Perfect Snowball drops from those big kats with ice-breath.

Also you can't make the Valkyrie set because the lack of Sun Silver.

Meteor Mote is required in crafting:
Nitronome (5*)
Master Blast Bomb
Master Blaster
Strike Needle
Blitz Needle (5*)
Valiance (5*)
Swiftstrike Buckler

Sun Silver is required in crafting:
Argent Peacemaker (5*)
Divine Avenger (5*)
Valkyrie Helm (5*)
Crest of Almire (5*)
Prisma Driver (5*)
Radiant Sun Shards (5*)

Rock Salt is required in crafting:
Ionized Salt Bomb
Rock Salt Bomb
Stone Tortoise
Omega Shell (5*)
Crystal Bomb
Crest of Almire (again!)

Dragon Scale is required in crafting:
Azure Guardian Helm (5*)
Azure Guardian Armor (5*)

Everfrost is required in crafting:
Cold Iron Vanquisher (5*)
Hail Driver (5*)
Shivermist Buster (5*)

No idea what Thunder Ball is for, but I've never come across it so far.

I don't know if the above 5* items drop from treasure boxes. I also don't know which items below 5* are available for purchase from Basil. But as far as I can tell the above 5* items cannot be crafted at the moment.

edit: if any of the above requirements are wrong, please update the wiki for the respective recipe.

I suggest adding "Radiant Silvermail" to that list. It's a 5* armor that requires Sun Silver.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Dragon Scale Helm and Mail require a Dragon Scale each? Or is this just a case of the name being misleading?

SL, you're probably right. I took my list from the wiki. Those recipes are probably not in the wiki yet, very likely not in the last place because nobody has managed to craft those items yet.

I can't verify the requirements for crafting any other items, as recipes aren't freely available.

edit: Dragon Scale gear requires Drake Scales, not Dragon scales. :)

Uh, I've picked up Dragon Scales before, they are definitely in the game.

On the Meteor Mote I would like to call pics or it didn't happen.

The OP doesn't say it doesn't exist. It says it doesn't drop from monsters. That makes it a highly unreliable material, to the point that people argue that it doesn't exist. To the point that you can't seriously count on crafting anything that requires such material.

I'll be sure to ask him the next time I see him.

i hate it when i find something i need and someone else gets it shouldnt everyone get the item shared around like cash and energy

I disagree with you Darkgales. Playing in a party has advantages and disadvantages. The more people, the less soon you'll need to revive by energy, since 4 deaths is hard to reach usually. The up-side is less risk on extra energy costs, and in some cases a decrease in difficulty. The down-side is that you need to share materials.

But to be more precise to your suggestion. If rare item X drops in a party of 4, then 4 X would be put into the game. This means rare materials get less rare by an average of 2-3 times. Except of course if you decrease the drop chance according to how many people you have in your party. But then the odds of finding a rare material would be nearly non-existent. This means that you won't find yourself getting rare materials more often in the same time-frame. (considering you finish a level way faster in a party, compared to doing it solo)

You know what?

I hope the next boss would be the CEO of what ever corp the devilites work for.

The battle would include him trying to run you down in a limo while sipping champagne and bobbing up and down saying "I'ma the BOZZ!"

I think I'm gonna call it the Berser-Car fight.

Why is dragon scale still on the list.

In addition to rock salt and meteor mote, I'd like to propose a sublist of other low-star-value items that are ridiculously rare for their rating. I'll start off with the 2* item Blast Powder- despite fighting a lot of gremlin demos lately, I've only gotten 4 blast powders in ~3 months of playing. Compare that to 15 primal ores (5*), 75+ blaze peppers (4*), or 5 reaper ribs (5*).

This doesn't rule out crafting weapons of certain lines, but it does make it much less practical and much more expensive than other weapons of the same star rating. (autogun family, I'm looking at you)

In the below list, I will assume that the supposed dev claims of these items dropping are true, though I've seen no evidence of it myself. It's always possible that an artist heard it secondhand from a dev who'd made a mistake, after all. If nothing else, organizing the "hard to find" items should point the devs towards problems in the drop system that need to be remedied before we can test these items. (a crucial function of a beta)

Items whose rarity defies their star rating:

• Rock Salt (if it drops at all; devs are cagey)
• Meteor more
• Blast powder

EDIT: Based on feedback below, I've removed royal core from the list. Thanks, everyone!

Royal Core is not that rare pauling. I've found multiple ones already from rock jellies. If there would be jelly farms near the core you'd see it far more often too. But yeah, currently Nick locked that section up to Vanaduke and his castles only, so it's normal that you don't find a lot of them now?

I've gotten two royal cores from boxes and two more from the purple explosive jellies. And still I search for a Royal Jelly Helm recipe.

@Kaybol

They are used in royal jelly set.

Have 5 of those.... Not really something useful, hope there's gonna be more use of it latter on.

I just had a Meteor Mote drop from a Rock Jelly in a danger room. I was at depth...22ish?

Edit: They appear to all be fixed. I've also seen a Sun Silver, and heard rumors of Rock Salt existing.

Meteor Mote drops from Rock Jellies in the danger room that has the bramble bush down the middle.

Here's my proof of the Meteor Mote dropping.

Meteor Motes also drop from non-upgraded yellow jellies.

Just got an Everfrost from a box on level 26.

Rock salt is in, can't confirm it but someone says Sun Silver is in too.

I suppose this means we can finally alchemize Divine Avenger and Argent Peacemaker, as arduous a task it may be to acquire a Sun Silver. I've had both of mine idling at Lv10 for quite a while now, though I haven't been playing enough to mind the wait.