Agree. It could complete in other simpler ways. Like it is, you’ll smelt it into a bar and then grind it.
I suspect they want you to find out where to mine gold ore. You would be surprised by the amount of players who never farmed obsidian, not knowing most of the gold we get comes from it.
This one disagrees.
Most of the gold comes from loot, be it harvesting monsters, chests, or other people’s pockets.
The by product of such activities could also be utile.
Whereas obsidian harvesting hoping for Gold is…
If Obsidian gear wasn’t a waste of time it might be different… If Obsidian itself had use (why the cluck do obsidian headed arrows use Composite Obsidian?)
That said, a miner/prospector journey that focuses on getting the rare drops out of nodes (Iron from Stone, Gold from Obsidian, is it Salt from Sulphur deposits?) Ect would be very informative for new exiles.
It’s an option.
Why? As has been said it’s not part of potioning, it’s part of mining. The name of the step is “acquire gold”, not “mine gold”.
What I find hilarious is the last thing I mine obsidian nodes for is obsidian 
Usually I mine it for… raw ash. I always just drop the obsidian.
Never had an issue getting enough gold diving and looting. There’s chests all over Sepermeru, Xel ha, in back of the falls in shaleback hollow. I mean there is chests with gold and silver, coins and bars al over.
I agree that it’s messed up.
Is there anyone who actually farms obsidian for itself? I go there for raw ash and gold, mostly. The obsidian stays ( it’s very heavy ). I mine obsidian for itself once or twice, per playthrough, with a proper build. Now that we can’t repair bb tools, perhaps I’ll do it more often.
These guys could make a obsidian building set at least.
I do actually get most of my gold from the volcano. With the proper build and the right tools, that thing is a gold mine. Plus the rocknoses. I find the chests too random, too slow. And I kind of like going to the volcano for thralls anyway…
Very much agree that additional uses for Obsidian would be welcome.
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The UX is a bit clunky, yeah, but I’m not sure I would go as far as to call it nightmarish 
Yeah, a few of the rewards were rather underwhelming.
Another good question. I found that weird, too.
Not in my case. I never bother with obsidian nodes. I get most of my gold from chests and from gold rocknoses. And the Khitan camps, but I don’t know if those will remain beyond the end of this Age.
Have you ever farmed them with a bb pick with oil? It’s a very fast way to gather a lot of gold, especially with the right build, @CodeMage . You can’t match it any other method.
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I normally take two BB picks with me when I go farming in the volcano: one with advanced upgrade and the other with oil. I use the one with oil to hit clusters of 3+ resource nodes, and the one with upgrade to hit other nodes.
That said, I usually go to volcano to farm stone, not obsidian. I haven’t mined obsidian nodes in a long time, so maybe they increased the gold yield in the mean time.
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Nope, they gone.
It’s my favourite quarry too, but I would go to the abandoned mine if it wasn’t for the obsidian nodes. That’s the best place for silver with a legendary at the end.
I love your method, btw. You weren’t kidding when you made a point about your farming not being just grinding.
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I usually go to the abandoned mine before going to the volcano. The landslide in the mine is super-fast, but it’s limited quantity. If I just need to “top off” my stone, that’s usually enough, but if I’m farming for a serious project, it’s just the first stop 
Yeah, I might be going a bit overboard, but I enjoy it 
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Nah, you do it wonderfully, @CodeMage . It’s much more interesting when things are that optimized. There’s a sense of fulfillment when you do it. Otherwise it’s just a chore.
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I would add (or specify in this case) that Careful Harvest literally will double the average amount of gold and silver you can get. With obsidian its obvious, gold is the rare resource.
But what many don’t know is that Silver is the rare resource in Silver nodes. If you notice, sometimes you get no silver on a hit on one of these nodes. Careful Harvest helps with that.
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I am very sorry @Codemage, I somehow missed your post.
Saddly I do not know if it works or not. Haven´t done the new journey steps yet.
In theory it should work, because the gold gets harvested with a tool instead looted.
If no other way counts, other to harvest gold directly from the obsidian notes, it should be said so in the jounal.
All we can do at this point is reporting this as bug and hope it gets fixed some way or another.
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