Again i know it's tiring but felt like it just had to be said. I feel sad that they did so many things right except for mememing the entire pvming community with these stupid drops that should had just been taken off the drop table. It just added salt to a great thing. I dunno why it's taking so long.
They're working on smithable salvage. In theory, that'll make the lower level ores like adamant and mithril more useful to the average player, and hopefully make the stone spirits less trashy... Doesn't really help the uselessness of bronze, iron, etc. spirits, though.
I propose we be allowed to trade in stone spirits for salvage, respect, bonus XP or geodes. But who knows what they want to do.
Still, I think they're giving us smithable salvage before they touch stone spirits... They want to fix Invention components before drop tables, I imagine, since it seems like a more important, and faster, fix.
Just wanted to state that the doc i posted was only intended to test the general idea/numbers out. The design was never approved or anything so it's not being worked on.