Guild Wars 2

For a while the price on lodestones and cores have been rapidly increasing, some more than others. This makes acquiring the lodestones tougher and tougher, especially if you need 100, or even 250 lodestones to make a weapon of your liking. It’s at a point where casual players are almost unable to acquire such weapons because of the high costs and the rareness of the lodestones.

It causes inbalance between weapons and legendaries. For example, the legendaries that do not need lodestones as ingredient are much cheaper compared to legendaries who does. The greatsword sunrise is 1200g, the flameseeker shield is 900g, but the warhorn howler is only about 500g, or the quip pistol is 600g to make beside all the karma and skill points etc.
Some non legendaries are amazingly expensive as well due to the lodestone prizes. Like the volcanus which is a really good looking greatsword, but the cost is now about 500g ? it’s like the cost of a legendary.

I don’t think that these weapons should really go down in price, exclusiveness is one of the things that make them great. But i find there is some sort of inbalance between the costs of legendaries based on which weapon you’re going for. Why should an offhand weapon like the flameseeker shield cost 900g while a pistol only costs about 600g on mats.
The prize of lodestones keep rising, and aslong this keeps going up, the difference in costs among legendaries is going to increase.

I think something has to be done on the lodestone price to prevent it from going even higher. Maybe increase the droprate, or add it among the token sellers for 300 tokens or something?