Guild Wars 2

I feel the rate at which we can gather these materials is rather uneven across content.

For example, with Bloodstone Dust, I was able to gather 2100 of this material over two days of champion farming in Queensdale, enough to make several Ascended items.

Dragonite Ore has been rather easy to acquire, I feel it is at a good level, with 30 from Orr temple events, though I think 4-8 from lower level events is rather low, given that supposedly only level 80’s can acquire these items anyway.

Empyreal Fragments are by far the most difficult to acquire unless you repeat dungeon paths, which grant 20 per path. However, most jumping puzzles only seem to grant 0-4, even for difficult ones and ones located in Orr. Oddly enough, some seem to grant upwards of 9-11 with little regard to their difficulty. I’m curious how this was chosen, maybe based on the end chest type? If so, I think these in particular could use another look.

My totals since the release of the patch is 21 bloodstone bricks, 3 dragonite ingots, and 0 empyreal stars. I have yet to find time for doing dungeons for the empyreal stars, but I have gathered almost enough for one star through jumping puzzles.

TL;DR (or in short) I think Bloodstone is a bit too plentiful in champion bags, Dragonite could use a little buff on a number of world bosses, but is quite bearable, and Empyreal is very uneven in content, especially where jumping puzzles are concerned, given that they cannot be repeated like dungeon path rewards, and many give out 0 to very few fragments (see the wiki page here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Empyreal_Fragment ).

It isn’t uneven as much as it is out of scale. To make the standard ascended weapon, you need 500 of all 3.

empyreal fragments are pretty easy to obtain in wvw (well; compared to bloodstone/dragonite in wvw)

I got tons of bloodstone already. Was saving them to make weapons actually, but got rid of some hundreds already
I can’t complain about Empyreal in dungeons. Good amount in the rewards. But you could get a bit more from JPs.
Dragonite needs a buff. It’s almost ok right now

I have a bunch of empyreal base stuff and like 4 dragonite ores. The amount of bloodstone dust I get is ridiculous though. Wish I could sell…