Guild Wars 2

1 in home instance.

Then I think I found 5(or 6) on the way up to Zephyr Sanctum… and I think I saw one down near a sky crystal.

Are there more on this map?
Only looked near the way up and looked at the minimap.

But I don’t think it is worth farming them every day? Seems the price is low and if you want to make money even running Sprint is faster cause of the silver(and you could just get quarz there and buy additional with the silver).

Mine them to stock up

Takes 125 per item.

Rajani Isa.6294:

Mine them to stock up

Takes 125 per item.

125/item, with one item every 5 days, at the current rate.

For a full set of weapons and armor, that’s 1000 Quartz and 40 days. Including jewelry…1625 and 65 days.

In a day or two, you should be able to look up the stats and decide whether it’ll be worth it.

You don’t need jewelry, though, because Ascended Celestial exists.

I don’t think I want it… at least not for every char. Most chars specialized stuff instead of something with all stats but smaller +x.

And with the limitation at making 1 charged quarz/day(which is account bound) it seems not worth to mine all the nodes. Since you can just buy cheap quarz(cause it also drops everywhere) at the TP… even running Sanctum Sprint gives 10 silver + a bit quarz(and you can buy 10 more with the silver).

Only seems worth cause there can drop charged quarz from a node… but I only heard this from the node in the home instance so far(if you are lucky – rare chance). And someone said it was also possible for it to drop at Sanctum Sprint. So Sprint seems faster/more fun.

Of course if I want to save WP and walk up to Zephyr Sanctum I get the ones on the way up… but not for example the one I saw down where you need to get skill 3 and then near the beginning(was near 1 sky crystal)… that really seems not worth the time.

Comparison of time/expense for a full set of Quartz jewelry vs Ascended Celestial gear:
Quartz Celestial: 625 Quartz, 25 Ectoplasm, 25 days.
Ascended Celestial (non-WvW vendor): 180 Laurels, 100 Ectoplasm.
Ascended Celestial (WvW vendor): 150 Laurels, 100 Ectoplasm, 750 Badges of Honor.

At 1 laurel/day, +10 every 30 of initial requirement (to simulate monthly achievements):
120 days for Ascended Celestial (non-WvW)
100 days for Ascended Celestial (WvW)

I’d suggest the Quartz as a stand-in while you save for the Ascended. It’s faster, cheaper, and weaker.

Also: When the event ends, unless they intend to add some other source of Quartz, the home node will become the only reliable source. Get as much as you can now, wait for the remaining non-Home Node supply to dry out, and sell it all.