Why are furnishing mat drops so rare?

MornaBaine

I can harvest mats for gear, a thing that actually affects gameplay, really easily. Yet the mats for furniture, which is strictly a vanity item, are incredibly rare in comparison even though they come from the very same nodes as the mats for armor, potions and enchants. Why is this the case? Instead of enjoying this new purely social feature I'm having to spend all my time just trying to get enough mats together to make a few chairs for my guests to use. Shouldn't the wood you make staves out of and the wood you make a darned kitchen table out of be equally available? Indeed, if one is going to be rarer than the other, shouldn't it be the reverse of the way it is now, with special "magic" wood being harder to obtain that the wood one can make common household articles out of? This setup just really makes no sense to me.

Karivaa

I'm glad it is rare so the market isn't flooded like it is with normal stuff. Just takes farming.

luen79rwb17_ESO

They're rare just to keep you busy farming them until next update.