Guild Wars 2

Nugkill on reddit recently posted about forging for pecursors after the MF update and said there is about a 9% chance of getting a level below 80 (looks like this is when promoting from rares), but that the chance of a precursor is still the same as before (also, now there is less chance of named exotics). this had nothing to do with the use of a forge stone.
2 forgings, you just got unlucky, but not incredibly so. getting 2 in a row was a 1 in 123 chance of happening.

lag =/= low fps
lag is when you press ‘1’ and 2 seconds later you attack, or other characters’ toons jump – like they were running in a straight line then instantly were somewhere else.
low fps is when there are lots of sparkles on the screen and it appears choppy because your computer can’t render everything
the first one is a server/ISP/your internet connection problem. to fix, you’ll need to contact your ISP about upgrading your connection or asking if they are throttling you. As most people don’t get lag all the time, it’s probably not Anet’s fault – though sometimes it is (I’ve been in WvW before and running to help at a big battle and could tell the battle already started because my skills weren’t happening when I tried to use them.
the second one is your computer’s problem. for this, reduce graphics settings or buy a better computer.

My suggested order of things to get:
1) Gift of Battle (Badges from WvW) + Bloodstone Shard (200 SP) + Gift of Exploration (Map Completion)
2) Mystic Clovers (Karma + SP)
3) Gift of Mastery (Karma)
4) 100 Icy Runestones + Gift of Legendary (gold and materials and a dungeon’s tokens)
5) Precursor (gold)
6) Gift of Magic + Gift of Might + Gift of Fortune (materials)
7) Legendary
the reason for it is to find things you normally find while collecting unbuyables (karma, SP, map completion), so that when you go to buy them, you won’t need as much. same for collecting gold for precursor: be collecting T6 mats for Gift of M&M at the same time.

I guarantee you that if there were a crafting way to make one of these precursors, the cost of crafting it would be more than 5 times the current cost the buy that precursor on the TP. Something like 250 deldrimor ingots + 250 spiritwood planks + precursor’s precursor (a craftable exotic) + gift of fortune. there is zero chance they would add a craftable way to get them that is cheaper than the current ways. remember the watchwork portal device and sharpening stone station + other stations (all were easily 10 times as expensive as any player’s idea for what they are worth)

or it’ll include something insanely time-intensive. like an item that has a very rare drop rate and can only come from chests at the end of jumping puzzles, but each chance is daily for each puzzle. So you’d have to run on average 500 jumping puzzles – could be the same JP over 500 days or 10 JP over 50 days.

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice
they have a nice ‘which mouse is right for me?’ page, including things like how you hold your mouse and what types of games you play. It should at least narrow down your search to a few to choose between.

I think this is one where you touch the wall and you get the poi.
try touching the wall in the SW of that zone (looks like you get there from the outside – not in the cave)

probably someone got copypasta happy with designing recipes and wasn’t as dedicated to the game as you are to notice they broke the trend, then someone might of noticed it later but it was already too late.

oh! I have the numbers right there :P
37s25c ecto sale – buy dust for 40s98c = -3s73c to sell ecto and buy dust vs. -65c to salvage ecto into dust
so if you have ecto and need dust, salvaging the ecto is much better

I took it a step further one time:
superior flame ram currently costs 14s50c
normal flame ram currently sells for 1s50c (1.27 after tax)
so it takes 11.4 normal to get one superior
11.4 × 6 = 68.5 badges to buy superior flame ram

Cost per luck when salvaging ectos compared to:
Luck from buy Ecto, sell Dust = 110 luck (buy ecto for 41s73c – 35s49c dust sale) = 5c.667 per luck
Luck from have Ecto, sell Ecto vs. sell Dust = 110 luck (37s25c ecto sale – 34s88c dust sale) = 2c.154 per luck
Luck from buy Ecto vs. buy Dust, use Dust = 110 luck (buy ecto for 41s73c – buy dust for 40s98c) = 0c.676 per luck

based on this, you would lose money no matter what you’re doing when you salvage an ecto. this is because you get something more out of it: luck. these amounts are lower than I’ve seen them, but they still aren’t profitable.
hmmmm. I just realized your scenario isn’t covered here. I’ll have to add a 4th category: have Ecto, sell Ecto and buy Dust vs. salvage Ecto and use Dust. that scenario might actually be profitable. I’ll get back to you.

yes all unlimited tools should have similar rewards. Either all just be unlimited, or all have a chance of giving something extra.
yes fractal LFG splitup
which legendaries don’t?
no need of skin binding – that’s what wardrobe and transmutation charges are for
no stat binding – that is a perk of making a legendary
no bag sharing
not quite that suggestion for ring drops in high fractal levels. I’d rather not stop all ring drops, but would like to see a way to making extra rings useful. maybe let them be salvaged into fractal relics or ascended materials or mists essences.
no free WP. If anything, making WPing like 10x as expensive for level 80’s (same price for sub-80)
no splitting pve/pvp. should remove current splits. rework skills so they work the same in both places rather than splitting them (change them from time-based to x amount of damage or from an amount to a percentage or w/e)
no ascended material node. too many as it is. maybe a vendor that converts 100 of one into 10 of another? also on that vendor: convert ascended materials into another currency: maybe 100 + 10s into 1000 karma, or 100 + 10s into 1 SP, etc.
yes server queue
yes server guaranteed re-entry

to all the rest; I have no significant opinion one way or the other.

Gewd.8125:

You mean to say the “inflation” of gold. There is too much gold in the economy.

The reason for the poor gem to gold ratio is simple.

Gems are far more valuable than gold. Arena.net has not put in any good gold sinks and they keep making new content being sold for gems.

The only way to make good gold sinks is to create new content that is sold for gold instead of gems. Unfortunately for us this doesn’t help gem sales. But in the long term it causes people to get bored of the game.

However they may have discovered that older players yield less revenue and decided to rely on new players who haven’t played everything so they don’t need to focus on player retention so 100% of their development efforts can be focused on the gem store.

gem exchange is the 2nd biggest gold sink in the game. I bet the TP tax edges it out by a few orders of magnitude, but the gem exchange is definitely a few orders of magnitude above the next-highest (Icy Runestones, perhaps? WP fees? Salvage Kits? Not sure what #3 is)

tolunart.2095:

You don’t seem to understand that while there is a specific amount of gold/gems in the exchange, that number goes up and down as transactions occur. When someone trades gems for gold, those gems are held within the exchange for future use, just like what happens to (most of) the gold that is used to buy gems. It is this always-changing ratio of gems to gold that sets the exchange rate.

There will never be a time when “the last gem” is sold because long before then the gold-for-gems rate will be much higher than it is now, creating opportunities for players to buy Cultural Tier 3 armor for pennies, for example, by buying $10 worth of gems and exchanging them for thousands of gold.

And like the gold that is rewarded for killing a boss or running a dungeon, gems bought with real money do not come from the exchange, they are created when the code from the gem card or online purchase is used. There are millions of gem cards already in existence, the game will not run out of gems.

I see you understand how we are no where near the end of the gem supply and how the gem supply is, for all intents and purposes, infinite. That it’s not going to run out in the foreseeable future. Not sure why you think we disagree.

last I checked, the clover recipe returned something like -30% profit. So it costs 41s28c per forging and you only get back 28s90c after selling everything you get back, including TP fees. But I’m not sure of drop rates, so don’t quote me on it, just don’t expect it to be as good as you want it to be.

If they made it less risky to WP, more people would do it. More than once, I’ve WP’ed and while running back the boss was suddenly killed and I didn’t get credit or loot. However, every time I stay dead and wait for the boss to die, I get kill credit. They have some sort of radius tether for kill credit.

RNG guarantees that there will be streaks. At some point, there will be 27-in-a-row where you get nothing, and there will also be some point where there will be 27-in-a-row where you get something. There can also be streaks of 27-in-a-row of getting something exactly every other time. It’s called ‘random’ for a reason. If you were guaranteed to get something every other time you salvaged, it would instead be called ‘Known Number Generator’.

‘profitable’ is a matter of perspective.
If you spend an hour placing buy orders for 250,000 mats, then wait a week for them to come in, then spend 4 hours running back and forth between your bank and a forge, then spend another hour placing sell listings for 80,000 mats (that error attempting to sell will drive you crazy, btw), then wait a few days for those to sell, all to convert 200 SP into 400g profit; is that ‘better’ than spending 10 min to convert 200 SP into 100g profit?
100g/10 min vs. 400g/2 weeks
then again, there’s the time to collect the SP to think about: 100g/(1 month + 10 min) vs. 400g/(1 month + 2 weeks)

btw: the Resplendent Watchwork Box has a chance of dropping some of these recipes: superior rune of exuberance, perplexity, tormenting, superior sigil of malice. I opened ~1,000 of them and got 3 recipes: superior rune of perplexity + 2 recipes: superior rune of tormenting. They are account-bound :*(. Had I known they would of jumped from 20s to 4g, I probably would of sold those 1,000 instead of opening them :P (May 26, that was me that took supply from 1200 to 100 wish I had bought the other 1,000 the day before, but at least it spurred me to buy the ones I did.
Still, that’s only 4 of the superior recipes, with 4 other superiors unobtainable, plus 8 major and 8 minor recipes
However, it should be noted that Elaborate Watchwork Box has a chance of dropping the recipe: major rune of tormenting. you probably need to open around 200 of them to get one recipe.

Syrpharon.7491:

Seriously guys, how is this supposed to get fixed?

Encourage people to stop buying gems with gold, and to instead buy gems with $$ and sell those gems for gold. Since you want this number to go down, I’ll assume you’re wanting to buy gems with gold. In which case, you are part of the problem you are complaining about.
People who buy gems with $$ and sell those gems for gold want this number to go up up up. $10 used to only get you 8g, now it gets you 70g. I know which amount I’d rather get for $10.

the easier it is to convert, the less profitable it’ll be. that’s why those mystic weapons and other forge weapons only give 10-20s/SP – it only takes seconds to convert 50SP.
There are many material promotions that are profitable on average in the range of 1-4g/SP. But they only use like 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, etc. SP per forging (40s profit at 0.2 SP each = 2g/SP). So it would take 1-2 hours to consume 100 SP – ignoring the time require to buy all the starting materials and sell all the output materials. At that amount, even the time required to buy philosopher’s stones would be considerable.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/api/v0.9/json/gem-price
example output:
{"result":{"gem_to_gold":84200,"gold_to_gem":116600}}

or: http://www.gw2spidy.com/api/v0.9/csv/gem-price
example output:
gem_to_gold,gold_to_gem
84200,116600

;)

Master SK is far cheaper than Mystic SK
your calculate seems to ignore the cost of Mystic Forge Stones. For 516 stones at today’s gold → gem price, that’s another 23,220 gems = 2,800 gold. So instead of 45g8s56c it’s 2845g8s56c
on the other hand, 42,955 salvages with Mystic SK costs:
42,955 / 25 = 1718.2 × 15s36c = 263g91s55c
that’s 2581g cheaper: 1/10.8 as much
sure; you could get a few stones for ‘free’ through AP chests, and those would of course yield cheaper kits. But it would take around 45,000 AP to get that many stones.

Aside from that recommendation; great spreadsheets!

Behellagh.1468:

Mystic.5934:

gems are for all intents and purposes infinite. JS describes it as finite because it makes math easier. anyways, the price is related to how many gems are left in the reservoir. So until the price increases exponentially, we aren’t running out anytime soon. by ‘exponentially’, I mean you buy 1 gem with 100g and the price goes up to 200g.

So you don’t consider the conversion rate increasing roughly 4x in 12 months, 2x in the last 8 months or 25% in the last month as portent of an ever quicker escalation in price? So you think Gem to Gold conversion will step up before it hits 45g per 100 gems at Christmas?

http://www.gw2spidy.com/gem
then zoom to ‘all’
it’s a fairly linear line. yes, it is increasing, but not that much in the grand scheme. a finite amount of gems means it would have an vertical asymptote at some point, because if there are no gems left, then the last gem would be for infinite gold. just before that asymptote, the rate of increase would blow your mind, even compared to the current rate of increase.

As to why the price is increasing: people are willing to gladly pay these prices, that’s why the price is increasing. If the price were too expensive, then people wouldn’t be paying them and the price would decrease. once it gets to truly unreasonable amounts, then people will stop buying gems and the price will plateau.

lol! can’t directly send items and mail caps at 2 players. good stuff.

gems are for all intents and purposes infinite. JS describes it as finite because it makes math easier. anyways, the price is related to how many gems are left in the reservoir. So until the price increases exponentially, we aren’t running out anytime soon. by ‘exponentially’, I mean you buy 1 gem with 100g and the price goes up to 200g.

not available on the TP

I believe they planned for it to cost 200 tickets and 250 badges but changed their mind before the historian was released. hehehe; he sounds like a kraken.

yes, events should give more coin. no one does them because they aren’t rewarding.
I’ve actually been curious where all the coin in the game actually comes from. probably dungeons. What I mean: almost everything you do to earn a profit is from selling things you find. world bosses? sell the rare. gathering? sell the materials. TP trading? sell the purchases. actual coin income into the game is sneaky.

some people on here have spent a long time asking for a ‘salvageable’ / ‘non-salvageable’ tag on each item (in the info part where it says the level, weight, type, etc.). Even just saying it if it can’t be and nothing if it can would be awesome.
easiest way to recoup your losses is to sell it back to the TP :P I am about 66.6666% sure you can throw them in the forge if you really want to. that’s one of the current best karma → gold conversions (buy karma item, forge, salvage, sell linen)

some items have the same skins as other items. for example, Dawn in the wardrobe is called “Khrysaor, the Golden Sword”
maybe that’s the case here as well?

agreed. those vendors that sell those recipes were the only thing I wanted to see from the pavilion, and they were the only thing not there.

Korossive.7085:

Some players have accumulated so much wealth, over 100k of gold and upwards, that ArenaNet doesn’t know how to bring them down anymore. Rich players can’t care less about a thousand here, a thousand there when on the demand side.

on the contrary – rich people are only rich because they care about a thousand here, a thousand there. If they threw thousands of gold at the gem store, they wouldn’t be rich.
also, there are very few players that are up to 6 digits.

firstly, gold <—> prices is just one of ten thousands of indicators of inflation. and it’s not because there is more gold in the game. It’s because there isn’t a faucet for it.
when people buy gems with gold, the price goes up
when people buy gold with gems, the price goes down
the vast majority of gem purchases with $$ go directly to the gem store (let’s say 90% do for the sake of argument)
the vast majority of people that buy gems with gold spend it at the gem store (probably around 99.99%)
so 99.99% of players increase the gold → gem price, and 10% of players that decrease it. It doesn’t take a 5th grader to realize the price will only increase with that kind of ratio.
That’s what all the ‘you can buy gold with gems’ ads they are running are trying to do – make more people that convert gems to gold to decrease that price.
Don’t worry – at some point the amount of gold they offer for gems will be tempting enough to shift that to 50/50 and the price will stabilize. This probably won’t happen until around 50g → 100 gems.
Alternatively, they could increase how much gold you get for gems so it doesn’t appear to be such a ripoff. It shouldn’t be too close to how much gold it costs to buy gems, but even just 10% difference would see a huge shift in the percent of people that sell gems for gold.

then he might as well use them to salvage white items with that reasoning.
If you want to use them most efficiently, then everything I said holds.
If you care a moderate amount about efficiency, then only use BLSK on exotics that can drop inscription/insignia and have a valuable socket.
If you only care a little about efficiency, then only use BLSK to salvage exotics.
The choice is up to you. There is never a time when free BLSK will give less than free MSK or free CSK.

Speaking from experience, I was swimming in BLSK when I first started playing. I wanted to save them for special occasions, but found that those occasions just happen to happen so infrequently that I’ll never run out of BLSK, so I started using them on rares. Then I ran out, and didn’t have one for when I did want to salvage an exotic.
One of those cases of: I could get an extra 10s now, or I could get an extra 50s tomorrow, or I could get an extra 1g in a week, or I could get an extra 5g in a month.

Good ol’ Yakkington and his armor. I’ve always wondered how there can be 1000’s of his armor around. like, does he wear it, then drop it on the ground when he changes into jammies each night, then we come along and pick it up?

profiting with Yakkington’s salvage using BLSK:
100% chance of 6g83s rune + 61% chance of 3g87s insignia + 1.66 ecto
6g83s + 2g36s + 66s = 9g85s (how much everything sells for)
9g85s * 0.85 = 8g37s (after TP fees)
8g37s – 1g54s = 6g83s (minus BLSK cost)
so when you’re buying those yakkington’s armors, you should pay 6g83s at most. the further below that you pay, the more profit you’ll make, on average.

barrage is great against a zerg. it deals bazzilions of damage to dozens of players. doesn’t kill any one, but gives you kill credit for all of them it’s like a mini AC.

by ‘immortal’, I mean very few other players can kill you in 1v1. they would have to be focused on dps and burn you down over a long time, which they probably don’t have because they focused on dps. the downside to it is that an immortal character deals very little damage. it’s like an extreme tank (take a lot of hits + high hp regen).

wvw world completion for me has usually be exhilarating. trying to sneak through enemy territory without being detected, etc. true that you can’t get everything in the first run through, but if you keep going back there, you’ll eventually get it all (which server is which color usually changes each week).
ranger is a great wvw profession when you’re in a zerg or defending a gate, as they have the highest range and barrage’s aoe is so delicious. It’s not so great when you’re on your own. well, depends on your gear. If you’re a berserker bow ranger, you’re going to have a hard time. There are builds for rangers that make them immortal – I would recommend one of those if you’re roaming on your own.

a few white items that were bought from merchants (which can’t be salvaged) can be TP’ed. all of these have a level that is a multiple of 5. so 15, 25, 30, 55, 70, etc. I think there are also salvagable items that are at those levels, and I have no idea how to tell them apart besides trying to salvage them. If the price is too good to be true and the level is a multiple of 5, then it probably is too good to be true.

how about 3 macros:
‘1’ moves your cursor to his picture and right-clicks
‘2’ moves your cursor to ‘Join in map’ and clicks
‘3’ moves your cursor to ‘OK’ under the ‘Map is full’ window and clicks
then all he does is press 123 123 123 123 123 until he enters. can spam that probably 3 times a second instead of 1 time every 3 seconds for the usual method.

also, it could be argued that a macro that repeatedly tries to join it for you is indeed 1 click=action. 99% of the time, nothing will happen = no action. so 1 click to start the macro = the single action is that he will eventually move to another map.

Total Makeover Kit
“A single character may modify their appearance settings for height, physique, skin color, markings, face, hair, even gender. Race and profession will remain the same. The kit is consumed on accepting a new appearance."
— In-game description

If you can change your profession with one of these, I need to know now!

also, I agree that I want crafting disciplines to be able to be moved from one character to another. or at least have learned recipes be account-bound instead of soulbound.

Martial.4916:

Thanks Mystic. Hmm…I suppose ArenaNet allows NPCs to turn since players may turn using skills.

they probably allow npc to turn because they don’t want someone making a immobilize profession that dominates risen in 1v1 fights. same reason they don’t allow npc kiting (how the npc starts rapid healing and runs back).
hmmmm. is there a profession that can sustain 100% or near-100% immobilize? would be funny to use in pvp. even funnier than moa.

khani.4786:

Dual.8953:

I’m happy they’re full weapons. They made it possible to get a cheap ascended weapon if you get enough tickets.

o.O how do you get a cheap ascended weapon from an exotic? Enlighten me.

I believe he meant to say “Otherwise that would make it possible to get a cheap ascended weapon if you get enough tickets.”

I caution you that this is not nearly as profitable as it used to be. When inscription/insignia first started dropping from exotics, I was getting 2-4g profit per exotic. Now there’s only like 20 exotics that give more than 1g, and 19 of those will quickly increase in price because it was a fluke that they got that low to begin with (someone might sell 5 at once, and there were only 6 buy orders).
I recently placed buy orders for the top 50 or so profitable-to-salvage items. I received 3 items. 6 months ago, I would of received 300. I think there are just too many people in that market now, so you get outbid too quickly.

also, BLSK is rarely better to use anymore. It takes the inscription/insignia + sigil/rune selling for >9g to make BLSK worth it over MSK. If you want a more accurate formula for this, it’s not nearly that simple. gem prices are just so high that each BLSK currently costs 1g54s. and since it’s only a 25% improvement over MSK, it’s not often that it’s worth it.
extended formula:
if exotic:
ecto_profit_BLSK=ecto_sale_price x 1.66
ecto_profit_MSK=ecto_sale_price x 1.27
if rare:
ecto_profit_BLSK=ecto_sale_price x 1.25
ecto_profit_MSK=ecto_sale_price x 0.875
profit_MSK=(socket_sale_price x 0.8+ecto_profit_MSK+inscription_sale_price x 0.42) x 0.85-61c
profit_BLSK=(socket_sale_price+ecto_profit_BLSK+inscription_sale_price x 0.61) x 0.85-1g54s

if profit_BLSK>profit_MSK, use BLSK:
(socket_sale_price+ecto_profit_BLSK+inscription_sale_price x 0.61) x 0.85-1g54s > (socket_sale_price x 0.8+ecto_profit_MSK+inscription_sale_price x 0.42) x 0.85-61c
socket_sale_price+ecto_profit_BLSK+inscription_sale_price x 0.61-1g82s > socket_sale_price x 0.8+ecto_profit_MSK+inscription_sale_price x 0.42
socket_sale_price x 0.2+inscription_sale_price x 0.19+ecto_profit_BLSK-ecto_profit_MSK > 1g82s
socket_sale_price x 0.2+inscription_sale_price x 0.19-0.39 x ecto_sale_price > 1g82s (If exotic. rare would be “0.375 x ecto_sale_price”)
socket_sale_price+inscription_sale_price x 0.95-1.95 x ecto_sale_price > 9g10s
socket_sale_price+inscription_sale_price x 0.95 > 9g10s + ~78s
huh. so my “>9g” aprox was pretty close :P

quick tip: Shaman’s Etched Revolver of Accuracy (level 78 exotic). there is a sell listing at 2g20s0c. buy it. salvage it with Master/Mystic SK. observe 53s55c profit (on average – so no guarantees given for a single salvage).

and yet, I’d pay it.
I’ve offered gems for QoL upgrades before: here. and not paying gems – buying gems with $$. To me, spending gems just isn’t a big deal, and I feel like Anet wouldn’t care either – but they would like money.

agree with ExTribble. buying Eternity costs like 2,000g less than making it yourself.

Mortifer: prices fluxuate. check spidy and see what Dusk’s lowest price in the past week or so was, and place your buy order at about there. check the buy orders and place your bid 1c above the price that’s below a big gap. So if it goes 900g1s … 900g2s … 950g … 1000g, then place yours at 900g3s.

hehe; the mats. after making all those legendaries, you know what the most memorable experience was? throwing in the recipe for 10 clovers and getting 45 vials of powerful blood. but then there’s times when you get 10 hardened leather squares.

Rouven.7409:

Mystic.5934:

clearly you aren’t away of sigil and rune crafting and how specific it is. for example, if I want a Superior Rune of the Ranger, I walk up to a leatherworker station, throw in 1 Onyx Lodestone + 1 Vicious Fang + 1 Cured Hardened Leather Square, and out pops one Superior Rune of the Ranger. Almost every sigil and rune is craftable. But the few that aren’t are why you are throwing so many majors into the toilet.

Why would you say something like that?
There are 26 runes that you can craft and 33 that you can’t craft.
Not counting sigils now.

Can Craft:
Altruism
Antitoxin
Speed
Tormenting
Adventurer
Engineer
Ice
Mad King
Ogre
Ranger
Thief
Wurm
Exuberance
Svanir
Brawler
Earth
Fire
Guardian
Krait
Trooper
Warrior
Perplexity
Air
Elementalist
Mesmer
Necromancer
Privateer
Scholar
Undead
Water
Resistance
(31) not counting duplicates (Altruism, Antitoxin, and Mad King have 3 different recipes, for example)

Buy from dungeon merchants:
Monk
Aristocracy
Nightmare
Forgeman
Baelfire
Sanctuary
Golemancer
Orr
(8)

Buy from other sources:
Strength
(1)

Can’t decide to get it:
Centaur
Citadel
Flame Legion
Pack
Hoelbrak
Vampirism
Eagle
Lyssa
Rata Sum
Dolyak
Melandru
Mercy
Lich
Sanctuary
Rage
Balthazar
Sunless
Scavenging
Grenth
Afflicted
Dwayna
Flock
Grove
Divinity
Infiltration
Traveler
(26)

so 40 you can choose to get vs. 26 you have to randomly get. I am pretty sure the MF can’t even give all 26 of those. not sure where you got your numbers, maybe just out of date?
Regardless, I said it because it’s true. If you want a rune of the ranger, you are not going to throw 4 major runes into the forge and hope you get one. Even the non-crafted ones; if you need 6 runes of divinity, you’re going to get them from the TP. The only people who forge runes are those looking to make a profit selling them.

gem price only decreases when players convert gems into gold. the vast majority of players that buy gems use those gems in the gem store, so they never get converted to gold, so there are far more players converting gold to gems than visa versa.

I’m 30. I don’t get nervous about talking on TS, but I still rarely do it. I guess I grew up with WC and SC and chatting through text, so that’s the form of communication I prefer while gaming, even though talking can be less intrusive. I even attribute learning to type and eventually getting 80+ wpm to my gaming on SC.
I hate when wvw commanders want everyone to be in TS, then require you to talk to prove you’re actually on the map and not a spy.

I think they’ve refunded gem purchases before – if you submit it quick. they certainly wont refund TP purchases. But this reward is kinda a unique reward. wouldn’t hurt to ask, but as Olba said, it might not be feasible.

I prefer full weapons. hate when I have to go buy a weapon just to use a reward.