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rayrdan
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whats the cheapest way to unlock the 2 profession slots related to 100% bonus speed and rank 3 result?
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Buying 4 Master Alchemists was a very cheap investment and you do not need to get a very high level in alchemy in order use all four of them on a single task to unlock the additional slot.
Getting the purple tools was still fairly expensive even for Alchemy, although not as bad as some other professions, but mileage does vary and module 5 did increase the demand, to an extent, of some Alchemy tools.
Obtain 4 purple alchemists: this gives you the 100% speed on crafting. Obtain 4 purple mortars (or blues, but could take longer) - use them to craft potions (the limited time tasks at the top of the list) - this gives you the best chance to create the rank 3 result, unlocking that other slot. Though even with a purple alchemist and three purple mortars it can still take a couple tries.
Then save these purple assets and transfer them to your new toons so they can do the same when the time comes.
4 blue guys will do the 100% thing and are cheaper than 2 purples ones. I chose platesmiths because I already had one blue on out of that profs pack you get from the Neverdeath storyline.
The rank 3 slot cost me an absolute fortune for 4 purple alchemy tools (I think I went for 2 crucibles and 2 mortars). Not sure opening that slot will ever really pay back, even though I have plenty of toons. I'm certainly not bothering with the "3 profs to level 20" slot. Those last slots can quite often only earn 400 AD at a time because you can only to 3 of each leadership task. Of course, you may plan to craft items to sell in which case purple assets for that prof is the way to go.
So I think for leadership the optimum is probably to only unlock 6 or 7 of the 9 slots unless you are taking a very long term view (or have a zillion toons).
I tend to agree with this. The payback for the AD/time cost would be negligible - would take a year or more to break even.
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Yes, 4 blues can be cheaper than one purple but you do need one toon with a high enough prof level to upgrade 'em.
So you could use 1 crucible and 3 philosophers stones and get the same percentage as 4 stones. The first tool is task specific, the others are just procession specific.
There are also some tools that cross professions, which can be useful. Though in reality, the only tools you will use for anything more than opening slots are JC tools. The other profession results just aren't up to par with the gear level of drops.
Yeah I meant for both people and assets when I mentioned upgrading from blue to purple.
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so the rank 3 results i m looking around on AH but it s really cost efficent? yeah i can re-sell the assets ( which is kind impossible atm there is no reason to buy assets ) but i would lose about 400k in taxes.
Well if you only want to unlock the slots contact me in game and I will borrow you my Alchemy assets
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You need to find a rare level 3 task. Once I get the rare task, I just finish the task early until I get the rank 3 result, cost from 4-6K a pop. You'll eventually make it. Just use purple alchemy tools that aren't part of Jewelcrafting. Sell them back when you're done.
For the Tier 3 result I use Alchemy, get it to level 3 have enough assets to hit 60% tier 3 result. Not sure if that is the cheapest method but I had those assets available and ready to go and they do the trick.