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7 minutes ago, ruikarikun.9402 said:

Hello.

Can someone explain why every food/utility became so expensive?

For example Sharpening skull stack 7-10g wtf?

It was a trash seasonal item, but as it's craftable, you can use it for research notes acquisition, so the value increased.

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3 minutes ago, Sobx.1758 said:

It was a trash seasonal item, but as it's craftable, you can use it for research notes acquisition, so the value increased.

I really do not know anything about research notes. It will be cheaper in future or it is permanent now?

Is it ok for devs to kill food?

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1 minute ago, ruikarikun.9402 said:

I really do not know anything about research notes. It will be cheaper in future or it is permanent now?

Is it ok for devs to kill food?

Doubtful it'll go as low as it was.

That's not the level of price that somehow "kills the food" though.

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1 minute ago, Dayra.7405 said:

That keeps changing, because the cheapest things get constantly bought out, raising their prices etc. Although food is mostly targeted not because it is the cheapest, but because it offers an ability to salvage stuff in bulk, which most cheap options do not.

Also, from what i see, the price per point is already dipping. It was well above 1s at its highest point.

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9 minutes ago, Dayra.7405 said:

But as the cost of this one was at 78c, it easly was better than anything currently is, especially considering it's the type of item that stacks, which makes mass salvaging easier when compared to current best options. Hence... the price change.

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46 minutes ago, Schimmi.6872 said:

The content of Presents and ToT-Bags was changed after EOD and the food and utility items were removed (most likely because of the research notes). So as the main sources for the cheap festival food and utility items are gone, the prices went up.

Is there an alternative which cost less then x3 or x5?

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24 minutes ago, ruikarikun.9402 said:
Devs did it to drain gold or they just want only elitists use food?
2g daily, 5+ days to buy single stack of food for only one character.
Trash, scam.

10 gold (5 through buy order) for a stack that lasts 125hours combined isn't "just for elitists". Maaaybe if you're popping them like candies for no reason while not really actively playing, at which point... why?

Sorry, but in reality that's rather easly sustainable. Not that this is some must-have effect to use while playing the game in the first place.

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31 minutes ago, Sobx.1758 said:

10 gold (5 through buy order) for a stack that lasts 125hours combined isn't "just for elitists". Maaaybe if you're popping them like candies for no reason while not really actively playing, at which point... why?

Sorry, but in reality that's rather easly sustainable. Not that this is some must-have effect to use while playing the game in the first place.

It costs 10g now. When it was cheaper you had some life problems with this? This scam when devs decide to delete cheap food.

Also what about "Simple Sharpening Stone"? It is not festival item,. look at the price for years from 2014 to february 2022

https://www.gw2spidy.com/item/9433

Why it became x4 expensive wtf???

And then what happened? Wtf it is scam after years on such items like food or utility.

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7 minutes ago, ruikarikun.9402 said:

It costs 10g now. When it was cheaper you had some life problems with this? This scam when devs decide to delete cheap food.

Also what about "Simple Sharpening Stone"? It is not festival item,. look at the price for years from 2014 to february 2022

https://www.gw2spidy.com/item/9433

Why it became x4 expensive wtf???

And then what happened? Wtf it is scam after years on such items like food or utility.

Alot of the crafted  stuff can be broken down into research notes.

Something you need for jade bot cores, modules and legendary weapons in the newest expansion.

Thats why it have gone up in price, if it is to high go out gather and craft them yourself.

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11 minutes ago, Linken.6345 said:

Alot of the crafted  stuff can be broken down into research notes.

Something you need for jade bot cores, modules and legendary weapons in the newest expansion.

Thats why it have gone up in price, if it is to high go out gather and craft them yourself.

Scam from devs then. They did not implement any alternative for that cheap food and not doing it now as I understand.

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1 hour ago, ruikarikun.9402 said:

It costs 10g now. When it was cheaper you had some life problems with this? This scam when devs decide to delete cheap food.

Also what about "Simple Sharpening Stone"? It is not festival item,. look at the price for years from 2014 to february 2022

https://www.gw2spidy.com/item/9433

Why it became x4 expensive wtf???

And then what happened? Wtf it is scam after years on such items like food or utility.

It's not any "scam" and it's nowhere near to being a gamebreakingly high price. Tbh at this point I'm just confused about what point overally you're trying to make. Pretty sure at no point of me playing this game I've cared about "simple sharpening stones". Why do you suddenly care about them? And why did you already completely avoided what you've quoted about the time it will take for you to use the earlier linked utility buff?

Are you just looking for something to complain no matter what or do you need any of these utility effects for anything?

 

For one (well, "another one", following what was written above in the previous posts about these effects just... not being needed and still not having somehow an unsustainable price): why do you care so much about this https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Simple_Sharpening_Stone when for example this https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hardened_Sharpening_Stone exists? All research notes did was turn absolute trash items that mostly didn't even sell for their vendor price into something that... actually has some worth, even if it's not for the reasons you'd like it to be. I don't think there's much more to add here, these basic/cheap effects are just meh in general, but no matter how many new "extremely-cheap-unneeded-and-overally-undesired-in-the-past items" you'll link, the response is exactly as it was in the previous posts since the start of this thread. No amount of repeating "scam!" will change anything or influnece it in any way.

Good luck finding the food/utility effects you want/need.

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The other consideration is to extend your food/utilities using Primers, as that takes the buff to 12 hours, which is pretty substantial... I wouldn't use them non-stop as the primers themselves are not easy to acquire (assuming you're not interested in purchasing through the gem store), but if you plan your activities to maximize the benefit then you're essentially getting 6-24 food items (depending on their initial duration, 30min to 2 hr) under the primer.

 

Equating the value of the two Black Lion Statuettes for the primer, versus the cost of the extra food would be based on your preference and number crunching, but might be worth looking into.
Best of luck.

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