Black Ice Upgrades

valwryn · March 2015

I just upgraded my Black Ice profession to level 4. The issue many of us had was there a need to do a task requiring more black ice until you can get to level 5. NO is the answer, yay!!!

Once you reach level 4, level 5 upgrade is available, if ya have all the ingredients. The new Black Ice gear is available at level 4 which requires about 9 Unified Elementals and a ton of ice. Level 5 can wait as you need to farm the epic dungeons for the seals to buy the starter gear. Depending on how many epic alchemists ya have, you can be wearing the full new black ice gear in a few weeks.

*For the impatient rich folks - the cost ratio to finsih a task early is roughly 100k AD per 24 hours. :eek:

iambecks1 · March 2015

valwryn wrote: »

Depending on how many epic alchemists ya have,

I wonder how many of these will get used up in the upcoming Alchemical Extravaganza in a couple of weeks xD

learch123 · March 2015

this is really going to hurt people that dont have aclhamy started

valwryn · March 2015

Here's the pic some of you wanted....now ya have an idea how much ice and UEs ya need!!! :eek:

valwryn · March 2015

Took 2 weeks for 10 UEs with 16 epic alchemists. :eek:

iambecks1 · March 2015

So going from rank 3 to 4 costs 50000 BI and rewards 600 exp but going from rank 4 to 5 costs 25000 BI and rewards 300 exp? XD

valwryn · March 2015

iambecks1 wrote: »

So going from rank 3 to 4 costs 50000 BI and rewards 600 exp but going from rank 4 to 5 costs 25000 BI and rewards 300 exp? XD

That's the unknown. I'll find out next week.

learch123 · March 2015

so from what i see most of us are not geting lv 70 epic gear anytime soon with the exception of the pvp people(who get it day 1) and those with tons of real money in the game the rest of us are done for pve is going to be a real pain

valwryn · March 2015

The good news is that getting to level 5 is just the one time upgrade. Sad news is ya need lots more ice and Unifieds to upgrade your gear. Those with the new PvP gear will want to get to level 5 to quickly upgrade your gear. PVE players can just get the level 4 BI gear to help with getting the dungeon gear then ya can move up to level 5.

warpet · March 2015

valwryn wrote: »

The good news is that getting to level 5 is just the one time upgrade. Sad news is ya need lots more ice and Unifieds to upgrade your gear. Those with the new PvP gear will want to get to level 5 to quickly upgrade your gear. PVE players can just get the level 4 BI gear to help with getting the dungeon gear then ya can move up to level 5.

Did they improved bi gear ?last time I was looking it it did not look to good it was blue and not a lot better then lvl 120blue from npc in well zone so I'm not sure is it even worth of bi needed to craft

umsche · March 2015

You get BiS lvl 70 stuff by upgrading pvp/pve stuff with lvl 5 black Ice shaping.

warpet · March 2015

umsche wrote: »

You get BiS lvl 70 stuff by upgrading pvp/pve stuff with lvl 5 black Ice shaping.

Don't think this alone will be worth of grinding to lvl 5 not at least for me

valwryn · March 2015

There are 6 different sets of armor to upgrade at BI Rank 5. All the stats on them are far greater than the starter gear needed for the upgrades. The only grind in the ice and the starter gear. The unifieds are easy just time consuming.

schietindebux · March 2015

so it about 370.000 Black Ice to BIS Gear.....
I am not sure that i gonna farm that much Black Ice to get there, its a really huge sum

frobonator · March 2015

schietindebux wrote: »

so it about 370.000 Black Ice to BIS Gear.....

+ 500.000 Black Ice

schietindebux · March 2015

what is ment by epic alchemists, you mean the balck ice alchemists not the alchemist from the profession alchemy?
and why do i need that much?

mehguy138 · March 2015

Let's say you can refine 1500 BI twice a day. 370.000/3000=123 days. 4 months of refining.

zekethesinner · March 2015

370k? who did this crazy math? >.>

(Sin)cerely
Kain

schietindebux · March 2015

its more than 370k its 500k look above
and in case of not having 4 epic alchemists, its 8 month and more, so if next mod comes in 6 month making all worthless, no thanks

zekethesinner · March 2015

Emmm, but u know... BI stuff is dropable (both belt and cloak)

Upgrade to r5 acroding to warpet cost 75k, set upgrade cost like 50k or so 125k, from where this 245k more? What do i missing?

aulduron · March 2015

Can't wait until mod 7 gear.

schietindebux · March 2015

i only talk about the four armorpieces, if u want to upgrade them to level 5 incl getting to level 5 its >500k Black Ice to refine
so first time to thinnk about epic alchemist and epic upgrades to refine..... too much imo
Belt and cloak i guess will be not BIS for PVP, think thats gonna be artifact again, can´t say

clericalist · March 2015

schietindebux wrote: »

what is ment by epic alchemists, you mean the balck ice alchemists not the alchemist from the profession alchemy?
and why do i need that much?

The alchemists (from the alchemist profession) are needed to produce one of ingredients for the black ice set.

southwind0 · March 2015

Anyone knows if you can empower the new black ice armor pieces you get at lvl 4? Maybe it can be BiS if you fully empower it..

schietindebux · March 2015

are you sure about that? can´t see any ingredient in the shown pictures wich is build by alchemist profession?

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valwryn · March 2015

schietindebux wrote: »

are you sure about that? can´t see any ingredient in the shown pictures wich is build by alchemist profession?

You have to unlock the Aggregate and Unified thingies b4 you can see them at level 24 & 25 Alchemy.

valwryn · March 2015

schietindebux wrote: »

its more than 370k its 500k

If you are a collector and want all the sets than it might cost 500k. The stats on each are different, just pick the ones ya want. Less grindy.

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diogene0 · March 2015

There are multiple ways to obtain belts and cloaks. This is a non-issue.

iambecks1 · March 2015

Where is this 500k Black ice needed for a BiS set coming from? ATM you need at most around 120k-130k black ice , 75k to get from rank 3 to rank 5( this might be incorrect atm ) and 48400 black ice to make the 4 piece set of BiS gear.

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