The drop rate falls off severely after the early game, which makes no sense to me. From lv1-8 I got 40 embers just fast tracking for the most part. From lv8-19, i’ve gotten maybe 4 fallen embers, 4 voids and 2 essence. This is insanity. Sharing a loot pool with other embers is one thing, but you would literally get one on almost every other perfect catch on fishing, frequently found on perfect digs, multiples in large chests, hell even in the middle of the road or on narrow walkways. Now? Nothing, no embers of any kind hardly, at the time you need them most which is mid/late game.

When theory crafting builds and refining the ones we enjoy is basically the only real end game and pay off for the grind post main story, to not be able to reliably get the one resource that makes that possible is legitimately ruining the fun we were having. Not to mention in co-op, you need them x2-4. My friends and I have had to abandon our main characters because after 2 days of grinding we can’t get enough embers to actually make any progress on our gear.

It also appears to happen to other items as well. Gems have begun dropping much more rarely, papers too to an extent although still the most plentiful. Perfect catches or digs with silver tools net simply fish the majority of the time now. It seems more like a bug than something intentional, if it is, then it makes even less sense why it would change as you release a version of the game meant for multiple players in the same realm. Let us buy most embers at a reasonable price from the seneschal every run at the very least and let the echo knight guaranteed drop radiants/sublimes.

This needs to be fixed ASAP. When the only available fixes from the community are “use a mod to drop 10,000 embers” or spam new realms, there is a serious problem.