It’s always been flawed. It’s supposed to be a staple Material like Wood, Metals, & Leather. Yet it only drops like scales/blood. It never should have been as common as it was from Orr farming. Now Anet has to fix it the right way. They were going to have to fix it anyway once they started adding new Expansions and Storylines that didn’t take place in Orr…
if they don’t fix the loot tables for T6 mats within the next month or so, people will be gone to other games.
That’s hardly a threat though…
Most people who bought this game when the hype for it was big… already left.
That’s why all the servers report “population” (characters in database) instead of Activity.
And there’s also not been many other places for them to go. Keep in mind that TSW was also a hype train that fizzled. PS2’s numbers went straight into a ditch after launch b/c it had Big “broken Meta” problem just like WvW here, and MUCH bigger Optimization problems. StarWars might have gone F2P but if it wasn’t worth sticking around in when it had a more content-focused model, then it sure as heck couldn’t be expected to see big gains after everything revolves around Micros. FireFall has a more “honest” means of dealing with exactly this sort of problem… but human behavior dictates that it won’t work in a lot of cases, Google the “J.C.Penny” effect to understand why… And Everyone knows ahead of time that the Elderscrolls MMO will be a horrible joke.
So without getting too far off the rails here… This happened a few times in GW1 as well and they just introduced new event type things over the years to band-aid up the population issues. …Or in other cases like with UW, nerfed Ecto rates completely taking their prices from being even with Shards where they made the most sense, to costing more than twice that.
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For a company that’s talked as much as it has about “Iteration” …they sure don’t seem interested in revising small easy to fix things unless it’s to make them harder to get. And it’s never threatened to put them out of business before so it probably won’t change anytime soon. (I just wish they’d explain WHY more often like they always do with PvP changes…) …So don’t expect a real fix until the new Expansion or whatever :\
I will at least give it a try.