Noone said it was impossible to make/acquire, just that it was an endgame MAT that required a Tanner’s Table and stacks of MATs like alchemical base, silk, thick leather, fur, etc. For awhile I’ve been trying to save space and “compress” MATs so I’ve been turning everything into primarily Perfected Light and Heavy Padding, and I’m well aware of how much time and MATs go into making a stack of 100.
One stack of 100 Perfected Heavy Padding (made with the most cost-efficient T3 benches at half cost) =
- 10500 Leather
- 4200 Heavy Leather
- 10500 Oil
- 2100 Ichor
- 2100 Gold Dust
- 2100 Silver Dust
- 1200 Plant Fiber
+however much bark it takes to process 15k leather
+a lot of time
Does looking at those numbers help put it into perspective? Because this was never a drop until this patch, and now you can spend an evening clearing a certain dungeon and come away with full stacks of each type of padding, in addition to other resources like grey lotus, gold, ichor, volatile glands, layered silk/fur, hardened leather, hardened bricks, etc.
I’ve been playing since early access and I have looted a lot of bases. Usually I made a beeline to the blacksmith and armorsmith benches to grab the thralls and high-end MATs. In most of those benches - in endgame bases - it was very rare to loot more than a dozen of any type of Perfected Padding at once.
Now it drops like candy. Even if you have the tremendous amount of MATs to make a stack, you could literally loot it faster than your benches could even make it.