Absent Elementals

There are no elementals in the Broken Lands.

You seem to have confused Elementals (monster) with the Elemental Salts they drop when killed. We are not critiquing the market for elemental salts. I and others are literally saying that there seems to be a bug that caused elementals to stop spawning in stone circles. Some regions like Zanpur keep spawning new elementals like usual. Others like Laoshin appear to have been devoid of elementals for several months. This is annoying because we want to kill elementals and harvest the salts for crafting.

I stand corrected then.  Being a rather new player I was not aware that there were monsters called "elementals"  I guess they are rather scarce?

Still, my "elemental salt" comments, while inappropriately placed, do have something to say.

Thanks for the correction.

AJ

Stukahh wrote: ajqtrz wrote:   But there is no real demand for elementals because they can't be used to make anything.  Thus, there is a high supply without a high demand...and thus the market has become stuck. Elemental salts are used in many of the crafting formulas.   I think the fundamental issue is that they are a major bottleneck in SilverSteel weaponry production and most "warriors" have abandoned the idea of using crafted weapons in large quantities due to the cost/benefit relationship. What is the use of harvesting 300 SS a day from a mine when you cant get salts?  Especially in the Broken Lands. Devs really need to rethink this dynamic.

Which is what my observation was -- because the cost/benefit relationship of the equipment that uses salts is out of whack, nobody uses the equipment...so nobody uses the salts...but they are viewed as valuable...which leads to the hoarding, which keeps their cost high.  The only real viable solution is to either make the equipment more useful -- say the crafted stuff is automatically returned to the city from which it came -- or make it more useful in battle (say it doubles or triples the attack or defense of the troop using it).  Either way changes the cost/benefit ratio and thus encourages the use of the salts and breaks the hoarding instinct...at least on paper.

Somewhere on these forums we did the traditional marketing calculations for elemental salts (the old "How many barber shops are in the United States?" exercise). Long story short, if we killed every single elemental that spawned in Elgea, that might supply enough salts to craft all the Silversteel getting mined into swords and armor. Which is why the price of Silversteel crashed. I find it unbelievable that it sells at all, given the relative utility cost of an item relative to the cost of salts.

Angrim wrote: i blame the Circle of Five. or Nikon. probably Nikon.