Emma_Eunjung wrote: »I'm really surprised at some of these comments. Don't any of you guys ever need 100's of Ancestor Silk for VR16 light armor? Have you seen how expensive it is? While it's possible now to farm Rubedo leather in a hurry in Wrothgar, the other mats are still acquired fastest by farming TV stones.
Maybe not everyone is as hungry for mats as I am, but I tear down and rebuild my gear all the time. Send me your TV stones if you don't want 'em!
DRXHarbinger wrote: »I'm literally balls deep in red mats after 2 days. I kid you not my bank is full with 5 stacks of each and my inventory cannot take any more. Silk is far easier than leather still and quicker as no fighting to do. Rubedite....well I've got for once got more temp alloys than any other gold temp for the first time 67 to be exact in 2 days. Swimming in them. Might actually craft a selection of swords to carry on me for when the mood strikes. None of these thing are even selling now.
They won't do this because people have to Much Tel Var saved up and they will be Able to buy things right away.Since saving in this game is bad.Aside from the polymorphs, there's zero point to TV stones except if you're after those sets. None of the IC sets are particularly great. The only sets you could consider desirable are Shield Breaker or Phoenix, and even then there are better sets out there. The *ONLY* way I'd even consider those sets is if they had jewelry/weapons added to them. If they did, the utility of a lot of those sets WOULD be quite good.
Powerful Assault would instantly become an in-demand set, and a lot of other sets would gain a lot of utility. But as it is, I can't find any reason to even visit IC unless you're after the vaults. And since the end game still pretty much forces you into Agility or Willpower builds... getting TV is sort of just an added bonus, not something really
ZOS could also up the value of the stones by adding in resource kits to the general vendor. Perhaps like 4-5K, and they have a chance to drop multiple crafting resources, potentially even some gold upgrade mats. Some incentive to actually get people to want to go to IC.
That said, Truly Superb glyphs drop like candy now. I get tons of Repora and Itade just deconning them. I get 20-30 a night, and that ends up being about 4 or 5 Repora just through regular play without the need to grind in IC. Again, that defeats the purpose of TV stones.And while Itades and Repora's do drop, they don't drop all that often. Also, with the current Node Scaling, unless you maxed out Enchanting, your not going to see top end Runes.
You also can only get certain style materials with TV Stones (yes, you can decon and get some, but that is unreliable)
At the moment I'm sitting on 8-10 full stacks of each max-level crafting mat (so depending on the mat about 1600 to about 2000). None of that is from TV stones - it's all from hirelings (8 hirelings for each of blacksmithing, clothing, and woodworking bringing me max-level mats every day) and harvesting nodes in Hew's Bane and Wrothgar, and a small amount of it is from deconning gear, until I started to notice how quickly I was accumulating raw mats and decided to just start selling my non-set dropped gear instead.Emma_Eunjung wrote: »I'm really surprised at some of these comments. Don't any of you guys ever need 100's of Ancestor Silk for VR16 light armor? Have you seen how expensive it is? While it's possible now to farm Rubedo leather in a hurry in Wrothgar, the other mats are still acquired fastest by farming TV stones.
Maybe not everyone is as hungry for mats as I am, but I tear down and rebuild my gear all the time. Send me your TV stones if you don't want 'em!
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Waffennacht wrote: »So I gathered several Rejera and v16 mats and v16 glyphs last night... Made me Wonder...
WTF is the point in TV stones now? I can't buy jewelry sets with it. The three armors are not BiS nor valuable.
But seriously no need for any enchantment pieces (as gathering is far better now), no need for mats, no jewelry and bad armor.
Wtf am I suppose to do with all these stones?
I'm using mine on the style materials for the alliance styles.
I hope they make it possible to buy Hakeijos with tel var stones someday.
MSchroeder wrote: »Hey folks! We hear the concerns about Tel Var stones, and with the next major update, we’ll be bringing in some new things for you to spend your Tel Var stones on, for a variety of price levels. We’ll go into more details about exactly what new things the vendors will be selling when we’re closer to releasing that Update, but…I hope they make it possible to buy Hakeijos with tel var stones someday.
AWESOME! Seriously, please consider jewelry from the IC sets. It would really make a lot of the sets have increased utility and go a LONG way to making the gear worthwhile. I know ZOS has a lot of concerns about balance and jewelry, but... at least consider it. =D And by consider it I mean "say yes to the dress".MSchroeder wrote: »Hey folks! We hear the concerns about Tel Var stones, and with the next major update, we’ll be bringing in some new things for you to spend your Tel Var stones on, for a variety of price levels. We’ll go into more details about exactly what new things the vendors will be selling when we’re closer to releasing that Update, but…I hope they make it possible to buy Hakeijos with tel var stones someday.