Calculation of Enchantment cost(for all pieces) & Simulator

JasonTERA · December 2017

For those who have ever wondered how much total enchantment to SC+9 costs and how much each enchantment costs, this google doc might be useful.

TERA-Enchantment Cost

Notes
1) The prices of tradable materials have been quite stabilized and I applied reasonable broker prices on MT server as you can see on "RAW Price" sheet.
2) It does not count the cost of Elemental Essence since there is no way for people to purchase it unless you buy RKEM runs. So you might need to add the essence price as your own price from sell runs.
3) All materials are considered to be purchased from Entropic Token(or converted Metamorphic Token from Entropic Token since you can save some tokens by this manner) shop. If you get some materials from your gameplay, of course you can save some gold, but I do not want to evaluate your precious time consumed. So please consider this table as just a reference.

Here are some simple interpretation for people who do not want to click link

1) If you one shot for every single enchantment from Guardian +0 to Stormcry +0, it will cost;
# Weapon : 173,787g
# Chest : 104,871g
# Hand/Foot : 81,301g

2) If you one shot for every single enchantment from Guardian +0 to Stormcry +9, it will cost;
# Weapon : 573,322g + 9 Elemental Essences
# Chest : 387,404g + 7 Elemental Essences
# Hand/Foot : 297,892g + 6 Elemental Essences

3) If you one shot for every single enchantment from Guardian +0 to Stormcry +2 (which you can convert from Deathwrack +15), it will cost;
# Weapon : 205,965g
# Chest : 125,609g
# Hand/Foot : 96,232g

4) If you one shot for every single enchantment from Guardian +0 to Stormcry +7 (which is the minimum for liberation), it will cost;
# Weapon : 398,340g
# Chest : 263,537g
# Hand/Foot : 202,795g

5) With a REALISTIC luck, if you ONE shot from Guardian +0 to Frostmetal +7, and then TWO shots from Frostmetal +8 to Stormcry +4, and then THREE shots for the rest, it will cost;
# Weapon : 1,353,700g + 27 Elemental Essences (295,675g until +2 Stormcry, FYI)
# Chest : 932,506g + 21 Elemental Essences (178,364g until +2 Stormcry, FYI)
# Hand/Foot : 717,968g + 18 Elemental Essences (135,543 until +2 Stormcry, FYI)

Good luck with all your enchantments.

Here is the copied-version of the sheet which anyone can change the "# of Attempt" only. Feel free to change the number of attempts if you want to see the cost with your estimated luck.
Cost Simulator

StitchedSoul · December 2017

Make note that its so if you BUY all stuff. If you get recipes and craft its less gold. Need only exactly for reciepe and for pressing button enchant.

I did only +7 scry at this point for main. Two weeks ago. I didn't count exactly the number but mine was waaay less. All plates/darics a crafted self. All gems farmed self by alts and running dungs. With that 5-6 scry worked from 4 and 5 try. 7 from 4.

JasonTERA · December 2017

StitchedSoul wrote: »

Make note that its so if you BUY all stuff. If you get recipes and craft its less gold. Need only exactly for reciepe and for pressing button enchant.

I did only +7 scry at this point for main. Two weeks ago. I didn't count exactly the number but mine was waaay less. All plates/darics a crafted self. All gems farmed self by alts and running dungs. With that 5-6 scry worked from 4 and 5 try. 7 from 4.

JasonTERA wrote: »

3) All materials are considered to be purchased from Entropic Token(or converted Metamorphic Token from Entropic Token since you can save some tokens by this manner) shop. If you get some materials from your gameplay, of course you can save some gold, but I do not want to evaluate your precious time consumed. So please consider this table as just a reference.

As noted, it assumes that all materials are purchased. No one can calculate/simulate the cost of time, production points, and other ways that you can get materials for free or less. So please consider the sheet as a reference.

StitchedSoul · December 2017

Yes, few times I used gold just to get 1k pp or one missing daric to not do iod >.>
Gems aren't possible to buy from that shop too.

Yes I understand its impossible to count exact. My idea was that : If you have gold and you think how to upgrade gear (if you truly sure you need above frost 0 and you're ready for this long trip!) better buy recipes for craft and it will cut you enchantment both for now and in future.

You have to be Kamizuma to enchant without crafting/time/effort/alts(put which you need in),

Beom · December 2017

StitchedSoul wrote: »

You have to be Kamizuma to enchant without crafting/time/effort/alts(put which you need in),

Well, you do not need to be that guy for the use of this info especially if you have ever thought about gearing up your alt with FM/SC gear, or Time vs Gold.

Of course this info would be stupid if you misunderstand this info like
"Oh, I can make SC +2 by 200k gold only right now"

At least it's useful as a reference for people who are considering to buy their gears or starting their TERA life recently...or people who are trying to sell their gears.
Of course it would be useless if you are active, already have good gears, and can run all end-game contents like RKEM and HH.

MarlyLuna · December 2017

I have 5 alts running Ghillieglade every day for 3 weeks... In that time I have had 11 emeralds and 0 diamonds. Also my luck is terrible when it comes to RNG so I decided to spend 350k on a +15 Deathwrack that I upgraded to +2 Stormcry. Bearing in mind that I never levelled crafting I likely saved myself a heck of a lot of money by doing it this way when factoring in the cost of either buying gems/darics or getting professions to max so as I can make the things. Even if it works out as more expensive I have also skipped a month of farming IoD and dungeons for weapon XP and my Elin gunner is ready to rock'n'roll.

StitchedSoul · December 2017

> @Beom said:
> StitchedSoul wrote: »
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> You have to be Kamizuma to enchant without crafting/time/effort/alts(put which you need in),
>
>
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> Well, you do not need to be that guy for the use of this info especially if you have ever thought about gearing up your alt with FM/SC gear, or Time vs Gold.
> Of course this info would be stupid if you misunderstand this info like
> "Oh, I can make SC +2 by 200k gold only right now"
>
> At least it's useful as a reference for people who are considering to buy their gears or starting their TERA life recently...or people who are trying to sell their gears.
> Of course it would be useless if you are active, already have good gears, and can run all end-game contents like RKEM and HH.

1. I NOWHERE said its stupid. It was said by another forum member. Read pls. Or point me this word in my posts.

2. All my thoughts I said before. Analyze them: Graphic shows raw number of enchant without anything else like craft/grind. This means that with only gold you have to be very rich. I nowhere said that its a guide. Read again pls:
-Yes I understand its impossible to count exact. My idea was that : If you have gold and you think how to upgrade gear (if you truly sure you need above frost 0 and you're ready for this long trip!) better buy recipes for craft and it will cut you enchantment both for now and in future

And understand that all you wrote I did before in previous post. Learn to read the idea, not reverting words and not searching there for toxicity/arguing. My posts are additions. Advises for those who yet didn't enchanted what he was aiming for.

P.s. And no I don't run hh and rkem. And will not.

Beom · December 2017

@StitchedSoul My comment to the quote ended with the first sentence, and the rest of the part is just general comment, but I failed to separate it from the comment to the quote. I AM SORRY.

StitchedSoul · December 2017

Oke

(body 7 is too short)

Volkaj · December 2017

If it can be of use to someone, here are the mathematical averages for:
SC +0 to SC +7: 1034.614 plates, 94.333 emeralds, 9.973 diamonds, 0 essences (duh), 35218.892 gold.
SC +0 to SC +9: 1685.617 plates, 94.333 emeralds, 35.647 diamonds, 25.885 essences, 46334.928 gold.

Full Mathematica code:

(* c: enchant correction, p: base rate, e: multiplicative bonus, f: \
flat bonus *)
c = 0.03;
e[p_, e_, f_] := (e p + f) + Sum[
    Product[(1 - (e p + f + n c)), {n, 0, k - 1}] *
     (e p + f + k c) * (k + 1),
    {k, 1, (1 - (e p + f))/ c}
    ];

(* 'realistic' function for Stormcry; no multiplicative bonus, full \
gear exp (+15%) *)
er[p_] := e[p, 1, 0.15];

(* total costs *)
Total[{
   (* gold plates, emeralds, diamonds, essences, gold *)
   {20, 5, 0, 0, 138},
   {23, 5, 0, 0, 340},
   {36, 6, 0, 0, 218},
   {48, 7, 0, 0, 28},
   {56, 8, 0, 0, 993},
   {64, 0, 1, 0, 6245},
   {79, 0, 2, 0, 2841}(*,
   {85, 0, 3, 2, 274},
   {93, 0, 4, 5, 2699}*)
   } *(er /@ {0.15, 0.14, 0.13, 0.12, 0.11, 0.10, 0.09(*, 0.07, 
     0.05*)}), {1}]

(* +0 to +7 *)
{1034.6145726253478`, 94.3335975712684`, 9.973548281090796`, 0.`, \
35218.89290909624`}

(* +0 to +9 (with the comments in 'total costs' removed) *)
{1685.6177849182927`, 94.3335975712684`, 35.647429685467735`, \
25.885822452384822`, 46334.928436569935`}

If there's anything off in the math I'll be glad to fix it.

6R1MM01R3 · December 2017

PLUS enchanting/conversion failures ~_~

Chido · December 2017

I changed number of tries on Guardian to 10 because with my luck even 100% is not one shot...

Ourlord · December 2017

so i was the only one who spend more than 1.6 million to put my stormcry +2 to +7 wep. i lov my luck.

Klon · January 2018

frost 4 to frost 5 - 7 fails+1 success . 5 to 6 = 5 fails + 1 success. 6 to 7 2 fails 1 success . 7 to 8 -1 shot. 8 to 9 3 fails and completely out of every resource, calculate yourselves how much is that, and surely other ppl had it worse. Might want to modify "REALISTIC luck" from your op.

https://imgur.com/9yUVg8p

DCT75L769R · February 2018

I did not notice this post...It seems the raw price is reasonable on my server (MT),

And I calculated the cost that I have spent for my +9 weapon (from Twisthard +0). And...I am just crying..

My record (I wrote down the number of tries, so its correct and all the tries until SC+6 were with max Gear XP)

TS +0 > +9 : 100% sucess
FM +0 > +9 : 1 > 1 > 1> 1 > 3 > 2 > 1 > 3 > 3 > 2(upgrade)
SC +0 > +9 : 2 > 2 > 1 > 3 > 4 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 2 (tries for each enchant)

And the total cost from the link is...

Basically, I not super good at PVE so I just purchased most of the essence for 20-25k each in order to enjoy other stuff then RKEM. And the plate price was a lot more expensive before the event, but I do not want to apply the old price since it's just too much work. And I got 100% XP until SC +6 and about 7-80% XP for the rest.

From my rough calculation before I saw this post..it was about 2mil, and now this link says 1.8m which makes sense.

Do I have bad RNG? or can it be worse?? I decided to spend my time to get gear XP in order to save the gold, but it really seems it still costs a lot. About 2 mil gold + 2 month of my XP farming time to get +9 weapon.

So...Anyway...can I cry? I really think current enchant system is a big scam by game developers.

Calculation of Enchantment cost(for all pieces) & Simulator

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