MOONSTONE VALESTONE
I have 2 ideas for this.
NUMBER ONE: SPRITES
Instead of willy nilly coming up with a new sprite, lets take a look at all 5 minerals.
Minerals with sprites already assigned:
Crimsonite:
A fabled mineral of a fiery, red color said to contain the passion, anger and strength of the life surrounding it.
Power food, strength, fiery, Drakon.
Red shards, aka crimsonite, are dropped by Fiends, Beasts, and Gremlins. Beasts look similar to Drakon.
Red shards craft Fire weapons. Drakon deals Fire.
Dark Matter
A fabled mineral dark and ominous in color said to contain the essences of both chaos and nothingness.
Dark, Ominous, Shadow food, Maskeraith
Dark shards are dropped by Fiends and Undead. Maskeraith looks similar to a Fiend.
Dark shards are used in Poison weapons. Maskeraith deals Poison.
Luminite
A fabled mineral of a radiant, golden color said to contain the faith, wisdom, and zeal of the life surrounding it.
Golden, wisdom, zeal, divine food, Seraphynx.
Light shards are dropped by Construct, Slime, and Undead. Seraphynx looks similar to an Undead.
Light shards are made for Stun and status-free weapons. Seraphynx has no status.
Now, lets take a look at Valestone, our green mineral.
A fabled mineral of a vibrant green color said to contain the essence of all natural life.
Vibrant, natural life. Natural mote/food?
Green shards are dropped by Beasts and Slime.
I'd imagine a slime looking sprite focused around Freeze. Harnesses could possibly be all, at a slightly lower damage than other sprites?
Moonstone
A fabled mineral of a brilliant, blue color said to contain the knowledge and origins of all worlds.
Brilliant, knowledge, origin, creation, worlds, wisdom mote?
Blue shards are dropped by Gremlins and Construct.
I'd imagine something similar looking to a Gun Puppy based around Shock. Perhaps the harness would only be normal, but at slightly higher damage than other sprites?
SOLUTION 2:
Rarity crafting
It's atrocious getting orbs and fire crystals.
Once again a look into the descriptions of the minerals could be very useful here.
Moonstone, origins, knowledge.
Orbs of alchemy could be crafted by Moonstone and 2 sprite minerals.
Amount of stars x 5 moonstone
Amount of stars x 1 sprite mineral
3 of amount of stars material
Valestone, natural life, fire.
Fire crystals could be crafted through pure valestone.
Amount of stars x 40 Valestone = 60 _____ fire crystals
ARCADE
One feature I really miss is the abillity to deposit minerals into the arcade to determine what appears in the next few gates. If either of the two features I suggested above are put into use, I would suggest to have this too:
Bring back ability to depositing to determine stratum, but keep track of what minerals are deposited and adjust how much they are affective depending on how much is deposited to avoid the whole Ice and Poison stratum incident that happened after Sprites were introduced.