Ancient Pick Axe opinions

[Poltergeist]

Does anyone else feel like the Ancient Pick Axe is just a placeholder any more now after being nerfed last patch?

Even with my mining skill as high as it is and having all mining gear and food buff, it still takes 3 wacks at the grass wall in the wild lands of Azeos to clear a chunk away. I can do the exact same thing with my scarlet pick axe for not even a 100th of the effort of trying to get this 'legendary' item.

It's barely 45 mining power higher than the scarlet.

I don't believe I'd miss it if the APA (Ancient Pick Axe) suddenly became unavailable in the game after next patch. To me, it feels more like a tease and a bad memory of what was once awesome.

It could have redeeming value if the APA was actually without durability, like the Rune song. Give it SOMETHING the other pickaxe' do not have.

If a brand new player were to come into this game right now and try to take a look at their Scarlet Pick Axe vs the Ancient Pick Axe they so tediously tried to find. They'd probably be like, "Huh... neat glow"... not realizing it used to be bad***, because they wouldn't be noticing anything else special about it.

"It was not meant to be used by player though, it was merely a Dev tool..." Okay, well then remove it?

[Gary]

I agree that the ancient pickaxe should be unbreakable but I think it should use 2 or more of the ancient pickaxes and maybe some previous pickaxes to craft the legendary unbreakable version. I have over 10 of them and I didn't even farm for them. Maybe 1 additional piece to craft the legendary version instead of the other types of pickaxes.

[jbcord]

Not happy with the change either. So hard to find, now all that time was wasted.

[Lazy Dog Daddy]

I think it was a dumb move to nerf it before the next biome update .

Feels like being timegated because we could 1 shot walls in azeos wilderness , which made exploring fun and enjoyable ...

Now with 2-4 hits to explore ... well feels like devs didnt like us exploring too fast .... hence why it shouldve been nerfed(on the mining dmg side) only when next biome was out !

[z]

its two hits, you need to find the right rings and necklace

[AI Sin || SinNoAria]

Originally posted by blanke:

its two hits, you need to find the right rings and necklace

But that means you can't have other exploration rings equipped while mining.

[Lazy Dog Daddy]

Originally posted by blanke:

its two hits, you need to find the right rings and necklace

Its 2 hits when you have them sure , which gimps your dmg when the ancient pickaxe used to do the same without needing extras ...

[VaeliusNoctu]

Yes, its crap now. I found it after i crafted the galaxit pickaxe and first i was happy and thought cool. But after i see the stats...its in a chest now... worthless crap.