a bunch of people said:
"Materials are hard to farm"
Look harder. Seriously. You can gather 50-75+ materials in 15-20 minutes, easily, on any planet.
If you're hunting Relic Iron by scouring the planet looking for nodes, youredoingitwrong.gif
Every single planet has areas that are loaded to the brim with chest spawns, most have resource nodes nearby, but those are a bonus, the chests are what you want. They all contain materials, and you get free glimmer and engrams or other loot now and then.
There are chests everywhere, I mean
everywhere. You haven't found them all, I promise you.
There's guides floating around online, but you don't really need to constantly farm one spot and loop it if you don't want to (I generally don't bother), you can bop between different areas tackling patrols while looping all the spawns in the vicinity.
Quick tips for speed farming materials:
Respec to full Agility. Bring a weapon with the Lightweight (+2 Agility) mod. Be sure to check all of your talents, some have a bonus point of agility on them, not just the stat talents.
Don't get off your Sparrow. Drive into caves and buildings, get off, loot, get back on your sparrow rather than resummoning a new one.
Use your jumps to scout for chests.That green glow is distinctive and easy to spot from the air, when you're scouting a new area, get some height and scan the area.
Look behind, under, around, within everything in every area. There are so many chest spawns (I've found areas that have chests that literally spawn two feet away from each other), some of them cleverly tucked away behind objects so they can't be spotted from the air or from common routes.
Go to the edges of areas, look at them from above, look behind debris and cover, and look for every cave and small building entrance. Every single planet has tons of these, some zones have more than others, but those little caves and buildings are all guaranteed chest spawns. They're just the beginning of what you can find, but they give you a good guaranteed basic loop to scout while you're discovering all the other chests tucked away everywhere.
Best way to do this is with two friends so you can split farm patrols, but that's just a bonus, soloing for materials is fast and easy.
