Guild Wars 2

Achievements: Are you going to change the Map Completion to remove the requirement of WvW?
”We currently have no plans to do this. We’ve been doing a lot of work lately to try and bring our three core game types: PvP, WvW, and PvE more together in their systems of progression, rewards, and unlocking to try and give the game more of a sense of everything you do ties back into the growth of your character. We feel like WvW is a really good middle-ground between PvE and PvP and want to encourage people to think of the mists as part of our world they should explore and experience, we might consider adding the PvP lobby to world exploration for future characters for example to help give more incentive to visit there as well.
That being said, we’re always looking at the systems and features we have in place, and as you’ve seen since we launched if we find something we think is better, we’re not shy about replacing a current system if we find something better for the players, but accomplishes our same goals. Our over-all goal is to encourage all players to experience WvW, to have goals that keep them there long enough they might fall in love with it and take that on as a separate game time; should we find other ways that are as effective as we’ve seen world complete is for encouraging play there to see the different maps, that is just as easy to understand and uses existing systems like world complete, we’ll certainly consider them. It’s something fun to brainstorm on our forums and see what kind of ideas players might!” ~Colin Johanson

Source:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Many-Questions-so-Dev/first#post3475412

Noah.4756:

Wanze.8410:

Ascended mats were a bonus to champ bags to accommodate the rising need for ascended crafting. Riding the champ train is not considered regular gameplay and by doing this extensively, you will aquire more mats than intended for the regular game player.
If it clogs up your inventory because it is not tradeable its not the economies fault but your own due to excessive gameplay. Just delete it, if you run out of space.

I can’t remember doing any champ train in the last few months yet here I am with an inventory full of bloodstone dust and empyreal fragments. Just deleting it doesn’t cut it as I mentioned in my previous post. We don’t know whether they will become useful in the future.

I’m not sure if you’re fully aware of the meaning of economy, but there is no economy involved with ascended materials because they can’t be exchanged. Perhaps if they could be exchanged, even only by vendor, it would take off some of the pressure.

The developers did not calculate the droprate correctly or they have something in store for us to use the ascended materials in the near future. Either way, the current situation is far from favorable.

I am fully aware of the meaning of economy and at least for Bloodstone they already adressed that issue.

In the last 2 months they introduced 16 different recipes that make use of bloodstone dust.

The 8 different ascended backpieces were designed so people dont need mist essence and hold no monetary value but the 3 nourishments give you decent profit, especially with the toxic spore samples constantly rising in price.

And while the 5 new endless wintersday tonics are account bound, you still have the choice to gamble them at the mystic forge for a chance to get the Endless Toymakers Tonic or Endless Gift Dolyak Tonic. If they didnt change those to account or soulbound on acquire, they are still tradeable on the tp.

Even for the Brick they introduced a new recipe with the toxic krait tonic.

Im pretty sure the OP just posted to vent a bit and never gonna check back on the topic. So no use explaining it.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

There has been a lot of speculation about ascended cooking, but the one thing that makes perfect sense is a new level of recipes for unidentified dyes. I’ve been slowly accumulating coriander seeds because basically there aren’t any on the trading post.

They are used for unidentified rare gray dye recipes. If Anet follows the usual formula for Exotic gray dyes, there isn’t enough Coriander on the trading post for even 250 dyes.

It looks like someone noticed. The price is up almost 50% in the last hour.

So much for my patient collecting work.

They might be adding new dyes but i doubt they will add another tier of unidentified crafted dyes.

If they just go for colors, they have to add 8 new ones to give 1 new to each color set, which would make the rng of getting that 1 exotic dye from an unidentified exotic dye pretty bad.

So i think, if they add exotic dyes by color, they will be able to be crafted directly, you will need another kind of ascended mat and they will be account bound.

It could also be that the new dyes add an armor effect rather than a new color and its ingredients will focus on the rare crafting mats.

Anyways, i think adding a new dye takes quite some time and effort to make it work with all the armor and as dyes are only the side product of the chef profession, i doubt that they will put much effort in it and focus on food.

“So much for my patient collecting work.”

I dont see where your patient collection work gets influenced in a bad way just because someone bought up half the stock of coriander. Quite the opposite.

Had a celestial insignia flying around and tried it.
IT doesnt work, the recipe is disabled.

If its works, you will be able to get around buying the recipes for the armor pieces, except the chest piece but you have to make 5 more charged crystals.

But i think i tried it when the recipes came out and the the satchel/box recipe for celestial was disabled in the mystic forge.

While there are high profit margins on the tp, its up to you to find those markets. That will require tons of research and patience as well as quite some bank roll. Once profitable markets are listed either here or on reddit, you can basically forget about making any profit on them.

Barfoi.9537:

I’m curious to see how the JC market transforms when the ores are finally needed — especially with players stockpiling for months.

For long-term investments, limited-time items (e.g., skins) would probably be the safest gamble, but nothing that may reoccur (e.g., seasonal). Anything craft-related is extremely volatile, and can easily change in any patch. It can change for better or worse, of course, but that’s not quite “safe”. ;P

Just like the market for weapon skins can break down in an instant because they make a sale.

I made lots of gold on the TP and I wouldnt mind an automatic cancellation of my sell orders after an extensive time like a couple of months.

Zaxares.5419:

Wanze.8410

I thought i hit the jackpot when shadow of grenth required 10 glacial lodestones but it didnt make a dent into its value.

I expect that’s because the Shadow of Grenth backpiece is considered “ugly” compared to the Light of Dwayna one. I see plenty of players around with the Dwayna backpiece, but hardly anyone with the Grenth version.

As for recommendations, I’m currently stockpiling Silver/Gold/Platinum and all manner of gems in preparation for r500 Jeweler. Not for resale (I’m not much of a speculator), but for my own future use. Crystals and T5 Dust may also be worth looking at since they can be promoted to Orbs and might be worthwhile if the price of Orbs skyrockets. (Personally I have lots of Crystals from doing JPs on level 80 characters though, so bear in mind that other players may similarly have large hoards of Crystals.)

As Light of Dwayna requires 7 Charged Lodestones compared to 10 Glacials for Shadow of Grenth, its introduction didnt put a dent into Charged Lodestone prices either.

I love crafting. Made me beyond 10k gold profit in 2013.

Ascended mats were a bonus to champ bags to accommodate the rising need for ascended crafting. Riding the champ train is not considered regular gameplay and by doing this extensively, you will aquire more mats than intended for the regular game player.
If it clogs up your inventory because it is not tradeable its not the economies fault but your own due to excessive gameplay. Just delete it, if you run out of space.

Romek.4201:

i dont read this – seriously^^

too much textwalls

This is why i make more gold than you through the TP.

Have fun in Frostgorge Sound.

Aberrant.6749:

Orbs, Silver/Gold
Time limited mats/dyes
Popular time limited skins
400 Cooking materials (and save any other cooking mats you happen to come across, what we’ll need for 500 cooking is up in the air… god help us all if we need something like chili peppers or lemongrass)

The smell of onions in my guild bank is disgusting.

Vol.7601:

Infamous Darkness.3284:

the buy price hasn’t but their sell price often has because until about 2 months ago I believe I was getting them at this price, I will have to upload a picture from the bought tab when I get home.

Thank you for the good luck and it originally didn’t start off as a scheme but hey heres a cheap tier 6 material I wonder if I can get over 10k of those, then it became 100k, maybe will go for 1M eventually.

You should seek medical help. You are becoming a hoarder!

He will either need medical help or a clap on the back, depending on the outcome.

For most of the time, posting volume and its price becomes significant.
It makes a difference, if 50% of he supply listed on the tp are close to vendor value or not.

Keeping your personal supply off the eyes of competitiors requires large amounts of personal storage space, actually relisting your stock makes it available for the general public.

Infamous Darkness.3284:

Vol.7601:

Another interesting thing to consider for the 8-multipliers..

How many lodestones are there? 7 different types.

What is the one material that shows up in the crafting collections tab that can be the 8th?

Piles of Putrid Essence.

shhhhhhh stop that lol I currently have 70K plies of putrid essence with a buy offer in 20k area at 55 copper waiting for the prices to go back down so shhh.

Prices for Putrid Essence never went under 60c for over a year.

Good Luck with your scheme.

VincentDW.9376

At times, it seems as if the rest of the game is designed to meet the needs of the trading post, rather than the trading post being designed to meet the needs of the game and all the many other activities that it encompasses. I think that is something worth discussing.

You made alot of good points in your post, so kudos for that. I snipped most of it to reply to your last statement, which i disagree with and would like to discuss.

It is always mentioned that the upper 10% of the wealth chain control a big bargain of the market/tp and that is not true. I think i am on the upper 10% (without botting) and i can assure you that is quite hard to control a market. You will never get rich in daily flipping daily commodities like silk or linen or orichalcum.
You just need a good degree of knowledge of the game to find markets that are profitable before anybody else does. So while its easy for regular players to blame “tp flippers” to increase the value of common items, most of the time its just the economy of tens of thousands regular players coming to a consent of value.

Vol.7601:

Another interesting thing to consider for the 8-multipliers..

How many lodestones are there? 7 different types.

What is the one material that shows up in the crafting collections tab that can be the 8th?

Piles of Putrid Essence.

This is nothing more than a wild guess, a good one at it, i give you that.
I bought a stack of glacial lodestones and putrid essence a couple of months back due to the same reasons you stated in this topic or another one.
Nothing changed towards those items.

I thought i hit the jackpot when shadow of grenth required 10 glacial lodestones but it didnt make a dent into its value.

However, Anet promoting the Mask of Grenth with a screenshot of it featuring the Deathly Shoulder Pads from Halloween 2012 gave me lots of profit buying up dozens of those a couple of months prior for a couple of gold.

Ken DeBoer.9268:

Butter…. lots of butter.

I remember a similar post, not sure if it was from you. The topic in question was about Silver Doubloons and it was a response to my post where i published a screenshot of my loot table for tens of thousands of various lootbags containing Silver Doubloons and also Sticks of Butter.

At that time my screenshot showed about 10g worth of butter and i am happy to inform you that it sold within a week of posting it. The demand was definately there.

Vol.7601:

Wanze.8410:

Vol.7601:

For the longest time I’ve also been telling people to stock up on crystals/orbs. Time is running out on these ones, however, and it’s been quite awhile since they have been near vendor price (they now trade from 1c-30c off vendor price).
http://imgur.com/a/Tx0R9

I also stocked up on crystals/orbs right after ascended weapons got introduced but i think gold/silver/platinum will be the better investment.

Orbs might rise in price and were a safe investment anyways if you bought at vendor price but i am not so sure about the lower tier crystals. Lower tier might rise a bit as well, if orbs rise high enough to make promotion profitable but i doubt it.

Demand for those can only be created, if alot of people start leveling jeweling from 0-400 and I am not sure how much ascended weapon/armor crafting raised the average prices of t2-5 fine crafting mats (claws,bloods etc.).

Gold/Silver/Platinum however will be used on a daily basis after everybody hit 500 to craft xunlai electrum ingots. So i think the potential profit will be higher on ore than jewels.

My rationale behind investing in crystals/orbs is not due to acended trinket crafting (although I would welcome it), but due to legendary trinkets, especially the backpiece which Colin hinted at awhile back.

John Smith is always looking for opportunity to correct broken markets. He did it with silk, and I’m sure he will do work on orbs/crystals and leather.

My ideal scenario is that legendary backpieces will come out and will require all 8 orb types to make two gifts (similar to the T6 gifts). And hopefully it will also require leather hides (it is a backpiece after all) to make a component.

The gift of metal/wood comparison to the 8 regular orbs is intriguing, i give you that.

It all comes down to what jeweller 500 will give us. As Ascended Trinkets are available through other means, i also wonder what they will introduce.

Infusions, which was my first guess last year, were mostly covered with the Fractured! Patch on Dec. 10th.

Legendary Trinkets or a backpiece seem logical to me as well but as they put the 2 craftable ascended backpieces Shadow of Grenth and Light of Dwayna into the armorsmithing category, i doubt that it would be backpieces that will need jewels for the gifts.

Legendary trinkets would make more sense, as ascended ones are already available.
It also is way harder to lvl jewelling from 400-500 as there are only 3 trinkets to discover compared to 6 for armors and even more for weapons depending on profession. This will put more demand on the different orbs as you need 6 different stats to discover 18 different trinkets compared to only 3 different stats for 6 each armor pieces or 2 stats for 9 different weaponsmithing weapons.

The recipe is on the wiki is wrong, you need shimmering dust (tier 2) to upgrade common t1 mats to t2 (it is stated right for bolts on the website).

In general it is also more profitable to promote refined common mats because the price for the 5 dusts you need for each promotion gets halved. For tier 1 promotion this rebate is trivial though at under 1% of the overall value of the promotion but it is essential for at least t5-6.

Vol.7601:

For the longest time I’ve also been telling people to stock up on crystals/orbs. Time is running out on these ones, however, and it’s been quite awhile since they have been near vendor price (they now trade from 1c-30c off vendor price).
http://imgur.com/a/Tx0R9

I also stocked up on crystals/orbs right after ascended weapons got introduced but i think gold/silver/platinum will be the better investment.

Orbs might rise in price and were a safe investment anyways if you bought at vendor price but i am not so sure about the lower tier crystals. Lower tier might rise a bit as well, if orbs rise high enough to make promotion profitable but i doubt it.

Demand for those can only be created, if alot of people start leveling jeweling from 0-400 and I am not sure how much ascended weapon/armor crafting raised the average prices of t2-5 fine crafting mats (claws,bloods etc.).

Gold/Silver/Platinum however will be used on a daily basis after everybody hit 500 to craft xunlai electrum ingots. So i think the potential profit will be higher on ore than jewels.

Apart from ore and jewels for ascending jeweling you might want to consider Exquisite Chrysocola Orbs, which are crafted, so they dont go into your collectors tab.

The Exquisite Jewels are basically the equivalent of inscriptions/insignias and will be needed to level to 500.

As Exquisite jewels need 1 ecto and 2 ori ingots to craft, their crafting price will pretty much be stable for the coming months around 50 silver.

However, there is a huge surplus of supply coming in for months now ( i know from where but wont disclose this here) so right now they hover around 8-12 silver.

Their price might even drop more but i am sure that it will rise close to crafting cost with jeweller500.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

And we need a 100 more. This is a great suggestion, and we should let ourselves be heard. I’m always short on Crystalline Dust, that material hardly drops at all… yet you need it for a bazillion recipes. The number of recipes a material is used in, should be balanced by the availability of that material. And seeing as we are lacking a decent drop rate for this material, allow us to craft it with all those stacks of useless, unsellable ascended crafting materials.

While i agree that t6 dust doesnt seem to drop as much as other t6 mats, they adressed that with making ectos salvagable into dust.

Zaxares.5419:

I sure hope you’re right, Mystic. I’m still waiting for Vicious Claw prices to come down. I almost gave in and bought what I need on the weekend, but I’m still holding out.

Vicious Claws are needed for the ascended backpieces that let you chose your stats so there is a good demand for them.

morrolan.9608:

John Smith.4610:

As far as other ideas like the GW2 economy has rampant inflation or there are other virtual economists online that don’t approve of this economy, that’s simply not even close to true.

These contain some criticisms:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LaurenMorton/20130708/195789/The_Soulless_MachineHow_the_Trading_Post_is_Tearing_Your_Players_Apart.php

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130426/191346/Guild_Wars_2_Economy_Review.php

The first ones mayor criticism was that alot of blue and green gear drops were available at vendor price which was adressed with essences of luck.

The second one was that the tp is unpersonal because you dont know whom your selling to. I am pretty sure, the TP wasnt created with a social goal.

KarateKid.5648:

Vol.7601:

John Smith.4610:

Let’s calm down a bit.
I’ve already had a long post explaining why TP traders are good for the game as well as limited, if you haven’t seen it, you should look it up.

As far as other ideas like the GW2 economy has rampant inflation or there are other virtual economists online that don’t approve of this economy, that’s simply not even close to true.

…On a side note, is there any chance you are able to provide a CPI?

Or some tips on those skills required? I need me some of those!

Math for a start. Buy low, sell high.

And patience. Lots of patience.

LordByron.8369:

The only thing that JS should start with is BALANCING TP risk/reward and income.

I can think of several reason why he neer did it, and all of them are not good for players and the game economy.

Manty player like me have guildies with dozen thousands gold that can t even clear arah or ac….

They just buy arah paths, much quicker.

FrozenStarRo.7240:

Many are still working on legendaries and considering the horrendous t6 mat drops, it’s safe to say buying them at a reasonable price helps quite a bit. That’s 250 for 1 legendary alone. Also I imagine a bunch are working on crafting through 500 for ascended armor, so they’ll probably need a few aswell.

But the supply went up from 8k to 90k within 4 weeks.
You dont need totems to get to 500 in crafting as well. I dont see a reason why they should rise.

Purringcat.3920:

Wow someone is always putting up totems for under 16s now. If anyone wants to buy some for a profit feel free to do so.

Why do you think the demand for ET will go up all of a sudden?

RedCobra.7693:

seems like i found my answer, i guess this is market manipulation then, but surely this is down to a large guild or maybe an alliance of guilds, for 27,000 orders to be place and removed overnight is an insane amount of work

27k is just 104 stacks of buy orders which can be posted in under 1 minute as for buy orders, you can actually place multiple stack orders if you click fast enough before the amount and price resets again.

If you bind left click to your mouse wheel or use an autoclicker, you can easily order 50k in one go before it resets.

WolfiKurisu.6894:

But it says 25 for Artificer, though I’ve not even started it.

For Red Meat it means that you can use it at the start (lvl 0) as a Chef but you need lvl 25 profficiency in Artificer to make potions out of it. It doesnt matter at what lvl you are in that profession personally for this to show up in the tolltip of the material, only if you want to craft with it.

Levels go to 500 btw (400 for Chef and Jeweler atm) and this progression is not restricted by your charcters regular level which caps at 80.

LordByron.8369:

But the common reply to any objection was…

You are not an economist……

Market wars are pushing grinding also for 95% players….with 5% with thousands gold.

Do you have a link where Anet said that? Because i think you totally made this up.

Personally i also think that most of the supply of silk that was bought up prior to patch is already gone. Most of it went into promoting it into gossamer until everybody realized that we dont need that much gossamer.

Those who had large stocks of silk, already sold it back into the market and now the demand is just higher than supply so prices arent going down yet.

I doubt that there are people with thousands of silk still waiting to sell it.

Doggie.3184:

Ouch… this thread just killed a part of my heart. o.o GL with the splitting~ it might end up almost as expensive as making the armor though. 22g per splitter another for 5-6 fine trannies? ;o 20 dollars might cover it as well.

Its the same toon, he was just wondering why the armor was soulbound before equipping it.

Did you already put on the runes?

That would make the armor soulbound.

Depends on how much bankroll you have to stimulate the price.

Armani sucks at crafting kitchen knives.

Working as intended.

Its one use only. IF you want the st<yle on another armor, you have to use a transmutation stone/crystal.

Easlay.3297:

well, but he said at same time he want to dedicate 3k gold..
for do 10k forges with exo, with 3k golds u do way way way less forge :P

he will sell the pre cursors to eventually get to 10k forges

LittleLepton.8915:

Might be the legendary Kraitkin. For the gift of Kraitkin.

Beat me to it. Case closed.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_of_Kraitkin

Some Superior Sigils are used to craft gifts for Legendary Weapons.

Going by the name, my guess would be that it is used with the pre cursor Venom to craft Kraitkin, the legendary Trident.

You just answered your own question.

In the months to follow.

Any source for their announcement?

I will start promoting bolts of silk immediately.

Guhracie.3419:

Tofu.1978:

Does clicking on the royal pass object waypoint you to the royal terrace? I believe the temporary one did that from what I read about it but I never had one. In the description it just says “provides access”. It would be a nice additional feature to save that 10 times a day wp cost to la.

Going into WvW and using the asura gate right there also bypasses the LA WP cost.

Thats one more loading screen and inconvenient for some.

Mystic.5934:

some real-world examples:
https://tradingpost-live.ncplatform.net/search?text=&type=0&rarity=5&levelmin=0&levelmax=80
(you need to go to https://tradingpost-live.ncplatform.net/authenticate first)
sort by price, start at ones with sell listings:
1) Cleric’s Exalted Masque 70s (NO insignia)
2) Berserker’s Duelist Mask of Strength 74s (YES insignia)
…
34) Giver’s Draconic Coat 77s (NO insignia)
35) Giver’s Emblazoned Helm 77s (NO insignia)
36) Carrion Pit Fighter Gauntlets of the Afflicted 77s (YES insignia)
…
76) Magi’s Exalted mantle 78s (NO insignia)
79) Magi’s Draconic Boots 78s (NO insignia)
98) Magi’s Emblazoned Gloves 78s (NO insignia)
100) Magi’s Draconic Helm 78s (NO insignia)
110) Magi’s Exalted Gloves 78s (NO insignia)

so, yeah. the first many magi’s items would not give insignia

ACTUALLY
I added the search term “Magi’s” and it returned 18 items; all crafted. apparently there are no exotics with “Magi’s” prefix that can drop in the wild.
there are no named armor sets with magi stats either… is the only source of magi insignia from dungeon armor? (dungeons with magi armor: AC, TA, HotW)

I should point out that most of those others in the top-100 list probably would give a profit if salvaged – just not magi’s. BLSK is about 1g per use + 77s to buy item, 61% chance of getting insignia = if you get 2.9g back from selling everything salvaging gives you you break even. insignia sells for maybe 3.2g + ectos sell for around 61s = 3.2g after tax = 30s profit. of course, this depends entirely on the sale price of the insignia

Neither Berserker (nr. 2) nor Carrion (nr.36) Insignias (or Incriptions) are salvageable from any kind of gear as Zerker and Carrion are craftable.

Vol.7601:

juno.1840:

I guess I’ll just keep wasting storage space on scraps instead of bolts. I don’t trust things not to change based upon previous experience in GW2.

EDIT: however saying “it won’t change” in this case would provide stability instead of shock, don’t you agree? In fact, not saying anything may actually be worse…

Has there been a sudden change in the past for quantities required for refinement?

About 2 months ago they changed the requirement for 1 bolt of silk from 2 to 3 scraps.

Aberrant.6749:

Wanze.8410:

Aberrant.6749:

Wanze.8410:

Aberrant.6749:

Idk if they are going to do anything with goss. 2s isn’t THAT bad. It’s not like it’s at NPC price or anything.

I sympathize with the silk problem from both POV’s. I’m sure dev’s saw there was too much t5 leather/silk. Raising up leather to 3 didn’t do very much with ascended weapon crafting, but they couldn’t really go back and increase the leather requirements again so soon (well they could, but it would cause even more drama). So IMO they tried to learn from that and suck out more silk with ascended armor, but they may have gone a bit too far. We’ll have to see how it pans out in the long run. I don’t know where it’ll eventually settle down to after this initial first set rush.

From the player’s POV everything until then had been 50 refined t5/day. The sudden increase to 100/day was out of left field.

So yea I can def see how it would feel like you’re paying for previous mistakes.

I think Anet just didnt anticipate that people used alot of the supply of Silk pre patch to promote to Gossamer. Now we are stuck with not enough silk and too much gossamer.

We all blame you for this personally.

I have other ways to spend my skillpoints that have a far higher ROI than t5 promotion.

PSA upgrading linen->wool is pretty good for now if you want something that’ll sell quick.

http://ec2-174-129-236-8.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8000/gw2sp2g/ <- copy and paste, sp to gold ratios

Linen to Wool?

How do you upgrade a tier 4 mat into a tier 2 mat?

Average return of 80 is about right but it still doesnt yield profit for cotton to linen.

Aberrant.6749:

Wanze.8410:

Aberrant.6749:

Idk if they are going to do anything with goss. 2s isn’t THAT bad. It’s not like it’s at NPC price or anything.

I sympathize with the silk problem from both POV’s. I’m sure dev’s saw there was too much t5 leather/silk. Raising up leather to 3 didn’t do very much with ascended weapon crafting, but they couldn’t really go back and increase the leather requirements again so soon (well they could, but it would cause even more drama). So IMO they tried to learn from that and suck out more silk with ascended armor, but they may have gone a bit too far. We’ll have to see how it pans out in the long run. I don’t know where it’ll eventually settle down to after this initial first set rush.

From the player’s POV everything until then had been 50 refined t5/day. The sudden increase to 100/day was out of left field.

So yea I can def see how it would feel like you’re paying for previous mistakes.

I think Anet just didnt anticipate that people used alot of the supply of Silk pre patch to promote to Gossamer. Now we are stuck with not enough silk and too much gossamer.

We all blame you for this personally.

I have other ways to spend my skillpoints that have a far higher ROI than t5 promotion.