I can't tell if the people not wanting anything changed are that clueless, or trolling. The one thing certain is that they aren't correct in any way, shape, or form.
I actually tried to help Tamais collect scrolls for the books once.
An hour of Swoops - 1 scroll
An hour of Miasma - 2 scrolls, and one of the 2 was of a spell that comes from the same quest as the book.
I can take one of my lockpickers, and get more than 3 8th level spells from dungeon chests quicker than I could get 3 Spellweaving scrolls.
In fact, after TWO WEEKS of spending 1-2 hours a day trying to farm Spellweaving scrolls from those creatures some of you INSIST drop bunches, I had a book with ELEVEN spells - only SEVEN of them being from drops, with about 5 extras (2 of them being Arcane Circle). I STILL never got the scrolls she was actually looking for to put in the book she was trying to assemble.
You know, if you actually took the illogic of the "system works fine as is" types to its full extent, then there shouldn't Arcane Circle scroll drops AT ALL, since they come from the quest, and no one would ever NEED to use such a scroll.
Of the 16 spells:
2 come with the book (but in scroll form) when you complete the quest to activate spellweaving
2 others come from specific quests (The fey and imp summoners)
The other 12, you're at the mercy of the RNG, and there's still a 2/14 chance of getting a scroll of a spell you get from the intro to Spellweaving quest.
BTW, while you can repeat the quests now, originally you couldn't. If you misplaced or sold your Spellweaving book in the first few years of ML, you were SOL. I was semi-dormant in the game from 2013-2015 (multiple family issues) and when I came back I didn't even know that they had been changed to be repeatable then, until someone told me.
And, the fact that someone pointed out that on a couple shards, you can BUY the scrolls off Player vendors for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of gold, proves Tamais' point far more than than the opposite.
- Most shards don't have such vendors,
- When's the last time any of you paid 6-digit gold for a SINGLE high-end Necro, Mystic or Mage scroll? I believe the answer is "Never", even when Inscription couldn't make the first two - or going back further, not even when you could only get the 8th level scrolls from dungeon chests and MAYBE a monster or two (forget if any monsters before AoS had eighth level scrolls).