I've been into housing since it came out and I'm coming to realize how many housing materials I go through.
Bast, heartwood, mundane runes, alchemical resin & regulus runs out often. I see an opportunity to further expand their availability without over-saturating their drop rate. Right now, the only way to get these materials is to pluck the node that they have a drop chance in and if you are lucky through heavy sacks.
I suggest we add housing materials to the following methods as well:
- Survey Reports from our daily writs.
- Wet Gunny Sacks from fishing.
- Hireling Mails
I see the biggest opportunity in including these materials in Survey Reports from completing the daily crafting quests. We can add one node to each survey report giving 10-20 of the housing material in question.
The Wet Gunny Sack is really just rng roulette. So the odds are against you, but it would be nice if there was a drop of these materials.
And, lastly hireling mails could compliment the availability of these items while still limiting the quantity given (say somewhere between 1 and 5) of each material. Once again, the odds would be against getting it since the item pool is so large and rng is rng. But, its a move in the right direction.
Thats my suggestion in a nutshell.