Guild Wars 2

It’s just wrong that some runes are stupidly expensive not because of their own value or the difficulty of obtaining their components, but because they share an item that is of limited availability and all that availability is being bought up by people chasing after legendary items. The legendary items are supposed to be a significant goal of players and the grind to access them is intense, but we are seeing the prices of things like Onyx Lodestones rocket because people who are hoarding money and playing the TP all day trying to get a legendary are inflating the price beyond what is reasonable for a simple rune build. This impacts on everyone who plays the game who wants to run a build which uses these runes, but has to shell out 12-18 gold for a simple rune set.

Please either add more items that drop with this rune on them or change the recipes for making these runes so they don’t require items which are forever inflating because of legendary items.

Player stats and build choices shouldn’t be reserved for the super rich and they shouldn’t be based on a system which competes with incredibly rare resources that the hardest to attain items in the game use.

It’d be great if there was a way to normalise the price of runes, like a way to create a cap that rune values can’t go above – essentially introduce all runes to dungeon and karma vendors and allow players to purchase runes via this method (even if they were account bound) so that there is always an alternative way to obtain than rather than playing the TP. We are supposed to be able to play however we want to play, however the current design of the game currently favours playing the TP more than it favours playing the game. Flipping items is the most reliable and efficient method of obtaining an expensive rune set than running dungeons or completing events. I’d gladly dump some of the many tokens or excess karma if it meant I could access more rune builds without losing every piece of silver I’d scrounged up since launch.