I don't think i need to write any words but, here goes anyhow, frontier zones are dropping some of these elemental drops as zone specific, why not instead make all of them randomly drop in all frontier zones?

I cleared marshlands and wiped out everything in my path like a plague. Got only 1 elemental stone. Earthentine. Its yours, now you just need 1499 more

6k is alot for likely a small amount ^^"

Maybe should start gathering in Marshland to fatting up AH with Crystals....

Gathering nodes only gave fossils and did not give crystal. A bounty run gave me 9 crystals all different lol.

Yeah, tried it couple mins ago. Remember it wrong, was hoping to gather some Crystal to sell on AH to provide something back since refuse to attend Frontier.

All stones except earthentine and lightrine can be acquired by doing Frontier Zones. Anyone who needs these two stones have legitimate reason to be discouraged. Especially if you already sient 500 shards on the recipe. As far as i know there is zero feedback from the developers on why this was allowed to happen. Zorian Marshland is not a realistic way to aquire 1500 of either of these two stones...... it can be fixed but the lack of response is discouraging.

Now im farming elder shards again so I can at least try fir a set at 100. Hopefully raid loot will fill the gap. Even if they add new zones later that drop earthentine and lightrine. All other classes will have a huge advantage with their gear sets.

I still say put in a vendor to allow us to trade stones fir what we need. This way no matter was Frontier Zone you run, you can be building toward your sets.

All stones except earthentine and lightrine can be acquired by doing Frontier Zones. Anyone who needs these two stones have legitimate reason to be discouraged. Especially if you already sient 500 shards on the recipe. As far as i know there is zero feedback from the developers on why this was allowed to happen. Zorian Marshland is not a realistic way to aquire 1500 of either of these two stones...... it can be fixed but the lack of response is discouraging.

Now im farming elder shards again so I can at least try fir a set at 100. Hopefully raid loot will fill the gap. Even if they add new zones later that drop earthentine and lightrine. All other classes will have a huge advantage with their gear sets.

I still say put in a vendor to allow us to trade stones fir what we need. This way no matter was Frontier Zone you run, you can be building toward your sets.

Water and marksmen too have been left out.

I feel like there should be equal opportunities, for players of ALL subclasses to earn elemental drops and/or a Vendor that allows us to trade for drops we need.

Personally I would like to keep trading between players but yes equal drop rates are still a thing we want… time passing on this issue has just made things worse for neglected classes. shadow and nature stones are dirt cheap and numerous wile the stones that don’t naturally drop are expensive or we don’t see them at all.

Each frontier zone has a theme, where the boss / mobs will drop that specific element. It would be ideal to have a smaller probability for the other elements to drop. Until the devs create a light themed zone, an earth zone, and a water zone, among others, this imbalance continues.

For one thing, there are too many shadow elemental drops. This has previously been recommended: The elder 'Elk's Shadow' needs to drop nature elemental stones, not shadow, as this boss has a poison (nature) theme. The zone itself can still drop shadow (and ideally a small amount of other random stones).

A 1:1 conversion vendor is not a good idea, as it basically nullifies the uniqueness of having 10 elements. Do not do this! I believe players trading stones are a good thing - let us not destroy that.

Again, though, let's flesh out the frontiers to at least bring the balance in a bit more. I understand that the developers might not have the time at the moment to fix this. But I am extremely curious why they thought that unequal drops were "a good thing" to begin with? It would be my very first thought when developing this feature - do all classes have a fairly equal chance at obtaining stones for their respective class? Obviously, no. Why wasn't this fixed? What was their thought? "A holy priest? To hell with them! They don't need fabled gear."

I may as well say this here too:
Don't mess with the 75 elders - there has already been too much widespread destruction of the original game with the removal of most elders. Add frontiers, but stop damaging the very game that so many players have grown to love.

I think the devs had good intentions but seriously underestimated how imbalanced having some of the stones as fixed drops in the FZ’s really was and how players would react to the newer legendary fabled gear boxes they can potentially buy.

They tried to fix inequality by adding the currency trade opportunities which helps a little but it also reduces trade between players for other stones. I personally feel like it’s a waste to not be creating trade between players.

the direction the devs have said there currently taking is that in the future more things will need elemental resources which is good and all but we all know development can take years so are we just supposed to endure imbalances until there not or can we maybe have changes with the intent to revert them at a later date when the horse catches up to the cart?

yep…

based on supply alone these numbers are actually fair :0 but of course it shows a serious balance problem in the game.

Update: someone purchased the storm stone before I could save the gold, the hex stones remain unsold lol

I would buy lightrine 1k for 5k if anyone selling it. I just never see it in that quantity. Its usually 20-30 at a much higher cost per