Guild Wars 2

Okay, so everyone is aware that lodestone prices are insane right now. 4 gold for a single charged lodestone? 3 for an onyx? 1.5 gold for a destroyer?

You’ve got to be kidding.

I propose that there be some Vendor that offers lodestones, for a REASONABLE price. Say… 1g at most. To make this perfectly clear though, this isn’t about making legendaries EASIER to get, it’s about making legendaries less about the trading post.

Or one better, offer lodestones for Karma. Account bound, of course. A reasonable price would be 5k karma per lodestone. That means someone going for say… Sunrise or The Juggernaut would need 500,000 karma to buy their lodestones. To me, this is much, much more of an achievement than spending insane amounts of cash.

They could even have them available from those new daily reward things.

The overall idea is to provide a way to obtain lodestones that isn’t “Farm CoF/CoE/TA 20 times a day, for a month”

Thoughts?

my thoughts:
making them buyable through gold/karma vendor is not the best idea.
in my opinion it should be from the Rank 50 or 60 Glory Vendor. Since glory is the only currency that is not required to craft a legendary…

trane.4569:

my thoughts:
making them buyable through gold/karma vendor is not the best idea.
in my opinion it should be from the Rank 50 or 60 Glory Vendor. Since glory is the only currency that is not required to craft a legendary…

Lodestones aren’t only used in Legendary weapons.

Dungeon tokens:

10 from every dungeon in exchange for a Lodestone of your choice (that’s 6 if you complete one path in every dungeon once a day).

Not only will this provide an alternative source for lodestones, but it’ll also encourage people to give some love to the other dungeons.

TheDaiBish.9735:

Lodestones aren’t only used in Legendary weapons.

No kitten, sherlock…
The prices are only that high because of legendaries..

trane.4569:

TheDaiBish.9735:

Lodestones aren’t only used in Legendary weapons.

No kitten, sherlock…
The prices are only that high because of legendaries..

Well, given that you only mentioned Legendaries, that’s why I was mistaken.

As is, I’m aiming for Mjolnir, which requires 350 Charged Lodestones.

I wouldn’t want to have to spend a tonne of time in SPvP for a skin I can only use in PvE and WvW.

TheDaiBish.9735:

I wouldn’t want to have to spend a tonne of time in SPvP for a skin I can only use in PvE and WvW.

And I don’t like to farm tons of gold instead of completing my personal story, do dungeons, play WvW and PvP..

I just suggested it because it would be fair you would need to get something with glory to get a legendary.
though I don’t think lodestones would be the best item to that…

trane.4569:

TheDaiBish.9735:

I wouldn’t want to have to spend a tonne of time in SPvP for a skin I can only use in PvE and WvW.

And I don’t like to farm tons of gold instead of completing my personal story, do dungeons, play WvW and PvP..

I just suggested it because it would be fair you would need to get something with glory to get a legendary.
though I don’t think lodestones would be the best item to that…

Yeah, current Legendary process isn’t too Legendary. Although wouldn’t dungeons be the best way of getting Gold? I get about 3 – 4 Gold a Run without food boosters.

Let’s see what happens to their drop rates post Jan 28-update… Fractals improvements were supposed to make them drop more frequently, right?

karma is way too useless in this game. add a merch that trades 5k karma per any lodestone.

I want an Infinite Light for my guardian, but the temples are never open on my server, and theres no way I am spending 1000-1100 gold on lodestones for an Exotic skin. ANet needs to either reduce the required lodestones for the infinite light and Mjolnir, or make them more accessible. I think its actually cheaper to craft a legendary than it is to craft one of those. >.>

mexay.3902:

Okay, so everyone is aware that lodestone prices are insane right now. 4 gold for a single charged lodestone? 3 for an onyx? 1.5 gold for a destroyer?

You’ve got to be kidding.

I propose that there be some Vendor that offers lodestones, for a REASONABLE price. Say… 1g at most. To make this perfectly clear though, this isn’t about making legendaries EASIER to get, it’s about making legendaries less about the trading post.

Or one better, offer lodestones for Karma. Account bound, of course. A reasonable price would be 5k karma per lodestone. That means someone going for say… Sunrise or The Juggernaut would need 500,000 karma to buy their lodestones. To me, this is much, much more of an achievement than spending insane amounts of cash.

They could even have them available from those new daily reward things.

The overall idea is to provide a way to obtain lodestones that isn’t “Farm CoF/CoE/TA 20 times a day, for a month”

Thoughts?

I agree that there’s something very obviously wrong when a select few items in a category are so vastly out of balance against the others.

ANet for some unfathomable reason made a design choice that one lodestone would be massively over-represented in Legendary construction, therefore it seems obvious that they should have forseen the vastly higher demand for that item.

I’m not sure that the solution here is to make lodestones vendor-purchasable, because doing so implies that ALL lodestones would be vendor-purchasable. This won’t bring charged, onyx, and destroyer lodestone prices into line with the other lodestones, it will simply drop prices across the board.

Any change being made (and I strongly feel that one is needed) should focus specifically on the outliers – charged, onyx, and destroyer – and attempt to equalize lodestone prices across the board. If that means asymmetrically increasing supply, so be it, but I think it would be preferable to both increase supply of all lodestones and add useful recipes for the other lodestones – possibly a transmogrification recipe to turn them into the preferred variety.

trane.4569:

TheDaiBish.9735:

I wouldn’t want to have to spend a tonne of time in SPvP for a skin I can only use in PvE and WvW.

And I don’t like to farm tons of gold instead of completing my personal story, do dungeons, play WvW and PvP..

I just suggested it because it would be fair you would need to get something with glory to get a legendary.
though I don’t think lodestones would be the best item to that…

Why should Legendary weapons be part of SPvP when you can’t use them there.

Don’t get me wrong I PvP a lot but that has got to be the worse idea I have heard.

I think the lodestones should be dungeon vendor items.

We used to farm the dungeons for them anyhow.

CoE was primary for Charged.
CoF was primary for Molten.
HoTW can drop Glacial
Arah can drop Onyx.

However i dont think u should make them that cheap at 10 tokens per lode.

Also by removing the high priced lodes, which people are paying for, would mean u ate up a very large money sink in the economy.

You cant stack the game only on one side because you think its not working for you.
The high priced lodes are being sold.
At 4g each, 15% of that is being destroyed at purchase to hold inflation.
10% just to list it.

Removing high priced items would hurt us more in the long run by having more gold in circulation.

So i feel BOTH options should be available… the natural drop + the option to buy at like 30-75 dungeon tokens each. If you want to grind the many many hours in 1 dungeon, go ahead and give people that route.

While the others who would rather grind for gold in dungeon speed runs get gold and go that route as well.

mexay.3902:

Or one better, offer lodestones for Karma. Account bound, of course.

It’s impossible for them to make account & soulbound lodestones, how would they stack?! You obviously wouldn’t be able to stack account bound lodes with regular ones, so either they would have to be completely separate items, or it just wouldn’t work…