Why is Chromium Plating so expensive?

DrSlaughtr

The problem is less with golding jewelry and more with purple and below. Even green plating is super expensive. This basically makes it cost prohibitive to create purple jewelry for a crafted set. This in turn makes it cost prohibitive to wear two crafted sets.

zvavi

Like most prices for things, supply & demand

Thechuckage

Gravediggers are out again I see

newtinmpls

Anotherone773 wrote: »

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)

That's not much of an exaggeration... which is the problem

volkeswagon

I have 12 chromium platings. It's the purple platings I can't keep inventory on.

Ri_Khan

volkeswagon wrote: »

I have 12 chromium platings. It's the purple platings I can't keep inventory on.

Exactly. Apparently, purple is the new gold. Not only Zircon, but Mastic and Grain Solvents as well, are some of the rarest crafting mats for me. If I actually completed all the master writs I received that require these things I wouldn't have any left to upgrade my own gear.

morrowjen

January1171 wrote: »

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

This. Zos needs to fix jewelry crafting. It is utterly broken.

Wildberryjack

The drop rate on chromium dust definitely needs to be increased. As it is now it's a bit of a joke, albeit a bad one.

tmbrinks

Wildberryjack wrote: »

The drop rate on chromium dust definitely needs to be increased. As it is now it's a bit of a joke, albeit a bad one.

drop rate is the same as all the other gold improvement materials (~30% drop rate from writs, ~0.5% from refining) [In fact, when you add in the chance of getting double grains and occasionally full platings from doing max level jewelry writs, it's actually HIGHER effectively than the other crafts - see the spreadsheet in my signature ]

Yes, you use 10 of them to make a plating, but you use 50% less (4 versus 8) to upgrade

There are also only 3 jewelry slots (as opposed to 9-11 slots for the other potential crafts)

You can also source a lot of jewelry that is already gold (so no need to upgrade and/or deconstruct for more grains) from the Golden Vendor, from clearing HM trials, etc. Gold jewelry is "easier" (not saying it's easy to get) to get than the gold counterparts for body pieces and weapons.

And let's be honest... unless you're doing the content that leads to getting gold jewelry (PVP for buying stuff from the Golden, end-game trials) do you really need gold jewelry for the other content? (Dungeons? Overland?)

Firstmep

I'll say with how many sets are in the game now, it really doesn't make sense for gold platings to be that much rarer than other gold mats.

rumple9

The drop rate is fine. Gold jewellery is meant to be rare and sought after. It's the jewellery writs that need altering

Icaruzs

madeeh91rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Us PvPers have to make money somehow.

How pvp player can get gold platting?

mickeyx

PizzaCat82 wrote: »

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.

And which make absolutely no sense at all. Why make jewelry the most rare and hard to do. All crafting including weapon and Armor is end game crafting. 🙄

Jaimeh

mickeyx wrote: »

And which make absolutely no sense at all. Why make jewelry the most rare and hard to do. All crafting including weapon and Armor is end game crafting. 🙄

It's because jewellery crafting/transmuting allowed people a wider variety of builds, and the ability to combine sets they wouldn't normally (for eg., AY is a heavy set, but you can transmute the jewels from healthy to BT and wear them along with weapons on a stam DD and so on), so it makes sense that it should be harder to level it. However, I don't agree with the intermediate refining step, everyone reasoned the market would be flooded after people levelled the craft even with the extra refining, and that hasn't been the case at all. Add the introduction of the sticker book and plating prices are through the roof.

Asardes

I think prices will drop after Flames of Ambition because of the new CP that increases the refine chances further.

Cirantille

Because people want 129 recovery instead of 124

That 5 recovery!!! Must...have...it

Asardes

Cirantille wrote: »

Because people want 129 recovery instead of 124

That 5 recovery!!! Must...have...it

I only upgraded one piece of jewelry since Summerset went live almost 3 years ago, strictly for the achievement. It was a necklace of the Veiled Heritance, which was a good set back then but got nerfed into outright useless much later. I did the math and I realized it wasn't worth it. The only trait that scales somewhat decently with jewelry quality is infused vs. robust/healthy/arcane but the rest are a wash. I'm glad other people don't see the big picture, and ended up buying all my 500 chromium platings with prices ranging from 90k in September, to almost 150k now. I keep getting them from writs but I never use them myself, I just replace my purple jewelry which is easy/cheap to get when I happen to get that piece from a veteran trial, leaderboard drop or it comes for sale at the Golden - 300/500k AP is really easy to get, considering I PvP regularly. Also I can't think of a build that uses 2 crafted sets, needing jewelry to be crafted, which beats a 2 dropped sets, or 1 crafted 1 dropped set combo for the same role. The margin on crafted jewelry is also really think so I prefer selling the upgrades separately since I can overcharge more on them - pretty much the same dynamic as potions vs. reagents.

Cirantille

Asardes wrote: »

Cirantille wrote: »

Because people want 129 recovery instead of 124

That 5 recovery!!! Must...have...it

I only upgraded one piece of jewelry since Summerset went live almost 3 years ago, strictly for the achievement. It was a necklace of the Veiled Heritance, which was a good set back then but got nerfed into outright useless much later. I did the math and I realized it wasn't worth it. The only trait that scales somewhat decently with jewelry quality is infused vs. robust/healthy/arcane but the rest are a wash. I'm glad other people don't see the big picture, and ended up buying all my 500 chromium platings with prices ranging from 90k in September, to almost 150k now. I keep getting them from writs but I never use them myself, I just replace my purple jewelry which is easy/cheap to get when I happen to get that piece from a veteran trial, leaderboard drop or it comes for sale at the Golden - 300/500k AP is really easy to get, considering I PvP regularly. Also I can't think of a build that uses 2 crafted sets, needing jewelry to be crafted, which beats a 2 dropped sets, or 1 crafted 1 dropped set combo for the same role. The margin on crafted jewelry is also really think so I prefer selling the upgrades separately since I can overcharge more on them - pretty much the same dynamic as potions vs. reagents.

Exactly

Back in the day I upgraded my MS jeweleries...

But for PvP, the meta and sets are changing at fast rate that if I were to upgrade to gold now, next patch I would need to do it again

It is just not worth it for 15 more spell damage

Josira

Because jewelry crafting is a waste of time and effort,and should be avoided at all costs,as you cant reduce the grind in getting purple gear,with the cost and rarity of upgrade mats. and it allows...a meagre few good builds to become reality. that are far too much effort for what they are worth. are they powerful builds?/does it open up some powerful options? yes. is it worth the time,gold and effort? hell no. dont bother with legendary jewelry either. Zos Balancing is like cutting off the head of a chicken and seeing where the body runs over to,so even if its an off-meta setup that you have become used to and love dearly that you want to make fully gold,that headless chicken will eventually land on your set,and *** and bleed all over it.

Asardes

Cirantille wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

Cirantille wrote: »

Because people want 129 recovery instead of 124

That 5 recovery!!! Must...have...it

I only upgraded one piece of jewelry since Summerset went live almost 3 years ago, strictly for the achievement. It was a necklace of the Veiled Heritance, which was a good set back then but got nerfed into outright useless much later. I did the math and I realized it wasn't worth it. The only trait that scales somewhat decently with jewelry quality is infused vs. robust/healthy/arcane but the rest are a wash. I'm glad other people don't see the big picture, and ended up buying all my 500 chromium platings with prices ranging from 90k in September, to almost 150k now. I keep getting them from writs but I never use them myself, I just replace my purple jewelry which is easy/cheap to get when I happen to get that piece from a veteran trial, leaderboard drop or it comes for sale at the Golden - 300/500k AP is really easy to get, considering I PvP regularly. Also I can't think of a build that uses 2 crafted sets, needing jewelry to be crafted, which beats a 2 dropped sets, or 1 crafted 1 dropped set combo for the same role. The margin on crafted jewelry is also really think so I prefer selling the upgrades separately since I can overcharge more on them - pretty much the same dynamic as potions vs. reagents.

Exactly

Back in the day I upgraded my MS jeweleries...

But for PvP, the meta and sets are changing at fast rate that if I were to upgrade to gold now, next patch I would need to do it again

It is just not worth it for 15 more spell damage

For PvP the META is much more loose than PvE, which I like about it. I have my own builds, I don't ever copy from streamers.

Stahlor

Cirantille wrote: »

Because people want 129 recovery instead of 124

That 5 recovery!!! Must...have...it

3 times 280 --> 350 bloodthirsty does make a difference though!

Synthwavius

Because it's an end game gear and no one is entitled to have it cheap and you can do well without it. ESO is already ridiculously easy when it comes to gear compared to other games like BDO or Vindictus

VoidCommander

ACTUAL ANSWER FOR RECENT SPIKE IN PRICE

Idk if you will get to this after over 100 comments, but the reason for the cost increase is mostly due to the changes in the bloodthirsty trait. Ever since the change from percentage based to a hard weapon/spell damage increase, the amount of damage value gained from purple to gold jewelry makes a MUCH larger difference now. Before it resulted in a 11% increase in effectiveness, now it results in a 30% increase, making the need to gold out jewelry much more significant for end game pve dps.

Speculatively, it is possible that ZOS has cracked down on botters, which would vastly lower the supply of raw materials to refine gold mats, as well as increase the cost of performing writs which are the prime source of gold mats in general.

LalMirchi

Maxing out Jewelry crafting on all my alts has given me quite a few Chromium grains in my daily writs.

jle30303

I've upgraded exactly one piece of jewelry so far to gold... and that was for a Master Writ that gave over 600 writ vouchers.

When Master Writs exist that give 600+ vouchers, and chromium is so scarce, there is literally no point in the existence of gold jewelry master writs that give 100-200 vouchers.

I've seen *purple* jewelry master writs that give 200 vouchers. So I now won't do a purple jewelry writ that gives less than, say, 180, despite the fact that such things exist. Because even zircon is pretty rare.

I bought a gold Ebon Necklace for my main (a tank) from the golden vendor in Cyrodiil, it's the first gold jewelry I ever actually owned and kept. And used the resulting Ebon set to replace the 5-piece Bahrahas set (3 jewelry, 2 heavy) that I was wearing with Leeching Plate. I then discovered that I actually found the Ebon set worse for dealing solo with trash mobs because the extra leech of Bahrahas had really come in handy, more so than the bigger health pool of the Ebon set. I'll switch to Ebon for dungeons, but bahrahas actually suits me better in overland...

Neoauspex

https://youtu.be/obr38f7ZQzo

jedtb16_ESO

fetito666 wrote: »

Why is Chromium Plating so expensive?

because it takes a lot of time to get.

Zulera301

Lady_Linux wrote: »

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

Back when I made that post it was before they had fixed the multicraft feature.

You must be new here.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

I have 1 set of gold VD jewelry and 1 set of Ancient Grace jewelry. The AG got nerfed from 4% magic boost to 2400 something but otherwise I did these two as each was the most likely to fit with other builds in the future and avoid the nerf hammer. One day I’ll add Willpower to make it 3 sets but past that ... and even what I did ... is more than enough.

Now I simply do my writs and sell off the plating.

wolfbone

fetito666 wrote: »

Why is Chromium Plating so expensive?

cos it's really rare