I was honestly annoyed and frustrated by this change as well. So why did you all think it was a good idea to punish the community at large for this?
If you are going to make this type of change you should at least make more scales drop at the end of the quest.
Eh, still not the greatest of a solution imo.Apparently there was some kind of exploit that resulted in people getting large amounts of scales. Presumably the binding change was to prevent people from using those stockpiles for trading / auctioning.
They did. The drop rate went from a max of 23 per run to 46.