Is it really? I dont think so. Quartz have been a known thing for ages, given celestial. if you dont make it a little now and then... You dont have it. Then it takes time. Its the same with ascended. Oh I want to craft a full set but have none of the timegated mats? Why didnt I craft that before? Or the warclaw, people cry and and cry over the time it takes to do a reward track. Why didnt you save up some daily potions before? This timegated argument would only be a "problem" if its something completely new that didnt exist before. And even then... Its minor. Personally, as a WvW player, it took me a week to even begin doing the skyscale collection. But I started making new quartz from day 1 because it take like 1 minute to do one and I read about what was needed. By the time I got to the stage I needed it several weeks later, I had way more than enough and passed that stage quickly. Well, I didn't have any reason to be making charged quartz until the Skyscale was released. Also, most people don't play every day, so 22 days of time-gated crafting can easily be months of time-gated crafting.I have the home instance node and have not actively made quartz crystals, had more than enough to make everything in the collection.
I support this.
