Posts reporting this item missing from over TWO YEARS ago. Well?
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It doesn’t exist.
Just like there’s no black blood pickaxe or obsidian cleaver.
I think only steel and star metal have the full complement of tools.
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There certainly is a black blood pick. And IMO, one oversight does not justify another oversight.
There is a pick. There is no pickaxe. Like the starmetal, steel and eldarium equivalents.
This was not an oversight but a design decision.
You’re right.
So that means they want us to always need to get starmetal at some point, but they don’t mind if we never use eldarium tools or black blood tools or obsidian. Hmmmm.
@Kikigirl Without wanting to contradict yourself, there is a draw of black blood.
This one is on the cave boss on the cornice (bald mouse) the only object in black blood that one does not find is the trays.
It would be nice to have eldarium skinning knife!
But as @Kikigirl says it’s designed this way not to be a complete set
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About incomplete sets, except stone, iron, steel, hardened steel and star metal, all the rest are incomplete sets. All of them.
Eldarium
Dragon bone
Acheronian
Composite Obsidian (they don’t count as metal even if you fix them with steel)
Black ice
Etc…
So apply your WISH to have an eldarium skinning knife and i support it.
I suport only wishes because demands in here end up to the recycle bin.
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I’m sorry if I am misunderstanding but even if you visit the Jhil caves there’s still no black blood pickaxe or cleaver for that matter.
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I find it frustrating as well.
Black blood was best for a very long time. Having the full complement would have reduced the need to carry additional tools: pickaxe being the most versatile 
But, starmetal is needed in many other areas other than tools and I would say the least required as a resource use. Especially now that you can buy black blood tools.
I agree here.
Now that we have discussed and determined it wasn’t really a bug but a decision, maybe a decision that could be considered a mistake, we can request.
I agree full heartedly that we need the full complement of tools available in every type. Even a crappy pickaxe in stone 
I was always confused why they would make a design decision like this.
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Don’t know about a stone sickle, or a stone war-axe either
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Darfari war axe, but no sickle or pickaxe
They just don’t make sense IMO, so it’s fair to not have these.
I also don’t mind legendary tools not being a complete set, but craft-able ones from iron to obsidian could see that.
Nonetheless, you most generally don’t need the Maw of the Hyena, a Star Metal Cleaver is more than enough, and yet we have an Eldarium Cleaver from Siptah 
On the other hand, skinning knife is available in obsidian and black blood, but not eldarium.
Still, really don’t mind because the really important tools are always available, and those are the Pick and the Axe.
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They’re not “bad”, they’re just lower in Harvest Power than Obsidian / Eldarium / Black Blood / Maw of the Hyena
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If you’re farming something that isn’t really valuable, sure, it just takes a bit more time.
If you’re farming something that has limited nodes, not it’s not about time but about harvesting rate.
I’m gonna do the test for you tho so you can see the real difference, with Efficient Harvest and Hard Worker 
We are using THE spot to farm stone in the silvermine, where everything is stacked like mad, it takes about 2mn to harvest the whole thing.
Test 1: Steel Pickaxe + Advanced Tool Upgrade Kit (Harvesting Power 10+3=13)

About 8600 stone.
Test 2: Black Blood Pick + Oil of Bounty (Harvesting Power 16+9=25)

About 16600 stone.
Of course, when it comes to stone, you can find more resource nodes in different spots even if it takes twice as much time to get the same amount (not even accounting for possible travel time), but if you’re looking for something rarer, like let’s say you’re harvesting Star Metal Ore from a meteor… Yeah, for that, use the very best harvesting rate you have, because the nodes are very few.
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No black blood cleaver either.
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