Legendary armors....

[sumamael]

...are going to be legendarily rare unless SOE adjust the drop rates on certain components and/or boosts the stats because they simply do not worth the effort right now.

Nightmare armors' main problem is the midnight stones, or rather the lack of them.
By making these stones required for the 10int 75mana 25svm jewel crafted neck item (hard to beat for most int casters) SOE ensured that the price will be insanely high (read several kpp each because of the high demand) and by making them a random rare drop from all PoN mobs they ensured that they can't be farmed.
The final blow is that these armors take at least 3-6 midnight stones each.

Now add to that the subpar to cultural armors stats and the high recommended level and its dead.

Two days ago I made it into the Bastion of Thunder....weeee I will make hurricane armors right? Wrong. After 6 hours of exploring (we killed in all wings) I have seen ONE sandstorm pearl and NO drop of pure rain. (yes we killed alot of mobs in the south and east wings).

My opinion is that the drop rate on all of the temper components should be like the mephit blood.....after a day of killing nightmare mephits I walked away with 2 stacks of that stuff. Same goes to stormriders in PoS, a day or 2 resulted over 2 stacks of blood.

One disapointed smith,

[sumamael]

One more thing, my tailor friend told me the other day when I was to excited about the BoT access and the possibility of making hurricane armors "Just watch it, for each temper component we will get 4 blue diamonds".....she was so right.

[Telaeth Everdark]

Indeed

Hella slow to sell, the only thing really worth making is the BP, at 30k it's nothing to sneeze at...but the jewelcraft stuff was so eagerly sought at that I spend 3 aa points, sat down, and worked my jewelcraft up to 250 so that I could make it o_o;; Although, as a side benefit, at least I can make my own emblems now

[Cantatus]

Just my opinion, but I completely agree. This stuff is too rare for the armor it makes, not to mention that several components for the armor are needed for other tradeskill stuff (jewelcraft and pottery) on top of the fact that they are needed for smithed and jewelcrafted armor. For instance, sandstorm pearls are needed to make plate, chain and leather armor as well as the pottery focus items. And as Sumamael said, we've had a whopping total of 1 drop.

Yes, I think the stuff should be rare. I shouldn't be able to go someplace and expect to gather enough stuff for 40 combines, but I don't think going for several hours and not even getting enough for one combine is right either.

[Axemaster]

I had posted up about this a few weeks ago on the old boards. Just to make matters worse, it appears that when they nerfed HoH and BoT item drops, they also nerfed the temper drops. In the few weeks before the patch I managed to get 4 Drops (between my whole guild collecting for me, none EVER dropped while I was there - 9 aa points worth). Since the last patch, there have been NO drops. Maybe with todays patch this will have been addressed.

One thing to note as well. A Temper is required for every stage of the smithing (meaning 4 tempers for a 1 sheet combine item) so the rate should be 4 x the normal rate of temper drops for racial armors which require 1 temper at final combine, and various racial items for sheets, rings, jointing combines...

/rant on
Just one thing to say to verant: FIX THE DROPS NOW - what the hell else are you doing? This is your job. How hard can it be? I can find the time to run 2 business' AND play this game, you guys cant even seem to do 1 job right....
/rant off

[Aoladari Raveynfyre]

post removed by the DenMother: Alodari, what you posted was basically a personal attack against the staff of VI. I would recommend that you go back and re-read the Visitors Corner forum for posting rules regarding these message boards, as personal attacks are expressly forbidden on the EQTC boards.