After the very vague hotfix notes from yesterday, players were left wondering: how much did the buff actually change? Luckily we have Rob jumping in and looking over all the key activities and sharing the results!
Material Matters
Rawhide and 
Iron Chunk drop rates were buffed in yesterday’s hotfixes, but there was no word by how much. Well, we now know and it seems pretty significant. Well, for everything except Legion events, which were buffed 10x, but that still makes them pretty much useless – which shows you just how useless they were before! Every other source of the base materials except for salvage has been majorly buffed and Rob took a look at the end results for the various activities.
There is one key to the numbers, and that’s the 
Seething Opal of Materials. The rewards that it gives were also buffed in the patch, so if you need Rawhide and Iron Chunks, you always want to have a materials Opal active.
The Numbers
All activities have had their basic material rewards at least doubled. Legion events got the biggest buff but are also the most pointless, at 30 Rawhide per run. The big winner is Whisper Caches, as they now go for around 400+ for basic and up to 900 for legendary caches. This is a little under triple their previous drops. This is especially useful as you can combine them with Helltides, and even get some alts leveled if you want to spend the XP there!
The Realmwalker got his drops quadrupled as he’s around 400 now and is actually worthwhile. Infernal Hordes are still very random, and they vary from about the same as before to double, at 800. Nightmare dungeons come in at 200, with the Pit at 80-180, but with some fast runs.
In conclusion, get those Opals ready! Farm a whole lot of Whispers, and generally do pretty much any activity you like and you should be ok with the basic mats for a while. At least we don’t need boss materials to farm the most basic of mats anymore!
So let’s see if this buff fixes the bottleneck of basic materials! And if it does, is there another one coming to replace them?