Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I just wanted to put in a request for new sPvP tracks that focus on specific loadstones, using the Balthazar track as a starting point but having the final reward box include something like 5 of the targeted lodestone. Possibly use bags of gems as minor rewards along the track.

Just something to consider as a way of allowing PvP players to pursue various cosmetic goals for items normally created through the Mystic Forge.

Thanks!

IF they added such a track, you’d know a lot of players would use charged track to get quicker income.

Grump.7069:

IF they added such a track, you’d know a lot of players would use charged track to get quicker income.

There would be no reason to add every track because nobody in the right mind would use any track but charged lodestones. Unless the rewards between the final reward are a lot better for say the Crystal Lodestone track why would someone do that track when they could do the Charged track and buy almost 10 times as many Crystal Lodestones after selling the Charged.

For the record the dungeon tracks already do reward lodestones if you are lucky, you just need to do the dungeon you want lodestones for. Off the top of my head I believe you can get (don’t quote me):

Charged-CoE
Onyx-TA
Molten-CoF
Destroyer-SE
Corrupt-HotW

Grump.7069:

IF they added such a track, you’d know a lot of players would use charged track to get quicker income.

If people were doing that for cash and flooded the market, charged lodestones might actually come down in price .

I’d probably do it for molten ones ATM because I’m eyeing a run on Volcanus, but sure, charged would be my general choice.

Off course they could just make them single-use like the Silverwaste track and then people could do them in whatever order they please without the option to farm any of them…

The other alternative is to make a single lodestone track with entirely variable output. Lots of bags of gems, but no ability to chase a specific type.

you wouldn’t need multiple tracks. just a container you can choose the stones from at the end.
as much as i would love being able to gather stuff for some neat items through pvp i fear that unranked/ranked would be flooded with farmers. low-mmr-pvp is close to unplayable even now and i don’t want to imagine how it would be if it’s flooded by clueless pve-players that just want to grab the track progress. people already kill low mmr ranked games “because losing gives as much progress as winning in the arenas”.
there are folks who just afk in unranked/ranked half the day while watching netflix for track progress and you can’t even report them for that.

Very predictable “big ticket” items should be avoided. If it’s a guaranteed reward and not a complete waste of time, you can guarantee that players will zealously farm it until the market is saturated.

Simply put, they need to make crafting expensive stuffs using less charged lodestone and more other stones, simple as that.

So many things that need like 100~350 charged lodestone. If they balance out the mystic forge table, this stone wouldn’t have such high demand.