char carvings whats the deal?

hi does anyone know why lots of level 20,s have ascended in piken square asking to buy and farm char carvings ? ty

Because char carvings=wood and wood=parchment and parchment= money when sold in quantity because tattoos require parchment.

They could be saving them for the next holiday event. You can use them to trade for holiday items when they come around again. Probably others reasons too though.



Oh yeah good point StrObO, never thought of that......The things people do to make a gp in this game...good for them to not eBay. Props to them!!

It's damn suspicious, though. They're paying 10 gold/carving, and 1 carving = 1 wood. You wont get 10 gold per wood if you sell wood "clean", and they'll have the cost of salvaging the carvings too... I think someone's discovered something, somewhere.

wood i guess, or collectors

Actually you can get between 1-5 planks per carving with expert salvage kits, I've noticed 3 is about average for me. So at ten gold per carving and a rather modest fee to produce parchment which they then turn around and sell for between 100-200 gold per parchment piece they make their money trust me. It's much more economical if you farm them yourself but it's possible to still turn a profit buying them from people. Also with factions coming up a lot of people are banking up crafting components in anticipation of the new faction armor that people will want. You'll see crafting components selling fairly well for at least the first two weeks of the factions release.

They could be exchanging the carvings for the +5 energy wand outside of Nolani Academy believing Anet will remove it from the game.

it would be a waste to salvage wood from them seeing as how the salvaging materials may cost just as much or even more just having to rebuy the kit to salvage the wood.

Im pretty sure they are just stocking up for next holiday event.

Remember how big of a hit Candy Canes are/were.... 50g(5 charr carvings at 10g each) worth ~1k a few weeks later is pretty nice..

Thats my take.

Probably just stocking up for the holidays (I have a stack of 250 pre-farmed and ready to go).

However, the collector stuff might be it too. I doubt it though.

ahahahaha.....


don't tell me this has started already.....

here is your answer:
as mentioned by a few others, they are stocking up in anticipation of an easter event.
during the halloween and xmas events there were collectors in town that would give you cool little holiday items for various mundane crap.

I'm pretty sure lvl 20's aren't buying up carvings to make 10 cents off parchment, but we can run through the math for the hell of it......
if you average 3 wood/carving w/expert kits, as mentioned above, at 16 gold/salvage + 10 gold /carving, you end up at around 8-9 gold per wood, which is the high end of just buying wood in chat.
not to mention the fact that lvl 20's have pretty much moved on from the petty profits of the parchment plan.


edit: has there been any official mention of an easter event, or is this just speculation?

I collect items like Charr carvings for the aforementioned reason of holidays, but also for unexpected surges in the economy for certain items for reasons sometimes unbeknownst to me until I offload my inventory of said item. I always keep large quantities of carvings, stone summit badges, and decayed orr emblems on-hand and for when Christmas rolled around it paid off as I managed to score a number of candy canes, which are pretty useful in say the tombs or underworld/fow when you're ambushed or have an idiotic member running haphazardly into a fray of 10+ enemies.

Personally, I'm saving up for the next holiday event. Same reason I'm saving Stone summit badges.
There will be none. Gaile said it somewhere... I'm too lazy to find it, but she said no easter event because of the impending release of Factions.

Also its an INCREDIBLY religious based holiday, and I doubt that a worldwide and diverse game would ever go near it.

Same could be said about Christmas, but look at what the corporate world has done to it.

Somewhere Jesus is crying.

There was no Christmas event. Really.

Must be saving for next holiday event. With the price of parchment down it isn't worth crafting to make money.

I'm saving decayed orr emblems for next event.

they said there would be no special events planned so far except halloween and wintersday

especially soon with the chapter 2 release so no easter.

also too controversial

Ah, right. Gotcha. My mistake.

The 'christmas' event was actually new years.

As for being controversial, holidays like easter and christmas have little religious significance to alot of people, but people still celebrate them.