I ran around and trained the entire zone roughly on myself before popping counterattack disc. I got two to drop. This is after I did the same thing in Natimbi, Ferubi (x2) and Qinimi without getting any drops. Went back a little later and got more to drop in Riwi as well.
in 102 kills the ore dropped twice. that is less than 2% chance of getting this drop. most items that i got dropped between 3-6 times and one dropped at a 11% rate. THIS IS NOT A COMMON DROP. both dropped from "a tide feaster"
/sigh just got the pieces needed did the snokin quest to yield as many bars as possible and after that i turned them into sheets when i need the bars =/ back to days on end of looking for ore in natimbi =/
When used in a forge to make Bar of Align Steel you will randomly make 1 or 2 (from what ive seen) but when you hand in to Snokin you always seem to get 2. My smithing is 202 atm so. Why risk only one or a fail?
As you improve with tradeskills of the expansion you start yielding 2 or 3 rather than 1 or 2. Letting Snokin do it saves some bother here, but doing it yourself yields benefits if you plan on combining a lot.
Give aligned ore to Snokin on boat in Abysmal Sea. He gave me back 2 bars of aligned steel. Then take and give one bar to Esunta. She gave me back for 10 combines of simple aligned steel skewers. Do the combine give back to her and raise skill with her. Do this enough and you will be able to make the bar of aligned steel yourself. I tried after 2 bars and could still not make the aligned or to bar still, so give Esunta a total of 4 bars and combines. I hope tha will be enough so I can do it on my own. I only had two aligned ore so am not sure how many times you got to help Esunta till you can do it on your own.
Does anyone know approximately how much these should sell for? I sold 2 on Xev for 1k each, but there were no other aligned ores in bazaar to compare prices.
These are used in the new smithing receipes in GoD.
But first they need to get refined : if you have done the smithing-quest then you just put it in forge and hit combine... if not you hand them in to Snokin Breaksteel (on boat) and you will get back the needed bar of aligned steel.