Guild Wars 2

Crystalline Ore is far too scarce for the amounts that are needed. Acquisition is around 50-75 for each 2 hour DS meta. When normalized to the amount of items it is involved in and their cost and factoring in the acquisition rate, it is the rarest mat/currency in the game. Yet it is needed in large quantities for far too many items, including but not limited to weapons, armor, collection items, minis, recipes, runes, sigils, and as a crafting material.

This would make sense if people did the DS meta with regularity, but it is simply too long to do that often, and getting machete’s to actually acquire the high amount of ore also requires spending hours running the metas for the other 3 maps so you can buy enough, since they drop in paltry quantities. Together, we have a perfect storm of insufficiency.

The entire process is unduly tied to too few maps and activities, making it unfun and far too long to acquire Crystalline Ore. Alternate methods of acquisition and/or a change in the prices of items that reflect realistic acquisition rates is desperately needed.

It’s tough, but I like the small exclusiveness it gives to the Leadership runes I collect for my Chronomancer. Only 120 Crystalline Ore left, or two DS runs. I just lack the aurillium to buy machetes, and I also need ariliium to buy a Viper’s inscription recipe for my other toon ^^

It shows that I was dedicated enough to get the best out of my character and that it’s not just a Chronomancer that uses the stuff from the L80 boost.

Would be nice to make runes visible on armor, with a check box.

I average about 110 per run. It’s not all that difficult to obtain. I’m actually planning on farm the ores to buy of those and I don’t see an issue. They’re all optional rewards.

Faaris.8013:

It’s tough, but I like the small exclusiveness it gives to the Leadership runes I collect for my Chronomancer. Only 120 Crystalline Ore left, or two DS runs. I just lack the aurillium to buy machetes, and I also need ariliium to buy a Viper’s inscription recipe for my other toon ^^

It shows that I was dedicated enough to get the best out of my character and that it’s not just a Chronomancer that uses the stuff from the L80 boost.

Would be nice to make runes visible on armor, with a check box.

Meanwhile many a dedicated WvW-er can probably take a bath in those runes if they feel so inclined.

I like DS but I feel it’s way too time consuming to run with any regularity and as a consequence I’ll be getting as much of the DS stuff through other means (like the Leadership runes through WvW) that don’t require me to plan blocks of like 2 hours.

For rewards they treat DS as just another map, which it clearly isn’t.