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Cost of Tier 4 Etchings

ZereaZerea
edited October 2017 in TERA PC - General Discussion
So uh not sure if anybody has looked into yet but a friend broke down the materials required for crafting a single Tier 4 Etching.

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Assuming the amount of materials even existed at lowest price
Titan's Fire: 199g ea
Titan's Peace: 90g ea
Titan's Storm: 1400g ea
Titan's Earth: 1000g ea
Engraver's Kit: 21g ea
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Superior Etching Box: 13k ea
:shrug:

Comments

  • ReaperElenaReaperElena ✭✭✭
    edited October 2017
    Some of us who mastered the profession looked, but it's kinda [filtered]. You have to dismantle T4 etching to get the superior crystal to craft another T4, which is LOL. Oh, did I forget to mention you need 5 superior crystals for one try, that's 5 T4 etching that you're gonna need to dismantle. There's need to be another way of obtaining them.
  • YberionYberion ✭✭
    So just for the 3024 titan's fires, Lets say I farmed 3 top tier and 13 mid tier Island of Dawn vanguards with 3 of my characters, which currently is taking me like 3 hours. I get the equivalent of 432 dawnstorm tokens (the best ones), with that I can buy 14.4 titan fires (30 tokens each), so you need 3024 to make 1 superior etching, so I would need to farm 210 days, 3 horus a day, to be able to craft 1 superior etching. So 2/3 of a year killing iod bams. Such balance /claps.
  • DvsvDvsv ✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2017
    Every week i'll check Tera Steam charts to see if Tera rly needed a [filtered] load of oldschool grinding... :)
    http://steamcharts.com/app/323370
    BHS is rly clueless as always...
    Maybe we should all go back to 2005 wen we were all 13 yr old kids so we can waste all our day just farming WoW or Lineage 2...
    Or maybe most MMO players now are 13 yrs older and they'll find another game to play on their free time( free time != 6 hr/day per char)..
    BHS, plz make ur mind, ty.


  • ZereaZerea ✭✭
    ReaperElena wrote: »
    Some of us who mastered the profession looked, but it's kinda [filtered]. You have to dismantle T4 etching to get the superior crystal to craft another T4, which is LOL. Oh, did I forget to mention you need 5 superior crystals for one try, that's 5 T4 etching that you're gonna need to dismantle. There's need to be another way of obtaining them.

    The crystals are the easiest part, they're drowning in them on the broker and not a single one has been bought out the entire patch. There's literally no recent history.

    The more pressing matter is the 2m+ in Titan's mats.
  • StevenAnthonyStevenAnthony ✭✭✭✭
    im get supeior etching from those useless from etching boxes ( like treatening, healing, crit resist factor)
    im craft a lot tiants peace and fire,

    the only isue is only crafted/ace dungeon etching perma II can be dismanted ( iod etching cant be dismantes )
  • ZereaZerea ✭✭
    edited October 2017
    Double post sorry
  • StrawberrypantsStrawberrypants ✭✭✭
    And yet, if you farm world bosses you can get some easy.

    Really poor balance between crafting and bosses here.
  • ObsObs ✭✭✭
    StevenAnthony wrote: »
    im get supeior etching from those useless from etching boxes ( like treatening, healing, crit resist factor)
    im craft a lot tiants peace and fire,

    the only isue is only crafted/ace dungeon etching perma II can be dismanted ( iod etching cant be dismantes )

    The main issue would still be accessory etching IVs, which do cost a massive amount of Titan's mats because of Harmonious Imbalances and Lucid Titan's Earths/Storms. Even IIIs are very expensive.
  • ReaperElenaReaperElena ✭✭✭
    edited October 2017
    Zerea wrote: »
    ReaperElena wrote: »
    Some of us who mastered the profession looked, but it's kinda [filtered]. You have to dismantle T4 etching to get the superior crystal to craft another T4, which is LOL. Oh, did I forget to mention you need 5 superior crystals for one try, that's 5 T4 etching that you're gonna need to dismantle. There's need to be another way of obtaining them.

    The crystals are the easiest part, they're drowning in them on the broker and not a single one has been bought out the entire patch. There's literally no recent history.

    The more pressing matter is the 2m+ in Titan's mats.

    Oh forgive me for I'm not loaded on them or rather they're not that cheap on my server. Not gonna blow 30-40k each box just so I can dismantle it, defeats the purpose of "crafting". I don't mind that it needed 5 really, all I'm asking is a way to actually craft them.
  • HAAYAAKD43HAAYAAKD43 ✭✭✭
    are titan's embers still valid?
  • ReaperElenaReaperElena ✭✭✭
    HAAYAAKD43 wrote: »
    are titan's embers still valid?

    Yes, you need that to refine to Titan fire and to Pure Titan Fire. Then you need PTF to refine to Vivid Titan Fire and you need VTF to refine to Lucid Titan Fire. They took rng out of T4 etching but added more mileage.
  • JenieveJenieve ✭✭✭
    There is still RNG you can still fail the craft
  • TsukasaKunTsukasaKun ✭✭
    edited October 2017
    Crafing 1 weap/glove etching IV requires:
    1350 pp
    2 titanic essence
    -- 1000 pp
    -- 200 uncommon etching crystal
    -- 40 rare etching crystal
    -- 8 titan inferno
    -- -- 1200 pp
    -- -- 96 pure titan fire
    -- -- -- 3360 pp
    -- -- -- 864 titan fire
    -- -- -- -- 25920 high tier IoD
    -- -- -- 1920 artisan refining kit
    -- -- -- -- 2054.4 gold
    -- -- 1600 artisan refining kit
    -- -- -- 1712 gold
    -- 8 titan harmony
    -- -- 1200 pp
    -- -- 96 pure titan peace
    -- -- -- 3360 pp
    -- -- -- 864 titan peace
    -- -- -- -- 25920 high tier IoD
    -- -- -- 1920 artisan refining kit
    -- -- -- -- 2054.4 gold
    -- -- 1600 artisan refining kit
    -- -- -- 1712 gold
    -- 8 titan core
    -- -- 1200 pp
    -- -- 96 pure titan dust
    -- -- -- 3360 pp
    -- -- -- 864 titan dust
    -- -- -- -- 25920 high tier IoD
    -- -- -- 1920 artisan refining kit
    -- -- -- -- 2054.4 gold
    -- -- 1600 artisan refining kit
    -- -- -- 1712 gold
    -- 8 titan squall
    -- -- 1200 pp
    -- -- 96 pure titan gale
    -- -- -- 3360 pp
    -- -- -- 864 titan gale
    -- -- -- -- 25920 high tier IoD
    -- -- -- 1920 artisan refining kit
    -- -- -- -- 2054.4 gold
    -- -- 1600 artisan refining kit
    -- -- -- 1712 gold
    -- 6000 artisan refining kit
    -- -- 6420 gold
    5 superior etching crystal
    20 rare etching crystal
    2 pure titan inferno
    -- 600 pp
    -- 24 titan inferno
    -- -- 3600 pp
    -- -- 288 pure titan fire
    -- -- -- 10080 pp
    -- -- -- 2592 titan fire
    -- -- -- -- 77760 high tier IoD
    -- -- -- 5760 artisan refining kit
    -- -- -- -- 6163.2 gold
    -- -- 4800 artisan refining kit
    -- -- -- 5136 gold
    -- 4000 artisan refining kit
    -- -- 4280 gold
    6000 engraver kit
    -- 128400 gold

    (I haven't updated my crafting calculator with NA names yet)

    Total cost in gold just thrown at merchants: 165464.8 gold
    Total high-tier IoD tokens: 181440

    Totals for everything (not in any real order):

    34870 pp
    2 titanic essence
    2 pure titan inferno
    32 titan inferno
    384 pure titan fire
    3456 titan fire
    8 titan harmony
    96 pure titan peace
    864 titan peace
    8 titan core
    96 pure titan dust
    864 titan dust
    8 titan squall
    96 pure titan gale
    864 titan gale
    200 uncommon etching crystal
    60 rare etching crystal
    5 superior etching crystal
    6000 engraver kit
    34640 artisan refining kit
    165464.8 gold
    181440 high tier IoD


    So I say good luck to anyone insane enough to chase these. They'll cost you 1m+ each, and RNG on top of that for the Relentless version if you're a PvPer.
  • StrawberrypantsStrawberrypants ✭✭✭
    Meanwhile you can kill the 6 world bosses in like 20 minutes with 3 guys and get some along with good enchanting materials.

    Genius game design.

  • StitchedSoulStitchedSoul ✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2017
    So this means that professions are utter garbage if you don't aim high or top tier.
    Before we could craft brooches and now we have nothing besides plates, darics with reciepe cost 50-105 k and gems 1-10k?
    I hope I missed something.
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