Now that you mention it, it seems that Greslin has this cursed property of being near-impossible to balance right: if you underpower it you make it nearly useless, but if you buff it, you make it nearly invaluable.
I think buffing it to "proc chance for all popped nodes" makes it overpowered. Imagine the guild owning the q250 greslin OP: they can arm their faction with several such picks. One or two persons prospect again and again until they run out of focus -- but between them, they have nearly 100% chance to pop a set of nodes that are "free" to dig. In the span of 3 minutes (until a weather change), another team of master diggers could grab hundreds of materials while keeping no one busy for careplanning.
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Instead, if you don't mind the derailing, I would try to think of something that makes greslin usable at lower levels too. Perhaps a bump in proc chance (say ~30-35%), while keeping it confined to one node. This way it would be a nice gift to newcomers, whereas these days q50 / q100 greslin is barely desired.
Additionally, it makes you spend some serious focus just to really get that one safe node ... but, again, as you noticed, you may still not like it (only has 10 mats). Overall, desirability is improved for everyone, while not making one guild/faction go head-over-heels for it.
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(Personally, I dream of a day when they take out q50 - q150 greslin altogether, and put in some new mats .. it's high time for some real new content. But that's a pipe dream so I'll stop derailing your thread. Thank you for your attention :D)
I think buffing it to "proc chance for all popped nodes" makes it overpowered. Imagine the guild owning the q250 greslin OP: they can arm their faction with several such picks. One or two persons prospect again and again until they run out of focus -- but between them, they have nearly 100% chance to pop a set of nodes that are "free" to dig. In the span of 3 minutes (until a weather change), another team of master diggers could grab hundreds of materials while keeping no one busy for careplanning.
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Instead, if you don't mind the derailing, I would try to think of something that makes greslin usable at lower levels too. Perhaps a bump in proc chance (say ~30-35%), while keeping it confined to one node. This way it would be a nice gift to newcomers, whereas these days q50 / q100 greslin is barely desired.
Additionally, it makes you spend some serious focus just to really get that one safe node ... but, again, as you noticed, you may still not like it (only has 10 mats). Overall, desirability is improved for everyone, while not making one guild/faction go head-over-heels for it.
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(Personally, I dream of a day when they take out q50 - q150 greslin altogether, and put in some new mats .. it's high time for some real new content. But that's a pipe dream so I'll stop derailing your thread. Thank you for your attention :D)
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