Guild Wars 2

Add lodestones to relevant dungeon token vendors. For example, Charged Lodestones to CoE vendor. The cost should be fairly high. 180 tokens for 1 lodestone seems reasonable to me.

This would increase supply, drop prices, encourage more dungeon running, and give people like me who run dungeons a lot a way to more reliably work towards weapon skins besides lots of gold.

and how would this be fair to people who don’t like dungeons? A solution should benefit all equally or none.

Catisa.6507:

and how would this be fair to people who don’t like dungeons? A solution should benefit all equally or none.

It would be as fair as (if not fairer than) the dungeon specific runes, armour and weapons (granted armour and weapons are mostly just skins)

Though I’d say cores at best, lodestones would probably have to be in the 300 mark region or higher really.

Catisa.6507:

and how would this be fair to people who don’t like dungeons? A solution should benefit all equally or none.

Dungeons already reward cores and lodestones very rarely – I’m talking super rare (done 18 runs of CoE in the last couple of days and have gotten ~4 cores and 0 lodestones). It should require work but not this much and prices on charged cores and lodestones in particular are extremely high for an item you need hundreds of to make some weapons.

My suggestion doesn’t preclude other ways of obtaining cores/stones but if not dungeons, then what? Fractals also rarely reward lodestones and are tied to a higher gear tier; and people that farm meta events make more ectos for less effort and can get things like Final Rest.

Agree with this 100%. Might breathe some new life into HotW, SE and CoE.

Great idea +1, though I think maybe cores would be better than lodestones, for maybe 40 tokens or so.

What about the fact that cores/lodestones are not soulbound, but the tokens used to get those are?

I assume that it would be much like other dungeon token rewards (example: armor, weapons, runes) in that the tokens are account bound, so the rewards you would get would be account or soulbound. So if you bought these lodestones from the dungeon vendor, they would become account bound. This brings up the fact that you could craft and sell things from these account bound lodestones though I suppose.

Fror.2163:

What about the fact that cores/lodestones are not soulbound, but the tokens used to get those are?

I don’t see why account bound tokens giving unbound cores or stones would be a big deal. The suggestion was made with the idea that people would have a reason to continue running dungeons and prices would drop on stones.

I don’t see the big deal either it would bring down price look at ectos, every since the new one rare per chest event atleast in the world, they have dropped in price and made them a little bit more affordable.