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When to buy enchants and when to refine enchants
chemjeff
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Hello,
My character now has all rank 7 enchants except for a couple of rank 8's. I also have a Lesser Soulforged. Would it be better to buy rank 8's or to refine the rest of my existing enchants up to rank 8? I don't plan on buying RP from the AH for this, I have a bunch of thaumaturge stones I got from Sharandar quests, also from the usual rank 4's-5's that drop during normal play.
My character now has all rank 7 enchants except for a couple of rank 8's. I also have a Lesser Soulforged. Would it be better to buy rank 8's or to refine the rest of my existing enchants up to rank 8? I don't plan on buying RP from the AH for this, I have a bunch of thaumaturge stones I got from Sharandar quests, also from the usual rank 4's-5's that drop during normal play.
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other rank 7 gems are on the Tbar marchant, cost 6 bars each if you need to hit upgrade, until rank 9s, after your gems are rank 10s, you no longer need any of those lower tier gems for upgrades, just need some superior marks.
but can still feed higher rank gems until rank 12.
rank 10s cost 2 superiors and rank 11s cost 5 superiors to process the upgrades.
also, if you have enough zen, please conserve them for coupons, and it is random from invoking when you get refine token coupons, save you some amount of zen not wasted. you pay 75 instad of 100 zen that is without coupons.
you need those preservation wards for upgrading with refining items. i often get lucky with 10% chances with p-wards, and feel sorry for others who had burn a full stack with fails. i stop getting C-wards since it is overpriced and only for those 1% chance enchant gems, and you need 24-26 c-wards to have any elite shards intil 12th rank special enchant gems, that is insane for 10 dollars for 1 c-ward and you need more than 2 dozen C-wards, would you spend 250 dollars? please dont have to answer that question, it is up to each person.
i would wait for newly reform zen market and T-bar market for better pricing range, that i would suggested to wait and see.
I personally believe these elite enchant shards should have been change to lesser enchants and required other form of additional cost of marks to upgrading them without those 1% chances. it was only meant as a game and for fun to play.
they come with "cost of investment" free to play format, it is still anyone choice to buy or cant afford unless you find a way to get it slow process of trading the diamonds for zens.
my advice, just play a game the way you enjoy and have fun, no one put pressure on you.
Check the price on the AH, then compare that against the price of the wards and marks that you will need to upgrade - if its a 20% upgrade chance I would work on using somewhere between 5 -10 preservation wards. I've had good runs and ohers where I have used close to 50 wards on a 5% chance
if you cant afford upgrading rank 7's for 30% chances, and rank 8s for 20% chances, and rank 9 for 10% chances.
so, i think it could be cheaper to buy some rank 9s.
reason, if cant afford preservation wards.
then, hoard up on diamonds from quests and invoking, and run with demon encounters for ring rings, but you get daily limit on daily refining the diamonds at 36k per day.
it is slow process.
okay, prices on auction house can be varied on day by day.
most rank 7s cost about 5k to 12k on enchantment gems, then rank 8s are roughly around in 20k-40k in range, then rank 9 are very expensive, but it could save you lot of fails and headaches of getting the wards restocking, they cost around 150k to 220k each
once you get enough diamonds around 200k, check prices often, and pop out those old rank 7s and sell them off, just to recoop lost cost, i wouldnt bother buying rank 8, it is not much differences and do not concern with "item score" base.
if you are looking for armor/weapon elite enchant gems, they cost way more than regular enchants, they required coalenscense wards and very expensive, some cost from 500k to over million ADs. so, i cant help on this one, as my previous post, i would wait for new update zen market that is badly needed for new update prices. not many can buy. if they go little cheaper many folks will maybe get happy to spend little more.
these enchants are kinda "tailor-made" for specific classes.
1. dark enchants for movements (almost every classes use it, since it is more "utility" gem), help with movements, get out of web traps, roots, and slow spells.
2. azure, mainly for casters and melee classes, for power and i think deflect damages but i am not sure.
3. silvery, mostly for casters and melee and for companion's gears, these enchant has damage peneration and defense buffs.
4. radiant, healer's fav gem, high recovery and tanks need them for massive health base buff, also perfect for companions' gears (healers on recovery), and for health base.
there is another enchant set, with multiple status buffs, best one so far is Draconic Enchants, good for both offense and defense slots.
other classic "event enchant gems " are okay for specific quests and curtain boss fights, and some for pvp, and Demonic enchant are the newest and very recent for underdark quests.
okay, there is other enchants, they were mostly aid you with bonus loot drops, consider them as "lucky charms" to get gems, refine stones, and salvage bag drops. right now, salvage bags are almost worthless, just lot of junks and outdated rewards since almost no one wants to get rank 4s or less to get pick up. it is useless after you went pass 60 lvl.
it really need an updating.
if you have them, dont sell away or throw away, we dont know when they get upgrade sometime later, the old rank was 10s, and now we got 12th rank enchants, they could be rank 15th if this game run so long for years as next level cap raised.
salvage enchants are only good for an alt who just farm for drops.
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if you just reach L70 then take rank 7 azure for exp untill u get enough power point to reach rank 4 on the encounter you use.
dragon hoard are better then speed or other utility in my opnion, if manage to kill something
dont upgrade your enchants. buy rank 8 as they drop and price is cheaper then making one.
the drop rank 8 also stack if needed.
even weapon and armor are mostly cheaper to buy then making one
I would go with what Confusedpoof stated--look a the tool tips and decide what your character needs to boost. Then stack it. Stick with one stat that you are trying to boost and stack it in multiple slots. Especially at rank 7/8 enchantments. It doesn't boost you as much as you think. It isn't until rank 10 that it starts making much of a difference.
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Never let thr 15% off coupons from invoking go to waste. Buy pres wards with them. If you have plenty, then sell the in the AH for an easy few K AD.
Can Rank 8 enchants be botted? Do they drop somewhere other than Castle Never? Would it really be "supporting bots" to buy Rank 8 enchants from the AH?
Rank 8s only drop from CN and some lockbox rewards so those are safe to purchase. Do that google search i told you about above so you can find out which enchants are worth buying vs refining
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sorry, i was tired and on meds for allergies, i get often got one of 2 enchants a little off, and completely forgot about dragon hoard gem, yeah, they are nerfed, but still lightly useful for farming alts if you need gems and blue refine stones.
dont use them up just yet, there is 2x refine point event in few week. you would want to get extra point feeding instead of standard points.
also stock up bounded scrolls for weapons and off-handed, or any belts for artifact levelings.
just as other said, buy rank 8 but i prefer lot cheaper and little more extra time saving up for rank 9, it is easier to upgrade.
with VIP if you get lucky pulling any "GMoP"s, you will need them, and save any "SMoPs" if you get for rank 10s and rank 11s.
at same time, if you pull lot of rank 7s, stock them up up to full stack until next 2x refine events, i wouldnt keep any under rank 6s, just feed it away so you have enough room for refine stones.
with VIP, you get few epic dungeon keys for chests in boss rooms, and stack of 25 id scrolls, and 1 lockbox key a day.
best lockbox i recommended is to get New Life Lockboxes, you get more GMoPs and some SMoPs, and companion upgrade tokens if lucky, and one last advice, if you have alts, they will need Genie's Gift, and they are "relic" for boons.