You need 5 null stone fragments to create a null stone. And, even the fragments drop at a fairly low chance, while a lot of recipies require it for crafting, often more than one.
I just did it - but think thats a little extreme. They’re genuinely checking how much people are willing to pay - do never forget this company will nickle and dime you and they’re pretending they’re for us but its all about money and they have teams working round the clock to research this to get their next cash grab or way to entice people to pay more than the sub fee.
They will eventually be easier to collect (final tier skill in iirc the plethoras of ore tree let you mine undamaged null stones and I assume that means that you will never get undamaged ones again) but putting them up for it this early in is like what are you doing blizzard
It’s not that they’re difficult to get. I can get 4-5 just doing my weekly knowledge gathering which is all I do on my gatherer character. I could turn those in for the quest but why would I turn 12k worth of mats for 2 knowledge points when I could just sell them instead?
that price will likely drop when the main source of flawless nullstones goes from combining 5 flawed nullstones from ore deposits to just straight from ore deposits, in theory (if those skill tree completions means that any flawed nullstone will now be a perfect nullstone on mining) that roughly translates to getting 5x as many null stones
once more people gete that, it likely won’t stay 12k knowledge
so I would say it is definately still in part due to the fact that most people have not invested into completing plethora’s of ores yet (because they havn’t had the points and most people would rather get the mining while flying skill first)
The price will still be considerable and higher in value than what 3 one off knowledge points are worth. I have Bismuth and Ironclaw maxed out in Plethora of Ore and like I said, I get about 4 null stones doing my weekly gathers in Isle of Dorn, if I’m lucky. On average you’ll be getting about 3 null stones per hour with the whole tree maxed out. It’s still going to be a rare reagent that has no business being in a weekly knowledge quest. Maybe if it was just one, but any more than that, I’m just selling it instead.
I hated this back in the day when the Thorium Brotherhood in Blackrock took very expensive mats to gain rep etc.
Didn’t make much sense to me at the time, you need the mats to make blacksmithing items so why just give it to them for so little in return.