I would like to identify 2 key items that players are struggling to obtain reasonable quantities of and offer some suggestions to improve loot in this new patch 108: murky mahtnan powder and top tier etching essences
Murky mahtnan powder (blue powder): Currently you are guaranteed to obtain 4 blue powder per run from low tier dungeons (Abcess and Akalath Quarantine) and 3-7 blue powder from Draakon Arena (DA). I believe ilvl 510 dungeons have a chance to drop sets of 2 blue powder that are rolled on as individual loot. The rest of the dungeons have a chance to give 4 blue powder or none. In addition, you can buy blue powder from the elleon marks shop for 5 marks each. This means that you can actually get 10-14 blue powder from one Draakon Arena and 5 blue powder from low tier dungeons and so on. However, since you can get many other things from elleon marks (important consumables, awake tokens for other enchanting mats) it would be foolish to assume that most players are getting this top end quantity of powder.
Suggestion: 501 ilvl dungeons and Catalepticon (except Draakon Arena) and below: -add 4 murky mahtnan powder group loot
504 ilvl dungeons (except Catalepticon): -add 6 murky mahtnan powder group loot
510 ilvl dungeons and Draakon Arena: -add 10 murky mahtnan powder group loot
These additional blue powder drops (added relative to the adventure coin cost of dungeons) will make enchanting more feasible for players who dont run 10 characters worth of DA a day or who dont want to spend millions of gold on blue powder from the broker. Progression would still be reasonably gated, as even with this loot, a single run of DA still would not give enough blue powder for a single low tier weapon enchant (that is likely to fail several times).
Top tier etching essences (solar, lava, glacial, frost, lightning): Most players I talk to believe that these essences no longer drop in the game. In fact, they can drop in all ilvl 504 dungeons but their drop rate is so abyssmal that they might as well not even be listed on the loot table for these dungeons. Something should be done to ensure that the top tier etchings remain reasonably accessible in game.
Suggestion:
504 ilvl dungeons: -add 2 of 4 essences (solar, lava, glacial, frost) individual loot
-add lightning essence x1 individual loot
510 ilvl dungeons: -add 1 of 4 essences (solar, lava, glacial, frost) group loot
-add lightning essence x2 individual loot
-add 1 of 5 essences individual loot
Note: Lightning essence should be a guaranteed drop because 7 lightning etchings are required to complete a character set whereas only 1 etching of the other types is needed.
EDIT: Also, please make titan's fire/peace/earth/storm and low tier accessory etchings obtainable through dungeons or however else again.
