Reworked quests to increase availability of Legendary Dust

[Hamsterino]

What about cav quests???
Seriously, this is a nice idea (especially since I had the same one), because Gold was replaced by Essence and is mostly useless now. The main difference to Rise From The Ashes is that the Gold Bars/Ink of Life you get from the Defender quests are still useful, because there's always demand for lumps of lead and you can't just buy them from the marketplace. So, replacing the Gold you get from those quests you named with Dust would make sense only if you keep the lumps, because that part of the reward is perfectly fine and doesn't need any changes.
That said, an idea I had reading your post is to use that issue to fix any afk-ing too. What do I mean by that? If there was like a 10% chance to loot a Legendary Dust from a combat xp (not assist xp!) line and the recipe to craft a Legendary Essence was changed to require something like 500 Dust instead of 9, it wouldn't just solve the issue of buying high-tier items being essentially luck-based (I remember one of our CN brothers looting 5 Dusts in a single run), but it would also finally give everyone a reason to not be afk, since then there's an actual reward for killing nords instead of just sitting safely behind a corner and watching YouTube. Also, I personally would much rather get 1% closer to crafting a Legendary Essence every day for 100 days than get 10% closer every 10 days, if you get what I mean. It's the same amount of time spent, but I like my progress to be many small but consistent steps instead of a few big but very inconsistent and random steps.