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Quickest/cost-effective way to refine a Plague Fire enchant?
thestaggy
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I've recently purchased a normal Plague Fire and have two further lessers that I want to use to make a second Plague Fire in order to make a Greater. However, aside from rubies, opals, diamonds, etc, what are other means of refining these enchants? Unlike the other enchants, a PF does not use shards that can be used as a means of cheaply refining it.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
PSA: You don't need to grind Spinward Rise for your Elemental artifact main hand if you have some AD lying around. You can craft it via the Tyranny of Dragon's campaign screen.
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Since terror shards are cheap, it would've been better to feed it terror shards for 4k rp for around the 1500AD mark, or by doing gnarlroot. I ranked up my plaguefire using peridots myself, although it's not exactly fast and it doesn't crit unfortunatly.
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. . . I'd get yourself 9% Fey Blessing on your character, 3% each at Greater (there is no perfect) in Helm, Boots, Gauntlets, before feeding Lesser Fey Blessings. There is also an off-hand (but I think its lower than level 60) that you can get a utility slot in also. Maybe even a neck-piece, but I'm not positive. This way, you'll get more rank 4 drops from killing mobs, which you can then feed as well.
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I've seen 99 stacks of peridots for 78k each. In fact I used 650ish of them today to rank up a G.Vorpal to perfect. I also have RSI in my wrist...
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Nice work!
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In doing this, did you take the 3's and 4's and make them rank 5's and then add them to the Normal terror? or just add them as-is?
If you use a shard for the same type of enchant, it counts as 4k RP?
I have just recently gotten all my chars artifacts to purple and seeing how getting to orange is 3.5Mil each I decided on focusing on my weapon/armor enchants and getting them from Normal to greater.
No, you loose RP by refining them. best to just throw the enchants you find into it.
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well for the weapon and armor enchants except vorpal, soluforge and plague fire is to buy there respective shards only and only if there price is below 7k-8k if not buy stack of peridots which cost 90k-120k .
shards gives 4320RP to its own enchant and critical success at that while peridots dont give any critical success.
each peridot give 500RP so 99 peridot gives 49500RP whil 20 shards with good critical success gives the same amount and cost less than that.
for plague fire ,vorpal and soulforge i recommend u to use stack of peridots ,it is the cheap and the best way there is.
for artifacts and colored enchants its best to use stack of rank 5 for refining cause they give 1080 RP and it shld be same color rank 5 for colored enchant.
also for power artifacts it best to use skull from glory to refine .raise the skull to rank 50-59 and it gives 600kRP at rank 59, the artifact that can be refined are valindra,lantern and skull.
for union artifacts if u got extra eye , use that to refine water ,emblem and eye.
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Yep. In some cases its not worth it for example levelling up vorpal/soulforged enchantsments. You're better off selling excess shards. For cheaper shards, it's definitely a good option.
What I hate about fey blessing is that I held out since i thought the new refinement system would possibly make it cheaper. It went from needing 4 fey blessings to needing 4 fey blessings for just the refining and you need an extra one and marks as well as wards. A normal fey blessing may be worth it if you solo farm some content and plan to play for a while. A greater one is just going to cost too much, you're better off just buying enchants on the ah with the money you've saved by not upgrading it imo. There is a neck piece though with a utility slot. I also hear there's a shortish cooldown on the drop rate. Fey blessing is less useful if you group up a lot though, particularly for DCs and GFs.
Well hell, ok then thank you.
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Not sure what you mean?, are you talking about getting EXTRA artifacts and use those towards refining points? wouldnt it be tter to sell for AD? heck I have been lucky to get the free Artifact I got lol .
Ok, I have two diff regular vorpals. If i get a vorpal shard I should use it towards RP(or maybe trade for other non-vorpal shards depending on if I can get more than 4 non-vorpal shards for my one vorpal shard). If i get a diff shard, use it and only get 1080 RP. Or maybe it would be better to trade shard for peridot? But that would mean I would need to get more than two peridot per non-vorpal shard to make it a better deal I suppose.
As for the fey blessing I keep hearing diff things, when refining my artifacts to purple, they wer great at 25k a pop, but for weapon and armor enchants. not so much at what? 1080? Not when they sell for 40k approx.
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Same thing if you are trying to add rp to existing rank 6 or seven enchants? Or better to refine those up to rank 5?
And how do you expect people to farm greater marks of potency? I think people have better uses for those than for 1% more drop rate for a rank 4. Before you needed 4LFB for a normal which was 80k if you farmed it all yourself plus costs of wards. Now you need 4 LFB for refining unless you get a crit, one as a catalyst, and 2 greater marks of potency as well as the ward cost so we're talking 300k minimum. 320k excluding ward costs (and a lot of time, although admittedly you would've needed to invest a little more in ward costs) would've got you a greater fey blessing before the new refinement system. Basically fey blessings in particular got screwed. Although it's easier to make perfects, possibly greater weapon/armour enchants and probably rank 10s, for everything else the old system was much better imo since instead of streamlining everything and reducing clut, I've needed more inventory space. Alternatively you could buy 1000 rank 4s on the AH right now. For that 1% drop rate to even out you'd need to have the finishing blow 100,000 mobs. Going up to a greater you'll need that normal fey blessing again just as a catalyst and for an extra 1% drop rate, that's even more mobs to kill since it's only 50% more effective. You can not viably farm greater marks of potency. If you are lucky to get one. You can easily sell it for 100k or so, or use it for something that will make a difference.
For artifacts, pvp and the eye (although good luck getting 1 of those let alone 2) are bound, and since there's not much else to use glory on might as well use them to multiply your RP, people do around level 59 since it costs a lot more to upgrade it at later levels and is less efficient but you still want enough RP to make a difference.
I wouldn't put vorpal shards in, although they've gone down to 21k per shard at time of writing, that's a lot for 8k rp. At time of writing peridots are 900 rp each, they don't crit, stupidly but are 500 rp each so for 20k ad you get 11,000 rp instead of 4k. Unmatched shards only give 500 rp though, so you'd need them to be the same price or lower for them to be better than peridots. They used to be 1k on the preview server but they changed that, possibly for the better since otherwise shard prices would probably be higher.
Yes, its the cost of the GMoP which makes normal and Greater Fey Blessings uneconomic to make or buy now.
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Vorpal shards are worth 8k of RP? I thought it was only 4k?
I think your math threw me lol. so basically, user stacked peridots and anything else i find to refine vorpal and soulforged. same goes for rank 6's and 7's use anything i can find to refine them up
I'm not trying to attack you. I just felt that the advice wasn't really effective and tried to point out a flaw I felt was with the new refinement system. 2 GMOP are just too expensive to use as catalysts, the fact that you can get them for free doesn't change the fact that they're worth 100k. I'd rather open some peoples eyes who may consider upgrading their fey blessings rather then getting normal, greater or even perfect enchants where they will benefit a lot more from. That's just 2 gmop for getting a normal enchant too... GMOP are something you can't really farm too, its a rare drop than you have 1/5 chance to win if it does actually drop. Basically if you win one that's awesome, but you can't count on it and if you do, you won't have them in excess unless your character is already fully geared up, in which case you won't really need the upgrade the enchants anyway.
You're absolutely entitled to state your opinion and what you think will be helpful. On the other end I feel like I had to state that it may be more beneficial not to. Personally I thought you may have upgraded your feys before the new refinement system and didn't realise the investment actually needed and assume blue marks were needed to make a normal.
Sorry, yes 4k for matching shards. I thought something was off when I looked at it :P. So you can see why vorpal shards definitly aren't cost effecitve. I've edited the amount
Could you possibly elaborate a little bit more? I would love to know where these can be farmed at, anything to not have to pay 100k AD a pop
Also would love to know where to farm Marks of Potency as well as the GMOP. Feels like I am bleeding AD when I am at the point to upgrade to the next rank.
Edit: oh and potency marks can also come from epic leadership chests.
Throw anything that matches into it as you go. Throw anything that doesn't match into your artifact so you still get the 2x bonus.
I did not know nodes dropped marks of potency, good to know.
ALl my artifacts are at purple. so next level is 3.5mil RP> I thought the non matching enchants would be better spent else where?