Arsenic - incredibly hard to farm

Bionic Bytes

Bionic Bytes
So it’s 3.0 beyond and I thought I’d gather materials for a round of engineering.
I visit a moon with 2.9% arsenic - a very high percentage so after 3 hours of roaming you’d expect a fair amount collected right? Wrong
Just 1 lousy material. Plenty of niobium however.

Anyone else finding material gathering not what it should be
 

shustas

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Just did the planet near the Farseer engie 2 days ago. 3 drops in about 40 min roaming. I say its not that bad
 

Aussiedroid

Aussiedroid
I can't comment on 3.0 status of this, but I have experienced this sort of bad luck on the rolls before myself. % look fine, good even, but nothing you need ever drops in the session. Doesn't seem to happen too often but does occasionally do a great job at wasting your time. :)
 

GG7

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Bionic Bytes said:
So it’s 3.0 beyond and I thought I’d gather materials for a round of engineering.
I visit a moon with 2.9% arsenic - a very high percentage so after 3 hours of roaming you’d expect a fair amount collected right? Wrong
Just 1 lousy material. Plenty of niobium however.

Anyone else finding material gathering not what it should be
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Why are you even bothering? With the new system and a Raw Material trader you can trade in any G4 or G5 Mat and get 27 or more Arsenic with 1 of the higher grade mats.

The only Mats worth collecting now are G4 and G5. They can provide everything else in bulk.

I've got 250 Arsenic in my inventory and I didn't collect a single piece on a planet.
 
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Hank

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GG7 said:
Why are you even bothering? With the new system and a Raw Material trader you can trade in any G4 or G5 Mat and get 27 or more Arsenic with 1 of the higher grade mats.

The only Mats worth collecting now are G4 and G5. They can provide everything else in bulk.

I've got 250 Arsenic in my inventory and I didn't collect a single piece on a planet.
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This is good info.
I've had bad luck w/arsenic. The best luck I had was surface prospecting inside a crater. I tried along the outside of the crater but had terrible results.

I sure hope this Materials Trader takes some of the time sinks away.
 

Flin

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Quick Tips: Check out Sudi A 2.

The % drop of common materials are roughly the same, so you don't get a scenario where chromium is dropping at 15% while arsenic is dropping at 2%.

It also as Mercury, which is equivalent to 3 Arsenic at a material trader.

My last trip I got so much more Mercury than Arsenic due to RNG and being easier to spot Messodrites. Works out for me thanks to Material Trader.
 

rrobes

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Here's the funny thing, every time I go looking for something, it's like pulling teeth, but the same material is quite available when I'm looking for other stuff.

I'm headed for a spin in the 'RV tonight and free lance and see what turns up.

And Hank is correct, just before the drop I tried to top off on all grades 4 and 5, trading down is the way to go.
 

Moriendor

Moriendor
Regardless of the material trader: What happened to farming from Barnacle fields, Barnacle field empty, log out, log back in for a fully respawned Barnacle field, rinse, repeat? Has that been fixed?
 

GG7

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Hank said:
This is good info.
I've had bad luck w/arsenic. The best luck I had was surface prospecting inside a crater. I tried along the outside of the crater but had terrible results.

I sure hope this Materials Trader takes some of the time sinks away.
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I HATED having to look for arsenic in 2.4! :( It never spawned even on planets where it had a higher percentage!

Do yourself a favor and STOP LOOKING FOR IT! If memory serves, I believe that Antimony is the G5 raw that is aligned with Arsenic. (I did most of my material creating/trading/shuffling in the first two days of the 3.0 release and haven't been back to the traders for a while.)

Ironically... Antimony is actually easier to find on planets than arsenic! lol! I have found that most of the G5 raw materials are easier to find than Arsenic ever was! ;)

If you need locations for material traders in your areas of space, check out this Inara page:

https://inara.cz/galaxy-nearest/25/17945/

Just type in your location system and it will search for the nearest ones. Visit a Raw Material trader and get the lay of the land. Maybe take a screenshot of the chart so you can refer to it later. (I'm planning to do that next time I visit)
 
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Speedcuffs

Speedcuffs
Moriendor said:
Regardless of the material trader: What happened to farming from Barnacle fields, Barnacle field empty, log out, log back in for a fully respawned Barnacle field, rinse, repeat? Has that been fixed?
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Gonna have a look at that.
If the ps4 doesn't keep blue screening me.
 
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GG7

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Dave1029 said:
Forget arsenic. Abnormal compact emission data. g impossible to find man.
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Sounds like you are not bothering to scan ships in SuperCruise. I get that one often by scanning ships in SC. I just make it part of my SC trip, just like Wake Scanning all the High Wakes in front of me when leaving a starport. Datamined Wake Exceptions have never been in short supply for me either. ;)
 

Dave1029

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GG7 said:
Sounds like you are not bothering to scan ships in SuperCruise. I get that one often by scanning ships in SC. I just make it part of my SC trip, just like Wake Scanning all the High Wakes in front of me when leaving a starport. Datamined Wake Exceptions have never been in short supply for me either. ;)
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Scanned 100 anacondas in SC earlier with no ACE data. Sounds like you haven't acquianted yourself to 3.0 drop rates.
 

V'larr

V'larr
> flashbacks to spending 3 days for 6 bits of arsenic across four different planets....

How far we've come.
 

Captain Jack Sparrow

Captain Jack Sparrow
GG7 said:
Why are you even bothering? With the new system and a Raw Material trader you can trade in any G4 or G5 Mat and get 27 or more Arsenic with 1 of the higher grade mats.

The only Mats worth collecting now are G4 and G5. They can provide everything else in bulk.

I've got 250 Arsenic in my inventory and I didn't collect a single piece on a planet.
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Because eventually you run out of G5's and they are harder to find. Took me one day to exhaust my G5 supply.
 

GraXXoR

GraXXoR
Anecdotal here, but...

Deciat 1A 2.2% I did a 100km crater run. Took just under 4 hours... from that I have got 30 Arsenic and about 6 or 7 hundred general materials... Highter than the 2.2% listed.
 
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