I just realized mythic items cannot be deconstructed

wutuw · September 22

This maybe old news for you guys, but I have't played much for a while. When sticker book first came out, I reconstructed a few monster helmets to store some transmute crystals. After I got oakensoul, for whatever reason, I decided to store transmute crystals as oakensoul rings, I even deconstructed those monster helmets I had before, just to look "nice", I guess. I didn't play much to use more crystals until now. I looked in the bank and thought to myself, yeah, we have enough crystals. Then I couldn't find these rings in the jewelry station even after I unlocked them.

What have I done? I have 24 oakensoul rings in the bank!!!

Were they always like this, or did they change something? I cannot remember if I ever actually deconstructed one before.

notyuu · September 22

It's always been like this.
Best way to "store" crystals is via arena weapons, in pictular the bow or resto staff as they are only 1 piece tivget the full set (and thus 25 crystal cost)

LunaFlora · September 22

it has always been like this.

hey look at it this way, at least you have enough Oakensoul rings for the future for extra characters and extra builds.

Kisakee · September 22

It was NOT always like this, in the early days of the stickerbook and mythic items we were able to deconstruct them. Then one day they sneaked a ninja patch in and changed it but never lost any word about it to this day.

TaSheen · September 22

I don't remember that, but then I don't have any reason to decon stuff much.

Kisakee · September 22

TaSheen wrote: »

I don't remember that, but then I don't have any reason to decon stuff much.

I do because i did, it was possible. Mystic items are the same as golden ones stat wise and one reason they changed it may have been the possibility to get high value mats from deconstructing mystic jewelry (i'm looking at you, old jewelry prices where golden items costs 3 million gold+).

Stafford197 · September 22

It would be nice if deconning them could just give a standard 25 crystals and nothing else.

virtus753 · September 23

Kisakee wrote: »

It was NOT always like this, in the early days of the stickerbook and mythic items we were able to deconstruct them. Then one day they sneaked a ninja patch in and changed it but never lost any word about it to this day.

On the initial PTS and on debut on live on PC they were not able to be deconned. There were several threads about it at the time.

There was a bug where you could decon them, at least on certain platforms. That bug was fixed.

Vaqual · September 23

Just one more for the hidden Oakensoul necklace...

SteveCampsOut · September 23

Hell, I wasn't even aware you could get Transmute crystals back from deconstructing transmuted items!

MidniteOwl1913 · September 23

Yeah, that was the first thing I tried to make and then deconstruct too. I too was surprised. It just didn't occur to me that mythics would be different.

Sorry, that's a lot of wasted resources you have now :-(

virtus753 · September 23

SteveCampsOut wrote: »

Hell, I wasn't even aware you could get Transmute crystals back from deconstructing transmuted items!

You can’t with transmuted items—they don’t give back crystals. Reconstructed items do. They are two different processes with different results on decon.

You always get 25 crystals back from a reconstructed piece, regardless of how many you used to make the item. But you will never get a trait mat (unlike transmuted items), and you will only have a chance at getting back one piece of the highest improvement booster mat you put in. If you don’t upgrade it, you don’t get anything except crystals back.

That’s why mythics seem like a great way to store crystals, as they’re all 1-piece sets, so the cost to recon them is always 25. Bows and restos of ability-altering sets work like that too, as you just have to get the one item to drop. Other than that, any set you’ve completed will have a cost of 25 to reconstruct and can be used to store those crystals indefinitely.

Deserrick · September 23

What would be the harm in allowing deconstruction? They're orange, not gold, and so shouldn't provide a gold upgrade material. Even if they did, wouldn't the time cost of getting a gold crafting item by getting enough mythic items to succeed in the random chance of getting a gold item drop be higher than the time cost of getting a gold crafting item by harvesting and refining materials?

StarOfElyon · September 23

wutuw wrote: »

This maybe old news for you guys, but I have't played much for a while. When sticker book first came out, I reconstructed a few monster helmets to store some transmute crystals. After I got oakensoul, for whatever reason, I decided to store transmute crystals as oakensoul rings, I even deconstructed those monster helmets I had before, just to look "nice", I guess. I didn't play much to use more crystals until now. I looked in the bank and thought to myself, yeah, we have enough crystals. Then I couldn't find these rings in the jewelry station even after I unlocked them.

What have I done? I have 24 oakensoul rings in the bank!!!

Were they always like this, or did they change something? I cannot remember if I ever actually deconstructed one before.

I made a thread a long time ago. Fell on deaf ears.

virtus753 · September 23

Deserrick wrote: »

What would be the harm in allowing deconstruction? They're orange, not gold, and so shouldn't provide a gold upgrade material. Even if they did, wouldn't the time cost of getting a gold crafting item by getting enough mythic items to succeed in the random chance of getting a gold item drop be higher than the time cost of getting a gold crafting item by harvesting and refining materials?

For the original mythic, that would be one thing. I’m not sure it would make more than a negligible difference, though, and it would violate the rule that you have a chance at the highest level mat only. OP is discussing reconstructed mythics, however, and no reconstructed piece gives an upgrade mat that you have not put in.

Deserrick · September 23

virtus753 wrote: »

OP is discussing reconstructed mythics, however, and no reconstructed piece gives an upgrade mat that you have not put in.

True, but if I understand correctly, the reason reconstructed mythics cannot be deconstructed is because mythics are set to be unable to be deconstructed, which is a lock that applies regardless of how it was created.