Guild Wars 2

I am asking because this was not in the patch notes. Therefore is it a bug?

I hope it is a bug since it is a pretty important item in the economy due to its role in upgrading cores. With the price of wine doubled cores are going to become near worthless for pretty much every lodestone outside of the most expensive.

Currently, if cores were worth 0s, a lodestone would have to be worth over 80s (56s wine, 17s dust, 15% TP tax) to make cores worth anything.

The only lodestone worth more than 1g is Charged, therefore literally the cores for every single lodestone are now worthless. I thought Arena Net said they wanted to reduce thep rice of lodestones?

Surely Arena Net would put such an important change in the patch?

Im also set to lose 100g which I invested in destroyer cores unfortunately :/

I would like to know this as well. I just tested it with cores and with shards, nothing changed in the recipe, just the price of the elonian wine. You don’t get more from upgrading lodestone pieces.

This will make cores of even less value than they already were. Plus I invested in them to make my second legendary. Please revert this bug. While you’re at it, make the wine cheaper if you want to make the lodestone economy healthier. Not more expensive. The current pricing will pump lodestone prices to absurd levels, while making the pieces obsolete.

Yeh, it seems an incredibly unfair change to make without adding it to the patch notes or warning players ahead of time.

This change has effectively made an entire tier of crafting mats worthless and hurt anyone who owns such mats

Yep, want to know this as well. Bought 200 Destroyer Cores during Pavillion to make Arachnaphobia in the future (regardless of the fact that Arach itself has been disabled for now) thinking I’d save money over just buying the lodestones, but now…. yah, not really saving much at all if anything. Unless I want to use Laurels for the conversion material instead, but that’s a whole lot of laurels.

Doubling the price out of the blue… not cool.

!!! well, this should increase the price of all rare lodestones, and would increase the price of all cores, except most cores are more common than thick leather. buy all the charged lodestones while you can! I’m always not home when they do updates, so I never get the chance to profit off them.

Cores are just plain worthless now. Which is too bad since they actually started dropping at a reasonable pace lately.

There’s a dev post on the Bug Forum page saying its unintended and to hold off buying any until its fixed. Thankfully.

Of course it was intended, its double the previous price. Whereas before it was prohibitive now its just stupid.