Has anyone actually bothered to check how many spirits are dropped before complaining about them? Especially since the ones they added are far from worthless; not worth what rune ore was true, but still not worthless.
That said, I do think there could be an issue: ore was meant to be 'rare' in some sense to keep it valuable (ie mining would not generate enough ore for Smithing to keep up with Mining); I fear that too many stone spirits could cause this plan to fail.
There are other items you could easily substitute in for some bosses; eg Vorago, replace the rune spirits with 1 tectonic energy. QBD: royal/black *hide and the 3 variants of dragon bones, that would help with this. We also need some of the lower tiers of salvage being added to these drop tables; as things are, components are much more expensive (if you only need 1 type) because most of the tiers of salvage are only readily available at adamant or rune tier, whereas people used to mostly disassemble iron/steel/mithril. Hopefully these can be added to a few places.
28-Jan-2019 12:21:03