You are thinking to far ahead my dear friend. While this is but a mere baseless suspicion, I suspect that this is a small part of Funcom’s hesitancy to induct bronze into the game. As soon as many members hear ‘bronze coins’, members then suggest and entertain the prospect of bronze bars, bronze dust, bronze weapons, and bronze armor. But the simple fact of the matter is that just like gold and silver, not all in game metals need to, or should be used as weapons or armors. There is just no way Funcom is going to start adding in tin nodes and rebalance the weapon to levelling progression just to make room for bronze on it, and I can’t say that I blame them. Realistically, our transition from level 1 to level 20 is absurdly fast, and I could see bronze being made resundant just like Darfari weapons.

So while it sounds cool, and I personally would not mind this, it is just not practical. Forget bronze ‘nodes’ or smelting it ourselves. But rather, make bronze coins random loot just like gold and silver coins now. Add bronze bars, but maybe have us obtain them as loot from the Stygian camps. My two cents.

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