Yay more punchcard rng!
How about turning useless stacks of cells to parts?
just in time
i need the other way.. I am my raids cook.. I never have enough spare parts i have all the other bits for my rank 3 essences but i need a ton more parts.. and i can only farm for so many hours a week..
Blizzard has access to data that we do not. I'm 100% certain they looked at the number of players getting rank 3 essences and rings/trinkets and implemented this for that reason.Spare parts can be farmed easily, any time of day, nonstop. Just kill everything in sight and you get tons of spare parts. They are literally limitless. Oscillators and Igniters cannot be farmed. Period. One per day or two if you're lucky is a very, and artificially, limiting factor. That's the difference. I am super thankful for this change and can't wait to finally get online and start crafting some oscillators to go with the tons of crates I'm carrying in my bags.
I JUST SOLD A STACK OF COILS! gaahhhh, time for item restore xD
Finally! Now filthy casuals like me can go after the good stuff!
When the quest to suck the rare metals out of the ground is up, you can use it to farm yellow punch cards. There is a rare chance to also suck up a small metal box, this can sometimes contain the blue paint vial item for the ATV mount, but every box also contains a yellow punch card. If you want to farm punch cards with no materials cost, then this is a way to do so - however, you will likely spend a lot of time doing this (you just don't hand in the quest and keep farming). My ultimate goal was the paint vial, but I also got a 430 item level titanforged card as well.