Ancient statues should drop 2 thulecite

[00petar00]

Ancient statues and ruins in general have been very neglected and now we have trees that give us gems so why would anyone building and playing for a long time even bother going there besidies for thulecite?

We are getting new nightmare for ruins while nightmare and dawn phases is already something that most of us avoid.

It would be better for ruins to become more dangerous but for us to be able to get more thulecite.

[ZeRoboButler]

I wouldn't be opposed to the idea of some statues being enhanced in some way as part of the new mechanic used to spawn the labyrinth mimics. Id say why not some new corrupted statues with improved drops, could be nice to have for the increased danger as well as new art for statue designs.

I'm not so sure about justifying it due to the gem trees, feels like we have so much thule in the game, not including the archives. (and perhaps the lame method of the dust moths but Im not sure I've used it before... or needed to what with all the excess thule.)

[00petar00]

15 minutes ago, ZeRoboButler said:

I wouldn't be opposed to the idea of some statues being enhanced in some way as part of the new mechanic used to spawn the labyrinth mimics. Id say why not some new corrupted statues with improved drops, could be nice to have for the increased danger as well as new art for statue designs.

I'm not so sure about justifying it due to the gem trees, feels like we have so much thule in the game, not including the archives. (and perhaps the lame method of the dust moths but Im not sure I've used it before... or needed to what with all the excess thule.)

Archives can only be mined once and they still drop the same amount so why bother if you are resetting the caves regularly? Moths are completely useless, so I don't see why even bother bringing them up.

I don't see the point of clearing ruins because I don't bother mining every statue and focus on green gem ones but they don't randomize (this should happen) after FW kill so If you only mine green gem statues you won't any after a kill or two of FW.

Since I play Wanda it is better for me to farm FW with a few houndius because I have a watch to teleport there and kill AG for thulecite and other loot compared to mining. 

Now the best option is to keep gathering more gem trees to duplicate all the thulecite you need since these trees are pemarnent so no need to bother killing fw/ag.

[Jakepeng99]

Dont they already have a chance to drop 2?

[Nogard78]

39 minutes ago, Jakepeng99 said:

Dont they already have a chance to drop 2?

They have 105% chances to drop thulecite, so they always drop one and 5% change for one more. 

I think that the ammount of thulecite you get is enough, later in the game it is a rescource that piles up anyway, at least for me. 

[Maxil20]

I personally wouldn’t mind if the chance for 2 was amped up from 5% to 50%. I always did find it a bit weird the second piece of thulecite was way rarer than just about every single source of 1-2 drops. I don’t think every statue has to drop 2, but 1.5 thule sounds fairly sufficent if the thule chance was needed to be improved. Though personally, I just wish the aitrium statues were mineable/regenerated…

[Frosty_Mentos]

Thulecite is the resource that I don't mind getting more of but also not really need MORE of it since there's not enough practical uses I'd wanna use it on. It's good for armor and weapons for sure, but later on it becomes way too abundant.

That's why we have green gems to cut the costs.

I'd say gem trees are pretty mid for having chance to get good gems. Varg farms kinda cover that already.

[arubaro]

Ruin rush gives a lot of benefits, i dont think they need to make it easier but rather make ruins generation more consistent 

[00petar00]

1 hour ago, Maxil20 said:

I personally wouldn’t mind if the chance for 2 was amped up from 5% to 50%. I always did find it a bit weird the second piece of thulecite was way rarer than just about every single source of 1-2 drops. I don’t think every statue has to drop 2, but 1.5 thule sounds fairly sufficent if the thule chance was needed to be improved. Though personally, I just wish the aitrium statues were mineable/regenerated…

That would be decent but I'd prefer If it was guaranteed 2 thulecite drop but ancient statues also need to randomize every time FW is killed because it doesn't make sense for me to mine every statue instead of just focusing on statues with green gems or any other gem I might need.

26 minutes ago, Frosty_Mentos said:

Thulecite is the resource that I don't mind getting more of but also not really need MORE of it since there's not enough practical uses I'd wanna use it on. It's good for armor and weapons for sure, but later on it becomes way too abundant.

That's why we have green gems to cut the costs.

I'd say gem trees are pretty mid for having chance to get good gems. Varg farms kinda cover that already.

It is very situational and I do understand that not everyone needs more thulecite but on endless server I play there is a lack of it because there is already quite a few sources of gems but thulecite is limited especially on the first ruins clear.

So someone that clears the ruins (mining all the statues that are left) it is expected of this player to kill FW which while reasonable in current situation with ancient statues really shouldn't be the case.

Besides gathering horns for houndius and thulecite for crafting there is no reason to killing FW on repeat.

[Frosty_Mentos]

1 hour ago, 00petar00 said:

It is very situational and I do understand that not everyone needs more thulecite but on endless server I play there is a lack of it because there is already quite a few sources of gems but thulecite is limited especially on the first ruins clear.

So someone that clears the ruins (mining all the statues that are left) it is expected of this player to kill FW which while reasonable in current situation with ancient statues really shouldn't be the case.

Besides gathering horns for houndius and thulecite for crafting there is no reason to killing FW on repeat.

I usually do it two three times a year, making thulecite very common. I am unsure what else do you need thule for tho.

[00petar00]

1 hour ago, Frosty_Mentos said:

I usually do it two three times a year, making thulecite very common. I am unsure what else do you need thule for tho.

I don't even bother mining it since I play Wanda but even for Winona and Wortox it is more efficient to kill FW to respawn AG for ornate chest loot. We now have gem trees so over time we will have a lot of gems while we aren't getting more sources of thulecite.

If ancient statues dropped 2 thulecite they would be worth mining.

[Frosty_Mentos]

21 minutes ago, 00petar00 said:

I don't even bother mining it since I play Wanda but even for Winona and Wortox it is more efficient to kill FW to respawn AG for ornate chest loot. We now have gem trees so over time we will have a lot of gems while we aren't getting more sources of thulecite.

If ancient statues dropped 2 thulecite they would be worth mining.

idk, i accumulate a lot of gems from mining whole ruins in a span of 10-15 or so days depending how big they are including killing off many clockworks. I get many purples enough to turn them to plenty of gems via wilson, mine statues as maxwell getting full clear quicker while killing, destroy or repair piles for more gems and ignore the maze and it's entirety. Maybe I lack the care to farm for those trees that much cause of bigger effort and setup needed, but I can't complain that I have more than enough thulecite when I play several of those characters

btw tip, if you use bundles of bearger bin you can just sugar up lots of candy for wanda to have better mining efficiency, it's better than nothing and I often made lots of them with warly just to keep things somewhat more manageable and efficient