Hi everyone,
Here's this week's QOTW, straight from the developers.

On Feldron's request, this week we delve into the pool of resources available in Earthrise to present to you the various ways to acquire the most powerful resources available in the game. We have already announced that the way for players to harvest such resources would be to build a mine on a contested territory their guild has gained control on. But what happens to all those solo players who don't have a guild or wish not to participate in combat? Are they left in the blue with the only option to buy such resources from guilds, and only if those guilds are willing to share and at a price that the market will bear? Not at all! We thought of these questions and provided such players with alternative ways.

Similar to crafting items, players will be able to dismantle and process items down to their basic components, even if the melted component's quality will naturally not be as high of quality when compared to the source item. Processing items will allow players to extract rare resources from items that other players have created or have been found as loot from powerful opponents. Also, there will be quests that provide players with rare resources as part of their rewards. A portion of these quests will be provided by organizations and are designed to be repeatable, allowing players to "harvest" small amounts of rare resources as they raise their reputation towards these organizations.

This is just a little bit from our developers, and we invite you to ask questions below - don't worry, there will be more to come on this topic! Have a great week, everyone.
~ m.

Good lord thanks for this way of implementation.

Bravo!  This will be great news for the non-PvP-centric crowd.

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not only is the info good (im very pleased with the way the devs are thinking of solo players) i also like the way its coming 'straight from the developers'

looks really cool to me.  If I'm not totally focused on other skills, I might even put a few towards this kind of thing.

will be interesting to see if the components retrieved from nearly-destroyed items are of lesser quality then ones recovered from near-perfect equipment.