Guild Wars 2

One of the things I am most excited about with this patch is the addition of a Viper’s backpiece and jewelry. They require a decent amount of Blood Ruby’s from Bloodstone Fen to acquire.

What are the best ways to obtain Blood Ruby’s? So far,

- You can get 10 from the story.
- When I originally arrived at Bloodstone Fen, there were Bloodstone Crystal nodes scattered about that could drop them as well. However, these Bloodstone Crystal nodes don’t seem to respawn once they’ve been mined, so not a good consistent source.
- Random drop from completing events

So it seems the best way to get them is to just run alts through the story to get the 10 and the Bloodstone Crystal nodes, after that just running a bunch of events.

Am I missing anything else?

The nodes might be a 24 hour reset.
I guess anet doesn’t want you to get them too quickly.

When I looked the vendor only had ring/amulet/back piece. Has the earring slot been added in a hotfix since then?

Does this happen to you too?

There are places with 2 to 3 nodes near each other. When you mine one, the other disappear too?

Is that a bug?

I think passiflora in SSC has a similar effect. A cap on how many nodes you can gather per day. So its possibly its working as intended

ok, I reported it, just in case it is a bug. Because I just WP to another point with nodes and the same thing happens.

WvW track for the Fen (if you play WvW and complete the track) can get you 50.

Here is a nice guide for acquisition.

http://guildwarshub.com/blood-ruby-acquisition-guide/

WvW track with XP booster and guild booster will get you 312 a tick, so it’d be about 5 hours for 50 shards. Not bad at all esp if you like WvW.

For normal farming you can hop maps to any LFG for Jades/Justiciar, this will net you 3 rubies guaranteed for each event chain, potentially more as map rewards. In between farm nodes, and changing alts will let you get more nodes. And of course finishing the dailies while you gather nodes. Doing this I was able to get 50ish in about 3 hours the other night. So farming the map is still the fastest I believe, though IFF there are available maps to hop into for those two event chains.

Justiciar only gives you 3 rubies the first time you kill him each day, after that it stops giving rubies. However, the Unbound Guardian gives you 4 for each kill and it is not daily, so you can kill him as many times as you can find him in a day and each time he gives you 4 rubies.

Bloodstone ore has a chance to drop rubies, it’s best to have here the guild gathering boost for a better chance. The nodes reset at least daily and are per account.

PvP/WvW reward track have an option to give you 50 of them in the end chest, too.

Doing map compeltion on multiple characters also gets you some at least 5 rubies per character, plus one exotic and a chance at a BL key.

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The nodes might be a 24 hour reset.
I guess anet doesn’t want you to get them too quickly.

When I looked the vendor only had ring/amulet/back piece. Has the earring slot been added in a hotfix since then?

Nope, both earrings and a second ring (doubles, because for no reason at all anet still insists on making them uniques even when the only reason to do so has disappeared with last big patch) will be, according to devs, available in next chapters of the LS (likely at a rate of 1 piece per chapter).