Guild Wars 2

So, I just hit level 80 and to keep me occupied, I thought I’d craft myself a weapon. I chose Foefire’s Essence cause it isn’t nearly as much of a hassle as the Legendary weapons. Anyway, as I was looking over what I had to gather up to craft it, I noticed that nothing seemed really too difficult, except one thing. 100 charged lodestones. How the heck am I supposed to get 100 charged lodestones? They go for around 3 gold each on the trading post, so buying 100 of them is absolutely out of the question. Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to acquire them?

Various options.
1) CoF for gold
2) CoE for drops
3) fractals for drops

Probably others.

Use whatever karma you have on the Orrian Jewelry Boxes as they have a chance at lodestones as well. You’ll have an abundance of karma anyways.

One of my guildies is going for the same weapon, he’s currently farmed sparks for 2 days and only got one lodestone.. Orrian jewelry boxes are probably much faster.

I need 100 of them for my legendaryand having tried various options I have to agree with Khisanth. I keep on doing CoE. Besides the change of them dropping you also get gold. Use combination of drops and gold. Also understand the recipe for charged cores to make the charged lodestones.

three main options are

sparks farming is probably the best way to get them directly (currently going for foefires essence and azureflame myself, 78/200 lodestones) i average 1/2 per hour with 100-200% MF… but thats still a long time and horribly tedious

CoE farming is where i got most of mine though its extremely RNG; ive done runs where ive gotten lodestones/core every other chest, and then ive done runs where i havent gotten any charged anything over all three paths… but has the bonus of tokens and gold (the tokens you can trade in for rare helms and transmute for ecto or use to furnish alts)

gold farm>buy

- fractals are even more random than CoE in my experience

If you are going to spark farming route then get some MF AND find 1+ people to go killing with you(probably with similar gear!). Extra people can help make up for the lost damage output.