Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

I’m wondering about the availability of Azurite and the Exotic Soldier’s-stat trinkets it makes. This seems to be a normal stat spread available on all other armor types, but for some reason Azurite is extraordinarily rare (for a basic stat spread), launching the price of trinkets with these stats into the 40g+ range.

What I wonder is, is it necesary to keep this one stat type so rare above all the rest in Trinkets alone? What’s the purpose of this rarity and obscenely high prices? Has this been covered in the past and, if so, did ANet have anything to say about the lack of availability and bloated market? Is there an alternate way to get trinkets with this stat spread?

When I saw the price for these trinkets I was blown away. There has to be something that can be done to bring crafting this stat set at a price that’s comparable to the others; Zerkers is the most sought-after stat spread in the game and it sells for 1/10th as much.

The Azurite Orbs only dropped inside a LS dungeon last year, so it’s not avaliable anymore. Only thing that is is Azurite Crystals that drop in Fractals atm.

They also drop from a fractal that mimics the LS dungeon, if you mine the Orichalcum inside it. Still, getting that fractal is random, and with the current drop rates even if every party members mines all the Orichalcum in the fractal they still have a small chance of getting just 1 between the lot of them.

And since it takes five orbs or so per trinket, the amount of runs it would take to build just one is relatively high compared to other Exotic stat spreads.

I did find there are comparable trinkets in WvW, they just take Badges of Honor. Guess I’ma start working on that. In the meantime, ANet if you’re reading thing (lol) can we consider reinviting a way to craft Pow/Tou/Vit gear? It’s a standard stat spread, listed on the Wiki as craftable, yet has extraordinarily bloated prices due to the unavailability of 1 ingredient.

Azurite Crystals drop yes, but the Orichalcum ore is removed from the Fractal, atleast it was last time I was there.

Ok, first of all, Azurite gives Sentinel stats, not soldiers. If you want soldier trinkets, they should be available from either the temples for karma or wvw for badges.

The Azurite Crystals that drop or dropped in Fractals, are not usable in exotic crafting as you need azurite orbs for it and the crystals cant be transmogryfied or promoted.

Anet made Sentinel Insignias and Inscriptions available for guild commendations when ascended armor and weaponcrafting came around, so my guess is that the azurite orbs or exquisite jewels will also bemade available for guild commendations, once jeweler gets raised to 500.