Rare Mineral Dust

[Drakun]

As I understand it currently the only way to get Rare Mineral Dust is by buying it for quite a bit of money and yet we can make our own "normal" mineral dust.

So here is my suggestion:

Make it so that randomly while breaking down lumps of rock you get a rare mineral and then when you get 6 of those you can break them down into a rare mineral dust.
While you wouldnt want to make the randomness so common that it lowers the value of rare mineral dust or the armor/weapons that have it as a component, but at the same time you wouldnt want it so rare that people would still rather just pay the 14+ plat at a merchant to buy the rare mineral dust.

What do you think?

 

[lynnettell]

I love this idea, as a smith.

I do combine all my rocks (Hey, I'm a broke druid!), and even a chance once in a while to make my own rare mineral dust would rock! This would also possibly start a market where instead of destroying rocks, the miners who start, and then realize how damn boring it is, they can make money actually spending the time to combine.

Yes, it may take me 6 backpack full of rocks to get one rare mineral dust, but hey, I'm clicking anyway....

 

[Drakun]

What does anyone else think of this idea? GMs? Content Designers? Wiz? Is this idea feasable and worthwhile in our minds?

 

[GuiardoTuneweaver]

This was suggested in the original Mining has been revamped! thread, and the answer was:

Could there possably be a way to combind mineral dust to make rare mineral dust? Just an idea.

No.

 

[robopirateninja]

I think the reason is the same as the inclusion of Liquid Platinum in ointment recipes, the expensive vendor-bought components help to stabilize/raise the price of these tradeskilled items without adding another rare/annoying component to farm.

 

[Drakun]

Strange I did a search and everything for rare mineral dust and only found one unrelated topic.
Ok I read that and while Wiz's initial 'No' was very uninformative he did go on to say that he doesnt want mining to completely replace the need to buy dust. Which is understandable.
However this person asked if it would be possible to make Minerals combine into Rare Mineral Dusts. I am asking that every once in awhile (1 out of 100) rock combines produces a rare mineral which could then be combined with 5 other rare minerals to make 1 rare mineral dust. This wouldnt cause peopel to stop buying rare mineral dusts from vendors but would like Wiz said give them a few here and there to go with what they have to buy.
Would still love to hear the opinions of the Staff since this is a different twist on what was talked about before.

 

[GuiardoTuneweaver]

Strange I did a search and everything for rare mineral dust and only found one unrelated topic.

Off topic, but yeah, the forum's search capabilities are pretty lousy (pretty sure this is PHPBB, and nothing specific to SoD's implmentation). Things that I think should absolutely match, don't (like a search for rare mineral dust missing this thread). I finally found it by searching for "Mineral Dust Combine". I always try several different combinations of things.