Guild Wars 2

I understand the need to deter bots but when you are trying to collect stuff for legendaries or other exotic craftables, getting one lodestone drop after a month is pitiful. Not everyone has the money to buy gems to convert to gold to buy the items off the TP. It already cost a good deal of in game money to get some of the stuff that you can’t buy on the TP. I don’t mind running all over Tyria killing stuff to get what I need, but when you are not even close to getting stuff when you’ve put in all that hard work is just disheartening . I love this game, I have fun running all over doing DEs, dungeons and dailies but I get frustrated when I have very little to show for it. I don’t expect to get everything in a short amount of time, but if I need 100 lodestones for something, getting 1 a day would be nice.

Agree, that said I’ve been on a.net’s case about it for the last 2 months and nothing has been done.

chocomamma.1539:

I understand the need to deter bots but when you are trying to collect stuff for legendaries or other exotic craftables, getting one lodestone drop after a month is pitiful. Not everyone has the money to buy gems to convert to gold to buy the items off the TP. It already cost a good deal of in game money to get some of the stuff that you can’t buy on the TP. I don’t mind running all over Tyria killing stuff to get what I need, but when you are not even close to getting stuff when you’ve put in all that hard work is just disheartening . I love this game, I have fun running all over doing DEs, dungeons and dailies but I get frustrated when I have very little to show for it. I don’t expect to get everything in a short amount of time, but if I need 100 lodestones for something, getting 1 a day would be nice.

You’re pretty kitten vague there. Saying that you want a single Lodestone per day, are we talking playing 8 hours? Playing 30 minutes? Something in-between?

And let’s be honest. Currently, it’s better for you to grind gold elsewhere and buy the Lodestones. That’s usually how it is in games when it comes to rare materials. The very essence of them being a rare item goes hand in hand with them being a very bad idea to farm.

buy the Lodestones.

No.

I’m talking about 4 hours a day, depending on the day. And I shouldn’t have to grind gold. How is it fun when you are looking at how much gold you earned in a day compared to how much you still need to buy everything? It is much more rewarding to me to do an event and during that event I get drops that go towards my goal. I get to see the progress. It is also not fun to me to sit and play the TP for money, I want to explore the world, not sit in LA. Also it is not seeing progress when I make say about 2g for my efforts and still need say 200g to meet my goal where as getting various mats and a lodestone in the same amount of time makes me feel like I accomplished more.