SE, We need to talk about Leatherworker ...

[QT_Melon]

Not at all. There is no personal attack, just that the responses are predictable.

Most, if not all your replies read from the same scripts and platitudes people tend to jump to instead of going back and reading Yoshi's interviews and therefore applying the logic of the direction he's taking. He wants the feedback, as long as you don't make personal attacks at the devs, he welcomes it. He's stated he doesn't want players to feel overwhelmed and constantly trying to play catch up.

So the game has to be looked at the perspective of the average player who will not always buy extra retainers. - That means most if not all of your arguments otherwise are pretty null and void. No one is going to buy retainers if they stop playing. This is not what Yoshi wants, he wants subscriptions over retainers. Retainers are a cost for the maintenance on space, meaning they are paying back into the resource they're given.


So with that in mind, are the drop rates fair? For the most part I'd say yes, but not the mane and hair due to a couple of problems

1. It is a "double mat" Meaning it needs to be crafted at one level and then multiples of that same level need to be crafted again to make the next product.

2. Where Halgai and Manzasiri hair become problematic is from the fact that one type of mob drops these. This is unlike a lot of the skins, where for example Tiger skin drops from 3 different level mobs, Gagana drop from 2 types.

Perhaps hopefully like they did with HW they'll have a vendor that sells them at a certain price or a Beast Tribe that later sells it, but right now Dawn Surge/Steppe Surge is probably the biggest issue.