Guild Wars 2

Is there ANY way to get Crystalline Ore aside from the Noxious Pods and Act 4 achievements (ar least two of which seem to be bugged)?

And if not, is there any trick to finding the pods? I’ve heard people say all kinds of things about when/where to find them but I can’t seem to reliably track them down

Dragon’s Stand noxious pods and they’re ultra rare. I found like 3 after completing the meta and got 2 more during the events. I have 42 machetes now….

Ah crud. I was hoping there was some event/loot bag that spits them out. Ah well, thanks!

There might be a spot with a bit of them somewhere on the map but I haven’t found it yet, you have little time to explore and I’m still missing one PoI.

Next time I do the event imma check inside the tree, i got this feel there’s something in there.

The sad part about this is eventually Crystalline Ore will be as common as bs/dg/empy and yet here i am scrounging for some lol