amount for only the amalgated stack is too much and needs desperatly a fix. Probably easiest solutions would be either to decrease the needed amount to 100 or 150, or change the recipe from 9 to 6 or 3 orbs for each gemstone.

It would still be extremly expensive (which is fine overall for a legy), but it would at least fix the current problem.
To remember the main problem is that the gemstones are not a collection, they are part of the HoT pre → legendary uprade. So at the time anet decides to release the other 13 legy’s (which have been announced with HoT…) the amalgated gemstone price will skyrocket in a way that even the first year halloween items never reached.