Quote Originally Posted by Grekumah View Post
The dev. team has looked into increasing the number of methods to obtain these upgrade items, however, because there are two methods to obtain them (from VNMs or Void Watch), and the stats on the completed weapons are very strong, they decided to put this on hold for the moment. With that said, we are aware that these items can be difficult to obtain so we’re looking into possibly offering them via login campaigns.
But unless the playerbase and myself are mistaken, Heavy Metal Plates/Pouches, Riftcinder and Riftdross do not drop from Voidwalker NMs, only from Voidwatch. The system might have been nice when people used to fight as an alliance but right now most people are soloing or low-maning and there is indeed a huge lack of these items on the market. For example I spammed Voidwatches during the campaign last month, I used 786 voidstones (all I had) and got 363 Heavy Metal Plates. Even if the players agree to buy their upgrade items, there are not enough items on the market at the moment unless everyone is willing to wait several months. And that is what we end up doing anyway.