Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if you’ve seen the trading post lately, but Azurite orbs are selling for higher than some lodestones. This, of course, makes sense, because they’re no longer available. Unlike the candy corn, which was widely available during the event, they were only available once per day, in a fairly challenging dungeon. Even then, there was a chance you’d only get an Azurite crystal. And those crystals are the only ones that could not be upgraded the same way most of the other gems were.

So azurite crystals are worth dirt, and the orbs are worth their weight in baby quaggans. This, I can only imagine, was not the intended turnout for the material.

Because the Molten Alliance have made a return as Scarlet’s minions, perhaps it’s not beyond imagination that we could earn a home-instance node via a future living story, the way we did for the Quartz crystals? We could harvest the crystals, with a chance of getting an orb…of course, this would necessitate the ability to upgrade the crystals in some way. Whether it would be fusing 5-10 of them at a Place of Power like the Quartz, or whether it would involve transmutation with dusts the way the rest of the gems are upgraded, it would be very helpful to balancing out the incredibly disparate prices of the materials as they are now.

PS, feel free to hire me. :P