What is brandstone and what does it to for me?

[preacherdad.3751]

I'm really wondering what brandstone is good for. I bought the first of the tools and noticed that one can get a node for the home instance, but what is it good for?

[Eramonster.2718]

Brandstone multitool is detect/mark(increase yield of dig site) and dig up chunks of Brandstone that fall on Istan.

Home instance node is an optional item for players to mine in home instance once per acc, daily.

[Head Kracker.4790]

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Astral_weaponshttps://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stellar_weapons

but you need to do https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Brandstone_Research first

[Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.294]

Also, you can consume the brandstone for volatile magic that you can then spend at the VM vendors. Now if anet would give us a consume option with the season 5 junk...

[Head Kracker.4790]

@"Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.2946" said:Also, you can consume the brandstone for volatile magic that you can then spend at the VM vendors. Now if anet would give us a consume option with the season 5 junk...

Your not wrong, but the output of doing so is like collecting volatile magic in the overworld. Each Ore only gives 3 to 5 magic unlike other season 4 mats that when consumed are 15 to 25.