Guild Wars 2

40 crystalline ores is doable for a weapon since that is what you get for completing the story, but you need 250 for one set of armor. Three sets = 730 (which is 40 per piece x6 * 3 armor weights + 10 for the insignia).

I don’t know exactly why the patch increased noxious pods and didn’t also reduce the cost of the armor sets’ crystalline ores by at least half. Each piece currently requires 40 crystalline ores , on top of 10 for the guild insignia.

If you PvP/ WvW there currently is not a reward track that will give you those crystalline ores you need (Mordremoth Cache doesn’t have that option).

There’s no need as noxious pods are more available now without the meta.

They probably didn’t try balancing it around people getting 3 sets?

Justine.6351:

They probably didn’t try balancing it around people getting 3 sets?

I doubt that balancing even entered the picture here. HoT originally was not abour balanced rewards and sinks, but about having to grind heavily for anything.

Using crystallines, which have many other uses and come from only a single map for a guild armor set was in general a really bad choice.

They should remove crystalline ore requirement for guild vendors. Crystalline ore has 0% in common with guilds

Malediktus.9250:

They should remove crystalline ore requirement for guild vendors. Crystalline ore has 0% in common with guilds

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised is crystalline ore was simply the new ‘boss level’ currency drop going forward. Newer zones should probably have it rolled in to their meta rewards, etc.

What would be nice, if its intended to become a standard currency rather than a map limited one, is if it were added to daily world boss chests so its more avaliable, and to some level of the guild trader for commendations in a ration of about 10 per commendation.