Why is void ore a thing?

[Sevrence]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no other item like void ore in harvesting/logging/skinning, right?

I recently got woodworking to 200 to make ebony... and it's stupidly easy to get the legendary mats for it, even too easy... for example my 40 min food luck route generates like 3500 ironwood / and ~50 of each legendary resource...

so then i got 200 smelting and I've tried a few different ori vein routes.. but im lucky to get 500 ore nvm the legendary mats for asmodeum using my 40min 2k luck food buff...

And its all because of Void ore.... I just dont understand why they had to make it "ORE" why not just name it Void fragment(or whatever) and drop from all high end mining/logging/harvesting/skinning

I know there are more important things to change in game, but trying to make my own asmodeum is honestly pushing me away from the game at the moment. 3 days of trying, (few hours each day) and ive got 16 tolvium and 3 cinnabar lol

[Urban Legend]

Seems like we're mixing a couple of issues here. There's the void ore, which you need to make a voidbent ingot, which you need for the endgame legendary voidbent armor. Separate from that there's the special mats you need to make the top tier refined item - in this case, asmodeum which requires tolvium and cinnabar in addition to the orichalcum bars.

So...yes, there are other items like tolvium and cinnabar for harvesting, logging, and skinning in order to make the top tier refined items; and those refining options are also on a daily cooldown, just like asmodeum.

[Sevrence]

were not mixing anything, your not reading thoroughly ( or i wasnt clear, whatever).....is there an equivelent of void ore in the other gather skills, no.. and its making getting cinnabar and tolvium hard. which is all i want lol

TLDR its super easy to make glittering ebony and super hard to make asmodeum by gathering yourself, all because of VOID ORE

[Urban Legend]

Originally posted by Sevrence:

were not mixing anything, your not reading thoroughly.....is there an equivelent of void ore in the other gather skills, no.. and its making getting cinnabar and tolvium hard. which is all i want lol

Okay, you're right. I'm missing something. Are you saying that it is making getting cinnabar and tolvium 'hard' because people are hunting down all the nodes in order to get void ore?

I am not aware of a direct analogue to void ore in any of the other top tier nodes for the other gathering skills. They all have the analogues to cinnabar and tolvium, but not I think to void ore. For myself, I have not found it more difficult to get the resources to make asmodeum, any more so than it is difficult for me to make the other top tier refined materials.

[Sevrence]

i dont know. like i said... Takes me ONE 2k logging luck foor, 40 mins and I have enough for 20 ebony....... its been 3 days of ~2/3 hours running around trying to mine ori veins.. and i don't even have enough for 10 bars of asmodeum

So in 40 minutes total playtime logging = 20 ebony

and

~6-9 hours total playtime so far, mining... ~12 mining food ( thats 600gold right there) and I have 16 tolvium and 3 cinnabar... can't even make 10 bars of asmodeum yet

My server population is on the low end, or so global chat keeps saying

[Sevrence]

ive tried imperial palace route.. and reekwater... and yea im lucky to get 1 or 2 nodes per 40 min food

[Grailer]

I went to loot a chest and started drowning . There was no water around . I relogged . Same thing happened . Moral of the story is ... the game is still in alpha.

[Urban Legend]

From the information I can get to, it appears the percentage chance for the materials necessary to refine the top tier resources drop at the same percentage rate across the different nodes, assuming you have the same bonuses for that gathering skill. For instance, if you have a 3.02% chance for a Tolvium drop from an orichalcum node at a certain percentage of bonuses, you would have that same 3.02% chance if you had the same bonuses for lumberjacking or harvesting. The difference seems to be that the wirefiber plants and the ironwood trees are more numerous and in more easily accessible locations than the orichalcum veins are, which would mean it will likely take you more time to collect from the orichalcum than either of the other two.

[stretch]

Originally posted by Sevrence:

were not mixing anything, your not reading thoroughly ( or i wasnt clear, whatever).....is there an equivelent of void ore in the other gather skills, no.. and its making getting cinnabar and tolvium hard. which is all i want lol

TLDR its super easy to make glittering ebony and super hard to make asmodeum by gathering yourself, all because of VOID ORE

Asmodeum is easy to make. It's void ingots that use the void ore. Cinnabar and Tolvium are far from rare. Uncommon at best and if you are not getting them you might be lacking the luck items for mining. I have crafted 70 odd Asmodeum bars and have hundreds of both T and C left but have only ever gotten 2 void ore drops. I stopped bothering to craft the Asmo bars as I cannot use them myself yet. So yeah best you go figure out what you have gotten mixed up as it might relieve some stress. 200 mining with no mining luck gear or food can still get you T and C drops I think but not very often. I only get void ore with full luck gear and food as well but with only 2 drops I don't have a real good basis to claim that's an absolute rule.

I don't think there is any other gathered super rare item like void ore.
But.
The other craft skills do use super rare items as well which are drops...only they don't appear to even be in the game yet. I don't know if this lack stops the production of every named legendary as I only have 200 arcana and I know that all those legendary weapons cannot be crafted since those rares have never been seen. Not sure if other crafts legendary items are similarly blocked as I don't have those recipes to check in game. I have never seen one made yet though but I am on a low population server.

So while there may not be an exact equivalent to void ore in gathering the other crafts do use a legendary rare drop item to craft named legendary items. So it's not a unique thing in that it is required to have an uber rare to craft the related items. It is unique in the way it is found and also in the way it is actually in the friggin game at all just now.
If the other drops were in the game and their associated legendary items could be crafted it wouldn't look so anomalous.

The source of these drops appears to be unique currently but until the other crafts uber rares appear in game it's hard to say it will stay unique. The missing items say they drop from 'powerful humanoids' but probably will appear in chests and who knows, maybe even in nodes. But they have never been seen so nobody knows.
If they were in the game and named legendary weapons were craftable it might not feel like the void ore dropping from mining nodes was unusual.

[Sevrence]

i feel like my point wasnt getting across based on your replies so i probably wasnt clear...

'Asmodeum is easy to make. It's void ingots that use the void ore' <- i understand that

either way void ore completely destroys high level smelting, i finally made my first ten bars of asmodeum after almost 10 hours strictly farming ori veins.. running circles trying to find a vein not gathered.... i have enough logging mats in only 40 mins, one food luck buff... to make 20 ebony

And no I did not get any void ore, which goes around 10k on my server, maybe if I had gotten one of those, I wouldn't be so salty lol

As for my luck im at almost 79% mining.. that whole time