Refining tempers help

iord_stryker · August 2015

So I need tempers blue and higher. Can I get them from low tier materials? Is there a better drop rate so to speak with higher tiers? Example. Should I bulk buy raw iron or get dwarven?

BenevolentBowd · August 2015

There are a few sources of the upgrade materials: hirelings, writ rewards, other traders, deconstructing items of the quality of interest, and refining raw materials of type of interest. With the last three options, there is still just a chance of obtaining an upgrade material.

Each equipment profession has a passive skill (eg. Metal Extraction that improves your chances of obtaining blacksmithing ingredients including more powerful tempers from raw materials.) Based on my experience, the tier of the raw material doesn't seem to have an impact on the chance of obtaining tempers.

iord_stryker · August 2015

Ok so I'd be just as good collection ore from zone 1 and 2 as the later zones.im max blacksmith and am sitting on vr1 so I'm starting to try and get my gear to at least purple as a standard.

Lordklinger · August 2015

iord_stryker wrote: »

Ok so I'd be just as good collection ore from zone 1 and 2 as the later zones.im max blacksmith and am sitting on vr1 so I'm starting to try and get my gear to at least purple as a standard.

Honestly, I wouldn't waste your resources at V1. I'm a V8 and just made my first set of all blue. I have had no problem tackling PVE content running green. Ultimately it's up to you, but it's not a necessity.

gamsir · August 2015

Just find the lowest lvl npc trader that sells blue weapons/armor, buy the most low-level or cheapest blue items from a blacksmith and a clothier and dismantle the items. If you've poured points into the relevant crafting skills, you'll be able to buy blue items at about 830so gold pr piece of gear. And you'll be able to dismantle this gear with an average blue-temper droprate of 7 tempers per 9 items.

This nets you a blue temper just less than 1100 gold per temper. Most trading guilds sell blue items at about 900-6000 g, and blue tempers are mostly minimum about 2000-2500 g a piece.

So just find the apropiate trader. If you're in the daggerfall covenant, go to the Alikr capital of Sentinel. There's several tradors that sell blue 'base' items at about lvl 31-32 or so.

I would imagine that the other alliances have traders at the same level that sell the same blue items

IMHO this is the easiest and cheapest way to obtain a steady influx of your blue tempers.
Or just cruise the tradeguild stalls, you might once in a while find someone you doesn't reckognise the street value of blue items/tempers

Lordklinger · August 2015

gamsir wrote: »

Just find the lowest lvl npc trader that sells blue weapons/armor, buy the most low-level or cheapest blue items from a blacksmith and a clothier and dismantle the items. If you've poured points into the relevant crafting skills, you'll be able to buy blue items at about 830so gold pr piece of gear. And you'll be able to dismantle this gear with an average blue-temper droprate of 7 tempers per 9 items.

This nets you a blue temper just less than 1100 gold per temper. Most trading guilds sell blue items at about 900-6000 g, and blue tempers are mostly minimum about 2000-2500 g a piece.

So just find the apropiate trader. If you're in the daggerfall covenant, go to the Alikr capital of Sentinel. There's several tradors that sell blue 'base' items at about lvl 31-32 or so.

I would imagine that the other alliances have traders at the same level that sell the same blue items

IMHO this is the easiest and cheapest way to obtain a steady influx of your blue tempers.
Or just cruise the tradeguild stalls, you might once in a while find someone you doesn't reckognise the street value of blue items/tempers

This is not true. The market is flooded with purple and blue material because of pig farming. You can easily buy embroidery for $600 gold each. In fact, last night, I bought 100 purple's for 20,000 gold. The prices that I just mentioned are on the XB1, but I'm sure it's fairly consistent. Heck, just go grind in green shade and you will get a decent amount of blues and purples.

Brrrofski · August 2015

Embroidery is currently going for well less than that on xbox EU.

It goes for 300 in area chat

Now it's been patched, it will go back up in price so it's in line with metal and wood tempers. In a few weeks of course when people's stockpile is depleted.

Mansome · August 2015

A few tips to help you out. Find someone who has all the refining passives. Preferably a guild mate so you don't have to pay them. Let them refine your stuff if you don't have the passives maxed. With max passives you will get golds. With no max passives the highest you will ever see is purple. They nerfed refining a few updates back. I remember at launch you could have at least the first passive and still see golds. While I know most folks here hate the hirelings I still say get them because its an extra source for tempers especially if you are max passive hirelings. Besides there are so many extra skill points in this game its not like you have anything else to spend them on if you are sky shard hunting and doing the dungeons.

Lordklinger · August 2015

Mansome wrote: »

A few tips to help you out. Find someone who has all the refining passives. Preferably a guild mate so you don't have to pay them. Let them refine your stuff if you don't have the passives maxed. With max passives you will get golds. With no max passives the highest you will ever see is purple. They nerfed refining a few updates back. I remember at launch you could have at least the first passive and still see golds. While I know most folks here hate the hirelings I still say get them because its an extra source for tempers especially if you are max passive hirelings. Besides there are so many extra skill points in this game its not like you have anything else to spend them on if you are sky shard hunting and doing the dungeons.

I love the hirelings. Why do people dislike them?

Jayne_Doe · August 2015

Brrrofski wrote: »

Embroidery is currently going for well less than that on xbox EU.

It goes for 300 in area chat

Now it's been patched, it will go back up in price so it's in line with metal and wood tempers. In a few weeks of course when people's stockpile is depleted.

Ah...I've been wondering why my blacksmithing and woodworking tempers fly off the guild store shelves but my clothing tempers just sit there.