Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-31507215-20170521155458

If I am not mistaken, the only pickaxes able to mine obsidian (currently) are Dwarven ones. This is all well and good, but I think that the Tauredain pickaxe should be able to mine it too. First of all, (crafting table inaccuracies aside) the Tauredain fashion good weapons out of obsidian, so it makes a certain amount of sense that they should be able to work/mine it. Second, they can make obsidian (like all other factions can), but they would have to travel all the way to either the Iron Hills or the Ered Luin (which are probably the farthest factions from them) to pick it back up if they placed it. Lastly, they are the only Mannish faction to have their own tool set, so why waste it?

The pickaxe would stay the same, but would be able to break (and collect) obsidian, at about half the speed of Dwarven pickaxes.

As always, Suggestions and Criticism welcome!

 