Crystalline Blackrock
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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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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.
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.
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.