Gold improvements

OldGamerESO · July 2016

When you upgraded to gold do you use enough mats for 100 percent guarantee or is it cheaper to risk item and try x times? Up through purple I just make it 100 percent, but gold matts are costly.

Thanks!

Tevalaur · July 2016

You really will want 100% chance to upgrade. If you fail you lose the item at whatever upgraded point it is currently and the materials you attempted with so you'll lose tempers/tannins/etc as well. The fact that the gold mats are costly means all the more reason to make sure they succeed and you don't pay the cost and get nothing (destroying item and mats).

Beardimus · July 2016

Yeah, always use 100% for purple/gold I think due to cost. Max the passives out tho so its cheaper (8 gold)

Ackwalan · July 2016

The math is all wrong in this game. If it is not a 100% chance, it is at best 50/50, no matter what % is given.

wayfarerx · July 2016

8/8 every time, don't trust RNGesus!

OldGamerESO · July 2016

Thanks guys!

disintegr8 · July 2016

I always use enough to make it 100% as I have previously tried at 75% and 80% and lost valuable resources.

ELDARTHVADER · July 2016

100 every time!

Banana · July 2016

Yes. Always 100. I did it once at 80 thinking she'll be right. It was an expensive mistake.

undefeatdgaul · August 2016

always 100%

Nestor · August 2016

You have a small chance of successfully completing the upgrade on a traited item if your less than 100%. And when I say small, I mean small. So, if you follow the mantra of 100% chance to fail at less than 100% chance to improve, your thinking good.

AntMan100673 · August 2016

IF the odds are actually fair and accurate then in the long run you would end up using the same number of improvement items however many you use eg. in the long run to improve 100 items to gold if you go with 8/8 (100%) then you would use 100 x 8 = 800; if you go with 1/8 (12.5%) then 7/8 times it would fail so you'd need to attempt improving 800 times to get 100 items so you would use 800 x 1 = 800 so exactly the same number. As failing also costs you the materials, trait gems, style stones, improvement items at previous levels you are always better off going with 100% and it gets progressively worse from 7/8 to 1/8. If the odds aren't fair (a lot of people seem to think 7/8 doesn't give you a 87.5% chance, I wouldn't know as I've always gone with 100%) then it's even more in your interests to go with 100%