Idea for availability of quartered mats

[skipster]

The thing that gets me is that to craft shields you can just kill stuff and craft. When you go into weapons you have to dig the fiber, and nodes with some weapons. Heavy armor you only have to dig resin. Light armor you have to dig resin and fiber. It just sucks that the herbies dont drop mats like the carnivores, as well as plants not dropping many mats either it would level the playing field as far as crafters go.

[jdiegel]

Based on this thread, I guess there aren't any pure harvestors left. Used to be that you had a hand full of people ticked off that fighters could quarter in the first place.

[aylwyne]

Based on this thread, I guess there aren't any pure harvestors left. Used to be that you had a hand full of people ticked off that fighters could quarter in the first place.

Funny thing is, I love to harvest and it's my highest skill by far. But I also love to craft and right now there's lots of stats lacking in harvested mats. It would seem that the devs' solution to having fighters and harvesters be in competition for materials is to have harvested and quartered mats be good in different stats. I think that's a very good decision because instead of having equivalent harvested and quartered mats, they compliment each other.

By making better grade quartered mats available, I don't think it would have a major impact on harvesters because people will still need good dodge mats, high damage shell, good amber for cast speed, etc. Materials with high values in these areas aren't readily available off mobs.

I think it would help crafters greatly, however, to be able to make good parry armor, magic amps with good power boosts, and weapons with good swing rates, which are higher on quartered mats.