Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33185350-20180315151029/@comment-25101089-20180407153522

You can't balance the mithril PVP situation by making it rarer. Making a problematic resource rarer doesn't fix the problems - it only narrows the pool of players who are able to obtain it, and exacerbates the stratfication between hardcore and casual players. Significantly rarer mithril would only serve to elevate the hardcore players even further while driving away newer players. We would be much more open to considering a strong decrease to the utility of mithril (e.g. lowering the armour to only iron tier, but giving it natural protection against polearms) than any significant rarity increase. The armour modifiers have indeed achieved something in this direction.

Also, for the record, this book item is not supposed to imply a distinction between "Mithril" and "True-silver"; it is supposed to represent the techniques that would be required by a skilled craftsdwarf to forge a coat of mithril armour, as opposed to any old blacksmith going into Moria looking for mithril and attempting to make armour from it. We would be open to considering an alternative name.