Guild Wars 2

With my play style, I get much more bloodstone dust and empyreal fragments than dragonite ore. I would pay for a device (or more likely a consumable service) that allowed me to convert the other ascended mats to dragonite ore.

I wouldn’t mind if it cost 3x – 5x the materials as wells as the cost of the converter (e.g. 400 fragments to make 100 ore).

Would this be appealing to other people?

Oh my goodness: yes please!

But I do not agree this could be a gemstore item. This is more than a convenience item, and it’s wayyyyyy too deep into the gray area of where the gemstore should operate. It will cause a lot of anxiety and anger from players that, for whatever reason, do not want to interact with the gemstore. I think this item is even too big to be a Living Story meta-reward, because it should not be a temporary item.

I think it would be better if you could buy the item from Miyani (at the forge), requiring a substantial amount of X, Y and Z. I’m mainly thinking of karma, skillpoints and laurels. Those currencies would make sense, as it would reward players who already heavily invested into the game time-wise – and who can now finally save some time acquiring ascended materials (dragonite ore/empyrial fragments) to, for example, boost the gear of their many alts.

Would be happy to be able to convert hoards of bloodstone into empyrial/empyreal fragments, even at a bad rate through Mystic Forge skillpoint recipes. I don’t really like those “stack-here-and-burst-them” dungeons, and though I’m doing fractals instead, the reward for those is the same despite being longer.

Treads like this make me laugh. I deleted like 5-6 stacks of useless dragonite.

converting one to another is ok. I would prefer to see potions/things that can be crafted with any/all of them (several recipes for different things – not just one for each). I’m currently sitting on around 2,000 dragonite, 3,500 bloodstone, 3,000 empyreal, 8,000 Dark Matter. I dislike hoarding things that should be useful but aren’t.

Daaaaang, 8000 Dark Matter? O.o Sure wish you could send me some of those, Mystic. I’m at a measly 31 at the moment, and I’ll need lots more for my (eventual) Ascended armor and weapons.