Guild Wars 2

Anyone been able to loot these off aether chests or the pirates? I understand the blades can still be found but I’m curious those cores might drop off the mobs, and even in bags like other cores now.

Or will we be completely at the mercy of the TP supplie hoarders in the years to come.

This is just conjecture on my part but I am suspecting when the mysterious merchant we have been told will come the cores may become available through that merchant. Cores are only about color on the back piece anyway unless there is another use for them that we don’t know yet. If you are not interested in coloring your blades they are merely salable objects to those who care enough to buy them.

Aren’t the cores needed to go from exotic to ascended? That’s my understanding. Color is just an added benefit of it being ascended.

Cores only add a colored glow (red, blue, or green) after the ascended piece is crafted (straight ascended has a yellow/orange glow). There are thousands of cores on the TP for very cheap, so that is the easiest, and currently only way to get them now that the event is over.

Jinn Kazuma.2163:

Cores only add a colored glow (red, blue, or green) after the ascended piece is crafted (straight ascended has a yellow/orange glow). There are thousands of cores on the TP for very cheap, so that is the easiest, and currently only way to get them now that the event is over.

thats why I’m curious if it will be a 1 time thing or will people only be able to do this as long as the supplie lasts. I got a feeling the vendor will answer the question once its revealed.

Here is recipe for the Tempered Spinal Blades (ascended) and the recipes needed to color it.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tempered_Spinal_Blades