Can we get a shroud ingredient trader in meridia like the relic trader in GH?

[Noelemahc]

I have way too many large bones, horns, etc. that will never be used, and can never be sold. There are so few recipes that actually use bones (and the ones that do usually only use 1 or a couple for lit 2) so they are worthless, unlike scales and stones which use 2-3 (5-6 for double shard) for every recipe.

It would be great if we had a npc to trade them in to in meridia to get another large, like 3 of any random large for 1 of your choice. There is a npc in gianthold that does this with relics (3 of one relic to trade for 1 of your choice). Can we have one in meridia that does this with shroud ingredients? Please?

[tripwire11]

that sounds good to me, wouldn't break the game at all, just make greensteel easier and a little less time consuming, and really, who pays 700,000 plat for a scale, they all seem to be about that much

[Goldeneye]

Imagine a system similar to the gianthold trader:
3 of a single kind, for 1 of the other.

Example:
Turn 3 Bones into 1 Scale.

Would bring the values of ingredients closer.

[Waukeen]

my 40+ chains, 30+ bones, and 25+ arrowheads that are along with about 5 stones, 5 scales, and 8 shrapnel say...

/signed and yes please.

[Ponza69]

/signed

3 for 1 is perfect

[destiny4405]

/signed

i would even sign 10 for 1.

[seobanio]

/signed

I would give ten also.

[Stermlin]

/not signed

Greensteel is very powerful and this would make getting to Tier III too easy. Large Scales and Stones are as rare drops as they are for good reason.

[Xithos]

/not signed

Greensteel is very powerful and this would make getting to Tier III too easy. Large Scales and Stones are as rare drops as they are for good reason.

I don't think those drops are rare at all; I pull more scales and stones than I do shrapnel. I do think that the recipes are slanted to where the good stuff requires a disproportionate amount of scales and stones as opposed to bones however.

[Noelemahc]

They really aren't more rare than the other ingredients. It's just that every recipe requires like 6 of each, where bones are only seeing 1-2 used in a recipe. If you needed 6 bones for every recipe and only 1 scale, bones would be the expensive ingredient.

[slimkj]

This would make me very happy. I know bones are used less so they appear to be more prevalent but the drop rate has also been very high for me of late - 26 bones, 0 scales, 1 stone is current count after a couple of GS items. 3 for 1 would be amazing! So sick of pulling a bone (fnar) in P5.

[Gulnar13]

/not signed

Greensteel is very powerful and this would make getting to Tier III too easy. Large Scales and Stones are as rare drops as they are for good reason.

All shroud ingredients have the same droprate. The scales and the stones are perceived as more rare because you need more; instead, the bone are perceived as LESS rare, since you don't need that many.

Also, /signed. 3 for 1 would be good. Even 10 for 1 would do.

[Anthorin]

Not seen anyone else actually do any substantive/definitive work on drop rates. However.....

On Devourer I did hundreds of shrouds but never actually got round to doing any greensteel items. (Partly because I couldnt decide what I wanted). As such I know the large ingredient counts I collected since Shroud first came out. Obviously mathematically I doubt the differences are significant and are probably in line with random theory. However we all know that the "God" of drop rates is specifically out to stop us getting exactly what we want ;-)

Stones 62
Scales 70
Shrapnel 84
Chain 87
Arrowhead 80
Bones 79

[PNellesen]

/signed