Guild Wars 2

Is there a way to buy some expensive runes (for example divinity or traveler) much cheaper, let’s say for half price or less?

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it depends on the rune you want. Runes from the temples (i.e. Melandru) can be obtained from the 42k karma armor, then have to be transmuted onto armor of the stats/look you want with gem item (Transmutation Stone)
You can salvage the rune after transmuting to put it on the tradepost.
Other runes can be crafted with lodestones and are therefore cheaper. Some runes can only be found as soulbound items from trading in dungeon tokens (i.e. Rune of the noble)
The most expensive runes can only be found already on items from drops (i.e. Rune of the Traveler). You can do a search for ‘of the traveler’ and restrict it to exotic, to see these items. Besides salvaging these runes from dropped equipment, these runes can come from the Mystic Forge randomly by putting in 4 major runes, any runes, even double ones have a chance of giving you a random exotic rune.

Wouldnt everybody do it then?

I believe the OP was asking if there is another way other than the TP to acquire these runes, like crafting, laurels, or dungeons.

I do not have the answer, but hopefully someone else around here does. Best of luck!

One way is to use a Black Lion Salvage kit to break down an item that has the rune on it. You can find them from random drops or from the TP.

Mel.8769:

I believe the OP was asking if there is another way other than the TP to acquire these runes, like crafting, laurels, or dungeons.

Wouldnt everybody do it then?

Mystic forge combining rare runes. You can check my YT channel → Method 1.

bodydoc.1659:

Mystic forge combining rare runes. You can check my YT channel -> Method 1.

Can you give us a rough estimate at which time stamp in the video you explain where and how the OP can buy Traveler or Divinity Runes for half the price?

Thank You.

While we are on this subject, is there a place to buy precursors at half price?

Wanze.8410:

Wouldnt everybody do it then?

There should be always cheaper ways than buying items straight from auction house; at least it worked for me in other MMOs.

I have lots of karma and laurels, maybe I could do something with these?

Short answer is no.

Would be nice if we could still toss in 4 Sup Runes/Sigils and get a random Rune/Sigil of the same quality back out. Would go a lot way towards normalising prices for all Sup Runes/Sigils.

Zaxares.5419:

Would be nice if we could still toss in 4 Sup Runes/Sigils and get a random Rune/Sigil of the same quality back out. Would go a lot way towards normalising prices for all Sup Runes/Sigils.

I would eat up a lot of the excess superior in the game that usually get vendored as well.

cheap runes of divinity
- buy exotic armor of divinity, salvage with BLSK. usually can get it for ~10% discount if you’re lucky (keep in mind that BLSK cost ~1g per use)
- buy several thousand major runes for as cheap as you can, throw them in the MF. Sell the superiors that come out (but keep a rune of divinity for yourself). Last time I did this, I started with about 2,400 runes and made a 5g profit after TP tax. Basically, the more you do, the more profit you make; eventually that profit offsets a divinity rune cost and you can keep one you just crafted and have as much gold as when you started.