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Jewelry upgrade mat requirements and cost

Fightin_Irish_Johnny
Clarification about upgrading Jewelry from Epic to Legendary.

Maybe the required plating has changed over time ? I am not sure as I have only recently started back playing the past 6 months. I see posts saying it costs 4 chromium plating for epic to legendary. That would only give you a 40% chance of success. Another posted 8 which would only be an 80% chance. I think some may confuse the cost from superior to epic being 4 mats to do so at 100%.

As it is no one should be foolish enough to try anything but the 100% because of the penalty for failing results in a loss of the item. Which to me is truthfully a really bad mechanic. Perhaps scaling the penalty with something like dropping the item back in quality from epic to superior, fine or normal would be a better system for taking chances.

Right now for the 100% guarantee from epic (purple) to legendary (gold) it costs 10 (TEN) chromium plating mats. To upgrade from Superior (blue) to epic (purple) it costs 4 Zircon plating mats. Has this changed to increase over time ? Just wondering as I read other posters indicating different mat numbers required to upgrade.

The average trader price of chromium plating is 83,000 (rarely) to 150,000 each. So you are looking at $830,000 to $1,500,000 gold to upgrade from Epic to Legendary.

I know many of the people farming the mats and selling them will want things to continue as they are with the prices of the mats. It seems the jewelry mats are somewhere around 5x more expensive than other craft upgrade mats. I have read others saying it simply is not worth the cost of upgrading the jewelry because the increase to performance doesn't warrant the investment.

  • Royaji
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    Someone forgot to put skill points into "Plating Expertise", huh?
  • tmbrinks
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    Yup, put your skill points into plating expertise.

    Only takes 4 Chromium for a 100% chance then.
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  • Fightin_Irish_Johnny
    Ok lil embarrassing :D I was wondering why it was so expensive. Well I did just start playing a few months ago so we learn as we go. As embarrassing as it is it is worth it to know there is a cheaper way. Reply appreciated. Cheers !
  • Jayne_Doe
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    Ok lil embarrassing :D I was wondering why it was so expensive. Well I did just start playing a few months ago so we learn as we go. As embarrassing as it is it is worth it to know there is a cheaper way. Reply appreciated. Cheers !

    Don't forget to put skill points into the similar skills for BS, WW, and Clothing to reduce the costs to upgrade.
  • Fightin_Irish_Johnny
    @Jayne_Doe Thank you :D I did just that. I had 64 skill points so I dumped them all into the different crafting skill lines. My crafting world just took GIANT leaps forward haha :wink:
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