General Scrap Is Flawed And Here's Why

Okay, so recently I've been trying to farm large amounts of scrap on a class that isn't able to buy any from the trade market (ironman btw).

I'm pretty sure that I've spent over ten hours dropping about 750 level one helmets on the ground and then selling them all to the blacksmith. For some reason, this is the fastest way to obtain that scrap unless there are profession bombs active. Your only other option is to buy it off of the market, which is usually in no short supply of scrap (at 12-16 emeralds per as opposed to the 4 it costs for a single helmet which generates one scrap).

But what about professions? Those give you loads of scrap for the items you craft thousands of.
Well, the only problem with that is that it's faster to scrap helmets (taking roughly 20 minutes for the 12 stacks I normally farm at one time). Unless somebody spends IRL money to throw a profession speed bomb, and then that method is way, way better. Obviously that's not a good thing. And I don't want to spend money to get one of the most basic components to professions faster.

If you don't believe me, the highest level node that someone with a tier 11/12 tool can one hit is 40. The easiest way to farm scrap using these is to go to a lake of Icefish with 11 nodes and one tap all of them, and then 11 trees that are close nearby. Then after your tools run out of durability, craft level 47-49 scrolls. They sell for 5 scrap. With a 90% success chance, you will get an average of 10 oil and 10 paper per minute, which is enough to craft three scrolls, giving you an average of... 16.5 scrap a minute?

If there is profession speed, you can get 20 materials on average per minute and craft scrolls for just one material each, giving you a whopping 100 scrap per minute.

Now, scrapping helmets on a class such as, say, a level 50 mage would give you around 100 per minute.
The optimal way to do this, but not the method I choose, is to have a weapon in your 1 slot and two other slots for emerald blocks and emeralds. You spam click the helmet button and then use your movement spell to quickly get to the blacksmith, sell all the helmets (which will reset your spell cost), and move back to the helmet shop. This process takes 15 seconds or less if you're fast about it and gives you a consistent 26 scrap per inventory, tallying to just over 100 per minute.

Of course this isn't a problem for most people since they just buy the somewhat overprice scrap off the market, but it still seems like an extremely flawed system. I'm not sure how to implement a better one, though. Just my thoughts. Thanks.


the 270 entities in this chunk are less than 1/3 of what I need to scrap just to do two or three LI runs