Adam confirmed on X that this patch was supposed to increased the amount of materials generated by “auto-salvaged” blues/yellows that drop in higher difficulties. I ran some nightmare dungeons on T4 to test it out and every few packs I would have a single rawhide drop. The final boss also dropped a single rawhide. Iron chunks are dropping in multiples and pretty commonly along the entire dungeon. I also used a whisper cache and received about 100 rawhide.
I’d like to say that while this droprate and salvage rate (1 rawhide per legendary) remains, the average player has to spend a few hours of grinding to get enough rawhide to attempt to hit a single masterwork affix. It needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.
Edit: Did some further testing on Torment 4 in Helltide and drops are still typically 1 rawhide at a time. Interestingly enough most of the times 1 rawhide is looted there are 3 Iron Chunks. Opened another regular whisper cache and received 150 of both material.
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Season is already over. Cya in S7.
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I’m really starting to lose faith in these devs… We’ve been starved for the most basic resource for almost 2 weeks now…I can’t really progress and go for masterworking attempts cause I am ALWAYS out of either effing Rawhide or Iron… and todays patch didn’t really help much…
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Just spend 20k rawhide and did not get what i wanted. The time to farm it again its crazy, they should buff it asap, its tedius to the game the way it is.
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Why don’t they just buff the drop rate for salvage rate like 15x damn
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If you ask the trolls there is no problem. But this is a HUGE issue for many who are min/maxing their gear. This needs to be fixed as a priority! Or as many say, roll on S7…
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If you read between the lines, the fix is simple:
Roll a Spiritborn.
Only then will you not have to upgrade anything other than for luxury purposes.
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Nobody cares about your dumb rawhide. All that matters is that the entire season is ruined because of TRILLION DAMAGE spiritborn overpowered crap. This game is a bunch of slop. The devs don’t care what happens. They WANT Spiritborn to make every other class irrelevant. This is intended design. The season is already over.
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You realize sorcs are also hitting for trillions, right?
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I think we can all agree that VoH was another rushed Blizzard product. The season should have launched a couple of weeks after VoH dropped to give them time to deal with some of this stuff. But you know, hype sells.
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honestly these common material issues are game/season breaking.
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No they aren’t.
SB is still 50 pit levels above sorc.
Stop spreading misinformation.
A sorc collectively hitting a trillion on an entire screen of mobs is different than a SB hitting 200 trillion on everything.
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I can’t help that SB is 50 tiers ahead of sorc, but that doesn’t negate the fact that sorcs do indeed hit for trillions. Apparently, you’re doing it wrong. You also never heard of youtube.
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They are clueless and won’t fix this for some reason
I have literally the same build as the YouTube creator your referencing with his sensational title that he always uses. Except I have better gear and better masterworks.
Show me the video where 1 trillion damage numbers are popping up.
Wait, you mean the ineffectual dev team that keeps on screwing up over and over and over hasn’t fixed anything?
Shocker!
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They pretty much had no choice but to unleash this alpha build on the market before November 15.
That would explain why nothing is functioning and why nothing makes sense. Might also be where the 2nd half of the story went.
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Yet I still continue to play my non-meta build 
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Someone said that I read the patch notes wrong and they fixed this, but yea, I know you cannot add 3 more random hides here and there and call it a fix.
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