thx for stating the obvious brinks but i agree along with most of the community, i speed leveled 1 toon in the first few days jewelry came out and i regret it. I then leveled all the rest of my 7 toons over time but have yet to actually make any gold jewelry for myself due to the EXTREME cost of mats. The few gold/purple mats i have gotten doing writs on 7 toons every day and deconning jewelry, again, every day, i have sold to help pay for my guild trader. At the rate I get gold mats id still be only half way through golding all my toons.
My plan was to sell early and wait for the prices to go down like everything always does but In all that time that prices of purple and gold mats have actually gone UP in price so that it costs about 350k gold to improve 1 item from blue to gold. Now imagine making/improving jewelry for 7 toons at that cost. Ill just keep waiting for them to appear in the pvp trader, its not like you get a dps boost from golding jewelry anyways.
thx for stating the obvious brinks but i agree along with most of the community, i speed leveled 1 toon in the first few days jewelry came out and i regret it. I then leveled all the rest of my 7 toons over time but have yet to actually make any gold jewelry for myself due to the EXTREME cost of mats. The few gold/purple mats i have gotten doing writs on 7 toons every day and deconning jewelry, again, every day, i have sold to help pay for my guild trader. At the rate I get gold mats id still be only half way through golding all my toons.
My plan was to sell early and wait for the prices to go down like everything always does but In all that time that prices of purple and gold mats have actually gone UP in price so that it costs about 350k gold to improve 1 item from blue to gold. Now imagine making/improving jewelry for 7 toons at that cost. Ill just keep waiting for them to appear in the pvp trader, its not like you get a dps boost from golding jewelry anyways.
Then why does it really matter? It's an expensive system designed for fully min-maxing your character. It is not needed for any content in the game.
thx for stating the obvious brinks but i agree along with most of the community, i speed leveled 1 toon in the first few days jewelry came out and i regret it. I then leveled all the rest of my 7 toons over time but have yet to actually make any gold jewelry for myself due to the EXTREME cost of mats. The few gold/purple mats i have gotten doing writs on 7 toons every day and deconning jewelry, again, every day, i have sold to help pay for my guild trader. At the rate I get gold mats id still be only half way through golding all my toons.
My plan was to sell early and wait for the prices to go down like everything always does but In all that time that prices of purple and gold mats have actually gone UP in price so that it costs about 350k gold to improve 1 item from blue to gold. Now imagine making/improving jewelry for 7 toons at that cost. Ill just keep waiting for them to appear in the pvp trader, its not like you get a dps boost from golding jewelry anyways.
Then why does it really matter? It's an expensive system designed for fully min-maxing your character. It is not needed for any content in the game.
People always try to offer this kind of "reasoning"; but, the truth is that any advantage, however slight, is still an advantage.
Which is why most people, who want to truly compete in the hardest content (whether PVE, or PVP), will feel obliged (whether by themselves, or by others) to use gold jewellery.
At that level, any upgrade quickly becomes, more-or-less, compulsory.
It is this way in every game and always has been.
Jewellery crafting was a con when it came out the advertisement that we can craft our very own jewellery and upgrade it to the top tier levels and then people realised that the mats and the acquiring of mats was so low that it just wasn’t fun or worth doing
Then they increased the drop rate of mats and decreased the cost of mats needed for upgrading which was welcome but still time consuming for most
I currently have 12 toons with 9 at max jewellery level currently but it’s been a long time to get 9 toons to max and I am doing daily writs which at the moment averages 1 gold grains a day some days I get 2 or 3 some days I get none, so it still takes about 40 days to level 1 piece of jewellery
It is better to get more toons to max as you get more grains but surveys drop rate decreases too
I have since jewellery crafting started manage to upgrade only one set of jewellery to legendary which just shows how painful it can be and even now I ask why they even bother dropping master writs for legendary jewellery as you just can’t justify doing them currently still
Anyone that says purple jewellery is fine and you don’t see a difference is talking rubbish and just wants people to stay lower than them so they can have the advantage in PvP and even a spot on a trail team because they have increased stats and can pull an extra couple of k on a stationary dummy that doesn’t fight back
Jewellery crafting was a con when it came out the advertisement that we can craft our very own jewellery and upgrade it to the top tier levels and then people realised that the mats and the acquiring of mats was so low that it just wasn’t fun or worth doing
Then they increased the drop rate of mats and decreased the cost of mats needed for upgrading which was welcome but still time consuming for most
I currently have 12 toons with 9 at max jewellery level currently but it’s been a long time to get 9 toons to max and I am doing daily writs which at the moment averages 1 gold grains a day some days I get 2 or 3 some days I get none, so it still takes about 40 days to level 1 piece of jewellery
It is better to get more toons to max as you get more grains but surveys drop rate decreases too
I have since jewellery crafting started manage to upgrade only one set of jewellery to legendary which just shows how painful it can be and even now I ask why they even bother dropping master writs for legendary jewellery as you just can’t justify doing them currently still
Anyone that says purple jewellery is fine and you don’t see a difference is talking rubbish and just wants people to stay lower than them so they can have the advantage in PvP and even a spot on a trail team because they have increased stats and can pull an extra couple of k on a stationary dummy that doesn’t fight back
rubbish. got it! I have 15 toons (12 at max JC)... I have sold over 40 platings already...enough to upgrade 3 + sets... I have also upgraded 4 pieces myself. I have also done 2 400+ voucher JC writs (one for the achievement, one because i needed some quick vouchers) So, you're either very, very, very unlucky, or simply not exaggerating the truth
you also didn't read above... almost EVERY SINGLE DPS and HEALER set you run in end-game content, drops in GOLD already, (or at least used in combination with body pieces that are much cheaper to upgrade) no need to upgrade!!!! Now, if you can't clear HM craglorns/etc, guess what! you don't need the jewelry!!!! Not having gold jewelry is not the reason you can't clear that content, you just can't do the mechanics.
Jewellery crafting was a con when it came out the advertisement that we can craft our very own jewellery and upgrade it to the top tier levels and then people realised that the mats and the acquiring of mats was so low that it just wasn’t fun or worth doing
Then they increased the drop rate of mats and decreased the cost of mats needed for upgrading which was welcome but still time consuming for most
I currently have 12 toons with 9 at max jewellery level currently but it’s been a long time to get 9 toons to max and I am doing daily writs which at the moment averages 1 gold grains a day some days I get 2 or 3 some days I get none, so it still takes about 40 days to level 1 piece of jewellery
It is better to get more toons to max as you get more grains but surveys drop rate decreases too
I have since jewellery crafting started manage to upgrade only one set of jewellery to legendary which just shows how painful it can be and even now I ask why they even bother dropping master writs for legendary jewellery as you just can’t justify doing them currently still
Anyone that says purple jewellery is fine and you don’t see a difference is talking rubbish and just wants people to stay lower than them so they can have the advantage in PvP and even a spot on a trail team because they have increased stats and can pull an extra couple of k on a stationary dummy that doesn’t fight back
rubbish. got it! I have 15 toons (12 at max JC)... I have sold over 40 platings already...enough to upgrade 3 + sets... I have also upgraded 4 pieces myself. I have also done 2 400+ voucher JC writs (one for the achievement, one because i needed some quick vouchers) So, you're either very, very, very unlucky, or simply not exaggerating the truth
you also didn't read above... almost EVERY SINGLE DPS and HEALER set you run in end-game content, drops in GOLD already, (or at least used in combination with body pieces that are much cheaper to upgrade) no need to upgrade!!!! Now, if you can't clear HM craglorns/etc, guess what! you don't need the jewelry!!!! Not having gold jewelry is not the reason you can't clear that content, you just can't do the mechanics.
You obviously didn’t read my comments properly as I stated it took awhile to get the toons I have to their current level, I never said they where level 50 from day one which you must have been for you to be so abrasive towards another persons view on jewellery crafting, I also never said I spent my game time doing nothing but jewellery
The ability to not do end game content, I don’t recall saying I am not able to do this at all which you seem to be a pro at with your judgements, I stated it was rubbish about the upgrade to legendary doesn’t give you any boost in stats and that there isn’t a difference
Oh and congratulations on doing a master writ I wouldn’t waste on them but good on you for doing one I’m not actually impressed but good achievement anyways, the fact that you did those master writs for quick vouchers doesn’t really answer the cost to reward worth of jewellery master writs on a daily basis
StarOfElyon wrote: »This has got to be the hardest grind in the game. I spent about two days grinding at dolmens to get jewelry. Deconstructed tons of it. And with the crafting experience boost from the Tower champion tree and an experience scroll, I still only managed to advance about 5 levels. The rate of progress is stupidly low. At this rate, by the time I reach level 50 it will have taken two to three weeks of non-stop grinding.
StarOfElyon wrote: »This has got to be the hardest grind in the game. I spent about two days grinding at dolmens to get jewelry. Deconstructed tons of it. And with the crafting experience boost from the Tower champion tree and an experience scroll, I still only managed to advance about 5 levels. The rate of progress is stupidly low. At this rate, by the time I reach level 50 it will have taken two to three weeks of non-stop grinding.
Experience scrolls have no effect on inspiration when deconning gear.
StarOfElyon wrote: »I made it to level 50 last night, at last.
Now, there's just enchanting left to master. I'm just one level away. It's almost as bad as jewelry crafting but not quite there.