Mistonium density

[Tanner Blackfeather.6509]

@hugo.4705 said:Yeah, I don't understand why these LS4 ores don't drop 3 minerals just like any other regular one! Have you took a look over the difluorite crystals? They are literally 3 cubes embedded between them, and it drops only one small crystal? .... anyway... isn't that in reality. Will not do PvP just for these things..

They're the same as most of the LS3 ones. IIRC only Winterberries are a guaranteed drop, the other are approx. 1-in-3. (I'm unsure about Orrian Oysters, though)

[Ayrilana.1396]

I think for Oysters you’re guaranteed one every time. I do the easy LS3 dailies to farm karma and I could have swore that I was getting one with every node.

[Eloc Freidon.5692]

I've been doing the hearts on 10 characters and already almost done (175 more to go). I'm just disappointed there isn't enough things to buy with the resource. No permanent tonics or toys.

[Mazreal Blackknight.1564]

I did not find getting the ore hard at all. I bought it from heart vendors, farmed it on characters, and did full map comp (on 4 toons) to get enough to make my heavy requiem armor in about 3 maybe 4 days. I did not find it difficult to obtain the map currency at all.

[Ashantara.8731]

• Map completion rewards 25 Mistonium.
• Hearts give you 15 per day per character.
• Mistonium nodes give you 0-2 (yes, I once got 2 out of one node), depending on your farming frequency.

It's not nearly as bad as farming Bloodstone Shards, since that awful map (Bloodstone Fen) has no hearts.

[TheMightyNewb.6789]

You can also do the rift events and they reward 5 mistoniun each event. There are 5 locations and each character can do all 5 once a day. So you can farm loads. I farmed 300 in one day on Sunday

[Lambent.6375]

Is there an easy way to track distortions? I always just stumble on them.

[Bloodstealer.5978]

@hugo.4705 said:Of course, what I'm pointing out is the fact you have 1 mistonium ore for 40 volatile magics around him.

Pretty sure its not 1 mistonium per node, it minimum 0-3 per node (maybe even 0-2), just like the other nodes introduce of late, like bloodstone rubies... RNG is fun.Don't worry your gunna max your mistonium stashes before you even get a third of the way through your first armour set due to the constraints of the Superior Sigil of Profit Manipulation ( errrm I meant nullification, honest) unless your prepared to drain your gold or buy some gems.

[Zaraki.5784]

It seems you don't remeber Blood Rubies, Petrified Woods and Jade Shards.....they're still in my nightmares...

[Omega.6801]

@Fenom.9457 said:Relax ppl, play the new content for a few months and you’ll be fine

^^this, next episode is probably 3 to 4 months away, Halloween won't bring much new stuff. You have time for this. Sure the rewards could be better and mistonium could drop like there's no tomorrow, but would it ever be enough? Wanting more because more is more and faster is faster does not make a good argument. The sigil thing is a different story I guess.

[Epsilon Indi.2031]

Uh, okay. 25 per map completion, 5 per heart task, 5 per unique rift event, 5 for "Joko", 5 for djinn escort and boss, 5 for shatterer. It's no worse than the Season 3 nodes as all but Bitterfrost Frontier berries and Siren's Landing pearls had a chance at dropping the map currency.

Assuming first time through the map, doing all those events nets you 75 just from that. There are a ton of mist-touched Caches out there that have one in them guaranteed and not to mention the nodes that give an average of one per 3 strikes. At the end of a few daily reset runs through on a new toon with no Jahai map comp, I got 80 to 100. On a toon with Jahia Map comp, the lowest I got was 50 with the highest being about 70. That 50 is repeatable per toon, I believe, as the rift events, tasks, "Joko", Djinn, and Shatterer events are all character bound daily. The Tactical Overlay thing has a path I follow every day to get majority of mistonium daily.

[Hevoskuuri.3891]

@Kanok.3027 said:

@Zushada.6108 said:The only other map i can compare it to is LW3

Bloodstone Fen

.FTFY. It's not really that bothersome for me since I don't really care about what's on the vendor, but I can see how it would be a problem. The nodes are exactly like Blood Ruby nodes. As soon as I saw I got nothing at all, I had Bloodstone Fen flashbacks.

It seems to me that Mistonium nodes have a remarkably higher chance to drop the currency than Bloodstone Crystals.

After the full gathering route I'm happy if I end up with 3 Blood Rubies, whereas 90% of the Mistonium nodes I've farmed have dropped at least one. Not to mention that the Mist caches usually drop one as well.

Could be I've just been super lucky with the nodes and caches so far, but we have to remember there are 3 hearts and events all over the place that drop a few after completion. There aren't any hearts in Bloodstone Fen, and the events are far more scarce too.

So Mistonium and Blood Rubies aren't really comparable.

[Kanok.3027]

I did two nodes and not a single thing and I get more from BF. I'll take that over this new one.

[VanWilder.6923]

I find the "Node name" is kind of amusing. Mistonium node does not give Mistonium lump. Then why call it "Mistonium" node?Should call those kind of node is "RNG node"

[Tanner Blackfeather.6509]

@"VanWilder.6923" said:I find the "Node name" is kind of amusing. Mistonium node does not give Mistonium lump. Then why call it "Mistonium" node?Should call those kind of node is "RNG node"

That's exactly like 4/6 nodes from LS3. Petrified Wood and Fire Orchid are both "Empyreal Fragment nodes with chance of bonus".

[Bloodstealer.5978]

@"Sir Alymer.3406" said:Uh, okay. 25 per map completion, 5 per heart task, 5 per unique rift event, 5 for "Joko", 5 for djinn escort and boss, 5 for shatterer. It's no worse than the Season 3 nodes as all but Bitterfrost Frontier berries and Siren's Landing pearls had a chance at dropping the map currency.

Assuming first time through the map, doing all those events nets you 75 just from that. There are a ton of mist-touched Caches out there that have one in them guaranteed and not to mention the nodes that give an average of one per 3 strikes. At the end of a few daily reset runs through on a new toon with no Jahai map comp, I got 80 to 100. On a toon with Jahia Map comp, the lowest I got was 50 with the highest being about 70. That 50 is repeatable per toon, I believe, as the rift events, tasks, "Joko", Djinn, and Shatterer events are all character bound daily. The Tactical Overlay thing has a path I follow every day to get majority of mistonium daily.

I am not convinced that the mist touched caches drop a guaranteed mistonium.. could be wrong, but I am sure that's not what I have got every time.Not that it really matters, Mistonium has various guaranteed avenues of supply, backed up by other means, none of which come at a cost other than time. The sigil on the other hand is a whole different issue and is going to be the bigger bug bear in all this for many players.As I said many plyers will be swimming in Mistonium long before they have accrued enough sigils unless they bite the bullet and pay the TP inflated pricing bullcrap

[Deimos.4263]

If you have several alts, the way to do this quickly is to spend a couple hours game time to do map complete and all three hearts on each alt.

Do the Poster Child achievement on your main to get the Sun's Refuge portal scroll; put that in a shared inventory slot and bring all of your alts over.

It takes maybe 30 mins to do map complete on mounts if you just rush through and avoid combat. Add 10-20 mins to run through all the hearts per character, once you've figured out the optimal methods/paths. Add in whatever you get from nodes and mist-touched caches and it is about 1 mistonium per minute or maybe a bit faster. I got it down to about 25-30 mins per character after a few runs.

If you do this close to reset, you can then rerun the hearts on each alt for another 15 mistonium per alt. If you've got 10 alts...well you just farmed 550+ mistonium over maybe a weekend.

That's what I did. It's boring as heck to rush through and repeat many times. I don't actually like playing alts and I was happy to be back on my main when that nonsense was done.

[Kal Spiro.9745]

I don't understand the issue, which is to say, I do understand it, but it's not like it's unique. All the mining and lumber nodes have worked the same way. None of them have ever given consistent drops for use. This is working as intended. If you want a guaranteed 3, drop 10k magic and 50G

[Gehenna.3625]

@Deimos.4263 said:If you have several alts, the way to do this quickly is to spend a couple hours game time to do map complete and all three hearts on each alt.

Do the Poster Child achievement on your main to get the Sun's Refuge portal scroll; put that in a shared inventory slot and bring all of your alts over.

It takes maybe 30 mins to do map complete on mounts if you just rush through and avoid combat. Add 10-20 mins to run through all the hearts per character, once you've figured out the optimal methods/paths. Add in whatever you get from nodes and mist-touched caches and it is about 1 mistonium per minute or maybe a bit faster. I got it down to about 25-30 mins per character after a few runs.

If you do this close to reset, you can then rerun the hearts on each alt for another 15 mistonium per alt. If you've got 10 alts...well you just farmed 550+ mistonium over maybe a weekend.

That's what I did. It's boring as heck to rush through and repeat many times. I don't actually like playing alts and I was happy to be back on my main when that nonsense was done.

And now the nonsense is done you have no reason to go back to that map again. I think that's the biggest failing of this chapter. A good map that's not worth coming back to after a short while. At least that's how it seems to me at the moment.

[Ayrilana.1396]

@Gehenna.3625 said:

@Deimos.4263 said:If you have several alts, the way to do this quickly is to spend a couple hours game time to do map complete and all three hearts on each alt.

Do the Poster Child achievement on your main to get the Sun's Refuge portal scroll; put that in a shared inventory slot and bring all of your alts over.

It takes maybe 30 mins to do map complete on mounts if you just rush through and avoid combat. Add 10-20 mins to run through all the hearts per character, once you've figured out the optimal methods/paths. Add in whatever you get from nodes and mist-touched caches and it is about 1 mistonium per minute or maybe a bit faster. I got it down to about 25-30 mins per character after a few runs.

If you do this close to reset, you can then rerun the hearts on each alt for another 15 mistonium per alt. If you've got 10 alts...well you just farmed 550+ mistonium over maybe a weekend.

That's what I did. It's boring as heck to rush through and repeat many times. I don't actually like playing alts and I was happy to be back on my main when that nonsense was done.

And now the nonsense is done you have no reason to go back to that map again. I think that's the biggest failing of this chapter. A good map that's not worth coming back to after a short while. At least that's how it seems to me at the moment.

Which can be said for every map in the game that doesn’t have a farm like SW and Istan. Once you’ve gotten what you needed, you typically don’t go back.

[Gehenna.3625]

@Ayrilana.1396 said:

@Gehenna.3625 said:

@Deimos.4263 said:If you have several alts, the way to do this quickly is to spend a couple hours game time to do map complete and all three hearts on each alt.

Do the Poster Child achievement on your main to get the Sun's Refuge portal scroll; put that in a shared inventory slot and bring all of your alts over.

It takes maybe 30 mins to do map complete on mounts if you just rush through and avoid combat. Add 10-20 mins to run through all the hearts per character, once you've figured out the optimal methods/paths. Add in whatever you get from nodes and mist-touched caches and it is about 1 mistonium per minute or maybe a bit faster. I got it down to about 25-30 mins per character after a few runs.

If you do this close to reset, you can then rerun the hearts on each alt for another 15 mistonium per alt. If you've got 10 alts...well you just farmed 550+ mistonium over maybe a weekend.

That's what I did. It's boring as heck to rush through and repeat many times. I don't actually like playing alts and I was happy to be back on my main when that nonsense was done.

And now the nonsense is done you have no reason to go back to that map again. I think that's the biggest failing of this chapter. A good map that's not worth coming back to after a short while. At least that's how it seems to me at the moment.

Which can be said for every map in the game that doesn’t have a farm like SW and Istan. Once you’ve gotten what you needed, you typically don’t go back.

Well that's true, however, trinkets go a much longer way when you have multiple characters to equip. Every time you get a new toon to 80 there's another round. Not with cosmetics which are unlocked once for all characters to use.

But that could be personal of course. It just seems I get more mileage out of maps with trinkets for sale.