Do jewellery crafting surveys & or platinum dust refinement now or wait until after update 40?

daemondamian

As per the title I'm just wondering if I should

a) do any jewellery crafting surveys before update 40?

b) if yes should I refine my platinum dust before update 40 or wait until after?

c) if yes should I refine resulting grains before or after update 40?

I get the basics behind the update - what the system will be and what will happen to what you already have in your inventory/craft bag, I'm just unsure what would be the best thing to do to have as many possible upgrade plating's after the update.

If every jewellery grain will become a plating after the update, then it seems like it would make sense to acquire as many as possible via surveys/harvesting & then refinement of platinum dust, before the update?

CrashTest

The result is the same if you refine now or after, so it doesn't matter unless you're trying to sell them right now for a profit before the patch because the price of plating is dropping.

daemondamian

CrashTest wrote: »

The result is the same if you refine now or after, so it doesn't matter unless you're trying to sell them right now for a profit before the patch because the price of plating is dropping.

Okay thanks, I like profit but I'm not really lacking in funds currently & would just like to have more upgrade materials so I can upgrade more of my jewellery as I have 14 characters in total & only a few set pieces upgraded to gold quality.

lillybit

Leave all your surveys til after the update (Plentiful Harvest will be fixed for extra 10%), but refine whenever

tmbrinks

lillybit wrote: »

Leave all your surveys til after the update (Plentiful Harvest will be fixed for extra 10%), but refine whenever

The patch notes only mention the 1st stage being fixed as a bug. Nothing about putting 20/30/40/50 points in and having that "increased by 10%"

Unless somebody has done statistically relevant testing on the PTS to see if 50 points in plentiful harvest is returning 50% instead of the 40% it has been. I haven't seen it posted here yet.

Edit 2: I actually tested it on PTS... the fix to the 10-point stage appears to have fixed the issue at 50 points as well. Would be nice if patch notes reflected that.

Edit: Collecting surveys before you have 50 points in plentiful harvest is equivalent to upgrading gear without the full passives...

Techwolf_Lupindo

In another forum post, this was tested on PTS, The bugfix did increase it from 40% to actually 50% as the tool tip says. So it did affect all stages.

daemondamian

Thanks for the further replies - I do use Plentiful Harvest and wasn't aware it was bugged!

tmbrinks

Techwolf_Lupindo wrote: »

In another forum post, this was tested on PTS, The bugfix did increase it from 40% to actually 50% as the tool tip says. So it did affect all stages.

Yes, I did test it.

Imagine if the patch notes were actually clear and accurate so we didn't have to test to see if others were changed.

I hope you can forgive me going based on the wording in the patch notes prior to having the opportunity to test.