Why is Chromium Plating so expensive?

fetito666

Why is Chromium Plating so expensive?

Nemesis7884

its called supply & demand

January1171

Because the drop rates for chromium dust are freaking horrible, and you need 10 of them for one plating

newtinmpls

Because RNGjeezuz is cruel

SydneyGrey

Because it takes six stinkin' months just to get one of them, at least for me.

Wing

because ZOS decided to use the "10 pieces into 1 material" system used in NO OTHER upgrade material for only jewelry crafting, so it costs 10 times more on top of ridiculously small drop rates.

the result is enormous cost compared to every other craft for marginal gain.

-_-

zaria

Wing wrote: »

because ZOS decided to use the "10 pieces into 1 material" system used in NO OTHER upgrade material for only jewelry crafting, so it costs 10 times more on top of ridiculously small drop rates.

the result is enormous cost compared to every other craft for marginal gain.

-_-

This, and it works all the way down, the price to upgrade from blue to purple jewelry is more like golding out weapons.

Anotherone773

zaria wrote: »

Wing wrote: »

because ZOS decided to use the "10 pieces into 1 material" system used in NO OTHER upgrade material for only jewelry crafting, so it costs 10 times more on top of ridiculously small drop rates.

the result is enormous cost compared to every other craft for marginal gain.

-_-

This, and it works all the way down, the price to upgrade from blue to purple jewelry is more like golding out weapons.

i feel like its more expensive than that. I can do a few surveys and gold a weapon. I can do a few hundred to upgrade a ring to purple. ( exaggerated for effect)

zvavi

fetito666 wrote: »

Why is Chromium Plating so expensive?

Because people are willing to pay that gold.

pod88kk

Because it's rare and people haven't built up as much of a supply as the other gold mats

Linaleah

it will always be more expensive than any other gold mats, because as many people already pointed out - it takes 10 times as much time to get one than any other upgrade material. sure you don't need as much of it as other mats, but.. the fact remains. I can refine 1k of ore and get 4-7 full upgrade mats out of it. for the same amount of dust - I may.. MAY get enough 4-7 grains, which is not enough to make even a single chromium plating.

in that same vein - I get a gold weapon or piece of armor from trial leaderboard or whatnot - I decon it and I have a chance to get full upgrade mat. I do the same to gold jewelry.. and I have a chance to get A grain. a single grain you need 10 of to make a plating.. not a guarantee. a chance.

I hope that explains the disparity in cost. the only reason its not more expensive like it used to be is because difference between purple and gold jewelry is not as significant as difference between purple and gold weapon. and because you need fewer platings now to upgrade your jewelry, than you used to.

Ardan147

It is ridiculous. You have to wonder WHAT THE HELL WAS ZOS THINKING WHEN THEY DESIGNED IT THAT WAY. And when they first introduced jewelry crafting, the first master writs had material costs of over 10K gold per voucher, and it's not like one couldn't have seen it coming ahead of time; it was the equivalent of needing 80 tempering alloy/rosin/dreugh wax to upgrade a piece for the other crafting professions.

I really would like to hear the people at ZOS who came up with this system weigh in on it, why they chose to do it that way.

Zulera301

I mean, I've got like 46 of them. they're not that hard to get if you do jewelry crafting writs (not master writs, just the regular ones) at max level often enough.

not to mention refining mats. I'm sitting on like 35k platinum dust and Im just too lazy to refine it.

or basically... become a hoarder. It'll solve all your problems.

madeeh91rwb17_ESO

Us PvPers have to make money somehow.

MattT1988

Because they’re very hard to get and because you shouldn’t be able to gold out jewellery that easily.

Lady_Linux

because i said so, thats why

Lady_Linux

Zulera301 wrote: »

I mean, I've got like 46 of them. they're not that hard to get if you do jewelry crafting writs (not master writs, just the regular ones) at max level often enough.

not to mention refining mats. I'm sitting on like 35k platinum dust and Im just too lazy to refine it.

or basically... become a hoarder. It'll solve all your problems.

it's literally one or two clicks to refine the entire stack. clearly you dont know what you are talking ablout

Dusk_Coven

Because people don't want to wait for the Golden where they can buy gold jewelry supercheap compared to upgrading it yourself.

That said, if you want gold PvP jewelry, Midyear Mayhem is the time to get it from the Golden!

huntgod_ESO

Zulera301 wrote: »

I mean, I've got like 46 of them. they're not that hard to get if you do jewelry crafting writs (not master writs, just the regular ones) at max level often enough.

not to mention refining mats. I'm sitting on like 35k platinum dust and Im just too lazy to refine it.

or basically... become a hoarder. It'll solve all your problems.

You know you can refine with a single click now, they did that awhile back, refining takes no time now.

MartiniDaniels

Because otherwise gold jewelry will lose it's shine. It was meant to be obtained either from golden vendor or from vet raids or from leaderboard rewards. Chromium just made it all accessible faster and easier.

Vahrokh

To be honest, all gold materials should be like that.

Gold = beyond epic and epic = darn rare.

In other games you get few purples, in ESO we are flooded by golded items like gold is the new green.

notyuu

Very stupidly simple

the drop rate for a chromium grain is roughly the same as temper alloy/dreugh wax/kuta/Rosin

but you need ten of them to acquire one chromium plate

which in-turn means that to make one ring go from purple to gold you need the equivalent of 40 temper alloy

which is why it's so expensive

BejaProphet

They made it that expensive because gold jewelry was basically the only thing in the game hard to get. (Yes I know there are counter examples but I’m generalizing.)

So getting jewelry gold was about the only thing a casual could not do. So they decided to make it something a casual could do. But they didn’t want to take away the epic ness of getting it. So they made the casual route of creating hard in a different way.

Result, you don’t need to do trials and leader boards to get it, but it’s still hard.

That was their aim.

barney2525

because I have been playing since jewelry began and I have accumulated a whopping 2 (two) as of today.

was gonna do a master writ worth 282 , but that idea went the way of the dodo when I realized I would need 8 of them.

barney2525

notyuu wrote: »

Very stupidly simple

the drop rate for a chromium grain is roughly the same as temper alloy/dreugh wax/kuta/Rosin

but you need ten of them to acquire one chromium plate

which in-turn means that to make one ring go from purple to gold you need the equivalent of 40 temper alloy

which is why it's so expensive

just a point. When I checked earlier today, purple was 4, so I assumed gold was 8.

Olauron

Lady_Linux wrote: »

it's literally one or two clicks to refine the entire stack.

huntgod_ESO wrote: »

You know you can refine with a single click now, they did that awhile back, refining takes no time now.

That is not completely true. You can't refine more than 10000 mats (to get more than 1000 ingots) so to refine 35000 you will need 4 clicks (6 if you count selecting and maximising).

apri

Also in contrary to the other professions, the jewelry crafting skill line does not come with a hireling.

seira_san

barney2525 wrote: »

because I have been playing since jewelry began and I have accumulated a whopping 2 (two) as of today.

was gonna do a master writ worth 282 , but that idea went the way of the dodo when I realized I would need 8 of them.

There's a passive in the Jewelry crafting line that, when maxed out, significantly decrease the amount of plating you need. I have it maxed out and I only need 4 gold plating instead of 8.

Alinhbo_Tyaka

Depending upon how you craft Zircon is more constrained than Chromium due to it being needed for both Epic and Legendary upgrades and Master Writs.

OwN_Reflex

On Xbox NA, a certain group buys up cheap items, and controls the entire market.

PizzaCat82

The drop rate is rare because its jewelry, the last place most players still need to upgrade. Its clear they wanted these to be rare, hard to do. The fact that you have gold woodworking writs that give you 48 vouchers, and blue jewelry ones that give you 30 should give you a hint that maybe the jewelry one is harder to do.

Does it suck for people who want to upgrade, or get vouchers? Yes. But its supposed to. Its end-game crafting.