Guild Wars 2

I mean, both of these devour over 100G and more if you’re aiming for a legendary. Why isn’t anyone complaining about the price of Icy runestones? 100 gold is A LOT of gold and what’s worst is that there is absolootly no other way to farm these other than farming gold. Why?

Because as you said, they are key mats for legendary weapons. So yes, grind gold until you’re rich enough is part of it. Complains are not listened , why bother

I “absolootely” love the pun. Apart from the precursor (which is a total crapshoot, but that makes it all the better when you do obtain it) the runestones are easily the second hardest part, for me at least simply because of the money. Obsidian shards are somewhat “harder” than badges of honor due to the grind and players not always drop bags (and even if you do get in some kills your bag drops are oftentimes unobtainable. I had a loot bag drop but couldn’t pick it up due to losing server connection =( ), but WvW is the funnest part of the entire game so long as you’re the right build, class, and log in at the right time.

Sometimes it’s dead, sometimes their zerg steamrolls you and no one wants to help defend a keep, but that’s just how it rolls, the other side has to and will eventually be the efficient military machine that steamrolls over you, but you take comfort knowing you’re guaranteed to be in the bigger zerg than them eventually. The karma is also decent and you could easily get your dailies done in WvW zones. It’s not Orr, but it is funner, and you do your server great justice by joining.

The reason people complain about one and not the other is because Icy Runestones do not change in their cost over time, whereas the lodestones have been on a constant rise in price on the TP.

My thought would be that Icy Runestones are 1g a piece…always available except for a brief time during the Claw of Jormag battle. Lodestones are increasing rapidly in price, in most cases beyond that 1g. And while being farmable, they aren’t particularly commonplace to say the least.

It’s fairly easy to farm out 1g a day. You have a grind in place, simple but time consuming, necessary for something like a very rare weapon. But every day you can move up and along…you can keyword progress.

Lodestones on the other hand are a bit trickier. Do you farm them? I personally, and I am sure you could throw a rock any direction on these forums and hit someone else in the same situation, have spent more than one day dedicated to just farming out a specific lodestone and come up empty handed. And a common theme with Lodestone bearing mobs is they don’t drop a lot in terms of vendor worthy items. Not much sense of progression. So then do you buy them? Now you need money for the runestones and the lodestones, along with perhaps money for precursors and whatever else is in your expenses. And the gold cost isn’t steady…the benchmark is in constant change. In this situation it becomes easy to grow demoralized and either give up or ask that something change to make it more viable. People want to feel like they’re progressing toward something, and right now with the way Lodestones are, combined with all the other aspects of acquiring a legendary, a lot of people are not finding that progression.