Crystalline Blackrock

JadeJade Posts: 2
The amount of Crystalline Blackrock to create the siege equipment is going to make this even in June 2025 impossible to do.  10 is way to many and it takes too long to farm 10.  the drop rate on elementals is like 7%.  Either the drop rate from elementals and mining needs to increase by 100 to 200% or there needs to be more sources like shadow iron ingots and some gem like diamonds for an alchemist to create or the amount needed has to drop to like 2 or 4.  This event will fail if this glaring issue is not addressed 

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  • PawainPawain Posts: 10,866
    @Community Manager  Please adjust to a lower amount.
    Focus on what you can do, not what you can't.
  • GrimbeardGrimbeard Posts: 2,928
    I gathered 32 in under an hour there is no issue
  • PawainPawain Posts: 10,866
    Grimbeard said:
    I gathered 32 in under an hour there is no issue
    7 more hours and your shard can do another Siege.
    Focus on what you can do, not what you can't.
  • Petra_FydePetra_Fyde Posts: 1,512
    Alternately, make the walls need less bombs to get through?  With 50 bombs to a barrel I didn't think it would be too onerous, till I realised how many barrels it took to knock down a wall.

    Sadly the only people with the amount of blackrock we'll need are the ones that scripted the gold elementals in Blackthorn, and they won't be contributing it to a shard effort, they'll be trying to sell it for as much as they can gouge out of folk. Probably while scripting the shadow iron elementals in Yomotsu mine to get more.
  • MerlinMerlin Posts: 249
    +1 on the concern for this

    10 Crystalline blackrock seems like a tall ask.  Doesn't help that someone went and already purchased every single last piece of this and put on a 20x upcharge for resale.   

    My suggestions are one of the following 1) significantly lower the requirement, 2) make crystalline blackrock drop more frequently on mobs from the spawn, or 3) replace requirement entirely with a different ingredient.  

    Not saying we want it to be easy as cake, but unfortunately it's been exploited before the event has even started. 

  • GrimbeardGrimbeard Posts: 2,928
    Merlin said:
    +1 on the concern for this

    10 Crystalline blackrock seems like a tall ask.  Doesn't help that someone went and already purchased every single last piece of this and put on a 20x upcharge for resale.   

    My suggestions are one of the following 1) significantly lower the requirement, 2) make crystalline blackrock drop more frequently on mobs from the spawn, or 3) replace requirement entirely with a different ingredient.  

    Not saying we want it to be easy as cake, but unfortunately it's been exploited before the event has even started. 

    It would be great if they changed it right at going live and the scalpers were left holding the inventory 
  • MerlinMerlin Posts: 249
    Grimbeard said:
    Merlin said:
    +1 on the concern for this

    10 Crystalline blackrock seems like a tall ask.  Doesn't help that someone went and already purchased every single last piece of this and put on a 20x upcharge for resale.   

    My suggestions are one of the following 1) significantly lower the requirement, 2) make crystalline blackrock drop more frequently on mobs from the spawn, or 3) replace requirement entirely with a different ingredient.  

    Not saying we want it to be easy as cake, but unfortunately it's been exploited before the event has even started. 

    It would be great if they changed it right at going live and the scalpers were left holding the inventory 

    While that would be funny... anyone who buys it in the interim trying to get ahead of even more price increases would also be hurt.  No great answer here.
  • ForeverFunForeverFun Posts: 987
    This would be a solution:
    1. The crafter / wall destruction phase could be limited to once per day, reset at server up.

    Most people are playing it for the action, not the crafting/resource gathering phase.
  • GrimbeardGrimbeard Posts: 2,928
    Just seems like an added extra step not needed let us use regular cannon then the catapult maybe make it so we have to mine for bolders 
  • VioletViolet Posts: 461
    I'm sure it's more complicated than that.
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