How to resolve the skillup problems

[Bumbleroot]

Simple solution.
Make swirling substances no longer no rent.

[Zhorn]

And then be forced to compete with lots of people pharming that island to sell the stuff at inflated prices??
It's bad enough when other up-and-coming smiths want to collect stuff as it is...

I'd rather have it the way it is now thanks and have a faster repop time or maybe two islands with shadows on them (i.e. more spawns).

Zhorn Spiritwalker,
Prophet on The Tribunal Server.

[Sulkano]

I think they should be changed from no rent to no drop to be in line with other parts . Even from the standpoint of the quest for which this armor is a part it has never really made a lot of sense for swirling shadows to be no rent. I have to admit though, that if these tag were removed and these became sellable....I'd happily but them in bazaar for whatever they cost.

[Zhorn]

Changing them from norent to nodrop would be great

Yeah I'd probably buy them in the bazaar too but not everyone has oodles of plat to throw around.

Guess they could always go KS the pharmers on the island /shrug.

[kassan]

Are there two shadow islands ?? If so where abouts please lol

[Kradlum]

I buy Swirling Shadows when I get the opportunity anyway, so no thanks to no-drop.

However, there is no reason not to take the no-rent tag off. There is an almost endless supply of Swirling Shadows dropping from the low level Lesser Shades in Shadeweavers. The faster you kill them, the faster they spawn, so there is no reason why their spawn area shouldn't be shared, in fact it speeds up the spawn rate, particularly if you cleared up any Shades that had wandered from their spawn point before you start, since fewer Shades get the chance to wander off and live a long and healthy life.

A low level beastlord, a 61 Bard and myself (48 ogre warrior) farmed their spawn point for an hour the other night. Even with the Bard's Selo going we could not keep up with the number of Shades spawning. MAde a fat profit on the silks too

And the no-rent tag means that before and after a patch, you may as well forget about Shadowscream smithing - I lost a stack of Swirling Shadows in the last emergency patch, plus all the work I put into to change the Hollowshade Moor. In future I will not even think about Shadowscream in a patch week.

[Samandary]

The Bard was me and she is 65...

But True..if i farm there i invite people. If you find some partner who goes for Silk only you farm Swirling in hafl the time.

[Perseverence Rewarded]

Skilling up is not supposed to be easy. If it was it would not be rewarding.

[Cendorly]

I don't have a problem with the no rent tag. Actually, I like it a lot, since it deters others from farming just for resale. TS is overcrowded enough with other smiths, and the spawns are too few and far between for one smith alone, nevermind two. I can clear the island, and in the 7-9 min repop time, have my alt farm in Shadeweavers. If there are any changes to be made, definitely INCREASE the spawns/mobs where the shadows can drop.

Cend