No way I am turning 15 Mithril tools into purified lead for this nonsense. It took me long enough to get them in the first place.
And what has lead got to do with Mithril?
One of my Grandmaster Alchemists is crafting Aqua Vitae and Aqua Regia, though, as it happens. But only so my new character can use it in leveling up Alchemy. It is by far the quickest to get to level 20 if you do it while adventuring.
Speeds up asset refinement (the tools and alchemists) dramatically
Yes, but where do you get the Green Alchemists and Tools in the first place to upgrade them?
Lockboxes or the AH.
And you need 240 Green tools to upgrade to 15 purple, at 18 hours per stack of four.
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flambridgeMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 191Arc User
edited August 2014
I just want to say that the difference between this event and the previous alchemical is extreme. (clap clap clap clap)
Even the price of assets rising, not ridiculously fired.
This is clear evidence existed players manipulating the market for profit. The game is healthier without them.
" i don't have room in my inventory. "
Happening to many people in Midsummer Madness with Flowers. They receive the same message although Flowers are stored in the Riches Bag. Do you have space in your primary (Adventurer's) storage bag?
Apparently - you only need to first slot open; rearrange all your bags, purse, and whatnot to have the first slot or two open then it should work. At least this is the work-around described in other threads.
I don't think they really GET how capitalism works. someone buys a key, then sells it on the TH for ADs. the buyer then opens the box. The seller gets ADs, the buyer blows some ADs and MAYBE gets something cool. This motivates pay players to buy more Zen because if they are buying it on the ZEN mkt they don't want to have to take the time to build up the ADs. This creates supply and demand. A demand from free players and a supply for pay players. Once the keys became bound (only using keys as an example, other things have become non tradeable as well) The pay players (like me or that is used to be me ) have no market so no reason to buy keys and there are no keys for the free players which makes them unhappy and prone to quit, So the ZEN demand and purchases dries up and PWE gets less money and less and less players. I seriously just don't get it. I've stopped buying Zen, haven't bought any in a month
See the above 'dramatically'. With the event running it's 20 minutes per stack of four, not 18 hours.
Yes, I noticed that sometime after posting, thanks.
But Green Alchemists were about 2000 to 2,500 last week, and now they are about 8 to 10,000. So that would cost up to 2,400,000 AD or more to turn them into 15 Purple Grandmasters.
There are Alchemist companions on the AH for half that.
Yes, I noticed that sometime after posting, thanks.
But Green Alchemists were about 2000 to 2,500 last week, and now they are about 8 to 10,000. So that would cost up to 2,400,000 AD or more to turn them into 15 Purple Grandmasters.
There are Alchemist companions on the AH for half that.
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Oh, yeah. That's why I've been going the Aqua Regia route for the most part. I gathered assets from my various alts to one character, ground up what I could get to purple, bought a lot of Aqua Regia at the AH and then spent the weekend brewing up Aqua Regia like a madman. Across three characters with sufficient Alchemy it wasn't too bad and I now have the companion for my 'lead' Alchemist.
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berylgreenMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild UsersPosts: 66
edited August 2014
I made a purple Grandmaster from the gazillion greens and blues that I had gotten from lockboxes or profession packs. Then I purchased some Aqua Regia from the AH. I traded for 3 purified lead, and in turn, the burnt bags: Alchemy scrollcase first and third bags, Alchemical Codex in the second one. I was thrilled!
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Across three characters with sufficient Alchemy it wasn't too bad and I now have the companion for my 'lead' Alchemist.
Just wanted to point out here that it takes 1500 aqua regia to guarantee a companion, and it takes 3000 aqua vitae to make those. So that's a minimum of 750 + 1500 = 2250 40 minute tasks to get the requisite number of regia, or 90000 minutes/1500 hours/62.5 days (60000/1000/41.6 with a grandmaster alchemist). And that's assuming you can be there at your computer to requeue the tasks as soon as they end and already have all the materials you'd need to make them.
Even if the above poster used 27 total grand alchemists across 3 characters, that would still be more than a day and a half of SOLID task queuing. I'm guessing he either, a) had a bunch of regia already stored up, or b) got lucky and got the companion from a satchel which only costs 100 regia.
I can't really understand how anyone could describe the above grind as not too bad. What is too bad then?
That information would be in the part you snipped.
To re-state: I traded in some purple assets (including up-grinding a sea of green-levels ones from profession packs over the last few months), bought a lot of Aqua Regia off the AH until I ran out of AD, had some Aqua Regia floating around on various characters from opening profession packs, and ground like crazy for three days to finish it off. I bought the manual for the companion directly based on the assumption that the satchel was a gamble and I never do well at those.
I say that it was 'not too bad' because I wasn't starting off cold, I had some assets and resources to work with, and didn't wind up having to grind the entire week. If I had been starting from scratch I'd regard the grind as nearly insurmountable in the time alloted for this event.
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And what has lead got to do with Mithril?
One of my Grandmaster Alchemists is crafting Aqua Vitae and Aqua Regia, though, as it happens. But only so my new character can use it in leveling up Alchemy. It is by far the quickest to get to level 20 if you do it while adventuring.
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Yes, but where do you get the Green Alchemists and Tools in the first place to upgrade them?
Lockboxes or the AH.
And you need 240 Green tools to upgrade to 15 purple, at 18 hours per stack of four.
~
Even the price of assets rising, not ridiculously fired.
This is clear evidence existed players manipulating the market for profit. The game is healthier without them.
Apparently - you only need to first slot open; rearrange all your bags, purse, and whatnot to have the first slot or two open then it should work. At least this is the work-around described in other threads.
See the above 'dramatically'. With the event running it's 20 minutes per stack of four, not 18 hours.
Yes, I noticed that sometime after posting, thanks.
But Green Alchemists were about 2000 to 2,500 last week, and now they are about 8 to 10,000. So that would cost up to 2,400,000 AD or more to turn them into 15 Purple Grandmasters.
There are Alchemist companions on the AH for half that.
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Oh, yeah. That's why I've been going the Aqua Regia route for the most part. I gathered assets from my various alts to one character, ground up what I could get to purple, bought a lot of Aqua Regia at the AH and then spent the weekend brewing up Aqua Regia like a madman. Across three characters with sufficient Alchemy it wasn't too bad and I now have the companion for my 'lead' Alchemist.
Just wanted to point out here that it takes 1500 aqua regia to guarantee a companion, and it takes 3000 aqua vitae to make those. So that's a minimum of 750 + 1500 = 2250 40 minute tasks to get the requisite number of regia, or 90000 minutes/1500 hours/62.5 days (60000/1000/41.6 with a grandmaster alchemist). And that's assuming you can be there at your computer to requeue the tasks as soon as they end and already have all the materials you'd need to make them.
Even if the above poster used 27 total grand alchemists across 3 characters, that would still be more than a day and a half of SOLID task queuing. I'm guessing he either, a) had a bunch of regia already stored up, or b) got lucky and got the companion from a satchel which only costs 100 regia.
I can't really understand how anyone could describe the above grind as not too bad. What is too bad then?
Okay, Panic.
To re-state: I traded in some purple assets (including up-grinding a sea of green-levels ones from profession packs over the last few months), bought a lot of Aqua Regia off the AH until I ran out of AD, had some Aqua Regia floating around on various characters from opening profession packs, and ground like crazy for three days to finish it off. I bought the manual for the companion directly based on the assumption that the satchel was a gamble and I never do well at those.
I say that it was 'not too bad' because I wasn't starting off cold, I had some assets and resources to work with, and didn't wind up having to grind the entire week. If I had been starting from scratch I'd regard the grind as nearly insurmountable in the time alloted for this event.