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thanks for the info jsalemi. Re: golden hammer, it increase the X in the X/Y durability to 200%, correct? and assuming i used the hammer, when i do a repair all on my gear, does that drop my upgraded durability back to it's original?

appreciate the help!

Yes, the hammer doubles the "X" amount of durability. Repairs don't affect hammered items at all, only unhammered items.

Quoted from "CaliasStorms;179872"

The only way I know to tier up a weapon that's already statted (with the intent of keeping the stats) is to use purified fusion stones. That would be...pricey. The only way the stats on the T4 stones would overwrite the stats on the weapon, is if they were 'lesser' stats. You get the six lowest stats any time you combine anything in the transmuter.

I had been statting my weapons, and only tiering them to 3. This was a nice boost in damage, but I found it's a lot less expensive in cost (if not in charges), and substantially superior in damage boosting, to just dirty tier to 4.

This makes it sound like any weapon you want to tier, you should immediately bring to the ultimate tier you want to make it, because tiering it up again will be difficult without overwriting the good stats you've put on it...the best you can hope for is to keep the stats the same, and that only by using mana stones with stats that are all better than what you already have on the item, so they won't overwrite. Which sounds very unproductive.

When you want an item of a higher tier than what you got, do you just start over with a new item to tier up? Unless using purified stones?

Anyone have a general idea how long to make 1x t9 stone. I guess I will find out when I attempt to make 3 sometime this week. This is going to suck.

Quoted from "fixit6;204703"

Anyone have a general idea how long to make 1x t9 stone. I guess I will find out when I attempt to make 3 sometime this week. This is going to suck.

Depends. Are you farming chicken?

Having a source of t4s makes t9s not too difficult. Just tedious.

Takes about 5 mins to kill chick, 5 mins to reset. So... 6 t4s in a hour, I guess. Or 2 t5s an hour.

Give or take however long it takes to go insane out of boredom.

Quoted from "FencerSuzuki;204840"

Takes about 5 mins to kill chick, 5 mins to reset. So... 6 t4s in a hour, I guess. Or 2 t5s an hour.

Wow, I never guess it was that inefficient. I had been planning to farm the chicken for T4 stones, but I may just reconsider now. That is really isn't that much better then leveling alts to 10. It is cheaper, but you pretty much end up with the same thing for an hour spent in game.

The chicken isn't the only source of T4 stones now -- the Kaas and Nagas in SL drop a lot of level 54 & 55 blues, which also make a T4 stone. And Malatina's Survival Game (and probably the other one -- haven't tried that one yet) gives one 54/55 blue with no stats on almost every run, giving you clean T4 stones for clean tiering.

The chicken can also drop a level 43 purple on occasion, which won't make a T4 stone, so it isn't very efficient at all. But it's easy to duo, and even solo if you have enough pots.

Took around 9 hours to do 3x T9 stones.

I don't want to ever do that again.

Horrible.

Thank you very much.

Finally a nice and easy to follow guide.

can anybody make the calculations for me? i wanna make 3 t8's but im farming t4's, how many t4's would I need and how many charges would it take to t8 my weapon?

Just a side note to newbz out there. Don't buy weapons with enhanced tiers trying to make high level tier stones from it. The new stone will only be based on the original tier/level of the item.

So, a T6 SoA will not make a T6 stone. It still ends up a T4 stone.

Thanks for the guide! This will help in about 1 lv. mageside/5 lv. Knightside .

*bookmarks*

I myself am quite confused at one part of the process. After deciding to level my Staff of Admiration, I gathered several tier 3 stones in an attempt to raise its tier up to four. The product window showed me that it would just add several stats from the three tier 3 stones to my staff. Would I need tier 4 stones or higher to raise the tier of my staff from tier 3 to tier4+?

In a word, yes. If you want a T4 weapon, you need to use T4 stones.

Quoted from "Domiok;228976"

I myself am quite confused at one part of the process. After deciding to level my Staff of Admiration, I gathered several tier 3 stones in an attempt to raise its tier up to four. The product window showed me that it would just add several stats from the three tier 3 stones to my staff. Would I need tier 4 stones or higher to raise the tier of my staff from tier 3 to tier4+?

Specifically, the equip will take on the tier of the stones you use on it.
Example: You have a t2 item and 3 t5 stones. Combine these and you'll end up with a t5 item.
Example: You have an item that was originally t2 but you've upped it to t5. You mod it with 3 t9 stones and now you have a t9 item.

Each tier above the base adds 10% of the item's base damage/defense stat. Say the t2 item in the above examples was a sword that had, for the sake of example, 1000 pDam and 100 mDam. Taking it to t3 would give it 1100 pDam and 110 mDam. t4 makes it 1200 pDam and 120 mDam. t9 makes it 1900 pDam and 190 mDam. Items with no damage/defense stat gain absolutely no benefit from tiering aside from the stat mods (ie: wings, most accessories, etc).

Another thing to note is the increased tier itself is a buffed stat (you can tell because because it is displayed in green). If you have a t2 item that you raised to t5, then try to turn the t5 into a mana stone, it will still end up as a t2 mana stone.

If I had 50 million gold and I just bought the dirty vendor fusion stones, and tier 3 whites from a vendor, how many stones could I make? I don't have excel so I can't use the spreadsheet >.>

It depends on the price of said fusion stones. But assuming you buy the ones that are, for the sake of example, 2000 gold and assuming you're using t3 cloth belts from Obsidian (the cheapest t3 you can get from a vendor, I don't remember offhand but I'll estimate 1k each), divide 50m by 3k and you get 16666 t3 stones; 5555 t4 stones, 1515 t5 stones, 505 t6 stones, 168 t7 stones, 56 t8 stones, 18 t9 stones, 6 t10 stones, 2 t11 stones (plus 1-2 leftovers on almost every tier). If you took it all the way, you'd end up with 2 (very dirty) t11 stones, which are useless on their own, so if you wanted a useful product, stop at the t10s. Or you can look at it in reverse. 3x t10 -> 9x t9 -> 27x t8 -> 81x t7 -> 243x t6 -> 729x t5 -> 2187x t4 -> 6561x t3 -> @3k each, 19,683,000 it would take about 19.5M gold to make 3 t10 (very dirty) stones. It would take about 59M gold to make 3 t11 (very dirty) stones.

On the other hand, clean t3 stones are about 80-150k on AH. 28M would get you enough to make a clean t7 from a t3. Then all you need are your mods. If you can get the drops to mod, you only have to worry about puris, if not, you'll have to buy from AH. I'll let you in on a secret, you can sell 20,000 gold on AH for 4 dias. Puris on sale cost about 29 dias or 25 dias each if you catch the 8x bundle. If you have 6 items you want to make in to stat stones, you'll need 6 puris. That's 174 dias. 174 / 4 = 43.5. 44 x 20,000 gold = 880,000. Sell a total of 880,000 gold in chunks of 20,000 for 4 dias each (total 44 auctions) and you've got enough dias for 6 puris with 2 leftover for whatever. and 20,000 gold for 4 dias will FLY out of AH; 2-5 days will get you your dias, then just wait for puris to go on special and buy all you need. How much would 880,000 gold get you if you were buying straight stones with the stats you want? 2 maybe 3 stones. For the better ones, 880k won't even buy you 1 stone.

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It depends on the price of said fusion stones. But assuming you buy the ones that are, for the sake of example, 2000 gold and assuming you're using t3 cloth belts from Obsidian (the cheapest t3 you can get from a vendor, I don't remember offhand but I'll estimate 1k each), divide 50m by 3k and you get 16666 t3 stones; 5555 t4 stones, 1515 t5 stones, 505 t6 stones, 168 t7 stones, 56 t8 stones, 18 t9 stones, 6 t10 stones, 2 t11 stones (plus 1-2 leftovers on almost every tier). If you took it all the way, you'd end up with 2 (very dirty) t11 stones, which are useless on their own, so if you wanted a useful product, stop at the t10s. Or you can look at it in reverse. 3x t10 -> 9x t9 -> 27x t8 -> 81x t7 -> 243x t6 -> 729x t5 -> 2187x t4 -> 6561x t3 -> @3k each, 19,683,000 it would take about 19.5M gold to make 3 t10 (very dirty) stones. It would take about 59M gold to make 3 t11 (very dirty) stones.

Is all I needed to know thanks

that's a lot of charges

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If I had 50 million gold and I just bought the dirty vendor fusion stones, and tier 3 whites from a vendor, how many stones could I make? I don't have excel so I can't use the spreadsheet >.>

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