Quote Originally Posted by Aidoru View Post
Last event during Sunday, after running level 56 to 57 worth of gold mat SP, I was extremely low on iron and bronze mat since those special SP quests drop very little of them. I solved my lack of them with running expert.

I've been running standard on my alt and expert on my main. While I do spend a good portion of AP on raid boss spawning for my alt, I can definitely say that I generally get more than double and some times triple the amount of materials running expert than I do standard, to the point I've even gotten to page 3 of material drops while never breaking a single page for expert yet.

Personally I wouldn't bother with standard if you can do expert. I haven't had any issues with the rates and get a good amount of all running expert. Though in the end I'm sure RNG still plays a big part.

But yes don't run beginner, it's a complete waste aside from the first time for the jewels.
That's useful data, thanks. I think the problem though isn't that they don't drop at all, they just seem to drop in similar amounts (in Expert at least) to the Silver mats, but the exchange requires triple or quadruple their amount comparatively. It's like they adjusted the drop rates to "help us out" but they just moved the slider over a rarity level and forgot that we NEED a bunch of "shittier" drops due to the exchange rate.

I'm sure it'll even out in the end, it just seemed so silly compared to what we're used to for me to have no trouble at all with the gold chest drops but be in dire need of the bronzes.