Guild Wars 2

It would be nice if we had another way of obtaining Dragonite Ores other than WvW and World bosses. I mean Bloodstone Dust is just flowing like water and Empyreal Fragments keep piling up with doing Fractals, Puzzles and Dungeons daily. They even drop from random chests scattered all over Kryta.

Dragonite Ore seems to be the only one that is scarce and the mounts we get from Metas are quite laughable, with 2-3 on average from low level metas to MAX of 30 per heavy metas. Where I can easily obtain a stack of Bloodstone Dust from running a fractal.

What’s your take on it?

It’s the design choice for ascended. Some ascended mats are easier than others to get.

Of course they could have designed a system where all mats are acquired at the same rate, but then you’d have to increase the # required to a higher amount.

Romo.3709:

It would be nice if we had another way of obtaining Dragonite Ores other than WvW and World bosses. I mean Bloodstone Dust is just flowing like water and Empyreal Fragments keep piling up with doing Fractals, Puzzles and Dungeons daily. They even drop from random chests scattered all over Kryta.

Dragonite Ore seems to be the only one that is scarce and the mounts we get from Metas are quite laughable, with 2-3 on average from low level metas to MAX of 30 per heavy metas. Where I can easily obtain a stack of Bloodstone Dust from running a fractal.

What’s your take on it?

I’d hardly count WvW as a source when you only get it from the top line towers, and at most 5 per tower lord. It’s a real problem for WvW players.

I got TONS of dragonite ore. Like 3 or 4k dunno what to do with it.

Yep, for WvW players it’s a problem, I confirm :/

Different play styles, different problems.

While I doubt anyone has any problem with Bloodstone dust, I don’t do enough dungeons or JPs to get Emryreal fragments. However I jump from one meta event to another, so I have quite a pile of Dragonite ore.

While we’re on the subject of dragonite ore, I want to voice a marginally related complaint. Why does the dragonite ingot look like a sliced pitted fruit and not a bar of metal?

I thought dragonite would be hard to collect but I’ve changed my play style to do a few more world events and temples and it’s actually come faster than the empyreal. If you do some gathering in cursed shore you eventually come across a run of temple events.

I do not think is a problem, you do Dragonite easily in the temples! I made 500 Dragonite 3 days doing only those times! Dragonite 30 a pop are not few.
The game is meant to be lived to 360 °, players www devote 1 hour or so of their time to make the temples!

I don’t have a problem with dragonite. One night doing boss events / temples nets you 200 ore or more. The Empyreal Fragments are more painful for me, since I’m not a very avid dungeon/fractal runner.

darkace.8925:

While we’re on the subject of dragonite ore, I want to voice a marginally related complaint. Why does the dragonite ingot look like a sliced pitted fruit and not a bar of metal?

I thought it looked like a banana.

I take it you guys have never seen a traditional Chinese gold ingot. (seriously, just Google “Chinese gold ingot”)

You need more kung f.u movies in your diet .

I got 19 bricks of the stuff :p ….. wish I could sell ya it!

I’m on my third weapon as of today. Having multiple lvl 80 characters helps with Empyreal Fragments and Dragonite Ore, but with the LFG tool the Empyreal Fragments will become much easier to get with only one character.

I think Dragonite Ore could use a bit more normalizing, say 10-15 for low level bosses, 20-25 for mid-level bosses, and 30-35 for upper level bosses, and 60 as a bonus for defeating Scarlet’s invasion, if you take down Scarlet.

It is a disappointment to kill a boss and receive 3-4 ore (less than 1% of a weapon) or complete a jumping puzzle and receive 0-2 fragments (less than .5% of a weapon). The rewards could use their scaling tuned.

Just look at http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dragonite_Ore

15-25 Ore

Claw of Jormag
Inquest Golem Mark II
Tequatl the Sunless
The Shatterer
Champion Drakin Cinderspire

Just doing Shatterer and Mark II Golem you can get 40-50 Ore per day on one character, so what’s the issue?

Tom Gore.4035:

I don’t have a problem with dragonite. One night doing boss events / temples nets you 200 ore or more. The Empyreal Fragments are more painful for me, since I’m not a very avid dungeon/fractal runner.

I’m with Tom on this one. I have a very similar playstyle and kind of avoid the team-related stuff unless it’s required as part of the current monthly achieves, like this coming month’s will be (modified TA run). Thus I find myself on alt’s running around low level areas raiding chests. The best localised area (from LA) to get Empyreal fragments from is Weyandt’s Revenge jumping puzzle (aka: sharkmaw).

Likeness-wise I found the icon for a Dragonite Ingot to be similar to a quarter of a grapefuit. But now I’ve seen Chinese gold ingot I can see the resemblance.

It looks more like a golden avocado to me… The oval in the center certainly looks like some sort of large seed. I would have expected something more rectangular.

i just wish these ascended materials were atleast sellable to npcs dont care about huge prophits just clutter

Sola.7250:

Just doing Shatterer and Mark II Golem you can get 40-50 Ore per day on one character, so what’s the issue?

Don’t forget, you can get the Dragonite once per character. I mostly farm Jormag and Shatterer but try to do them on as much characters as possible.

Tom Gore.4035:

I don’t have a problem with dragonite. One night doing boss events / temples nets you 200 ore or more. The Empyreal Fragments are more painful for me, since I’m not a very avid dungeon/fractal runner.

If you run havoc in a BL you can farm ~80 EMP fragments an hour. If your not experienced in WvW you might need to roll with someone who is though.

For me Dragonite and Bloodstone come easily. Dragonite is a fair bit harder to get. I mostly WvW and don’t do alot of PvE. Fortunately you get a few for guild missions, which I do once a week.

Honestly I would be happy if WvW was even remotely close to being comparable to PvE in regards to dragonite. The discrepancy is pretty freaking huge.

Tom Gore.4035:

I don’t have a problem with dragonite. One night doing boss events / temples nets you 200 ore or more. The Empyreal Fragments are more painful for me, since I’m not a very avid dungeon/fractal runner.

Yeah… well you are a PvE person. Nothing wrong with that, but it isn’t for me. I don’t play any game the requires PvE because it bores me to tears. There is nothing exciting or engaging about it.

I just want equal opportunity to obtain things in WvW. I have no problem putting in the time or the efforts as long as the time/risk/reward are comparable. Unfortunately, it is not even remotely close.

sostronk.8167:

If you run havoc in a BL you can farm ~80 EMP fragments an hour. If your not experienced in WvW you might need to roll with someone who is though.

Emp frags are at least comparable to PvE. Now if they would make the keeps worth 25 dragonite each. Taking a T3, sieged up hills that is being defended by 80 angry players is far more effort than spending 20 minutes mindlessly doing melandru for the 50th time. Getting 3 dragonite for taking that keep is a slap in the face tbh.

Tom Gore.4035:

I don’t have a problem with dragonite. One night doing boss events / temples nets you 200 ore or more. The Empyreal Fragments are more painful for me, since I’m not a very avid dungeon/fractal runner.

It’s all about game-style that certain person is accustomed to. For example I myself am a heavy fractal / dungeon runner and I don’t like being limited to world timers of bosses. Especially since fractals take anything between an hour and hour and a half to complete (Especially higher level ones).
Dungeons are pretty much the same concept, even though time is much much shorter on average to complete each path compared to fractals.
The point is that I can easily get a stack of Empyreal Fragments or Bloodstone Dust just doing dungeons for few hours, when to get a stack of Dragonite Ore would take me roughly a whole day of time investment.

One the side note for all people that have problems gathering Empyreal Fragments. Leave your alts at the end of Jumping Puzzles next to a chest. Then just open it with each character once a day. ^_~

covenn.7165:

sostronk.8167:

If you run havoc in a BL you can farm ~80 EMP fragments an hour. If your not experienced in WvW you might need to roll with someone who is though.

Emp frags are at least comparable to PvE. Now if they would make the keeps worth 25 dragonite each. Taking a T3, sieged up hills that is being defended by 80 angry players is far more effort than spending 20 minutes mindlessly doing melandru for the 50th time. Getting 3 dragonite for taking that keep is a slap in the face tbh.

But at the same time, servers would intentionally not sweep for mesmers in SMC and other keeps at the end of matches and SMC alone would flip 10 times an hour.

Player Character.9467:

But at the same time, servers would intentionally not sweep for mesmers in SMC and other keeps at the end of matches and SMC alone would flip 10 times an hour.

SMC is the only keep that gives a reasonable amount of dragonite currently. Your response makes no sense to me. Please clarify…

covenn.7165:

Player Character.9467:

But at the same time, servers would intentionally not sweep for mesmers in SMC and other keeps at the end of matches and SMC alone would flip 10 times an hour.

SMC is the only keep that gives a reasonable amount of dragonite currently. Your response makes no sense to me. Please clarify…

If you made the keeps worth considerably more people would organize between the servers to flip them as frequently as possible (letting mesmers stay in inner to port in) and farm crazy amounts of dragonite from killing a lord, standing in the circle, and moving on to the next lord.

Mistro.3059:

… or complete a jumping puzzle and receive 0-2 fragments (less than .5% of a weapon). The rewards could use their scaling tuned.

There is no “Randomness” between 0-2 on ANY jump puzzle. There are simply a few jump puzzles that got overlooked completely b/c they had special/proprietary chests at the end of them. Every JP chest that CAN drop them, either gives 2-4, or 6-9… we confirmed this on the Wiki already.

I think all the ones that don’t drop them, we’ve already reported to JoshD *(QA)

Player Character.9467:

covenn.7165:

Player Character.9467:

But at the same time, servers would intentionally not sweep for mesmers in SMC and other keeps at the end of matches and SMC alone would flip 10 times an hour.

SMC is the only keep that gives a reasonable amount of dragonite currently. Your response makes no sense to me. Please clarify…

If you made the keeps worth considerably more people would organize between the servers to flip them as frequently as possible (letting mesmers stay in inner to port in) and farm crazy amounts of dragonite from killing a lord, standing in the circle, and moving on to the next lord.

They could …anything could happen. The reality is that it won’t otherwise it would already be going on with SMC.