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Painfan
Sep Member 2022

Painfan

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I am just wondering, with the smithing rework and components, does it apply to masterwork and the bars required to make it? If not, why not, because currently making elder plate-bodies +5 is best. I also do not want to disassemble some MW just to test it out myself.

06-Feb-2020 13:03:43

Tagakhlo
Sep Member 2014

Tagakhlo

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When it comes to stone spirits, I'm in favor of a simple and drastic fix.
The idea behind the stone spirits is: monsters used to drop ores, this is a replacement that is "just as good" as an ore, but still requires you to actually mine to get the ore.
Well, here's how to live up to that goal:
The main work, in many cases, in mining isn't the time spent hitting your pick at a rock. It's putting the ores in your ore box when your backpack fills up, and then running to the metal bank.
So, if the extra ore you got from the stone spirit went straight to your metal bank... now it would really feel like a "free" ore, rather than seeming almost useless in many cases.

24-Sep-2020 18:01:43

Bertel62
Aug Member 2023

Bertel62

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"They're worth roughly the same as the associated ore"

Then why is a gold stone spirit only worth 81gp when a gold ore is worth 575gp?
Or phasmatite stone spirit 531gp compared to phasmatite ore 3729gp.

That is not "roughly the same" in my book.

26-Mar-2021 10:03:29 - Last edited on 04-Apr-2021 19:06:02 by Bertel62

Bertel62
Aug Member 2023

Bertel62

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Tagakhlo said :
The idea behind the stone spirits is: monsters used to drop ores, this is a replacement that is "just as good" as an ore, but still requires you to actually mine to get the ore.


What I don't understand is why must ores still be associated with monster drops? We have a mining skill that allows us to get ores. Let monsters drop something else, coins, or stuff that we are not able to make with our skills. It is like they wanted to remove ore drops from monsters, but they did something that still gives us ores indirectly. I don't need ores or stone spirits from monsters. I have a mining skill. Don't devaluate it.

10-May-2021 17:00:34

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