Guild Wars 2

please add node packs for the more advanced crafting materials to the gem shop

LostQuestion.9647:

please add node packs for the more advanced crafting materials to the gem shop

Which mats do you mean? The game is designed to get folks to participate in different types of content to acquire Tier 7 mats (Bloodstone Dust, Empyreal Fragments, and Dragonite Ore) and there are lots and lots and lots of ways to obtain those.

The other basic mats are obtainable via salvaging loot and via the TP. And if that’s not enough, you can buy bags of crafting materials of each tier at the laurel vendor (and the game gives you laurels just for logging on each day).

Fine & rare mats drop from containers, in various amounts, plus are available as mob or resource node drops.

So why do these need to have a gem shop source?

I assume OP means Home Instance Nodes for nodes above t3?
Those are available from Black Lion Chests, and sold on the TP.

I’m always in favor of more stuff like that from the gem store. Items that improve the account are always more valuable to me — nodes, storage expansion, the UM gathering tools, shared slots — than are cosmetics. Not that I don’t buy some outfits, etc, but I already have plenty of those.

Perhaps higher-tier leather and cloth racks?

The trouble with most home instance & guild hall resource nodes is, they’re hardly worth visiting anymore. I used to invite guild mates into an almost complete home instance, but today interest in that is close to zero.

Maybe we can kill two birds with one stone and grant those nodes a chance to yield fine / rare materials? At the moment most of them are not worth the time harvest, let alone the money to buy them.