Guild Wars 2

One of the most difficult things to acquire while trying to get a legendary weapon are obsidian shards. Why is that? Because the temple of balthazar is a rather difficult event (in comparison to other events like grenth, dwayna of lyssa) in a zone that is not crowded with players at all. In addition to that, the temple event is bugged a lot which is giving us only a short time frame after each server restart to buy the prescious obsidian shards.

In my opinion, obsidian shards should be bound to a different event. I wasnt able to find a story based reason why they’re only buyable at the balthazar event. Wouldn’t it be better to be able to buy them at any god’s altar after completing the event? This would make us feel happier about them because we wouldn’t have to wait a week or two after a server restart until the event is actually doable (due to bugs and such).

Noerknhar.3826:

In my opinion, obsidian shards should be bound to a different event. I wasnt able to find a story based reason why they’re only buyable at the balthazar event. Wouldn’t it be better to be able to buy them at any god’s altar after completing the event? This would make us feel happier about them because we wouldn’t have to wait a week or two after a server restart until the event is actually doable (due to bugs and such).

Fissure of Woe, but that’s more fanservice than anything. Still, for lore reasons obby is a thing from Balthazar, not from other gods.