Time To Discuss Barbarian Cultural Armor

[Drueric]

It sucks and sucks to make. The components for your tempers are in ridiculously hard place to get. Because of this, people who do sell the components charge way too much for armor that isnt even that good.

Compare that to every other race's cultural armor componants are easy to get, and the armor isnt half bad.

For example, most tempers require only x1 of their rare ingredient, while barbarians temper needs x3 and people charge 2 or 3x as much as other racial armor tempers.

The main issue is availability of Essence of Winter. Supposed to drop off ice giants, but it only drops off the ones deep inside of permafrost, and would require a group of 55+ characters to kill them. The ice giants just outside permafrost do not drop them. And why not? This makes no sense. Because if this, no one ever makes the barbarian cultural gear. By the time you are strong enough to collect the essence yourself, you dont need it. No one needs it. No one in your group needs it. And there isnt enough to even make a half a set of the armor if you do find some.

Selling. I have seen people once in awhile selling the essence, but they ignorantly price it too high. just as a comparison, iksar blood is usually about 10p each, only requires 1 to make temper and a solo high lvl toon can farm it easily, even after you nerfed the drop rates. You need x2 essence of winter + ice goblin blood to make 1 temper, yet people charge around 30p for 1 and requires a high lvl group going on a raid in permafrost. Its just stupid.

My proposed solution, make the ice giants outside in everfrost have a chance to drop the essence. It would be an easy fix and make it fair.