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[Tip] Cheapest way to get levels on your Artifact
ciopenhauer
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For those of you who want to be smart about refining your new artifacts and who are looking for what is the best AD:RP value, this is something you will want to look into if it's unknown to you at the present time.
Currently, I believe most people's favorite way to refine their artifacts (not counting buying keys for 5K AD on the particular day you can farm Marks for your specific artifact) is by using Rank 5s or buying Greater Marks for their specific artifact type, specially if you get them at a decent price, as they offer the best AD:RP value ratio. But there is something that beats the hell out of these but unfortunately it is limited in its capacity to be repeated. What does it involve?
You may be sick of Sharandar like me if you had to do it on multiple characters, but this tip involves farming Sharandar again. Still, it is very much worth doing. If you use your Arcane Reservoir quest, you can get Sparks which will allow you to forge a Lesser Fey Blessing enchantment. It is located in the top left of the Sharandar Campaign window (click on the flag in your UI). You also need to have farmed the daily quests, each one of them once as requirement. This enchantment will give you some 26,000 RPs or so. That is a lot of RP. Since you avoid the price of a Coal ward to create a Lesser enchantment by using the Campaign system, it only comes at a price of 20,000 AD and 6 gold. As you can easily see, this is more RP per AD than AD per RP, unlike the previous, less profitable enchants/marks. (Note: this only applies to Artifacts of Power and of Union. The current price of the Greater marks of Stability are extremely cheap, also offering great RP:AD value.)
If you do the daily Sharandar Battle quest which is extremely easy and fast to do, you will get 10 sparks every day. You can also get more sparks with your 6/7 invocation coins. If you have multiple characters, you will get more Arcane Reservoir quests, resulting in a lot of Sparks to make your Fey Blessing enchants which can be transferred to the account you want to refine your Artifacts on.
Hope this helps!
- Laure
Currently, I believe most people's favorite way to refine their artifacts (not counting buying keys for 5K AD on the particular day you can farm Marks for your specific artifact) is by using Rank 5s or buying Greater Marks for their specific artifact type, specially if you get them at a decent price, as they offer the best AD:RP value ratio. But there is something that beats the hell out of these but unfortunately it is limited in its capacity to be repeated. What does it involve?
You may be sick of Sharandar like me if you had to do it on multiple characters, but this tip involves farming Sharandar again. Still, it is very much worth doing. If you use your Arcane Reservoir quest, you can get Sparks which will allow you to forge a Lesser Fey Blessing enchantment. It is located in the top left of the Sharandar Campaign window (click on the flag in your UI). You also need to have farmed the daily quests, each one of them once as requirement. This enchantment will give you some 26,000 RPs or so. That is a lot of RP. Since you avoid the price of a Coal ward to create a Lesser enchantment by using the Campaign system, it only comes at a price of 20,000 AD and 6 gold. As you can easily see, this is more RP per AD than AD per RP, unlike the previous, less profitable enchants/marks. (Note: this only applies to Artifacts of Power and of Union. The current price of the Greater marks of Stability are extremely cheap, also offering great RP:AD value.)
If you do the daily Sharandar Battle quest which is extremely easy and fast to do, you will get 10 sparks every day. You can also get more sparks with your 6/7 invocation coins. If you have multiple characters, you will get more Arcane Reservoir quests, resulting in a lot of Sparks to make your Fey Blessing enchants which can be transferred to the account you want to refine your Artifacts on.
Hope this helps!
- Laure
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Still more cost-effective than any other RP generator methinks. I think the Black Opal (15k RPs) typically sells for like 70k on the AH. And that 5k RP item in wondrous bazaar is like 30k.
Yes, this was also considered by me when I decided to use it to refine my Artifact. Keep in mind that this is about refinement value. You would be using the AD you gain from selling it to refine your artifacts and might gain less value from it depending on market prices. In the case of Union, you would always be losing, since they sell for over 15k. If you sell the Lesser Fey for say 75k (-10% fee) leaving you with 67.5k AD, you can purchase 6 Greater Marks of Power at 10k (current prices). That would give you 6 x 3750 RPs = 22,500, which is less than the Fey's 26k. If you sell the Fey for 80k and you buy the Marks at less than 10k, then it's slightly better (and the Rank 5 Enchant equivalent of that would be around 3,400-3,500 AD.) But you run the risk of not selling at that price, and you have to wait. It's up to you to see which option is best at any given time. My guess is that once people start realizing this, it will always be better to refine it since there will be more on the AH.
I can't argue against the OP, though. That method is definitely air tight. It's obtaining the Marks of ... that are generally the more pain in the <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> situation here, so sometimes it doesn't pay to rush =P.
Obviously once you have a set of gear for fey blessings then any others can be used for RP.
A brand new artifact is valued at 7500 if its the same type. So 24k glory for that Artifact is 7500 RP for any other Power artifact. May not be efficient, but if you have nothing else to spend glory on and you PVP all the time...
- JailBreak (in development)
We would have to calculate the loss of AD from refining the Epic items gained from glory to have a good idea whether it's worth it or not to do this for 24k glory. What is the best amount of AD one can get with 24k glory salvaged?
Edit: It's about 20k AD. Seems to be very much worth it as well with the current prices. Good tip if we can indeed buy it again. Will have to test that.
Somewhere around 30k rough, I believe.
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Yeah, I believe you can buy Trade of Blades gear over and over. Don't see why the artifact would be any different.
Run the Dread Spire lairs with keys for 5k and use the purple marks for refining your artifacts.
How many RP do the purples give you?
As i saw it was 750 RP. But some mention, that the same type(GMoPower) give the artifact(a Power type one) 5x of this value.
So it's then 3.750 RP. 1,33 AD/RP.
Ah, that sounds right as the green stones are 500, but 2500 for the same type (power/union/stability)
I was hoping by now everyone knew about that and was doing it... but I've added a note to the OP to be clear. This thread was already assuming this was being done, but if you want to refine them faster, you want to do more than just that. You can only do this 3 times per week for your particular Artifact, if you were not aware: http://neverwinter.gamepedia.com/Dread_Spire_Treasure_Trove/Tooltip
Today, for instance, is not a day where you can get the Greater Mark of Power from Dread Spire. If you are counting solely on that for refining, then 4 days out of 7 you will not get it. On such a day, getting 26K from a Fey Blessing is pretty nice.
This also means that the market gets flooded with cheaper ones on those days, and they can be worth buying at the same time as you are doing your runs for 5K AD. It's pretty time consuming to run this since you also have to farm the Dread Legion skirmish to get more scrolls to buy keys. My 3 Artifacts are high level Epics from doing this whenever possible + purchasing cheap + doing the Lesser Fey thing.
It's not wrong, but using said Fey enchants (which is not exactly cheap but mmyeah) gives you a lot of RPs compared to the slllloooowwww growing up with these lesser ranks.
BTW thanks for the tip, I had 7 or 8 Lesser Fey enchants in bank from just running Sharandar, I intended to make a few normal ones, but decided to feed them into my lantern and now it's level 60 something epic
Shall I feed that as it is to the already partially filled old Eye, or shall I upgrade it to blue before using it in the "original" Eye?
Idk about your first question.
It does not have to be the same Artifact, but the same type to get the 5x bonus RP (i.e Power, Union, Stability).
The RP it gives gets higher depending on the Artifact rank, so it's better to use at higher ranks.
Rank 59 is a good rank to use it IMO.
I love the tips as they look like they will save us tons.
But so many of the things you say may as well be in french - I dont understand half of what you speak on. Less than half...
Coffers have a REALLY low drop rate for Coal, and fairly poor for Pres wards after the update.