Rare 3 star ingrediants

[Rain Skyward]

Right now I'm doing a quest where i need super common drops from the shadey dudes and the shady dog things. The thing is because of how the drop system works its actually way more common to get the higher tier drops instead of the 3 star drops i need for the quest. I've gotten so many of the higher tier 4 star drops but it took nearly 3 hours to get all the materials i needed to finish the quest.

[Cahalith]

Are you killing these enemies with fire or ice? The game has this whole "tempering" system where killing enemies with the right element can increase the quality of certain drops while destroying certain other drops.

Maybe you accidentally caused these enemies to drop higher-tier materials instead of 3-star ones because of how you killed them? Killing them with normal attacks/kinetics should counteract this.

By the way: If you keep upgrading your camp, you'll get a way to buy specific materials later, though camp upgrade tiers are tied to main story progression, which means it'll take a while to unlock this option.

[Rain Skyward]

The only way to kill these shade beast things is to finish them off with fire or ice. Like I said it makes the common drops that much harder to get because of the tempering system.

[Cahalith]

Oh, sorry, my mistake, I misunderstood what you meant by "shadey"

[Rain Skyward]

My bad I couldn’t remember what they’re called lol