Guild Wars 2

I missed the last few events (fully partook in Dragon Bash) but I missed the Four winds event.

Upon trying to catch up with the game and tweak my build (bunker ele got nerfed pretty hard) I came upon the new Celestial Armor.

I would like to start crafting it but I am now a little confused. It says the Crystals can be found in the cliffs, which are now removed after the update.

It also says you can trade in your old crafting items for boxes which were also removed after the update.

Is there any place to trade in old crafting equipment still? Like a vendor in L.A.?

Since the cliffs are gone, where do I go to find crystals? Where do I buy the recipes?

I am just a bit confused and overwhelmed.

Would any kind soul like to shed some light on this? And yes, I have googled.

Thanks so much!

Since you missed Four winds the only way you can get quartz is off the TP. This is also where you get the recipes to make the celestial items. Also know that you have to get a recipe to get the inscription and than also another recipe for each specific item. So if you want a full set of armor for your ele you will need the inscription and than the 6 specific armor recipes.

Indeed, the only source now for the Celestial recipes and the quartz crystals is the Trading Post. You’ll need the recipe for the inscription as well as the recipes for each of the six armor items. Remember, you don’t “discover” the armor recipes, you have to purchase them. The recipe for the “Celestial Orichalcum Imbued Inscription” is pretty cheap, only a silver or two. The recipes for the “Celestial Exalted” armor items, on the other hand, are 1-2 gold each.

What’s more, making each inscription will require 5 charged quartz crystals (30 in total), and to make a charged quartz crystal, you need 25 regular quartz crystals. So a full stack of quartz will net you 10 charged quartz crystals, enough for 2 recipes. You’re looking at buying 3 full stack of quartz crystals to make a full armor set – they’re about 1 silver for a crystal. And then you realize that you can only make 1 charged crystal a day, so there’s a time commitment too! At least that will allow you to spread the costs over a whole month: all told you’ll be spending at least 20g for the recipes and quartz.

As for the Cliffs and the Zephyr Sanctum, the implication is that the zone and its events could return to the game periodically in the future, so you’ll not necessarily out of luck. One of the rewards for finishing all of the meta-achievements was a permanent quartz node in your home instance, that can be mined daily. So even though the Cliffs are gone for the moment, there’s still a small supply of quartz trickling into the market.

One other thing I would do, is peruse the Elementalist forums and see what the prevailing opinions are about Celestial stats. An all-stat spread may not be so desirable for some professions and builds. FWIW, I made a full set of Celestial armor for my Guardian and couldn’t be happier with it.

You can also harvest quartz from the personal quartz node if you join a party of someone who got it from thw Bazaar meta. The person with the node can bring you into the “Home” instance area in any racial city and it will be avail for you to harvest from as well. You can do this once a day (resets with the Dailies). The P-quartz node can be harvested with any level pick, tho (imo) it seems to yield better result sometimes with a steel or above.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quartz_Crystal_Formation

AlSo, they put the Sanctum Sprint as one of the rotating Daily Activities. I haven’t been back to try it, but just finishing a Sprint race awards 3-5 quartz and some merchable greens.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sanctum_Sprint

Great info – I did not know that, thanks!