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Das99814 wrote on 2015-05-02 10:51
Does anyone have any idea how much it cost to rank refining (on average), assuming you buy all/most of the materials? Also are there any guides out there that are up to date on how to do this? Im going to rank it before i hit tot. 1000, im not gunna make the mistake i made when i used to play and try to rank it with 400 dex XD Thanks
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Osayidan wrote on 2015-05-02 12:00
It depends on your server, but there's hardly anyone selling ores anymore compared to how it was in the past. This was the only positive aspect about bots.
Used to see tons of shop filled to bursting with ores, now there's maybe 3 - 4 per day on ruairi. I can't speak for other servers.
The good news is you have talent bonus, and can use life skill potions, to cut the required materials down to 1/4. So regardless of server and costs of ores, it's not so bad. You can also take advantage of ranking refining to rank up mining for STR, super easy to rank, and get ores at the same time.
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Das99814 wrote on 2015-05-02 15:57
Thanks :) Guess its time to spam Barri XD
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aznman08 wrote on 2015-05-02 16:14
If you can befriend an alchemist, you can get them to fragment the ingots back to ores which in turn gives you more trainings.
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Oberynn wrote on 2015-05-02 16:34
You can use cater, enchants, heavy armor and other negative bonuses to rank refine any time. Unless you have like 1k+ Dex, there's no reason for this skill to have any sort of priority over anything else anymore. You can also get lv2 exp reforge with NPC kits to make it even easier, or just rank combat skills and make money faster which will let you buy refine training pots and skip all the work.
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Fracture wrote on 2015-05-02 17:33
If you know an Alchemist with r1 Synth and Fragmentation, you can just collect Arat Crystals and Holy Water instead of ores. Much more reliable and quick, especially for Silver/Gold. Just have them Synth dupe the ignots, and frag them into ores + ore frags. Either way it's going to take a LOT of ore to max refining.
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Yai wrote on 2015-05-03 15:24
Don't forget metallurgy as well. Once you reach rank 5 you get quite a lot of ores per success if lucky. I found this much more effective than barri mining however it was before the mining skill existed.
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callback wrote on 2015-05-04 14:56
You may as well simul-rank this with Mining and Metallurgy (or at least mining, and let metallurgy feed your metal conversion training). Use a bracelet with level 2 exp reforge to make things even easier. R1 synth and frag make extra ores fairly easy if you still need them, for just the cost of HW and a few spare arats (ask friends who run MA to collect for you). Carpentry ranks help as well for whatever failures you still need (higher grade wood increases fail rate in Fillia/Vales furnaces), while a homestead furnace and harvest song will get you your successes.