Blood Ruby

This article is about the inventory item. For the object in the Tomb of the Primeval Kings, see Blood Ruby (object).

Double-click to consume. Can be consumed for unbound magic or traded with Scholar Rakka. — In-game description

Blood Ruby

Item type

Consumable

Material type

Rare material

Mat. storage

Advanced Crafting Materials

Disciplines used by

300

Rarity

FExotic

Binding

Account Bound

Value

1  28 

Game link

API

79280

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Double-click to consume.
Can be consumed for unbound magic or traded with Scholar Rakka.

— In-game description

Blood Rubies are the map currency for Bloodstone Fen.

Acquisition

Gathered from

• Bloodstone Chest (3) (guaranteed, after defeating the spirit of Justiciar Hablion)
• Bloodstone Chest (guaranteed, after escorting Alari Doubleblade on her quest for vengeance)
• Bloodstone Crystals (chance, in Bloodstone Fen)
• Bloodstone Crystals (guaranteed, home instances)
• Large Bloodstone Chest (2) (guaranteed, after defeating the jade constructs before they drain the bloodstone)
• Large Bloodstone Chest (4) (guaranteed, after dispersing the Unbound Guardian)
• Large Bloodstone Chest (guaranteed, at the end of Confessor's Stronghold)

• Known gathering amounts from the above are as follows:
  • 3 from the home instance Bloodstone Crystal Node (once per account, per day)
  • Defeat the spirit of Justiciar Hablion - 3 from the Bloodstone Chest (once per character, per day)
  • Bloodstone Maw meta event:
    • Defeat the jade constructs before they drain the bloodstone! - 2 from the Large Bloodstone Chest (once per character, per day)
    • Disperse the Unbound Guardian - 4 from the Large Bloodstone Chest
  • The spirits mostly come out at night. Mostly... meta event:
    • Escort Alari Doubleblade on her quest for vengeance - 1 from the Bloodstone Chest (once per character, per day)
  • 1 from the arena event at the end of the Confessor's Stronghold story step

Sold by

Vendor	Area	Zone	Cost	Notes
Festival Rewards Vendor	Bazaar Docks	The Crown Pavilion (zone) Labyrinthine Cliffs	50 for 500	Requires the festival Festival of the Four Winds. Limit 1 per week.

Contained in

•   Black Lion Delivery Box (2-5) (guaranteed)
•   Blood Ruby Strongbox (50) (guaranteed)
•   Chest of the Bloodstone Fen Hero (guaranteed)
•   Black Lion Material Bag: Orr (4) (chance)

•   Black Lion Material Bag (6-9) (chance, historical)

•   Black Lion Living World Supply Bag (3, 5, 9) (chance, discontinued)

Achievements

Bloodstone Sightings	Anomalous Occurrences	5
Find and identify bloodstone-crazed creatures throughout Tyria. Reward: Blood Ruby (10) Collection	1 Creature Sighted	1
	6 Creatures Sighted	4

Rewarded by

• 1 from the Bloodstone Fen map bonus
• 5 from the event reward upon map completing Bloodstone Fen

• Completing the story step Confessor's Stronghold (3).
• Completing the map Bloodstone Fen (5).

Contents

• Unbound Magic (25-50) (guaranteed)

Used in

Item	Rarity	Discipline(s)	Rating	Ingredients
Bloodstone Turret Fragment (Learned from: Recipe: Bloodstone Turret Fragment)	BBasic	Handiworker	300	30 Refined Homestead Metal 50 Blood Ruby 1 Turret Fragment
Cairn the Indomitable Shard (Learned from: Recipe: Cairn the Indomitable Shard)	BBasic	Handiworker	300	30 Refined Homestead Metal 50 Blood Ruby 1 Cairn Fragment

Currency for

Item	Level	Vendor	Area	Zone	Cost	Notes
Blood Ruby Backpack	80	Scholar Rakka	Haunted Canyons	Bloodstone Fen	200  + 5,000
Blood Ruby Band	80	Scholar Rakka	Haunted Canyons	Bloodstone Fen	100  + 2,000
Blood Ruby Pendant	80	Scholar Rakka	Haunted Canyons	Bloodstone Fen	125  + 3,000
Gift of Bloodstone Magic		Miyani	Trader's Forum Trader's Forum	Lion's Arch Memory of Old Lion's Arch	250  + 250  + 250	Only if the Aurora: Awakening collection is active.
Gift of Bloodstone Magic		Mystic Forge Attendant	- - Bay of Elon Blue Alpine Garrison Camp Resolve Green Alpine Garrison - Noble Ledges Osprey Pillars Outer Ring Plaza of Balthazar Snowblind Peaks Stoic Rampart Stonemist Castle -	Arborstone Armistice Bastion Crystal Oasis Blue Alpine Borderlands The Silverwastes Green Alpine Borderlands Mistlock Sanctuary Verdant Brink Ember Bay The Wizard's Tower Divinity's Reach Gendarran Fields Red Desert Borderlands Eternal Battlegrounds Thousand Seas Pavilion	250  + 250  + 250	Only if the Aurora: Awakening collection is active.
Gift of Bloodstone Magic		Mystic Forge Keeper	Champion's Rest	Heart of the Mists	250  + 250  + 250	Only if the Aurora: Awakening collection is active.
Pristine Blood Ruby		Natto	Pride of the Pact	Bloodstone Fen	50  + 5,000	Only if the Bloodstone Fen Master collection is active. Limit 1 per account.

Notes

• The largest amount of Blood Rubies that can be obtained at once is 50 from the Blood Ruby Strongbox, which is from the Bloodstone Cache in the Bloodstone Fen Reward Track.

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