Platinum Dust Refining Multiple

dvcod · May 5

Quick question. I was in Rawl'jha and went to the Jewelry station and decided to refine some of my Platinum Dust. I had approximately 51,000 Dust and decided to do the refining multiple and used the 1,000 which came up. I did it and my dust count went down from 51,000 to 41,000 and stupid me....I tried it again and it went down from 41,000 to 31,000. So I checked it doing 500 and it went down the correct amount. So it deducted 10,000 and not 1,000 from my inventory.....twice and I lost 28,000 dust!!! Has anyone else had this happen? I am not the most knowledgeable ESOL person so did I do something wrong? I have never filed ticket but I may and see if they can correct it.....thanks for any responses.....Jim

Jacozilla · May 5

It takes 10 of any raw material to refine into 1 of that refined material.

So 10 of any jewelry tier dust = 1 jewelry refined material

The refining UI shows you how many times it can refine in 1 click - so if set to 1000, that is actually 1000 automatic clicks x 10 raw = 10,000 raw dust used -> to create 1000 platinum ounces

TLDR - you lost nothing. It’s just not shown on the UI you are actually converting 1000x the 10 dust/cloth/etc needed for 1 refined material.

DoofusMax · May 5

When you refine raw materials, it's done in units of 10 and you can never refine anything other than multiple of 10. You'll get back somewhere between 7 and 10 refined materials from that. It's kind of RNG, but you'll generally tend to get back about 80%, so 100 raw will typically give ~80 refined.

Jewelry trait mats (pulverized <whatever>) are a straight 10:1, so 10 unrefined will give you 1 trait mat.

When you're refining and it's asking how many, "1000" is actually "1000 units of 10" (10,000), and "500" would be "500 units of 10" (5,000).

dvcod · May 6

Thanks so much....this thread can be closed

ZOS_GregoryV · May 6

This thread has been closed per OP's request