Scrap from the World

#0 - April 7, 2011, 10:56 p.m.

Will crafting materials like scraps and essence be obtained only from salvaging items, or can they drop from creatures and chests? I'd think it would be cool for them to occasionally appear with loot. Monsters probably have various parts and materials on their person. I'd also like it if sometimes materials would appear from destroyed doodads. I'm not saying the characters would have to go mine for reagents, but it would make it feel a little more organic. Like these materials can actually come from somewhere.

And before someone asks, everything would still be random. You might get a fallen tooth from a statue, or a piece of wood from a fallen.

Bashiok

#4 - April 7, 2011, 11:47 p.m.

Some can and will drop, but it won't be in quantities or types sufficient to craft all items. Meaning you will need to salvage items you don't want to be able to make the ones you do. We want that to be a decision, to choose to break an item down to crafting components, and not allow making sweet loots just through a slow collection of reagents over time.