Guild Wars 2

Although i do have an axe to grind this evening i am going to use Corrupted Cores and Corrupted Lodestones as my point. Just now i was calculating what i needed for my gift of ice using current prices on the TP to speculate time projection. I had also recently learned that i can make corrupted Lodestones via the Mystic Forge using Mystic Cores(x2) Elonian wine(1) Crystal(1) (x5 per 3 skill points) Crystaline Dust(1) and this recipie will = 1 Corrupted Lodestone. To aquire the 200 that ill need though will also require me to spend 4g more than it would cost me to buy 100 Corrupted Lodestones. Thats right BUM BUM the price for the unfinished recipie to craft 100 Corrupted Lodestones FAR exceedes the price of the target material. My question~~~ why are people trying so hard to sell these cores for so much making them moot to even purchase to begin with. Are they really that rare? So rare that even the Tier 6 version is more common that the Tier 5? Bots? Whats it going to take to get these Lodestones?

“Effort.” -Comes to mind.

Well…..not sure if people use cores for much else other than lodestone upgrading, but I would guess cores are less common than lodestones. Not saying they have a lower probability of dropping, but they are obtained from a lower level mob range no? Most people looking to get these materials are likely level 80, so they would be in level 80 zones (or the highest they can be for what they are going for) farming for lodestones, not cores.

I think it has more to do with the type of core/lodestone you are farming. From my experience corrupted lodestones are typically farmed/dropped in frostgorge from lvl 80 mobs. I have never had a corrupted core drop for me but have had about 12 lodestones so far. I’m assuming most people farming this type of lodestone would have experienced the same.

This is contrast to onyx cores/lodestones for example, in which the core is much more likely to drop from TA explorable chests rather than the lodestones, meaning that you can save money by buying cores and combining. However regardless of which method you chose to get your lodestones I doubt that the savings you would make reach 15% (TP tax)

That could be true hero, I have 40 corrupted lodestones, but have never gotten a corrupted core. Meanwhile, I have had roughly the same amount of glacial and molten lodestones/cores.