My best advice to anyone who wants to farm a lodestone directly is to run the dungeon that drops it. Then, promote your cores. Or run fractals till your eyes bleed. That being said, at the moment, I only have 30-40 molten cores from all the times I’ve run CoF…. and running anything else nearly as often as you can run CoF is also eye bleed inducing.
Except there is no dungeon that drops Corrupted. Despite containing Icebrood/Svanir, HotW gives Glacial… which is stupid.
This will not be fixed and should not be fixed. By keeping the drop rate of these items exactly where they are, it maintains the value of an item that a significant portion of the player base will never hope to acquire enough of to use for anything.
Let Charged Lodestones be 3g+ forever…. random players will get a moment of insane joy when they find one, and promptly sell it to those of us who intend to do something with these precious jewels.
Woah… selfish kitten much? Jeesh.
Two things:
1) If you want corrupted lodestones, have you tried Arah? I can’t speak to it much, but the only corrupted lodestones that have ever dropped for me have come from Risen in places like the Grenth event. Admittedly, that could have been an ice elemental and I just didn’t notice. I’m still a bit short of my first corrupted weapon, but I put destroyer weaps higher on my list of things to craft, and the falling price of ecto has me eyeing weapons of the mist, so corrupted weaps are back burner for me at the moment.
2) As to the ‘selfish’ comment…. how is it selfish to want the majority of players to be able to get a highly valuable RNG drop? Those of us who craft things with lodestones know that we’re in the minority because we work with rare mats. It takes effort and planning to produce things with lodestones. For much of the populace, that effort is unreasonable. Instead, when they get a lodestone they say: “Oh great, I can sell this for a nice chunk of change! It’s rare and people will pay a lot for it!”
My point is not to argue that “I have items, and I want to be elite because I did X / Y / Z to get them.” My point is that it is of benefit to the entire game to have items like this. It gives a goal to those who will pursue it, and it gives a high value to the people who get these via RNG and never do anything with them but sell them.
I wish you the best luck in your crafting aims, weather it’s a legendary or a crafted exotic, and I hope you find a sense of satisfaction at the end of those aims that you did something which required effort and you succeeded where others simply give up, many before they start.
Cheers.
LVL 80’s: Thief / Warrior / Guardian / Mesmer
