There is not a supply issue with Alchemy, not from my perspective.

these changes are essential for any type of player: beginner, pro, etc.
the prices in guild shop are too high 30k Lady's Smock, 30k Water Hyacinth, 80k Corn Flower !!!

I address these proposals to the developers and to the influential teso community, do not hesitate to express yourself on this subject

I hear your frustration. However, I never found ingredients to be particularly rare (especially with points in Keen Eye passives and Harvest Map addon), and gold is very easy to come by in this game.

I play on xbox one on the European servers (i'm french) and I can assure you that the achimie and a big problem

why the kitchen supplier will provide a lot of ingredients while we use food about every 2 hours.
and a potion every 45 seconds

on xbox to make 800 potion = 130k gold coin
how do beginners play with potions permanently (dungeon, raid etc)?
I understand that some player is no problem but confessed that it is not well done as a system for all players

As long as you harvest every plant or type of water that you come across while running around doing other things, you should have no problem acquiring common Alchemy ingredients.

If people are charging outrageous prices for common Alchemy ingredients in the guild stores, it's because they're greedy and not because Alchemy needs to be "fixed." This problem of people charging outrageous prices in the guild stores is all across the board and not limited to Alchemy ingredients. When people look up the current price range and average selling price of an item before they post it for sale, they need to realize that average asking price doesn't mean that others are willing to pay that much. On the very rare occasions when I do buy something from a guild store, I always shop around for the lowest price before I buy, and if I think the lowest price is too high then I don't buy it at that time if ever. All it takes is a bunch of greedy would-be sellers asking outrageously high prices to skew the average price so it's higher than people are willing to pay.

That said, it would be nice if the Alchemy merchants actually carried ingredients and recipes the way other crafting merchants do. It's crazy to think that not a single NPC within the game world ever had the bright idea to sell Alchemy ingredients or Alchemy recipes.

Are you relying solely on the people who farm alchemy mats for your potion supplies? If so, you are going to wind up at the mercy of the people who actually do spend time picking flowers or farming tel var. If not, maybe you need better farming grounds? I never had problems finding alchemy reagents as long as I used the Keen Eye passive.
- Sincerely, one of those people who actually picks flowers to sell on guild stores.

Hint: the Hollow City in Coldharbor only has flowers and the starter islands are small areas with all the nodes of a larger zone.

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

If people are charging outrageous prices for common Alchemy ingredients in the guild stores, it's because they're greedy

Okay. So they're greedy. But if their prices are outrageous, then why do people keep buying them at those prices? If they price it too high and nobody buys it, then they just wasted gold on a listing fee. So clearly, people are buying it at those prices. So why? Could it possibly be because the rate of acquisition of the ingredients is not well-balanced against the rate of consumption? I.e., that there is a lot of demand and not a lot of supply?

Think of it this way: if it takes someone one hour to gather together enough ingredients to support one hour of vet trials, that means someone needs to devote half their time to mindless node grinding instead of actually playing the content. Tell me, does that sound like fun?

ghastley wrote: »

deadtek wrote: »

these changes are essential for any type of player: beginner, pro, etc.

I'd disagree. Potion addiction seems to be a PvP-only thing. You can certainly do all the PvE quests without using any potions at all.

Nobody's going to waste good potions on questing. Potions are for endgame content. That might be serious PvP. Or endgame PvE, like vet trials.