Guild Wars 2

Just curious how important it will be for people to complete the meta achievement for the Four Winds event in order to get the permanent quartz node in your home instance. I ask because due to my laptop needing hardware repair, I may not be able to play again for several weeks. How much of an advantage are people who get the personal node over those who missed out and could not complete the meta achievement?

I guess this question cannot be fully answered until we know the full extent of how quartz will be used and if mining quartz outside of your home instance will disappear completely with the departure of the new zone at the end of the event.

Quartz is used to craft weapons, armor and trinkets with Celestial stats (an all-stats bonus similar to Runes of Divinity). Raw Quartz is tradable, so even players that miss out on BotFW can still obtain it via the TP, but in order to use it for crafting, you will need to “refine” the quartz by bringing it to a Place of Power. This takes 25 Quartz Crystals, and can only be done once per day per account.

I honestly don’t know whether Celestial items will have strong enough demand to make Quartz mining profitable, given that most players prefer to stack their stats towards damage via Berserker or Rampager stats.