Spoke with Silius earlier when he came to tell me that he's gonna patch in a solution for the low amounts of Ultra-Rare ores; will leave it up to him to announce the fix. We're both extremely swamped with item issues atm so please forgive me if I can't/don't respond immediately.

Point being, a solution has been talked about and it will eventually get in the game in some way, shape or form.

The aforementioned change to % modifiers should mostly alleviate this issue

I am going to attempt to migrate it to BoE as well.

I've stated previously in both this thread and on other forums that we're aware of the massive disparity between some of the rarity tiers, albeit maybe in not so many words. We've been waiting for Silius to get back to begin pushing a fix to Live, although we have no ETA at this point in time

I used that comparison because someone specifically asked me on this thread to compare those two weapons. Ask me a loaded question and you'll get a loaded answer

Going to get the data from the rest of the servers when time permits but, at first glance, there's 15 instances of Insirion and 16 instances of the various Flawless Defender's Greatsword combinations on the single server that I'm lookin at. So, 1200+ level 30+ adventurers have combined to create the 15 instances of Inisirion while 80ish level 30+ crafters have combined to create the 16 instances of the Flawless Guardian Greatswords. Up to y'all to make heads or tails of it; I'll dig through the data some more (just got it) when I have some time.

Fixed for next patch.

Of course we think that it's a problem. The major issue has already been fixed internally and will reach Live after some hopefully vigorous testing

Nor can we base it on the occurance of a group of 6 individuals getting lucky and getting a Heroic robe on the first named that they've killed in said dungeon

And keep in mind that, should you be rewarded that recipe, you are then limited only by ore when it comes to supplying both yourself and others with Heroics. An adventurer can do a quest once and only once to obtain a Heroic reward, as compared to a recipe that can potentially contribute more than a single Heroic to the game world.

So how do you compare a recipe that can award Heroic(s), an NPC that can award Heroic(s) and a quest that can reward a single Heroic? I can deduce the relative times required to obtain Heroics from a quest or NPC but determining the average amount of Heroics that enter the world from a single recipe is a bit more difficult Still waiting on that query, hehe.

Btw, I've only found 25ish quest(line)s in the game that reward a Heroic item. In general, there aren't many of them; they just happen to be highly visible and quested.

Currently, the one way to increase the pool of the item's "points" is to increase it's level or rarity; we can't manually add, say, 10 points to the 100 point pool. As such, the only way that Silius could accomplish that increase is to lower the level of the item w/o dusts or increase the level of the item that has the dust.

Not sure that the upgrade would be significant enough for y'all with just a single level of difference, though