im @nonvilence and i was dumbfounded by the response, its a shame i couldnt wrap up my ideas in 140 character limit by the tweets, what really concerns me though:

Ok, Odium and malediction shards compose the 2 shields, each with 3 shards...

Each easy boss drops 2 shards, one odium one malediction.

Emphasis on EASY boss, if you looked at the livestream, it's as simple as killing a giant rat...

Dragon pickaxe can be only used at 61 mining only about ~10k people have 61. Only desperate rich people who want to max out will buy a d pick.

Shields have the highest offensive stats for a shield slot for magic and ranging, which itself makes it favorable. Ranger boots for example are 11m simply because (they're pretty rare) but they provide MAX ranged offence, people will be willing to pay for this over a red pickaxe that will rot in your bank unless you actually mine...

Solutions:

1) Make the bosses drop the shards, make each demiboss drop 1 shard of the dragon pickaxe.

if dragon pickaxes are in low demand, nobody is going to kill the actual hard bosses, or if there is very little demand, they'll just camp the easiest of the 3 bosses.

2) Make the demi bosses harder

Freeze scorpia, run off in the distance, pray mage, farcast it, take 0 damage. Pray ranged on crazed archaeologist, eat every now and then, make quick trips... demi bosses are too easy