This is a common view in my character’s inventories. Lots of Epics and Legendaries that I don’t need anymore. But it would be a shame not to pick them up or to sell them to the vendor since dismantling them would give me rare materials with which I could gamble for legendaries that I don’t have yet.
But here is the problem: dismantling is too expensive. I would now need to either run cronley over and over again to gather dynamite for hours or jump from vendor to vendor to buy searing ember. I don’t know which one is faster but none of those are fun and that is the point.
My first idea was to make searing ember more common since you need it not only for other components but for dynamite but the more I think about it I’d rather have dismantling not costing any dynamite at all. The iron Price is okay.
If we needed dynamite only for troves and special places the drop rates would be fine. But for dismantling you have to farm dynamite which is a chore and that shouldn’t be there in a game in my opinion.
You don’t always need Cronley Signets and you only need Nemesis Reputation if you want to farm Cronley.
This just makes it even worse. Now Cronleys Hideout isn’t only the best way to farm because of the Nemesis and the hero-density but also because you get loads of dynamite as a side bonus which you need anyway.
That doesn’t really encourage a diversity of farming routes.
I guess that’s why the community doesn’t ask for this change - because most people run Cronley anyway. But if you don’t run Cronley, especially if you prefer the Crucible, I don’t see how you’re supposed to keep up with the dynamite.
To put it differently: Why should there even be the extra cost of dynamite aside from fluff-reasons. I already worked for acquiring those items why do I have to work again to gain minimal use out of those items?
Well, there are also a ton of other areas that drop dynamite. Cronleys just drops the most. If you know where you can obtain dynamite while playing normally, you can grab tons at low investment farming practically any faction.
Also, Searing Ember is the most frequently dropped “elemental” component, and you can craft any of the 3 elemental components into another elemental component anyway. You’re not supposed to blow up every blue ever. They don’t have as high a return rate of good stuff. Most can easily be sold for cash.
I have 300 something searing embers… why do you need them? Dismantle costs X iron bits and 1 dynamite. I don’t even dust blues I just sell them. I only dust duplicate purples and even then you don’t even get the good mats that often. As for dynamite farming there are other area’s you can go to besides Cronley if you hate going there for some reason. They just aren’t as efficient.
To put it differently: salvaging is an extra feature that can help you acquire more gear gear beyond the normal method of finding your purples. For most of the player base this isn’t expensive (assuming I’ve never had issues with dynamite). So this is probably why you don’t see people upset about an extra method to get gear that is hardly a time sink or expensive.
also steelflame ninja me on the alternative dynamite.
How comes you are short on Searing Ember? It is one of the most frequently dropping components. I am usually limited by my supply of Aether Shards (or Crystals), but they can be farmed easily.
lol makes sense now… I’ve never crafted it before (never needed to). FYI I still don’t even have 1 char at Nemesis status for Cronley so… yah its not like I’m going out of my way to get dynamite.
Yes, I’ve read that frequently on the forum but that’s always what I’m short of - as you said, it’s easy to gather Aether Shards. Two runs through the laboratory and you’re good to go for a while. I’m always low on Searing Embers. Yesterday I’ve discovered, as already mentioned here by Steelflame, that you can craft Searing Ember ( after 670 hours … ). That might be a help.
But apparently my “problem” is that I am salvaging every blue item and usually people don’t do that. Selling epics would of course cut my dynamite
consumption by a lot.
