For those who don’t know, here’s what a satchel is. Each of the various crafting professions can make various sets of gear. By set, I mean armor that provides bonuses when equipping 2 or more from the same set. You can make a set 1 of 2ways: making each item of the set individually or making all of the items at once as a satchel (called a satchel because you literally take the items from a satchel, or bag, after creating them). However, for some odd reason, the cost of making a satchel seems to be significantly more expensive than making each piece of a set individuality. For instance, see a satchel of berserker’s exalted armor.
http://www.gw2db.com/recipes/11093-satchel-of-berserkers-exalted-armor
The ingredients are:
6X Cured Hardened Leather Squares
18 X Bolts of Gossamer
10X Spools of Gossamer Thread
11x Berserker’s Intricate Gossamer Insignia
For those who don’t know, the last component is the most expensive. It will cost ~3 gold just to make 1 of 11 berserker’s intricate gossamer insignia. And that’s to create a set containing 6 items. However, if you were to create the 6 items individually, it would only cost you 1 berserker’s intricate gossamer insignia per. That’s a difference of 5 insignias, or ~15 gold.
So why in hell would anyone make a satchel? Is it just that arenanet didn’t accurately predict how expensive insignias would become?
