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Questions about drops in Dread Ring Lair Quests

railakrailak Member Posts: 132 Arc User
edited December 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
Can someone tell me what does this items do?:

Greater Mark of Power
Greater Mark of Union
Greater Mark of stability

Thanks
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  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    They are used as reagents for upgrading artifacts. Each artifact is defined as power, union, or stability and requires matching marks for reagents.
  • railakrailak Member Posts: 132 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    thank you =)
  • nameexpirednameexpired Member Posts: 1,282 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    railak wrote: »
    Greater Mark of Power
    Greater Mark of Union
    Greater Mark of stability
    But are these items not basically useless? At least for their main purpose, which would be to upgrade one of your Artifacts from blue to purple. You might never need more than 3 of each for your whole lifetime!
    You can, of course, just use them for refining. Which will be the only way, as they are (again) just using up inventory space.
    And until you can make a purple, you have to make a blue ... so a very, very long way to go before you will need any of those marks.
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  • desolator777desolator777 Member Posts: 58
    edited December 2013
    They give a decent amount of refinement points when you have your artifact "eat" them for refinement. They're a fraction of what a stone gives you but it's no insignificant amount.
  • wiserwithagewiserwithage Member, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 49
    edited December 2013
    desolator777 wrote: »
    They give a decent amount of refinement points when you have your artifact "eat" them for refinement. They're a fraction of what a stone gives you but it's no insignificant amount.

    Exactly. Case in point, you'll start to feel the upgrading pains when you try to turn a Blue grade artifact into a Purple grade one. Every time you feed a Rank 5 or Shard of _______ into a Green / Blue artifact, you're getting +1,080 upgrade points per blue that the artifact is eating. Once you start moving from a Blue to Purple grade artifact, it's no longer x1 (or occasionally x2 at the last stages) blue to move to the next level.

    As an example, my characters got weird luck and started to get a lot of Blue and Green Marks for the Stability artifact line. Using those and other pieces, I upgraded my DC's summoning book artifact to Blue. In order to move from a 30th Blue artifact to a 50th Blue artifact (out of 60 levels for Purple), it has cost me over x100 R5 blues to upgrade. Even at +1,080 upgrades points a pieces and occasionally getting a critical upgrade bonus, the blues just aren't enough. Getting desperate, I started to look for other options.

    If you use a Purple Mark of the correct upgrade family, you're getting over 3k upgrade points per Mark. I think that it worked out to being x3 times the value of a R5 blue in upgrade points. This massive amount of upgrade points is making it very valuable to farm these dungeons. The Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday dungeon bonuses will force you to visit all x3 dungeons for the bonus Purple Marks, which means that you'll quickly have a surplus. When combined with grinding a single dungeon on the weekends with all of your characters, you can quickly amass a lot of Purple Marks to throw into upgrading a single character's artifact. From what I've seen, it's the most cost effective upgrade path (beyond speeding through Gnarlroot for the Enchantment Shard to feed into an artifact).
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