I'm mostly venting here, because I've been crafting for several hours now and I'm not sure if the trend I'm seeing is purely subjective. Hence my question:
Has anyone else noticed WO rewards being pretty "bleh" in Ca'ial Brael, specifically for outfitters? Or is it that rewards in Leth Nurae are better than elsewhere? Either way, I've noticed a pretty wide discrepancy and I'm trying to work out if it's just bad luck or something that's really there.
I levelled my blacksmith lass from 1 to 8 in Leth Nurae yesterday along the usual work order route, and by the time I'd hit 6 I'd been given several dusts, one or two items of clothing, and a whole bunch of fun sellable items.
Today, in comparison (and doing the same sort of mix of WOs, easys and mods with the occasional difficult thrown in for xp, A-B quality handin depending on the WO), with my outfitter lass, I'm lucky if I get a cruddy deck of marked cards in a supply pack. Most of the time the pack has ONE item in it - sometimes it's 2. Only once did I get 3 items of a batch pack, even for moderate WOs, even when I turn in all As. I have not, in about 10 batch orders done now, received a single dust-type thing, and I've had one item of clothing (not even a particularly good one at that). I'm talking about batches here, both finishing and refining.
I'm not whining as badly as it may sound - but part of the fun of doing these batch work orders, for me, is the "open the box" syndrome. I don't care if I can't use the dusts yet - they're nice to get. Spending time and care on a moderate, 5-item WO for one lousy cookie-shaped 16c item *isn't* that much fun.
What I'm wondering is, is this profession based or location based or have I just been consistently (and irritatingly) unlucky today? Are most people getting better results in Ca'ial, or worse ones in Leth Nurae?
Before I bug this or try to send it in as feedback (since it may actually be some sort of balance issue), I thought I'd find out from others whether my experience is anomalous, in which case I'll just stick that needle in my eye and move on.
