Ok, here’s some hard data. Taken: 3-31-23 starting at 19-34-46 N = 191
Sorted for only “non-elemental type nodes” (i.e. serevite and draconium normal, not rich, not molten, etc) N = 152:
Perception proc’d 8 times.
Of these times, 7 were salt. 1 was Khaz’gorite.
Perception chance was 27% for non-elemental type nodes at this time.
I do not know the exact Khaz’gorite drop rate, but it was approximately 5%.
expected proc chance for khaz’gorite perception procs is: 5%*27% = 1.35%
SD = sqrt ( 152 x ( 0.0135) x (0.9865)) = 1.422 procs (using standard deviation of binomial distributions)
expectation value = 0.0135 * 152 = 2.052 procs
So, I expect to see 2.05 +/- 1.42 perception procs of khaz’gorite in 152 trials, or, between 0 to 3 procs for perception that gives khaz’gorite. My results (1) were within the margin of error.
Similarly, salt had a drop chance of about 12%. The expected perception results were: 4.92 +/- 2.2. The results (7) were within the margin of error.
That is a different thing than perception. In terms of “how many items drop”, a regular mining trial (one ore hit) gave 2-4 ore WITHOUT perception or finesse. They currently give 1-2 ore in TWW. But the rate at which they are used is different, so the absolute amount doesn’t matter as long as the gather rate from all sources is near the use rate. TWW has added multiple sources for materials, including thaumaturgy, transmutation, delves, and snuffling.
In season 1, yes they did. People were charging 50-70k TIPS ALONE for Rank 5 in those early weeks when there weren’t many people who could make things.
Obsidian Seared Alloy, which was used in making those weapons, were 1200 g in Season 2 (my spreadsheet for that season says 1200.95 g); they were considerably more expensive in Season 1. I want to say they were around 4k for R3 in the first month, but I don’t have a spreadsheet for that season.
Obsidian Seared Claymore used 8 of these alloys. That would be approximately 32 k in these alloys. They also required 5 Primal Molten Alloys, which were cheaper, but still not “cheap” in the first month of the season; they were still more than 1k per alloy for R3. So yes, people were spending 100k for crafts in a comparable time period for DF.
If you just look through the forums, at a comparable time for DF, you’ll find plenty of people complaining about overly high prices in DF. Like this:
Or, how about those legendaries you crafted in SL:
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