Guild Wars 2

As a daily GW2 player I find that even with playing for hours nearly every day, I find myself stopped by time gates specifically Charged Quartz Crystals. Crafting any sort of Celestial Armor takes a minimum five days per piece. At least you are still able to purchase the Bolts of Damask so the time gate window is shortened for ascended crafting.

But I find the time gating on Charged Quartz Crystals to be unnecessary. Five days to craft 1 piece of exotic gear seems a bit too much.

I see the best fix to either be:
A) allow them to be bought/sold on the trading post
B) allow any amount to be charged per day as long as it was at a different skill point

Either fix would allow the time gate to be relieved. I have heard from many players they refuse to craft celestial gear due to this time gate.

Any fix to obtaining Charged Quartz Crystals or even another way to get Celestial gear would be greatly appreciated by all guild wars players.

Charged Quartz Crystals also drop from Wintersday gifts, without a daily timegate.

Wanze so RNG again? What a win.

With the upcoming changes… Celestial gear should be removed from the game entirely.

The timegate to Charged Quartz became irrelevant anyway – the conversion of Crit Damage to Ferocity will make celestial gear useless (seeing as the only reason why anyone might have wanted it was either Crit Damage or Magic Find, and MF got already removed).

Of course that does make the timegating on it even weirder and less understandable than before.

Astral there are some builds that benefits from celestial.
Like my d/d/staff support/damage elementalist for wvw

Hule.8794:

Astral there are some builds that benefits from celestial.
Like my d/d/staff support/damage elementalist for wvw

Clerics gear ftw. Celestial becomes useless. You’re better off now maxing and mixing your gear sets for better results.

Treborlavok.3504:

Hule.8794:

Astral there are some builds that benefits from celestial.
Like my d/d/staff support/damage elementalist for wvw

Clerics gear ftw. Celestial becomes useless. You’re better off now maxing and mixing your gear sets for better results.

Which is probably why an armour set with varied stats boosting both damage and support might be beneficial to some (:

Wonderful. I just made my full Celestial set 3 weeks ago.

I bought around 3k boxes during wintersday BEFORE quartz drop was nerfed and got around 85 charged I dont even use celestial

Wanze.8410:

Charged Quartz Crystals also drop from Wintersday gifts, without a daily timegate.

Yeah, that was a bug and was removed by Anet.

As for the time gating, there’s no reason whatsoever to have it. It’s not like celestial is better than other stats so why time gate it?

Zanshin.5379:

Wanze.8410:

Charged Quartz Crystals also drop from Wintersday gifts, without a daily timegate.

Yeah, that was a bug and was removed by Anet.

As for the time gating, there’s no reason whatsoever to have it. It’s not like celestial is better than other stats so why time gate it?

They removed the bug that it always dropped charged quartz. Now they drop regular and charged quartz.

Wanze.8410:

Zanshin.5379:

Wanze.8410:

Charged Quartz Crystals also drop from Wintersday gifts, without a daily timegate.

Yeah, that was a bug and was removed by Anet.

As for the time gating, there’s no reason whatsoever to have it. It’s not like celestial is better than other stats so why time gate it?

They removed the bug that it always dropped charged quartz. Now they drop regular and charged quartz.

I’ve never had a single charged quartz since. Only regulars. So even if it’s true, the drop rate is very low.

Zanshin.5379:

I’ve never had a single charged quartz since. Only regulars. So even if it’s true, the drop rate is very low.

It’s true, had a charged dropped after the nerf. But yes, it’s pretty rare.

In general, I think time gating should be saved up some (maybe store 3 days or so) for people who cannot be on every day. However, in this case we were warned about it back in the Zephyrite event where it was strongly suggested that we do it each day .You can get by with other gear. In a month, you will have your full celestial. It is not that big of a penalty. I have made 18 celestial insignias and still have around 90 charged crystals. I had no idea if I would ever want it, but knew I might want it one day and it was not much trouble, so I did it.

Treborlavok.3504:

With the upcoming changes… Celestial gear should be removed from the game entirely.

When mf was being modified, people said the same thing about celestial gear…but it is still used widely. And people will keep using it still after this change too.

g e o.2589:

I bought around 3k boxes during wintersday BEFORE quartz drop was nerfed and got around 85 charged I dont even use celestial

It’s amazing you haven’t been perma banned yet.

Waffler.1257:

g e o.2589:

I bought around 3k boxes during wintersday BEFORE quartz drop was nerfed and got around 85 charged I dont even use celestial

It’s amazing you haven’t been perma banned yet.

I bought 10k wintersday gifts during the first day (as they gave quite a bit of profit) and i wonder why someone should be banned for it.
There was no way a player could know that they were intended to drop regular quartz and only charged ones as a rare drop.

I would haven even preferred to get regular quartz as it is tradeable.

Astralporing.1957:

The timegate to Charged Quartz became irrelevant anyway – the conversion of Crit Damage to Ferocity will make celestial gear useless (seeing as the only reason why anyone might have wanted it was either Crit Damage or Magic Find, and MF got already removed).

Of course that does make the timegating on it even weirder and less understandable than before.

And there’s that ‘useless’ word being thrown around again. It does not mean what you think it means .

Just like Berserker will remain the best choice for power-based damage dealers, Celestial will remain the best choice for Support characters – because while DPSers are allowed to neglect all other stats in their lust for moar damaj!, Support characters still have to actually contribute DPS while providing support.

Waffler.1257:

g e o.2589:

I bought around 3k boxes during wintersday BEFORE quartz drop was nerfed and got around 85 charged I dont even use celestial

It’s amazing you haven’t been perma banned yet.

I did too – I was looking for a Wings of Dwyana recipe. Opened about 3,000 before I got it. The 150 charged quartz was definitely a nice side effect, but there was no conniving on my part.

I still charge one a day that I’m on-line. I use celestial on several of my characters AND its one of the few stat combos I can craft that doesn’t eat into T6 mats I need to build a Legendary one day.

Considering you shouldn’t even be making celestial armour, I don’t really see this as a problem

Timegating Making Celestial gear was a mistake from the start.

Penguin.5197:

Treborlavok.3504:

With the upcoming changes… Celestial gear should be removed from the game entirely.

When mf was being modified, people said the same thing about celestial gear…but it is still used widely. And people will keep using it still after this change too.

It isn’t about who will still use it. It is more about whether it makes sense to time-gate an exotic. It MIGHT have made a hair of since before the update. However, after the nerf it makes no sense to time-gate it so extremely.

If bolt’s of damask can be sold on the TP, I don’t see why charged quarts can’t be.

I just wanted to throw this in here b/c I didn’t see it mentioned:

If you mine the home node every day, quite often you will get a “critical hit” on the strike and get a charged quartz on that strike. It happens to me about once every 2-3 days, and would definitely speed up your process.

If the time gate were to never be removed, the LEAST Anet could do is add a dungeon armor set with celestial. Considering every other armor set in the game is obtainable through dungeon tokens.

Nike.2631:

Astralporing.1957:

The timegate to Charged Quartz became irrelevant anyway – the conversion of Crit Damage to Ferocity will make celestial gear useless (seeing as the only reason why anyone might have wanted it was either Crit Damage or Magic Find, and MF got already removed).

Of course that does make the timegating on it even weirder and less understandable than before.

And there’s that ‘useless’ word being thrown around again. It does not mean what you think it means .

Just like Berserker will remain the best choice for power-based damage dealers, Celestial will remain the best choice for Support characters – because while DPSers are allowed to neglect all other stats in their lust for moar damaj!, Support characters still have to actually contribute DPS while providing support.

Hybrid builds are far better for that. Also, for all the stats in celestial set only Healing power is even relevant to providing support – and only to some forms of it, because most can be done equally well by a zerker.