Any plans to increase the drops please. Currently it’s beyond boring farming them.
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The disparity between the reliability of Living Steel and all other boss mats could definitely stand to be corrected. Arguably, you’ve got a decent Distilled Fear speedfarm in NMDs, and somebody could just run for Grim Favors to get the rest in Whispers, but the reward while you complete those other activities is absolutely minimal, which is why people prefer to just amass insane amounts of Living Steel and see the slow trickle of other boss mats in Helltide as a byproduct. 
Should be the same mat no matter the boss…then you can choose which to go fight.
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Farming Living Steel used to take a lot a time. With the new Helltides, you can get enough cinders to open all the chests in no time. Add to that the random drops of Steel and your stash is quickly full of it.
I wouldn’t be surprise if the Steel drop is reduced in a future update to be on par with the other mats.
That’s why people are dumping shards and paying millions for eggs…
I would go as far to say the loot boss Matttable is broken currently.
If they do not make it the same mat for all the bosses, it would be nice if you could transmute them like the ones for Varshan used to be like. Have an exchange rate penalty if you wish but allow the items to be transmuted.
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The boss mat situation is definetely not right.
Suggested changes:
Duriel and Andariel need boss mats from other bosses and so should be better.
These bosses will have one extra 1.5% chance to drop a mythic and will now also have a 1 in 100 chance on any dropped mythic to be an alternate cosmetic mythic to show off to your friends and parties. These alternate cosmetic items can only be found on these bosses and have 0 effect on the function of the item.
All boss mats drop rarely from a new rare Materials Goblin.
Helltides have a chance to spawn a Boss Mats chest with random boss mats. This chest costs 500 cinders to open and has a glowing red star if it spawned in the helltide.
Alchemist gains a new recipe to break down stygian stones and gain random boss materials.
Fear has an additional drop chance from the boss in the PVP zone and cursed shrines in dungeons.
Blood has an additional drop chance from completing strongholds and cursed health fountains.
Hearts have an additional drop chance from resplendent chests and cursed chests.
Personally i just reputation up anew character.
That gives plenty of mats.
Can’t imagine actually farming stuff like blood at only 2 per event.
Eggs and Dolls are really terrible to get. I have 60 Shakels and 2 Dolls. Same with Shards vs Eggs.
at least that can allow us to exchange Shakels - Dolls and Shards - Eggs even with 2 to 1 rate.