Guild Wars 2

So, I was reading the Dulfy guide on Quartz crystals:

http://dulfy.net/2013/07/08/gw2-quartz-crystals-and-celestial-recipes-guide/

And to me, it seems as though you can still mine the crystals in the Labyrinthine Cliffs without having run the sprint, but if you do run the sprint, you can mine these nodes AND you get one in your personal instance.

Can anyone confirm that?

I may have to miss this event, but just interested to know if that means I can’t get crystals at all (or will need to buy them/the celestial armour off the TP in future) or if they’re still available just not in the home instance.

Sorry – can’t search for another thread on the topic as the search function is broken for me.

The event started today, how did you miss it? In order to get the personal instance node you need to complete 16 of the acheivements

If they’re left ingame in the cliffs that would make the personal instance node nearly useless. Traveling to two locations, the second one for only 1 more node when there are several at the cliffs?

By the looks of it, the personal quartz is worth about 8 pieces a day.

I wonder if they’ll be good for Daily Gatherer :0