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Both my guilds have 'guild halls' with fully upgraded master crafting stations and I've contributed funds towards them.
I have no intention of getting all the sets in my own house. I've got the crafting stations and I've got a few sets added to each, but I don't need or want all of them. Even if I didn't have access to the guild halls I'd get the sets which are the most hassle to access out in the world and skip the rest.
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The OP is in for an expensive project if they're going to try to fill the Grand Master Stations with purchased attunables. Figure ~750K gold per set (PC NA prices) times 83 sets (two more coming after Phase 3 and no idea going forward); that's a real chunk of change. OTOH, I mostly did mine with writ vouchers and that was a many-month process, although I bought a few sets to speed up the process. The stations arrived with Update 40, but I didn't seriously try to start populating them until about a year ago and finished in late summer.
I'm fresh out of outrage, but I could muster up some amused annoyance if required.
I just surpassed the current halfway point this month. I save up my vouchers. Once I reach 3000, I get three of each table and collect all the sets in a given zone. I rarely buy a master writ. If I do, it is typically in conjunction with an endeavor to purchase from guild traders or to do a specific type of master writ that hasn't dropped for me yet.
I have access to full crafting stations, but I like the idea of being self-sufficient. Hence, I'm working on my own.
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I have [1Tough tank] [1StamSorc-DD] [1Necro-DD] [1Real Healer]
with [1Stam Blade].
But, I'm Tank main player. Recently I'm doing Healer.
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Good-bye "King of Monster Eater".
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Yeah i did it as soon as they were available for the guild. Cost me well over 100 million in gold to buy enough ingredients and writs to get the vouchers to buy the stations then all the attunables. Took about 3 days but glad it's done. If it were for me personally I would never bother when we have a fully stocked guild village.
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What is the point? Crafted sets are inferior to trial sets with the only two worth using being Order's Wrath and Tide-born and only if you do not have all the pieces for a DLC dungeon or trial set.
Not to mention I am not a fan of sparkly FX effects that these crafting stations light up with when fully attuned, I like to keep my places looking sleek and realistic.
No. I'd theoretically like to, and I have a decked out Grand Master Crafter more than capable of doing it. But staring down that grind.. it just... doesn't sound fun at all. And the additional convenience and practicality factors are arguably limited even if you don't have alternative access via a Guild Hall or something.
Somehow: expensive busy work just doesn't wax my enthusiasm in my limited leisure time. Maybe someday. But if I'm honest: I doubt I'll ever get &/or finish them. Which is a shame. If they felt even a little more accessible - a little less ruthlessly grindy - I'd probably bite the bullet and invest the time, resources, money into the economy, etc.
Oh, well, I guess.
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Working on it. Since I'm alone, I'm still at 10/81
Edited by magnusthorek on October 30, 2025 12:48PM
I am the very model of a scientist Salarian, I've studied species Turian, Asari, and Batarian.
I'm quite good at genetics (as a subset of biology) because I am an expert (which I know is a tautology).
My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian, I am the very model of a Scientist Salarian.
I have them in my Snugpod so I can port there on my AD main and turn them in next door. I put in a loft with the alchemy, enchanting, and provisioning tables upstairs so I have everything.
I used some gold for the last few tables but I already had 65k of the writ vouchers when I decided to start doing this. I had just been doing master writs every day for years and saved them up. I was never interested in a sea of attunable tables but the new GMC tables looked so nice I decided to grind that one out as a stretch goal.
So glad I did this. It is a great feeling of accomplishment. I used to go to a guildie’s house but now I don’t have to.
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