Guild Wars 2

Um,

I’m not sure why this hasn’t occurred to the developers yet, but it’s pretty darned hard to get Ascended Gear right now since the ONLY place to RELIABLY get Empyreal Shards that go into making Empyreal Stars for Ascended gear is… dungeons.

Could you please move Empyreal Shards to somewhere people will actually go?

I have never been in a dungeon and I currently have, 1500 and working to get 1000 more. I have been getting mine playing The Mist, and Silverwastes. I can get around a hundred in an hour or two. If you go on a chest run in Silverwaste you can get 150 to 200 Empyreal’s in a short time.

You can also farm open world chests. Look it up on the wiki; there’s a page devoted to it. Helps if you have multiple 80’s.

Empyreal Fragments are located in many places. I have thousands upon thousands of fragments and I barely ever dungeon. Many champ bags have them for starters, specifically in Silverwastes, as do core world JP chests and explorable chests

Silverwastes chest farm gives tons.

I’ve never got an Empyreal shard from a dungeon and I have 2 full sets of Ascended gear.

I got to the point where I stopped making stars, and just delete stacks of the stuff. I really should make the Star of Gratitude. I don’t run dungeons, don’t do SW chest farms, or champ farms. I did run the SW meta event, and lately been running Dragons Stand. Still getting tons of the stuff.

Haven’t done a dungeon in a year, maybe two. The shards still show up in my inventory on a regular basis.

If you choose the Chest of Ascended Materials at the end of a 30-day daily login reward cycle, you’ll always get a Vision Crystal. You’ll still need Lesser Vision Crystals for 5/6 armor pieces, but they take fewer materials anyway, and you can still use Vision Crystals for weapons and chest armor.

Yeah, silverwastes chest runs. I also have thousands that are bound to me and that have no particular use but I can’t bear to discard them. They are currently cluttering up the bags on an alt, along with thousands of two other similarly-bound mats from sw.

SW chest farm. Nuff said.

If they don’t want us playing dungeons then they need to move that source of empyreal stars elsewhere. Farming open world chests for a paltry 2-3 isn’t a good or reasonable suggestion. I’d rather play the game than resorting to SW chest farm as well. :/

I’m barely getting any now whereas I used to have more than the star of gratitude could eat in a day.

Lothirieth.3408:

I’m barely getting any now whereas I used to have more than the star of gratitude could eat in a day.

Guess you shouldn’t have skimped on refining them back then?

Anyhow, the real problem is not having to “work” for the ascended mats. The real problem was getting more of them than you could use. It’s fixed now. Get farming if you want those ascended weapons

I used to run the Caledon forest jump puzzles for emypreal (my how times have changed). The cave, morgan spiral and asura one are all pretty quick and dropped up to 9 fragments each. Plus there’s a chest at the bottom of dark reverie and another at the top of that puzzle. If you use a character in the range for silver doubloons you can earn some gold too.

It doesn’t seem like OP has played this game very much. There are many ways to get empyreal shards as stated above, S pvp, world chest dailies, and of course the best way imo: WvW. Try checking out the other parts of the game sometime, pve is boring.

Eirdyne.9843:

Um,

I’m not sure why this hasn’t occurred to the developers yet, but it’s pretty darned hard to get Ascended Gear right now since the ONLY place to RELIABLY get Empyreal Shards that go into making Empyreal Stars for Ascended gear is… dungeons.

Could you please move Empyreal Shards to somewhere people will actually go?

WTF ???

Maybe next time check the wiki before opening threads in the forum.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Empyreal_Fragment

There are many ways to get Empyreal Fragment. Most of them have nothing to do with dungeons.

I have played a whole of 3 dungeons in GW2 and have crafted over 20 ascended
weapons and 6 ascended armor sets.

Oh .. and a lot of them from before we got Silverwastes .. so that was mostly farming
chests in the open World for Empyrial Shards , doing Worlbosses for Dragonite and
run Champ Trains for Bloodstone.

Now you can get in 2 hours Silverwaste what took you a week or more at that time.

thehipone.6812:

I used to run the Caledon forest jump puzzles for emypreal (my how times have changed). The cave, morgan spiral and asura one are all pretty quick and dropped up to 9 fragments each. Plus there’s a chest at the bottom of dark reverie and another at the top of that puzzle. If you use a character in the range for silver doubloons you can earn some gold too.

Before Silverwastes I used to do the Queensdale, Wayfarers, Plains of Ascalon chest run for fragments. I would take my 8 level 80s through those maps and get about 180 shards. Boring as heck, but a good consistent source of shards back then for non dungeoners.

Get in a Silverwaste chest farm train. You’ll get tons of them in a few hours.

I get most of my fragments from capping camps in wvw.

I litteraly destroyed 10k empyrial fragments the last week earned, and didnt play dungeons. There’s litteraly a ton of ways to get them.

Silverwaiste is good example, chest farm but also POD farming in lab (this one should be good for you, you can basically farm 2-3 per pod on average).

Jumping puzzles, fractals, dungeons, pvp reward tracks.

Dry top (especially the chests, by opening with keys)

There’s probably a lot i’m forgetting now but i’m sure there’s a lot more ways.

What? WHAT? Emp shards?! I have thousands and I never step in dungeons. I don’t even know what to do with them anymore besides let my Star eat them.

I pretty much log on, do the dailies that I can complete fastest, do the 2 fractal dailes for the pages, maybe a couple world bosses, and then explore Maguuma. I get roughly 50 emp fragments a day.

There are things in this game that are hard to come by, but Empyreal Fragments certainly are NOT on that list. That’s like saying you have trouble getting Bloodstone Dust.

I’ve been using the star to reduce inventory, and deleting everything I get from bags everyday and I still have a mule with 15 stacks of them in her inventory… I’m typically deleting 100-150 every couple hours of farming metas. still plenty of ways to get these ingame, just gotta research where on google is all. The wiki also explains where these can be obtained.

WvW is a good source of Empyreal Shards.

Every map added to the game after Orr is bursting at the seam with ascended materials, including shards.

It’s almost as if they wanted ascended gear to be a more attainable goal after your primary leveling and personal story progression!

Go play literally any map in the magumma wastes or magus falls and you’ll be so sick of seens ascended materials as loot you’ll be willing to spend tons of gold for an eater just to get rid of them.

The only real issue I have with Ascended Crafting is that a One Handed weapon has the same material cost as a Two Handed weapon. I have to gather twice the materials to make weapons for my Thief as opposed to 1/1 for my Guardian. They could have at least only required a Lesser Vision Crystal for the single slot weapons, oh well.