Jade and amber droping in price.

Okay everone is stocking up on diamonds and sapphires and secture, seing they might have a use in next chapter but I think they need to make other uses for having jade and amber, otherwise they will just drop out of the picture.
Maybe making it needed for future armour sets or crafting wepons?


All you can do is purchase armour and thats as far as they go.
What do you guys think, more uses for jade and amber, only being able to craft Armour runs thin after awhile and it means theres no real reason to having amber or jade.

Or maybe just more rewards, at reward npc.


EDIT, I dont want fow armour it is ugly and outdated, the elite luxon 15k stuff looks much be
tter its strange people pay so much for fow armour, for the chance to look ugly and pixelated.

Price is now settled, rather figure out what to do with the reward system, or like stated do something more with jade and amber.

No thanks, the update allows us to gain faction faster in certain places, and that makes getting armor more realistic.

Plus, you don't need to get jade and amber with your faction, you can help out your guild and give it to them.

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stupid idea ..
it makes armor cheaper, leave as it is ... j/a at 100g a piece ftw

I don't really understand why the GW Community allways complains about things being too cheap and then on the other hand constantly bitches about having to grind to get something.

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No, just leave the system alone. Why should A-Net do anything to keep the prices up? And honestly, the new faction gain in the two competitive missions is not a factor towards the cheapness of amber and jade anyways. Duelfarming or Supply Runs are STILL a LOT faster.
The true reason behind the drop in price is simply that the new armors have lost their "freshness" factor. A lot of people allready have bought their version, many don't like them at all, that leaves just a few people really going for the armor.
Or to give another example, should we artificially make mesmer items (Runes, weapons, armors) a lot more expensive? No, of course not. There just is no demand for mesmer items as is with Amber and Jadeite anymore.

he's just probably wondering what to do with those useless faction points

dunno either.. but definitely NOT cash

Having spent 300k+ getting Kurzick 15k monk armor, I'll appreciate the lower cost when I get 15k Luxon for my ranger.

wish i waited to get my 15k kurzick armor for my warrior coulda saved alot of money

Prices dropping because less people are buying the faction armours now? (on account of them already having bought their armour)

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Actually price's are dropping due to the increase in Faction Rewards in Alliance (12vs12) battles.

I love alliance battles due to how quick it is to earn faction to turn in to Jadite -> Convert to gold to fund my character armor upgrades & skill purchase's for C1 characters.

It's now about
1 win (15-20 min) nets you 1254 faction
1 lose (and your side is comptive) 400-700 factuion easily
1 horrible lose 200-300 faction

1-2 Hours can net me 1k to 5k depending easily in Allaince battles now.

I know this is driving down the price but I don't mind. Alliance battles are a fun diversion when I get bored, and have helped me improve my build(s) greatly.

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What is it with ???? dropping in price threads these days?

Don't really gives a hoot what price they are... PvP is fun already!!

The price drops are total crap in my view.

Today the trader was only paying 750g for my Jade, which of course I didn't sell however there are many people dumb enough to sell to the trader for that price which ultimately will make Jade become worthless in a month or two.

What they need to do is set a minimum price for Jade and Amber that the trader will always pay for it at least. That price should be 1k.

Tombs is dead because the devs never bothered to fix the fact that Sigils sell for 10k -20k max or less. There was no longer any worthwhile reward for playing in Tombs, so people stopped playing in Tombs.

Alliance Battles are eventually going to be similarly dead if the devs let the problem of ever-lowering price of Jade and Amber stagnate forever.

Price fix it to 1k at least and everyone stays happy.

If you do a lot of Allaince Battles a lot you HAVE to unload points frequently and there a lot of guild that can't get millions of faction points so this won't stop.

Anet wanted Sigils to drop in price so it was easier for a guild to get a guild hall and start doing GvG.

It would be nice if they made a low end "cap" with the rare material trader but in articles they mentioned the traders are to facilitate trade, not control economy (that's why they can run out too).

Not everyone is doing allinace for the greed factor, I'm doing it for money and fun and did not flinch at all when it dropped from 1k to 800 gold lux.

That's really not the reason why people stopped playing Tombs. They stopped playing because Tombs/HA sucks.

Yes I know the devs wanted the Sigil price to drop from 100k, which was reasonable. However, the devs did nothing to fix the problem when Sigils dropped to 10k, which was vastly unreasonable.

It's not about "greed", it's about "making a buck". Finally the devs implemented a system where one could accumulate a lot of money (ie: which Fissure armor would require hence "greed" cannot be considered a factor) in a fair & reasonable amount of time, without having to farm or engage in hardcore trade spam. Yet without the devs' intervention in keeping the rewards fair and reasonable then that system will soon become useless just like winning sigils has become useless.

Wow - you really think Tombs died because of Sigils? You could not be more mistaken.

Tombs "died" because it is Tombs. It is the same maps. The same mechanics. FoTM metagame. The same of everything. Tombs players don't care about the price of Sigils or the rate of Ecto drop in FoW/UW or the price of Steel Ingot.
Basically, PvE issues don't matter as much as you think to your typical PvPer. They care about new maps, new mechanics, rate of PvP rewards, ranking/ladder system, bug fixes, balance issues, etc.

That's part of it, sure. I'm not mistaken though. When Guild Wars first came out, everyone wanted sigils because they were worth well upwards of 100k.

Betcha if the devs let you earn Lux/Kurz faction in Tombs and/or let you sell Balt faction, and/or fixed Sigil prices, then the Tombs population would vastly increase instantly.

So true. People go to Heroes Ascent for their fame emotes and to see their guilds name ping on every players screen when they win in HoH, the drops you get for winning HoH are really immaterial.

As for the drop in price of Jade/Amber - who cares? I like to spend my time playing the game not hanging around outposts trying to sell things to people.

They are dropping in price and it is reasonable that it is, the "newness" of the jade/amber wore off so it isnt in that high of demand, people will stop farming faction and the price will eventually go up in price some of the faction farmers will come back to it, most wont.

I think we will find a happy Medium @~1k

Spending 65k on 1.5k Armor is just absurd

ditto

anyway just leave it alone
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