Guild Wars 2

So, with the new ascended crafting and whatnot, we have new materials. Most are reused materials from GW1 (Damask, Elonian Squares, Spiritwood) but I’m more interested in the Bloodstone, Dragonite, and Empyereal (I think I spelled that wrong). Anyone have any ideas on what the latter two are related to?

Well there’s this – definition being “belonging to or deriving from heaven”

That’s all I can really see out of Emphyreal Fragments/Stars. What’s interesting is thakittens sole use is to make Vision Crystals (way to reduce the quality of that item…), which is used to draw the gaze of the gods, supposedly.

Dragonite Ore… beats me. But given the existence of Crystalline Ore, I bet it’s related to the Elder Dragons somehow – the latter too (or the Searing/Glint).

I don’t really put much stock in the lore value of these Ascended materials though. I mean, it’s supposed to be very dangerous to physically tamper with the bloodstones (see Bloodstone Cave mission in Eye of the North), and the art of making Deldrimor Steel was lost per the norn storyline (unlike Beigarth succeeded in figuring out to recreate it).

Would have been nice if Anet gave us a quest to build ascended stuff, i.e. tie that to the story somehow instead of just suddenly!-there are materials.