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Kitsune-bi June 22nd, 2011 9:45 AM

No Elemental Stones
 
Does anyone else think the amount of elemental stones you get for sure are rather lacking?The only ones sold in stores are oval and water stone(black city not sure about white).So once you use the stones you had up(or accidentally sold them like I did T.T) the only option you really have to search for elemental stones is through dust clouds in caves; which appear at random,usually give you gems, or it makes you fight a mole. This is so ineffient that the I don't even bother with it anymore. In D/P you were swimming in elemental stones you could get five no problem via mining. Now I'm asking for them to bring back mining but in the next generation V game they should have something better than dust clouds, I would suggest someone who has a chance to give you a elemental stone everyday,maybe giving you the opption to buy them on certain days, or buying them on the battle subway.

R3b1rth June 22nd, 2011 9:53 AM

I have the same problem with it, like they should let you bring items over from hg/ss d/p/pt. or have a person who hands out the stones like they do with the fossils. But what can you do we are not game developers.

Kolorz! June 22nd, 2011 10:09 AM

I guess you're right,can they be found in DW?

PokéSwimmer June 22nd, 2011 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Kolorz! (Post 6707730)
I guess you're right,can they be found in DW?

Only in the Pokémon Café area, which, unfortunately, is Japan only at the moment. The best way to get stones is online trading. Dust clouds just take way too long.

Sweet Candace June 22nd, 2011 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by PokéSwimmer (Post 6707756)
Only in the Pokémon Café area, which, unfortunately, is Japan only at the moment. The best way to get stones is online trading. Dust clouds just take way too long.

And there's always the possibility moreso you find a wild Drillbur/Excadrill in the dust clouds.

WishCookie June 22nd, 2011 10:26 AM

First all you can find thunder/water/leaf/fire/shiny stones everywhere. For example you can choose if you want a fire/water or leaf stone from a guy in castelia city to evovle your monkey and then you can find thunder/water/leaf/fire/shiny stones in caves when it comes those small dust clouds.

PokéSwimmer June 22nd, 2011 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by WishCookie (Post 6707762)
First all you can find thunder/water/leaf/fire/shiny stones everywhere. For example you can choose if you want a fire/water or leaf stone from a guy in castelia city to evovle your monkey and then you can find thunder/water/leaf/fire/shiny stones is caves when it comes thos small clouds.

The problem arises when you run out of stones that you find on the field (or from the guy in Castelia City). Since you can't buy them (Like in Gen I) and you can't dig them up in the underground (Gen IV), you're forced to use the dust clouds. While I don't know the exact percentage, the odds of finding the stone you want in the clouds is far too low. I run into every dust cloud I see and have only found one evolutionary stone. It's just not an efficient method...

Kitsune-bi June 22nd, 2011 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by PokéSwimmer (Post 6707771)
The problem arises when you run out of stones that you find on the field (or from the guy in Castelia City). Since you can't buy them (Like in Gen I) and you can't dig them up in the underground (Gen IV), you're forced to use the dust clouds. While I don't know the exact percentage, the odds of finding the stone you want in the clouds is far too low. I run into every dust cloud I see and have only found one evolutionary stone. It's just not an efficient method...

or you used it to evolve a pokemon but you want a better version of that pokemon.ok now ill just evolve it damn no stone(this happened to me with candelure i made another that i was gonna make better but i had no stone).so im force to evolve some opkemon in previous games then transfer them

Butterfree-Charizard June 22nd, 2011 11:22 AM

I think I found like one of each evolution stones (other than moon I found tons of those). Yeah I mean If you need extras your just screwed at this point.

Neiko Star June 22nd, 2011 11:31 AM

Really? I remember I had two or three, or even four in some cases, of each type of stone by the end of the game.

Ho-Oh June 22nd, 2011 5:41 PM

I noticed that and it annoyed me tbh. I wanted to evolve a few Lampents but after I evolved pretty much evolved one or so, I was thinking, crap, getting another Dusk Stone isn't necessarily gunna be easy. And tbh, that's mainly why I don't stick to my second elite four challenge because... I just can't evolve anything (well, I can, but it'd be easier if there were more sources of stones).

Scat Away June 22nd, 2011 5:55 PM

you can also find another leaf stone if you show the scientist on route 6 all forms of deerling,, but yeah, finding stones is a pain, i wish they gave us more ways to find the ones we want. and spending all day running through dust clouds is really a pain. at least we are able to find them if a slim chance at all

xhainingx June 22nd, 2011 6:53 PM

I really have no one to help me get more people in my black city so im stuck with moonstones and oval stones. all i wanna get is water stones. I think this was just another way to push people to encourage their friends to buy the games so they could increase their forest/city populations

Elite Overlord LeSabre™ June 23rd, 2011 4:44 AM

It's ridiculous how hard it is to find evolution stones. I don't want to be hunting around for dust clouds all day because more often than not I get ambushed by a Boldore on my way over to the cloud anyway... and I seem to get those one time use gems more than anything:/

PlatinumDude June 23rd, 2011 7:30 AM

I was annoyed that evolutionary stones in Gen V became so rare. Luckily, I got the Dawn Stone, extra Dusk Stones and an extra Shiny Stone in dust clouds.

DemonBlood93 June 23rd, 2011 9:46 AM

I've not got too far in Pokemon Black So I just wanna know how common are Leaf Stones? I have a Weepinbell and I really want my Victreebell it's my fave grass type, If someone knows please tell.

Palkia June 23rd, 2011 9:51 AM

I do think that there should've been more stones ingame. Finding them in dust clouds is tedious and annoying, plus evolution stones are used more in this game.

A match made in heaven. /sarcasm

The Corrupt Plague June 23rd, 2011 5:59 PM

I buy my stones from Black City. They are extremely expensive, but somewhat worth it because they are hell to obtain otherwise.

~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~ June 28th, 2011 8:27 PM

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Originally Posted by The Corrupt Plague (Post 6710177)
I buy my stones from Black City. They are extremely expensive, but somewhat worth it because they are hell to obtain otherwise.

I agree, I kind of wish that I got Pokemon Black instead of Pokemon Black. I was lucky to find ONE Water Stone through a Dust cloud but I highly doubt that will happen ever again. I had to get all of the Unova Pokemon out of the way first (with evolution stones) and since I didn't have enough for the previous generations of Pokemon, I had no other choice but to bring them to Pokemon White due to the lack of element stones -_-"


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cazzler July 4th, 2011 2:53 AM

I find that the easiest way to obtain the stones is to use max repels, and cycle around the giant chasm, the only reason I don't find it annoying since I'm filling my pokedex evolving weak pokemon with exp. share and I sorta like collecting gems :P

Ω Ruby and α Sapphire July 4th, 2011 3:27 AM

I think they should bring back mining! It was fun (in my opinion), you could find lots of items。i too acidently sold mine XD

Nafe July 4th, 2011 5:05 AM

So far I've only used one stone. That was a fire stone on my pansear.
I haven't sold anything, not even the nuggets :P I have found I don't really need to? I've got 5 badges so far and over $300000? I do use the amulet coin though.

Kevin July 4th, 2011 6:37 AM

I don't have that much of a problem with, all I needed was a Dusk Stone for my Chandelure. And I found one in one of the routes... You could always look on Bulbapedia for a stone you need.

Nakuzami July 4th, 2011 7:36 AM

Ah... I've only used a Dusk Stone on my Lampent and a Moon Stone on my Munna... luckily, I has both games, so I gots more ;P Though, it will be kind of annoying when I actually decide to start playing BW a little more and want to evolve something with stones... it will be really annoying since Ima try to get a flawless, possibly shiny, of all non-legendary pokemon. It's an extremely hard task, but I will try it nonetheless!

Before I restarted my Black (which I never bothered to finish -.-') I remember that the ONLY thing I could really buy in Black City was a Thunderstone, and they were useless to me at the time... they still are, actually. Mind you this was after I used the Entralink between my two games and got plenty of people in both White Forest and Black City :|

DowntownDumpling July 28th, 2011 3:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Kitsune-bi (Post 6707681)
Does anyone else think the amount of elemental stones you get for sure are rather lacking?The only ones sold in stores are oval and water stone(black city not sure about white).So once you use the stones you had up(or accidentally sold them like I did T.T) the only option you really have to search for elemental stones is through dust clouds in caves; which appear at random,usually give you gems, or it makes you fight a mole. This is so ineffient that the I don't even bother with it anymore. In D/P you were swimming in elemental stones you could get five no problem via mining. Now I'm asking for them to bring back mining but in the next generation V game they should have something better than dust clouds, I would suggest someone who has a chance to give you a elemental stone everyday,maybe giving you the opption to buy them on certain days, or buying them on the battle subway.

This is really frustrating. I need two more Water Stones: one for my Eevee to get the last Eeveelution, and one for my Staryu. The items they have in the Black City shop aren't the same for everyone; it depends on the people in your version of the city. Unfortunately all of my friends except me have White, not Black, so they can't go to Black City and give me one through trading.

Are dust clouds very useful? I've never really bothered to look into them. You had other good ideas. Most stuff in various games' Battle Frontiers/Subways has been really overpriced considering the effort it takes to win all those BP. I would like them to charge only about 10 BP for an elemental stone, but I'm sure that if they carried them at all, they would put them up at 48 or 64 BP.


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