Guild Wars 2

New challenge dungeon set around the Wizard’s Tower in Garrenhoff. Endless challenge dungeon filled with different elementals, with rewards and difficulty increasing the further u get into the dungeon. This would also address the lodestone problem at the moment, as lodestones are fairly difficult to get of almost any kind. And the dungeon is filled with elementals, and even has a lore reason for them all.

NPC’s in Garrenhoff talk about people being invited up to the Wizard’s Tower, but then being never heard from again, and the Tower being able to house an entire city. With a few saying that they don’t trust the elementals, or fear them. Giving the Wizard and the elementals an eerie and sinister feeling. The bigger question being, why is the Wizard even defending this town? Is it a source of test subjects for the Wizard?

Story

The Lion Guard have hired players to go into the tower to search for the people that have gone missing.

Enemies and Design

All enemies centered around elementals, as the Wizard creates them. And the dungeon being endless, as it’s incredibly large, and could have endless amount of rooms due to the Wizard’s magic.

Future Problems

Future Problems i could foresee from implementing a dungeon that makes lodestones easier to acquire is that, lodestones will become too common after people acquire their legendaries. Although i suppose this could be countered by Anet continually releasing new weapons and armor skins that require lodestones.

I’m not that far along in my game that I’m concerned with Legendaries yet, but isn’t it the point that some components are expensive or rare so that completing your Legendary is more of a long-term quarter/half-year goal?

So it may not be lodestone rarity that’s a problem but rather the players who are impatient that are the problem?

DreamOfACure.4382:

I’m not that far along in my game that I’m concerned with Legendaries yet, but isn’t it the point that some components are expensive or rare so that completing your Legendary is more of a long-term quarter/half-year goal?

So it may not be lodestone rarity that’s a problem but rather the players who are impatient that are the problem?

True and good point. At the moment its fairly balanced out. (Also it doesn’t take too long for a legandary. It takes about 1-3 months to get, depending on the market. If the lodes are priced around 1.3-2 gold.) But, as more people are getting legendaries, they’re using their excess gold to buy up lodestones, then sell them at higher prices. If u were to only farm your lodestones from elementals effectively, let’s say onyx, on average you would only get 2 lodes an hr. So 50 hrs of farming earth elementals. And that’s only if the temple of melandru is cleansed. At the moment it’s faster just to farm gold and buy the lodestones. Even when they’re at around 3g. And then what will happen when they release legendary armor or more weapons that require lodestones. They’ll become even more rare.

For Onyx, the only sources are earth elementals, TA dungeon chests, heavy supply bag from WvW, and swamp fractal chest. Swamp fractal might be a good farm for onyx lodes, as its fast to complete, if you had a dedicated group. But at the moment, it’s faster just to farm gold and buy them.

Not saying that they would drop like crazy in the dungeon, just saying that it could be another possible source of random lodestones that is reliable, as the dungeon will always be open. In order to ease the market, if they do decide to add more items that require lodestones.

Personally, i already have my lodes for my legendary, so i don’t need anymore, just worried about the future of the items. I was lucky and got all my lodes at 1.3g. But as more people are going for their legendary before, i hear a lot of complaints about them when im farming with people in Orr.

Still, even without the lodes. It could be another interesting dungeon lol.