Bloodstone Brick to dust GLITCH
Considering it only takes 100 dust to make a brick, I can’t imagine why anyone would think that transmuting a brick to dust would produce more.
If it produced 250 at some point, that was likely an error and was corrected. Otherwise, people could produce bloodstone dust for a couple obsidian shards and thermocatalytic agents. The wiki is not maintained by Arenanet, but by fans, so may not reflect correct information.
Thing is Considering it uses mystic coins and essence of luck it’s only fair it gives back 250… and Transmuting is all about getting more not less it techincally costs 101dust to make but u get 100 back
Transmuting is not about turning 101 of something into 250 of the same something. The mystic coin and essence of luck are, essentially, what you pay for the convenience of getting 99 out of 100 of the dust you used back if you change your mind about wanting it in a brick, instead of having to farm that 99.
It makes perfect sense to me why they would set it at 100 produced, and I truly doubt this is a bug. Who knows, perhaps it is, and I’m wrong – but it seems unlikely to me.
It IS in fact a bug that it’s only producing 100 now, it’s noted on many websites that it’s going to give you 250. I’ve tried it before the patch and it does work every time. Since the patch it caused me to waste a bloodstone brick. Considering you lose 2 obsidian shards in the process to get 250 AND a mystic coin, AND essence of luck 250 dust is pretty fair.